History Anime / StarTwinklePrettyCure

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Elena's brother Touma goes through a bit of angst after he hears his friend calling his family "weird" for dancing and singing in public. Elena herself used to think this way when she was younger, as shown through flashbacks, before she realized that everyone is unique in their own way. It is worth noting that Elena is the first mixed-race cure, so there is some subtext here.

* GenreThrowback: The season is intentionally an homage to the '80s SpaceOpera, and while it sticks with many of the modern ''Pretty Cure'' conventions, there are several reminders that the series is meant to represent the '80s. For example, computers and cell phones are rarely seen (other than the occasional background character), with much of the alien technology being a retro-futurist sort; the group at one point watches a movie on cassette tape, which Prunce notes is "very analog". Compared to, say, [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Mepple and Mipple]] being kept in cell phone-like devices, Hikaru keeps Fuwa in a notebook. Even the series' music largely uses a retro synth sound, while the ending themes cross into {{synthwave}} territory. [[spoiler:It also makes the ending timeskip more understandable, as it's not TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but rather the present day.]]

* GenreThrowback: The season is intentionally an homage to the '80s SpaceOpera, and while it sticks with many of the modern ''Pretty Cure'' conventions, it still does manifest in several ways. For example, computers and cell phones are rarely seen (other than the occasional background character), with much of the alien technology being a retro-futurist sort. Compared to, say, [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Mepple and Mipple]] being kept in cell phone-like devices, Hikaru keeps Fuwa in a diary. Even the series' music largely uses a retro synth sound, while the ending themes cross into {{synthwave}} territory. [[spoiler:It also makes the ending timeskip more understandable, as it's not TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but rather the present day.]]

* SignificantSketchbook: Hikaru's sketchbook summons the fairy Fuwa and later transforms into the Twinkle Book.

* FashionableAsymmetry: Almost every cure has this on their respective outfit. Cure Star and Cure Milky only have one Stocking, Cure Soleil's skirt and design are very asymmetrical and Cure Cosmo's rainbow skirt adds asymmetry to her outfit.
** Cure Selene's cure form is the only outfit to be perfectly symmetrical. This is fitting for her being the perfectionist in the team.

* ForegoneConclusion: Episode 1 ends with Lala's rocket falling back to Earth after receiving substantial damage and crashing into the mountains with Hikaru, Lala, Fuwa, and Prunce still inside the rocket. The fact that this is only the ''first'' episode makes it obvious that the four of them will survive.

** Elena: "Chao!" [[labelnote:jp]]チャオ&#65281, meaning "bye" in Spanish[[/labelnote]] and "Sounds nice!" [[labelnote:jp]]いいねぇ！ Iine! [[/labelnote]]

** Lala: "Oyo~" [[labelnote:jp]]オヨっ[[/labelnote]], used as an expression of surprise or frustration. She also has "-lun" [[labelnote:jp]]-ルン[[/labelnote]] as a VerbalTic, though she also says it by itself on occasion, usually to express agreement or confusion.

** Hikaru: "Kirayaba~☆" [[labelnote:jp]]キラやば～&#12387~☆[[/labelnote]], an expression of excitement translated by fansubs as various space/sparkle puns. The most frequent of these is "Twincool~☆" which latter became official in [[https://twitter.com/pps_as/status/1297775649298366464 merchandise]].
** Lala: "Oyo~" [[labelnote:jp]]オヨ~[[/labelnote]], used as an expression of surprise or frustration. She also has "-lun" [[labelnote:jp]]-ルン[[/labelnote]] as a VerbalTic, though she also says it by itself on occasion, usually to express agreement or confusion.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Played with. The fairies, Fuwa and Prunce, speak Japanese right off the bat. Lala can't until Fuwa magically grants her the ability, and even then she can only fully understand human language when it's Hikaru speaking for the first few episodes. In addition, when the villains arrive, Kappard is shown to be wearing a sort of [[TranslatorMicrobes translation collar]] that immediately picks up "Earth language".
** Episode 7 suggests the Star Color Pendants may also provide instant translation powers, as everyone's able to speak with the aliens on planet Kennel right off the bat.

* AlienAmongUs: To protect their identities and adhere to the AlienNonInterferenceClause, Lala and Yuni are made to assume human identities on Earth. This is fairly easy in both cases--Lala is enrolled in school as a conveniently HumanAlien, while Yuni is a MasterOfDisguise thanks to her Rainbow Perfume--but both still have difficult adjusting to Earth culture.

The following day, Hikaru encounters Fuwa once more while enjoying the outdoors. Just then, a rocket falls from the sky, carrying a girl named Lala Hagoromo and another fairy, Prunce, both of whom are extraterrestrials. Suddenly, alien invaders known as the Notraiders appear before them and go after Fuwa, however Hikaru vows to protect her. She gains the power to become the Pretty Cure, Cure Star, and save Fuwa.

* AlcoholHic: A GRatedDrug variant occurs in episode 23. When Fuwa eats one of Yuni's snacks, her face becomes flushed and she starts hiccuping. AI explains the snack's main ingredient is an alien version of matatabi, making this a fantastic case of HighOnCatnip.
* AliensAreBastards: Zigzagged here. We have alien overlords, FantasticRacist people, [[CatsAreMean cunning cats]]... and then we have Star Princesses, HumanAliens who become Cures, and a squid and his baby.
* AliensLoveHumanFood: Played With at least twice.

** {{Exaggerated| Trope}} in episode 15. Star Donuts from the local shopping district the girls live near are apparently so delicious that a famous alien food critic deemed them to be worth 1 billion yen each.
** In #31 Toppa says that he loves the onigiri when he eats it.
* AlienNonInterferenceClause: According to Lala and Prunce, planets that have not discovered space travel are not allowed to know about aliens, on pain of being banned from space travel for 100 years.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The ending of Episode 48- though Ophiuchus is well and truly defeated, the Cures sacrifice their powers to resurrect Fuwa, and Yuni and Lala part ways with Hikaru, Elena, and Madoka.]]

** Hikaru: "Glitterific~☆" [[labelnote:jp]]キラやば～っ☆ Kira Yaba~☆[[/labelnote]], an expression of excitement translated by fansubs as various space/sparkle puns, the most frequent of which is twincool, which latter became official in [[https://twitter.com/pps_as/status/1297775649298366464 merchandise]].
** Elena: "Ciao" [[labelnote:jp]]チャオ！ Chao![[/labelnote]] and "Sounds nice!" [[labelnote:jp]]いいねぇ！ Iine! [[/labelnote]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: It is revealed in episode 14 that Elena's parents, an interracial couple, are viewed as weird by her brother Touma's friend for singing and dancing in public.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Hikaru drops in in the final episode of ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'', helping Cure Yell rescue Hugtan and reclaim a MacGuffin which now bears Hugtan's face.

** Episode 2 reveals Kappard as a villain and Tenjo in episode 4.
** Episodes 5-10 are ads for Precure Miracle Universe.
** By Episode 11, all of the villains are revealed, including Aiwarn and Bakenyan.
** Episode 26 introduces a new OP
*** Yuni appears between Madoka and the fairies, chases the ship before the logo appears, appears when the Cures meet at the ship.

*** The villain scene is updated with gas Darknest replaced with body Darknest, and Aiwarn now wears a hoodie.
** Starting with episode 31, the start of the ending shows [[spoiler:Fuwa transforming into her WingedUnicorn form]].

** Saboro suffered from this due to his [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to speak vocal language]].

* {{Filler}}: Episode 12, also doubling as a BreatherEpisode.

* HumanAliens: Lala's an alien whose species looks completely human aside from having pointed ears and nearly-transparent antennae. The Constellation Princesses also look largely human, aside from a few of them having horns and various animal parts.

* LittleStowaway: Hikaru sneaks into Lala's rocket in Episode 1 after Lala and Prunce takes Fuwa to their ship to escape from the incoming Notraiders. Also Yanyan in ep 26.
* MagicMusic: Each of the girls sing when they transform into their Pretty Cure form. While it's not unusual in this franchise to hear background singers during the TransformationSequence, this is the first time the Cures themselves sing while transforming.
* {{Masquerade}}: The government, (or at least the Japanese government), are aware about the existence of aliens and Madoka's father is part of a faction dedicated to finding any aliens among Earth without the public ever finding out.

* MillionToOneChance: Lala's ship describes Hikaru's and Lala's odds of becoming Cures as a 0.000000012% chance (Approximately 1 in 83 million).

** The ColdOpen shot of Madoka aiming her arrow looks a lot like Reika in the Anime/SmilePrettyCure OP.

** Hikaru's surname is Hoshina which is not to be confused for [[MonsterOfTheWeek the Hoshina]] from ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5: Go Go''.

* NotSoDifferent: The permanent grudge Aiwarn and Yuni have for each other are for the same reason. They each took something important from each other (Aiwarn took Yuni's home and Yuni cost Aiwarn her spot in the Notraiders)
** Episode 29 shows this between Lala and Madoka as both of them have the same conflict about hiding their cure identities from their families.
** Episode 42 focuses on how alike Elena and Madoka are which helps them to be able to understand and help each other during their worst situations.
** Both girls also reveal their identities to their families by doing a group transformation right in front of them.
** Episode 43 shows this between Elena and Tenjo as they both felt like outsiders in their childhoods for different reasons. Elena even mentions that it is thanks to Tenjo she was able to remember what made her happier and more confident and she wants to do the same for her.

* RealityEnsues: Lala is BookDumb to the point of being amazed by Earthlings being able to do ''double digit calculations'' and various jobs by themselves despite also being TheSpock of the group. Having your entire race have over reliance on AI to do everything doesn't really give any incentive to study and learn things themselves.
** In episode 27, two bouts of this occur: Prunce and the rocket are yanked by the rip tide current, who is realistically depicted as not caring how heavy the things, and the flow just stops realistically abruptly when the rocket gets stuck in the bubble hole.
** Episode 28: Elena and Madoka are chanting to keep Flare-san's fire going but get tired later after. Chanting a mantra will not keep you from being tired, especially if you're handling a giant pump.
** #30: Aiwarn [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] the concept of the TerminallyDependentSociety that is Saman by corrupting their Mother AI and causing it to go crazy, and it works. With the exception of Lala (who's spent time on a planet that isn't as high-tech), Samanians rely on hoverboards too much to a point they cannot run.
** #31: Toppa clains that a trip from Earth to Starscape would take ten years with their warp drives. FasterThanLightTravel is shown not to be immune to this trope, and it's lucky that Fuwa's warp powers help cut down the trip to mere seconds.
** #32: Cure Cosmo tells Garuoga "[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Just because you couldn't protect your planet, that doesn't excuse relying on Darknest's power and taking from others!]]" Cure Cosmo lost her own planet too to the Notraiders, and she suffered PTS the second after he revealed that he lost his own planet. Yeah, like she'd ever tolerate that being abused to gain an unfair advantage.
** #33: Fuwa tries to help Hikaru with homework. Yeah, she can't do that. She doesn't have fingers or thumbs unlike the Cures, so all she does is stomp pawprints on them.
** #34: When the Cures met an alien who can't speak, Elena is given the job to accompany him because, her mother being a translator, she is the one with the best experience with forelgn language, even more so than aliens Lala and Yuni.
*** The plant alien reacting horribly to the flower shop makes sense because [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil there is a certain analogical concept generally depicted as evil in mainstream works]].
*** After Elena is saddened by Saboro's anger, her mother tells her that her own translation ability is not limitless despite an ability to do English and Spanish.
*** A flashback shows that Saboro [[PoorCommunicationKills being incapable of speaking]] has made him suffer FantasticRacism. Being without a mouth that can produce sound will make you bitter.
** #35: Hikaru claiming she'll take in aliens from other schools is something that will make you look like an alien, as a fellow alien will point out to her.
** #36: While Blue Cat is easily evasive solo, it is still possible for her to be slower if she has another person with her.
*** Even after Don Octo gave Blue Cat the ring after that sob story she gave him, Mary Ann is still not convinced Blue Cat is not evil and still chases after her. The only reason the Cures get off her tail is because Mary Ann's ship goes too fast and crashes on the moon.
** #38:
*** A brief one in which the blind fortuneteller is facing the wrong way during his introduction.
*** When the Cures ask if Ayewan, whose heart supposedly became fuzzy from the battle, should come to Earth, she tells them off and leaves. You don't become willing to go to the good side just because your heart was touched so deeply.

* SoiledCityOnAHill: Darkness's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:She has deemed the current universe she created with the other Star Princesses to be flawed because it is full of lifeforms that misuse the power of imagination they were granted. She plans to use Fuwa in a ritual that will create a black hole large enough to swallow the universe, then start from scratch.]]

* SympathyForTheDevil: The Cures come to this conclusion in Episode 21. While the Notraiders have done terrible things in service to Darknest, they still don't deserve to have their imaginations stripped away to become mindless fighting machines anymore than decent victims do.
* TerminallyDependentSociety: The people of Planet Saman have their job decided by AI based on personality and strengths. Of course, Aiwarn [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] this flaw by corrupting Mother AI [[RealityEnsues and guess what happens]].
* TransformationTrinket: The Star Color Pendant.
* TrojanHorse: The Cures go through the spaceport by hiding in a box.

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 10 shows the Cures actually losing, with the Notraiders getting their hands on two of the Star Princess Pens.]]

* WhamShot: The ending of episode 29 has hooded Aiwarn snickering at Lala and friends being branded for imprisonment.

** Ep 38 has this in two places at one: the fortuneteller revealing his face and minutes later, Ayewan see him unhood himself and say "Bakenyan".
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Cure Star's is pink, Lala's is turquoise, and Selene's is purple.
* {{Youkai}}: The leaders of the Notraider Mooks are each themed after a different one; thus far, we have Kappard (a kappa), Tenjo (a tengu), Aiwarn (a [[{{Cyclops}} hitotsume-kozo]]), Garuoga (an ogre/oni), and Bakenyan (a bakeneko).
** It would seem that this also applies to other aliens and not just to the Notraiders, as the girls travel to a planet full of jinmenken-like aliens in Episode 8.

** Hikaru: "Glitterific~☆" [[labelnote:jp]]キラやば～っ☆ Kira Yaba~☆[[/labelnote]]

* {{Crossover}}: As standard for the franchise, the team will be front and center for the latest installment of the ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' franchise, ''Pretty Cure Miracle Universe'', which uses this series' space theme to explore the origins of the Miracle Lights.

* EnergeticAndsoftSpokenDuo: Hikari and Lala. Hikaru is the {{Adorkable}} and adventurous one, while alien girl Lala is calm and rational.

''Star☆Twinkle [=PreCure=]'' is the sixteenth entry in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' series, and the first entry to air during the Reiwa era. It is the fourteenth separate continuity and began airing in February 2019.

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: The second half of the final episode is this, taking place an unspecified amount of time after the end to episode 48, showing how the main cast has changed and what they're currently up to.]]

* SpaceOpera: Look at the Brian Aldiss poem on the trope page - it pretty much checks every single line (well, since the series isn't finished at the time of writing, perhaps not the final one yet, but does anyone honestly expect any different?)

''Star☆Twinkle [=PreCure=]'' is the sixteenth entry in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'’ series, and the first entry to air during the Reiwa era. It is the fourteenth separate continuity and began airing in February 2019.

''Star☆Twinkle [=PreCure=]'' is the sixteenth entry in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' series. It is the fourteenth separate continuity and began airing in February 2019.

''Star☆Twinkle [=PreCure=]'' is the sixteenth entry in the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' series, and the first entry in the Reiwa Era. It is the fourteenth separate continuity and began airing in February 2019.

** #32: Cure Cosmo tells Garuoga "[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Just because you couldn't protect your planet, that doesn't excuse relying on Darknest's power and taking from others!]]" Cure Cosmo lost her own planet too to the Notraiders, and she suffered ShellShock the second after he revealed that he lost his own planet. Yeah, like she'd ever tolerate that being abused to gain an unfair advantage.