Ako Shirabe

Ako Shirabe, also known as Cure Muse and Masked Pretty Cure, is one of the main characters from the Suite Pretty Cure♪ series.
== Charactah Account ==
Ako is a 9-year-old student in the third year of Public Kanon Elementary, who is in the same class as Kanade's little brother, Souta. She is very mature for her age, but also very cold and not above handing out lectures to her elders, particularly towards Hibiki and Kanade. Unbeknownst to the Pretty Cures, she had masked herself as a mysterious fighter named Cure Muse who aids them using colorful piano keys to form barriers and restraints. She often assists the Pretty Cures if they are trapped, but leaves them to finish off the Negatones. She hid her status under the mask and did not speak, as her Fairy Tone partner, Dodory, did all the talking. She often declared that she won't partner herself with the Cures until the time was right.
Ako later reveals herself to be Major Land's princess, the daughter of Aphrodite and Mephisto. After her father went missing, she ran away to Kanon Town and disguised herself, living with her grandfather, Otokichi. When Mephisto stole the Legendary Score, Ako's potential as a Pretty Cure awakened. As Cure Muse, her short orange hair grows to knee-length and gains two yellow ribbons on each end. In her masked form, her theme color is black, and in her true form, her theme color is yellow, and her Fairy Tone is Dodory. She doesn't have a main weapon, but she uses her secondary Fairy Tone, Tiry for her purification attacks. She is the youngest Pretty Cure in the franchise to date.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Hug tto! Pretty Cure♡We Are Pretty Cure Movie: All Stars Memories
* 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
* Suite Pretty Cure♪
* Suite Pretty Cure♪ Movie: Take It Back! The Miraculous Melody That Connects Hearts♪
=== Manga ===
* Suite Pretty Cure♪
=== Video Games ===
* Suite Pretty Cure♪: Happy Oshare Harmony♪
* Suite Pretty Cure♪: Melody Collection
== Trivia ==
* Ako is the first Pretty Cure to be:
** An elementary school student.
** A yellow Cure who joins the team as the fourth member.
** A human from another world.
* Though Ako's age isn't stated in the show, it's revealed in an interview and printed on some of her character collectible cards.
* Cure Muse has the least amount of focus and speaking lines in the All Stars movies compared to the rest of the Cures. Currently, she has only spoken in Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi and HUGtto! Pretty Cure♡Futari wa Pretty Cure: All Stars Memories.
* Cure Muse, when masked, looks older than she really is, which is probably why Hibiki, Kanade, and Ellen did not suspect Ako to be Cure Muse at first. In episode 34, it was shown that Ako knows how to walk on stilts, hinting to her then-Cure identity.
* Ako appeared as Cure Muse to give the 10th anniversary congratulatory speech at the beginning of episode 33 in Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!.
* Ako is the only Suite♪ Cure whose Fairy Tone doesn't match her theme color, though as the masked Cure Muse her costume is of a darker color that more closely resembles her Fairy Tone.
** Ako is also the only member of the Suite♪ team to have only one character song.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Shirabe Ako at Pretty Cure Wiki
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