Seika Higashiyama

Seika Higashiyama (東山 聖華) is one of the four main Cures in Suite Pretty Cure♪. She is a student in the third year of Private Aria Academy and is the President of the Sweets Club. Her baking ability is the best in the school, leading to the fame of "Princess of Sweets".
Seika's alter ego is Cure Symphony (キュアシンフォニー?). Her catchphrase is "Music is always better with delicious sweets!" (音楽はいつも美味しいお菓子と一緒の方がいい！?).
== Bio ==
=== Appearance ===
Seika has medium-length curled hair with a small amount pulled up in a ponytail held by a navy ribbon, with bangs and forelocks framing her face. Her eyes are golden brown. Normally she is depicted in her uniform, although, her everyday outfit is a white blouse, wears a baby pink sweater vest, and a baby pink pleated skirt, wears white knee socks and baby pink Mary Jane flats.
As Cure Symphony, her eyes becomes dark purple, her hair turns into purple short curly pigtails, She wears a grey lavender ribbon headband, a white choker, and pearl earrings that are the color of angel white. Her outfit consists of a light lavender ruffled worn over the top, the Cure Module placed right on the ruffled part with a white ribbon under it. Her tutu consists of lavender and a white frilly tutu under it, with a pale purple ribbon on the corner. She also gains purple ballerina shoes with a lavender ribbon, and long purple fingerless gloves with a lavender ribbon.
As Crescendo Cure Symphony, her hair turns lavender and her curly pigtails become longer, her hair ribbon becomes feathery wings. Her outfit turns periwinkle and white, with feathers lining the shoulder and the various ribbons of her outfit slightly growing in size. The sleeve accessories grow in length with larger ruffled trim, and the ribbon is gone. Her shoes now resemble heels, while her top skirt layers grow out with gold feathery cape-like feathers sticking out from the back to match the wings she obtains.
=== Personality ===
Seika is passionate about baking and very wise with an elegant way of carrying herself and gentle disposition. She listens to Kanade and offers her advice when she's troubled, she's independent, especially with her way of cooking, she doesn't really like people helping her out and prefers to do all the work by herself, but doesn't go harsh on them and says that she'll like to do it on her own, sometimes though she'll tease others about something, just to bring their smile back.
She's very kind to everyone and likes to give everyone sweets, but in some serious situations she seems to be quite calm about it, and hopes that eating delicious sweets and becoming friends will solve the problem, whenever she needs to calm down though, she'll like to listen to calming and soothing music to make her sadness and anger go away and bring the happiness to her heart, she has always enjoyed listening to music ever since she's a child, and normally listens to music when she is baking sweets or in the dancing/singing mood, she also says that her favorite instrument will have to be the harp.
=== Relationships ===
* Hojo Hibiki: Hibiki may love Kanade's sweets more then Seika's, but still will take Seika's sweets since hers are really delicious as well, they start becoming friends when Seika becomes a cure, they grow a closer bond together, Seika sometimes teases Hibiki with sports, and they both will laugh about it sometimes.
* Minamino Kanade: Her and Kanade have been friends for a while now, ever since they met each other in the Cooking Club, Seika always teases Kanade whenever she starts crushing on Ouji, Kanade and Seika help out with each other whenever they bake delicious sweets, giving them a growing bond together and understanding one another.
* Hummy: Hummy loves Seika for her calm and gentle personality, she especially enjoys eating her sweets, even more than Kanade's, which gets Kanade a little sad but doesn't really seem to mind.
* Siren: Seika always would offer food to Siren, wanting to be her friend, but siren always denies it and always makes fun of Seika and her sweets, though, once Siren becomes good and becomes an ally to the team, they become friends with Siren always trying her sweets before Seika puts them out into the public.
* Shirabe Ako: Although Seika wasn't too fond of Ako's attitude, she still would want to be her friend and tries to cheer her up in situations, Ako even asks her how she even stays happy, Seika replies that she listens to calm music to calm herself down and keep her happiness inside her heart.
* Waon Nishijima: Seika doesn't really care for sports, Waon and Seika used to argue over which is better; Sports or Sweets, but they start becoming friends once they realize that they shouldn't argue over something pointless as everyone has different opinions about something, Hibiki, Kanade, Seika and Waon then start to become a friend group.
=== Etymology ===
東山 (Higashiyama) - The term 東 (Higashi) means east, while the term 山 (yama) means mountain. Her last name can be roughly translated into The East Mountain.
聖歌 (Seika) - The term 聖 (Sei) means holy or sacred, while the 歌 (ka) means a song or poem. Her name can be roughly translated into Holy Song.
Symphony is of a usually long musical composition for a full orchestra.
=== History ===
Hibiki and Kanade head to the town square to take part in the music competition, they see Seika handing out cookies to all the people there, saying that she's looking forward to great music, but it'd be better with delicious sweets. She wishes them good luck and gives them some sweets. She is seen many times in the series.
==== Finding out about the Pretty Cure ====
She was one day watching the girls to make sure they were safe and not near the Negatone but freaked when Hibiki and Kanade went up to the Negatone, and about when she was going to shout out "Stop!" Hibiki and Kanade then transformed into Melody and Rhythm, Seika, is stunned with shock at what she just saw, once the girls finished off the Negatone, Seika went up to them and said "That was a great fight Hibiki and Kanade! You really showed that monster!" Hibiki and Kanade got worried and started saying that their names aren't "Hibiki" and "Kanade" and that their names were "Laala" and "Fuji" but Seika then told them "I saw the whole thing, there's no need to lie" then "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone, this'll be our little secret!" Hibiki and Kanade were then calmed down and both said "Thank you", and that Seika wanted to be friends with them a bit more and started hanging out with them, knowing their secret.
==== Becoming a Cure ====
Seika saw that Hibiki and Kanade couldn't attack the Negatone, and got worried sick, she wanted to help but thought to herself, "I can't help out, I'm just a regular human." She then got an idea, she then stood up and took her plate of food with her, slowly walking up to the villains, She then says to them, to take the food and become their friends, though, Siren looked at her in the eye, then saw she has the Heart, she then goes ahead and tries to take it from her, while she's distracted offering them food, but then it knocks her out with her heart glowing, she then was gifted the Module, Melody and Rhythm tell her this is her chance to transform, Seika says to the Trio the Minor, "Fine, don't be my friend if you don't want to, guess we'll have to take the harder path" in a calm voice, she then transforms into "Cure Symphony", becoming the 3rd cure, she then fights the Negatone gracefully, and with the Negatone being finished with her "Passionato Harmony" she then smiles at Hibiki and Kanade, now, Hibiki, Kanade and Seika were the three musketeers for a while.
== Cure Symphony ==
"Harmonizing the beautiful tune, Cure Symphony!"美しい曲、キュアシンフォニーのハーモニー！?Utsukushī senritsu no hāmonī, kyuashinfonī!?
Cure Symphony (キュアメロディ?) is the alter Pretty Cure ego of Seika. She transforms using her Cure Module, along with Fairy Tone Fary. 
Cure Symphony can perform an attack called Passionato Harmony, though with the Empathy Belltier, she can perform Music Rondo, an individual purification attack.
=== Crescendo Cure Symphony ===
Crescendo Cure Symphony is the upgraded form that Cure Symphony attains in episode 47. The Crescendo Tone is required for this transformation upgrade; in the TV series, as the Crescendo Tone was sealed up by Noise, the eight Fairy Tones Dory to Dodory combined to become the Crescendo Tone to allow the Cures to transform. In this form, the Cures can perform Suite Session Ensemble Crescendo Finale.
=== Attacks ===
* Passionato Harmony (パッショナートハーモニー?) is the first attack that she first performed in episode 10. She can also use it with Melody, Rhythm, and Chord.
* Music Rondo (ミュージックロンド?) is her first solo attack that requires the Empathy Belltier and the green Fairy Tone Sory. She first used it in episode 14.
* Symmetry Orchestration (シンメトリー・オーケストレーション?) is her second solo attack that requires the Empathy Belltier and the Fairy Tones Shiry and Rery. She first used it in episode 20.
* Music Rondo Super Quartet ((ミュージックロンド・スーパーカルテット?) is the second attack that she first used in episode 28.
* Suite Session Ensemble (スイート セッション アンサンブル?) is a group attack that she performed with her teammates Melody, Rhythm, and Chord. To perform it, they need the Healing Chest and the trust of the Crescendo Tone.
** Suite Session Ensemble Crescendo (スイート セッション アンサンブル クレッシェンド?) is the upgraded version of Suite Session Ensemble.
== Songs ==
As one of the main characters, Seika's voice actor, Nishino Youko, has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. Many of them include duets with Koshimizu Ami, who voices Hojo Hibiki, Fumiko Orikasa, who voices Minamino Kanade, and Gibu Yūko, who voices Nishijima Waon.
* Can't stop my love for cooking~
* Empathy for the Symphony
== Trivia ==
* In episode 4, the first time she was mentioned by name, her hair is mistakenly colored brown. This was fixed for the DVD release.
== Gallery ==
: Main Page: Seika Higashiyama/Image Gallery
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