"Pretty Cure Season's Delight" is a fanseries written by Jikochuu with a seasons and food motif. It can be read here
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Seven years ago, Miyabi Ouka was about to get eaten by a monster on her way home, only to be rescued by the mysterious Cure Cinnamon. And until then, she had never forgotten her gratitude to her secret heroine. But when history repeated itself during her birthday party, Miyabi sought the help of a fairy named Mocha to become one of the legendary warriors, Pretty Cure.
As Cure Taffy, Miyabi is to collect enough Sugar Hearts for the Candy Box to restore Mocha's fallen kingdom, Sugarland back to its former glory, all while fighting the evil forces of Bittersweet, who wants to spread bitter despair on the populace. Of course, she has to assemble her own team first and find the missing Cure Cinnamon.
The Cures:
- Miyabi Ouka (Cure Taffy): The main character of the series. An aspiring pattissier who aims to make people happy with her creations, but comes off as being too stern and bossy to cheer anyone up.
- Kei Chinatsu (Cure Butterscotch): A laid-back girl who slacks off at everything, except her love for swimming. Is actually a lot smarter than it seems, but could not cook to save her life.
- Yui Fubuki (Cure Gelato): An extremely shy and reclusive girl who's the only member of the literature club. Has a certain fondness for the fantasy genre and magical girls.
- Tenma Anno ( Cure Cinnamon): A popular highschooler who looks down on everyone, seeing as she's the daughter of the town's mayor. She's not actually from this world, but rather the next heir of throne in the Sugarland Kingdom. She can only remember her heritage in her Cure form.
The Bittersweet:
- Vanilla: The leader. The spiteful young sister of the Queen of Sugarland, she aims to overthrow the throne, eliminate its heir, and spread sadness on both Sugarland and Earth.
- Anise: A girl who looks the same age as the Cures. She finds destruction and suffering fun, often treating her targets like mere toys.
- Sorrel: The group's suave tactician. But in spite of his gentlemanly attitude, he is a sore loser, and could not let go of a grudge so easily.
- Thyme: They are frail and weak, and is often seen sleeping in their Lair and even during fighting! But their strength and agility is impressive, and acts as the powerhouse of the group in spite of their lazy tendencies.
This fanseries contains examples of:
- Alpha Bitch: Tenma, in spades. But slowly drops the acts as soon as she comes to terms with her original heritage.
- Ambiguous Gender: Thyme. Though some people mostly refer to them as a female, but even they're not entirely sure. They just let it slide though, and accepts any pronouns anyway.
- Applied Phlebotinum: Sugar Hearts, the result of a positive emotion of a human; and the Tainted Hearts, the result of a negative emotion. Bittersweet has the ability to make the effects of a Tainted Heart permanent to make a Kigiki out of it.
- Berserk Button: When you mess with Miyabi's pastries, you better sleep with one eye open.
- Brought Down to Normal: Once Tenma snaps out of being Cure Cinnamon she becomes this.
- By the Power of Grayskull!!: "Pretty Cure Sweet Shining!"
- Color-Coded Elements: Averted for Taffy and Butterscotch.
- Cute Witch: Anise appears as this, but she's barely nice and sweet herself.
- Dangerous Fourteenth Birthday: Miyabi turned into a Cure on this special day.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Tenma's older brother Takane.
- Edible Theme Naming: Well the motif IS based from food, after all. The Cure names are named after sweets except for Cure Cinnamon, and the members of Bittersweet are named after, well, spices.
- Elemental Powers: Though some are not obvious at first glance, the Cures has affinities over wind, water, ice, and fire respectively.
- Half-Identical Twins: Kei and her younger twin sister Meiko. Both have golden brown eyes, but Kei has short blond hair while Meiko has long orange locks.
- In the Name of the MoonAll: Taste the flavor of life! Pretty Cure Season's Delight!
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Tenma as the missing Cure Cinnamon isn't really a spoiler but the author would like to act as if it is anyway.
- Late for School: Kei is partially famous in school for being a latecomer for first period. She was once seen running while eating out of a ramen cup in one episode.
- Monster of the Week: The Kigiki, which can either be made by possessing an inanimate object or a human (in later episodes), or be made from it itself.
- Muggle Best Friend: Syuusuke Saito, Miyabi's next-door neighbor and childhood friend.
- Shout-Out: In the third episode, Kei thought that Yui is on a journey towards Egypt to defeat the bad guy who afflicted her father with an incurable illness.
- Anise even said that defeating her Kigiki is useless, useless, useless.
- Transformation Name AnnouncementTaffy: The sweet taste of spring, Cure Taffy!Butterscotch: The mellow taste of summer, Cure Butterscotch!Gelato: The creamy taste of winter, Cure Gelato!Cinnamon: The spicy taste of autumn, Cure Cinnamon!
- Transformation Sequence
- Transformation Trinket: The Precure App for the first three, and the Candy Locket for Cure Cinnamon.
- Through Their Stomach: Miyabi often makes sweets and food for no occassion other than cheering someone up. It often works because of how delicious it is.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Kei started working for Tenma Anno's older sibling Takane, whom she thought is a girl. Guess again.
- Verbal Tic: Mocha's ~momo
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 1 with Miyabi and Syuusuke, and Type 2 with Miyabi to Kei.
