Tsubomi Hanasaki

Tsubomi Hanasaki is the main protagonist of Heartcatch Pretty Cure!. She lives in a flower shop called Hanasaki Flower Shop with her parents and grandmother. Her Pretty Cure alter ego is Cure Blossom.
She is voiced by Nana Mizuki.
==Appearance==
In her normal form, Tsubomi has long curly dark red hair that reaches down past her waist. Her bangs are parted down the left side, and the ends curl inwards to frame her face. At the beginning of the series, her hair is worn in a single low ponytail, and she is never seen without her glasses. After Erika's makeover, Tsubomi wears her hair in low twintails secured with yellow flower-shaped hairties, and only wears her glasses when in class or studying.
Tsubomi's casualwear consists of a long-sleeved two-toned pink top with the number '7' on the back, light blue three-quarter skinny jeans and pink flats. She is also sometimes seen in a two-toned pink dress with long white sleeves, blue-green tights and dark pink low-heeled shoes. In school, she wears the standard issue uniform for girls.
==Personality==
Tsubomi is a really docile and introverted girl and admits that she does not handle energetic people like Erika very well, but she loves flowers very much, and dreams of being a botanist. Eventually, she discovers that can find her own balance between being introverted and outgoing and accepts her flaws along with her own good points.
== Abilities ==
Despite being titled as the "Weakest Pretty Cure In History", Tsubomi has proven herself time and time again that she is worthy of being a Precure, even fighting some of the generals to a standstill and coming up with a lot of attacks. Her sub attack, Blossom Screw Punch, has Blossom collecting her Flower energy into her fist and shoots it out, the energy forming like a cannon at the enemy.
==Trivia==
*Tsubomi & Olivier's Possible Romantic Relationship in Heartcatch Precure movie could be a loose reference to Belle & Beast (Adam) from the Disney movie, Beauty & The Beast.
*Tsubomi is the third Pretty Cure Pretty with the elderly person in the family after Honoka Yukishiro and Urara Kasugano.
*Tsubomi is so far the only lead Cure to wear glasses.
*Cure Blossom along with Cure Marine are the only two Cures who transform together, but don't need each other to turn into Pretty Cure, as they can transform separately.
*The name Blossom may represent the earth, while Marine represents the ocean. If that is the case, then it would follow the tradition of the duo Pretty Cure being opposites.
*Tsubomi is the second Pretty Cure whose parents own a flower shop.
*Tsubomi is the fifth Pretty Cure to be excellent in academics.
*Tsubomi is also the first Pretty Cure in the franchise to have a heritage to the *Pretty Cure legacy, as her grandmother, Kaoruko, was Cure Flower 50 years ago.
*Tsubomi is the only Heartcatch Cure to not have a confirmed Heart Flower. Although her Heart Flower appears as a cherry blossom on a magazine scan, the same scan features a scene of the Cures, in their transformation dresses, relaxing inside Coupé in the style of a Japanese hot spring, a scene that never appeared in the show proper.
*For the Pretty Cure All Stars DX3 Movie character polls held by Toei Animation, Blossom appeared in the following rankings:
**5th in "Favorite Pretty Cure"
**4th in "The Pretty Cure you want to team up with most"
**5th in "The Pretty Cure you want to be most"
**4th in "The Pretty Cure you want to bake with most"
*In the Pretty Cure All Stars Suite Flower Card Collection, Tsubomi is represented by the sakura or cherry blossom, which symbolizes gentleness and a beautiful heart in the Language of Flowers.
*Cure Blossom is currently the only Cure to be seen with her hair down in Cure form, as in Heartcatch Pretty Cure!: Hana no Miyako de Fashion Show... Desu ka!?.
*She is the first lead Cure who her name starts with "T".
*She is the first lead Cure to have long hair in civilian form and cure form.
*Though in poster form, Tsubomi appears (along with Erika, Chypre and Coffret) in the final episode of the Kamen Rider Den-O spin off Imagin Anime, "You Will Find The U*tra Planet", when Momotaros complains about the Heartcatch Pretty Cure! poster in front of the Toei Animation studios.
*Tsubomi appeared as Cure Blossom to give the 10th anniversary congratulatory message at the beginning of episode 10 of Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!
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