Pretty Cure

Futari wa Pretty Cure / "Together We’re Pretty Cure" (Also known as "We Are Pretty Cure", "Pretty Cure" and more simply "PreCure") is a children’s anime aimed at girls. It is the story of two girls – Nagisa and Honoka – who know each other in passing from school but are merely acquaintances until they are drawn together, whether by chance or destiny, to become the evil-fighting duo ‘Pretty Cure’. In this team working together is essential – they cannot attack or even transform into their magical girl forms if they are not together. The show focuses on friendship, teamwork and first crushes (Nagisa has a crush on Shogo ‘Fuji-pi’ Fujimura a friend of Honoka’s, while Honoka just might have a crush on Nagisa.)

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Cure Black

Real Name: Nagisa Misumi

Identity/Class: Human transformed by magical heritage

Occupation: Student (nb: she is considered the ‘Ace’ of her school’ lacrosse team)

Affiliations: Honoka Yukishiro (Cure White)

Enemies: The Dusk Zone

Known Relatives: Unnamed mother, unnamed father, Ryota (brother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Japan

First Appearance: Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode #1 (ABC/Asatsu DK/TOEI Animation, 2004)

Powers/Abilities: Heightened agility and superstrength. When together with Cure White, they can also combine powers to generate magical attacks:

Able to combine forces to fire a beam of energy - Black Thunder, Pretty Cure Marble Screw – While holding hands Cure Black calls out ‘Black Thunder’ and Cure White calls ‘White Thunder’ and they are struck by lightening (of the corresponding colour) which they absorb the energy as they say “Pretty Cure’s beautiful souls…” (said by White) “…will crush your dark heart” (said by Black) and together they yell ‘Pretty Cure Marble Screw’ and direct a spiral of black and white energy at their enemy. The power of this attack is relative to the users’ emotions.

Able to free others from being controlled by evil - Black Pulsar, Pretty Cure Rainbow Therapy - While holding hands Cure Black calls out ‘Black Pulsar’ and Cure White calls ‘White Pulsar’ and they are both surrounded by rings of black and white energy which turn into a rainbow coloured sphere. Cure White says “One that is cursed by the Dark Power…” and Cure Black says “…we now break the chains that bind you!” and they both yell ‘Pretty Cure Rainbow Therapy’ and the energy collected in the rainbow coloured sphere around them flows from them towards whoever they are targeting and free them of evil influence.

History: One day Nagisa was watching the evening sky, she made a wish upon a shooting star that she would have a boyfriend – and she was shocked when a small glowing meteor landed in her room!

The meteor turned into a mobile-phone-sized device and a deck of strange pink cards. Inside the device was a creature who called himself Mepple, which demanded Nagisa took him to see Mipple, his love, who was apparently also on Earth. He lead her to an amusement park where they found Mipple in the hands of a girl from Nagisa’s class – Honoka Yukishiro.

While there they were attacked by the forces of the Dusk Zone and Mipple and Mepple told them to swipe their ‘Queen Cards’ in the mobile-like devices. When they did they automatically joined hands and called out ‘Dual Aura Wave’ which transformed Nagisa into Cure Black and Honoka into Cure White so they could defeat their attackers.

Mepple and Mipple later told the girls that they were guardian’s from ‘The Garden of Light’, another world under attack from a planet called ‘The Dusk Zone’, which was trying to steal the seven precious Prism Stones that kept both The Garden of Light and our world (which they call ‘The Garden of Rainbows’) alive. The girls had to fight the Dusk Zone in order to protect the stones they already had and to retrieve the stones that the Dusk Zone had stolen.

Comments: Originally Created by Izumi Todo

Cure White

Real Name: Honoka Yukishiro

Identity/Class: Human transformed by magical heritage

Occupation: Student (nb: she is top of her class, class president and in the school’s science club)

Affiliations: Nagisa Misumi (Cure Black)

Enemies: The Dusk Zone

Known Relatives: Unnamed mother, unnamed father (both parents work overseas, and she rarely sees them), unnamed grandfather

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Japan

First Appearance: Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode #1 (ABC/Asatsu DK/TOEI Animation, 2004)

Powers/Abilities: Heightened agility and superstrength. When together with Cure Black, they can also combine powers to generate magical attacks:

Able to combine forces to fire a beam of energy - Black Thunder, Pretty Cure Marble Screw – While holding hands Cure Black calls out ‘Black Thunder’ and Cure White calls ‘White Thunder’ and they are struck by lightening (of the corresponding colour) which they absorb the energy as they say “Pretty Cure’s beautiful souls…” (said by White) “…will crush your dark heart” (said by Black) and together they yell ‘Pretty Cure Marble Screw’ and direct a spiral of black and white energy at their enemy. The power of this attack is relative to the users’ emotions.

Able to free others from being controlled by evil - Black Pulsar, Pretty Cure Rainbow Therapy - While holding hands Cure Black calls out ‘Black Pulsar’ and Cure White calls ‘White Pulsar’ and they are both surrounded by rings of black and white energy which turn into a rainbow coloured sphere. Cure White says “One that is cursed by the Dark Power…” and Cure Black says “…we now break the chains that bind you!” and they both yell ‘Pretty Cure Rainbow Therapy’ and the energy collected in the rainbow coloured sphere around them flows from them towards whoever they are targeting and free them of evil influence.

History: One day after coming home from school Honoka found her pet dog barking loudly at her garden shed – going in to check out what was bothering him she found a box with a cell-phone like device and a deck of strange pink cards in it. Inside the device there was a small creature called Mipple that asked her to take her to someone called Mepple – her love – and lead her to an Amusement Park there she saw a girl from her class, Nagisa Misumi who had Mepple in her hands.

While there they were attacked by the forces of the Dusk Zone and Mipple and Mepple told them to swipe their ‘Queen Cards’ in the mobile-like devices. When they did they automatically joined hands and called out ‘Dual Aura Wave’ which transformed Nagisa into Cure Black and Honoka into Cure White so they could defeat their attackers.

Mepple and Mipple later told the girls that they were guardian’s from ‘The Garden of Light’, another world under attack from a planet called ‘The Dusk Zone’, which was trying to steal the seven precious Prism Stones that kept both The Garden of Light and our world (which they call ‘The Garden of Rainbows’) alive. The girls had to fight the Dusk Zone in order to protect the stones they already had and to retrieve the stones that the Dusk Zone had stolen.

Comments: Originally Created by Izumi Todo

CLARIFICATIONS: None.

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