Erika Kurumi

Erika Kurumi, also known as Cure Marine and Super Cure Marine, is one of the main characters from the Heartcatch Pretty Cure! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Erika is a brash and extroverted fashionista. Though energetic and sincere, she often fails to consider the feelings of others.
Erika is a feminine young girl who loves fashion and dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Everything she loves revolves around fashion, and she has turned it into an art form capable of helping others open up and feel their best. She is able to tell their feelings or moods using the color therapy she is going through. She is also a very fast learner and is fairly cheerful and energetic- although she also has lazy tendencies.
However, Erika is also childish and immature, sometimes coming off as selfish. She can be impatient if things don't move fast enough, and is nosy and the type to say what is on her mind. This brash personality causes her to come off as abrasive towards more shy or reserved types, but at the same time she can become more mindful towards them and will always be there to comfort them should they need it. She cares deeply for her friends, even if she struggles to express it in a way that doesn't cause them further anxiety.
Erika's powers are like Cure Blossom's, in that she controls flowers while possessing fluid traits shared with water. Because Erika had dreams of Cure Moonlight's and Cure Blossom's fights, she already knew how to transform and fight, and had fantasized about her own Cure name before she is entrusted with a Heart Perfume. Unlike Tsubomi, she was shown to naturally adapt to her Cure self at a quicker pace.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* A Movie of Support from Pretty Cure to Everyone
* Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!
* Heartcatch Pretty Cure!
* Heartcatch Pretty Cure!: Fashion Show in the Flower Capital... Really?!
* Hug tto! Pretty Cure!♡Pretty Cure Movie: All Stars Memories
* Pretty Cure All Stars DX the DANCE LIVE♥! - Welcome to the Miracle Dance Stage
* Pretty Cure All Stars Movie DX2: Light of Hope☆Protect the Rainbow Jewel!
* Pretty Cure All Stars Movie DX3: Reach the Future! The Rainbow☆Flower That Connects The World
* Pretty Cure All Stars Movie: Everybody Sing!♪ Miraculous Magic!
* Pretty Cure All Stars Movie: Spring Carnival♪
* Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2: Friends of the Heart
* Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 3: Friends Forever
* Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage: Future Friends
* Tropical Rouge! Pretty Cure Movie: Snow Princess and The Miracle Ring!
=== Manga ===
* Heartcatch Pretty Cure!
=== Video Games ===
* Fashionable Transformation★HeartCatch PreCure!
* HeartCatch PreCure! Fashion Collection
* Let's Play with Voices! HeartCatch PreCure!
== Trivia ==
* According to character designer Umakoshi Yoshihiko, she was originally to have an updo hairstyle as Cure Marine.
* Her heart flower is the white cyclamen, though it can turn red if Erika experiences extreme jealousy of her older sister, Kurumi Momoka.
** As her Heart Flower simply changes color instead of withering, her Desertrian is the weakest. As stated by Hanasaki Kaoruko, however, its color changing is the stage before a Heart Flower starts wilting.
* Upon transforming into Cure Marine, Erika knew what name she was going to have. This is because Tsubomi told her about Pretty Cure earlier, prompting Erika to start coming up with a name. This makes her the only Cure to have thought up a name prior to becoming a Pretty Cure.
* For the Pretty Cure All Stars DX3 Movie Character Polls held by Toei Animation, Cure Marine appeared in the following rankings:
** 2nd in "Favorite Pretty Cure"
** 1st in "The Pretty Cure you want to team up with most"
** 7th in "The Pretty Cure you want to be most"
** 5th in "The Pretty Cure you want to bake with most"
* In the Pretty Cure All Stars Suite Flower Card Collection, Erika is represented by the daisy, which symbolizes innocence and a bright energetic personality in the Language of Flowers.
* Cure Marine often breaks the fourth wall. In many All Stars posters and in the end of the All Stars New Stage 2 credits, Cure Marine is seen looking towards the viewer smiling and winking, while the other Pretty Cures were facing straight forward.
* Cure Marine gives the 10th Anniversary Congratulatory Message at the beginning of episode 28 in Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!
* Erika shares her voice actress with Kagayama Miu and Eternalun from Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart.
* In the All Pretty Cure Big Poll, Erika is ranked 3rd in "Favorite Pretty Cure".
* Erika is the only Heartcatch! Cure who did not end her Cure debut episode with her transformation sequence or her first fight did not occur in two episodes.
* Her phrase "yarusshu" is actually an ad lib from her voice actress, which has become a trademark gag whenever she appears in an All Stars movie.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kurumi Erika at Pretty Cure Wiki
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