Karen Minazuki

Karen Minazuki, also known as Cure Aqua, is one of the main characters from the Yes! Pretty Cure 5 series.
== Charactah Account ==
Karen is the oldest member of the team. This third-year student comes from an affluent family and is a member of the student council. Her parents are musicians and often go on tour. She misses them, but will not ask for them to come home for fear of disturbing their work, so despite wealth and popularity, she is often lonely. Komachi is her best friend and a fellow student council member.
Karen is strongly admired for being calm and stoic, a mature young woman who has come to cover up her insecurities and feelings of loneliness. She dearly misses her parents as they are usually away, but out of obligation and feeling that everything rests on her shoulders she refuses to let it get to her, she has come to think she needs to do everything by herself. She was originally very enthusiastic about being class representative prior to meeting Komachi, but by the time it began wearing her down she was forced to keep going to be there for her. Because of her position, Karen is able to memorize all the names and faces of all the Cinq Lumières students, and also easily takes responsibility when something happens to the school, as seen in the second episode where she wants Nozomi to explain what happened to the library the other day.
While usually calm in temperament, when pushed enough Karen can sometimes get to a point where she ends up saying hurtful or offensive things to other people, shown in episode 23, where she called Komachi naïve and indecisive, even though she wasn't involved in the issue that upset her.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* A Movie of Support from Pretty Cure to Everyone
* Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!
* Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure: Transform and Enthusiastically GoGo into the City of Dreams!!
* Power of Hope: Pretty Cure Full Bloom
* Pretty Cure All Stars DX the DANCE LIVE♥! - Welcome to the Miracle Dance Stage
* Pretty Cure All Stars GoGo Dream Live!
* Pretty Cure All Stars Movie DX: Everyone is Friends☆A Great Gathering of All Miracles!
* 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
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! Movie: Happy Birthday in the Sweets Kingdom
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Movie: Great Miraculous Adventure of the Mirror Country!
=== Manga ===
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!
=== Video Games ===
* Pretty Cure Connection Puzzlun
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5
* Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Go Go: Let's Go Together!
== Trivia ==
* Karen is the first Cure to initially lose her first chance of transformation, before regaining it the second time. This is followed by Kagayaki Homare from HUGtto! Pretty Cure.
* Karen likes drinking grape juice, and oolong tea.
* In the Pretty Cure All Stars Suite Flower Card Collection, Karen is represented by the iris, which symbolizes love and sympathy in the Language of Flowers.
* Karen appeared as Cure Aqua to give the 10th Anniversary Congratulatory Message at the beginning of episode 7 in Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!.
* Cure Aqua is so far the only Cure with a Latin name, and also not to receive a new name in the English adaptions.
* Coincidentally, Karen & Komachi's voice actors both share the name Ai.
* Karen isn't best at cooking. She also is unaware that crepe and pancakes are two different kinds of food, before her friends tell her the differences.
* Due to being a doctor, Karen usually avoids drinking alcohol, so she can stay sober when being called for emergencies.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Minazuki Karen at Pretty Cure Wiki
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