Yukishiro Honoka

## Appearances

* Futari wa Pretty Cure
* Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart
* Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart: The Movie
* Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi

**Yukishiro Honoka** (雪城ほのか, ***Yukishiro Honoka***?) (**Hannah Whitehouse** in the Canadian English dub), is one of the two main Cures in *Futari wa Pretty Cure* and *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*. She is a second and later third-year student at Verone Academy and is in the same class as Nagisa.

Honoka's alter ego is **Cure White** (キュアホワイト, ***Cure White***?).

Her Pretty Cure partner is Cure Black.

## Bio

### Appearance

Honoka has midnight blue eyes and long hair partially pulled back, with her bangs held by a gold clip. As a civilian, she wears a pale blue top with a long white skirt and a pale pink jacket along with white sandals. In club she usually dons a lab coat and glasses.

In the *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart* movie, she wears a pale yellow dress with a light blue jacket over it and white flats. She later wears a long blue and white dress with white gloves and a big blue bow on the back along with white high heels. Her hair is worn in a bun. In the second *Max Heart* movie, she wears winter clothes consisting of a white hat, blue snow goggles, a white fur coat, white mittens, blue pants and darker blue snow boots.

As **Cure White**, her hair grows in length and curls, with a small ponytail on top of her head bound by a white ribbon with a blue heart in the middle. She gains silver heart earrings. She wears a short white dress with ruffled pale blue trim around the sleeves to accent the tulle petticoat of her tutu skirt, which has light blue scalloped lining. On the chest is a white ribbon, and a blue strap wraps around her waist, a light blue heart holding her Commune. She also gains white boots with pale blue sole, and leg warmers trim with ruffles and adorned by a light blue heart to match her gloves, which instead have a blue heart on the hand.

In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*, Cure White's outfit was modified. The ribbon on her chest has a blue gem heart, with the one on her belt now a gold heart-shaped clasp. Her petticoat is white and her skirt is now pale blue with a split white peplum over it. She gains additional detail on her leg warmers and the hearts turned blue to accent the designs around the top of her gloves. Her earrings are gold.

When she gains the golden powers in the first movie, her outfit becomes gold and her heart ornaments turn into diamonds.

As **Super Cure White** in the second movie, her hair lengthens while parts of her outfit receives feather-like details. Her sleeves, arm warmers, and leg warmers also widen while the bow on her chest becomes gold and resembles feathers. She also has a long pale blue ribbon in the back and additional hearts on the leg warmers. As Rainbow Cure White, her outfits resembles her Super form's but while small golden wings.

### Personality

Honoka is a gentle and understanding girl who always put others before herself. She is very smart, even being called the "The Queen of Knowledge (知識の女王, *Chishiki no joō*?)", "The Queen of Intelligence (知性の女王, *Chisei no joō*?)" or "The Queen of Wisdom (叡智の女王, *Eichi no joō*?)" by her classmates, and often uses this to help people. Due to this, she is very popular, having caught the attention of nearly every boy in school. She is not interested in most of them, but she has shown to care very much for a few boys, namely Fujimura Shougo, her childhood friend, and Kiriya, a new boy at school who she is helping understand people's feelings.

As she is serious about her passions, Honoka can be strict with others and can become forceful or scary if angered by other's laziness or lack of concern. However, she is shown to be this way out of care for said person and waning them to do their best. She can also be pushy in her attempts to help someone, and she has a surprisingly stubborn side. For the most part, she is usually easy-going and calm-tempered, not likely to be easily riled up in comparison to Nagisa.

### Relationships

* **Misumi Nagisa:** Initially the girls had nothing in common until some time being a Pretty Cure. Honoka attempted to get to know Nagisa at the advice of her grandmother, and learning about her crush on Shougo, she tries helping her. She was very hurt when her first attempt ended poorly but after the girls reconciled they were shown to become close, with Nagisa agreeing to let them address each other with their given names (in the English dub, she lets her address her as "Nat", something only her friends do).
* **Misumi Ryouta:** Although they don't interact that much in the series, it's shown that Honoka deeply cares about Ryouta very much, Ryouta sees her as his elder sister due to her high intelligence level, and just like Nagisa, Honoka got very mad at Gekidrago when he attacked Ryouta back in episode 11.
* **Kujou Hikari:** Like Nagisa, Honoka takes a protective and considerate nature towards Hikari for the sake of friendship.
* **Kiriya:** Honoka seems to view Kiriya as a little brother figure as she got to know him and help him learn to value human feelings. Initially she was unimpressed in comparison to everyone else was when he came to the school and charmed everyone with his skill and knowledge, but she views others equally. Her worry for him after an injury occurred is what led her to begin teaching him about kindness. He was angered after Honoka told him off for hurting a confessing girl's feelings, and for some time after she appears embarrassed over the situation but continued showing him consideration. After Kiriya confessed about being with the Dotsuku Zone she was very hurt and many tears were lost following his eventual passing. For some time afterwards, Honoka struggled to let go and would become depressed being reminded of him.
* **Fujimura Shougo:** She is close friends with Shougo, whom she has known since their childhood and continues addressing him as *Fujimura-kun*. Through Shougo, it is revealed that the reason she has problems getting friends is that she can be quite strict and dominant at times, even though she does it because she cares. She insists there isn't any romantic bond between them and gladly attempts to help Nagisa get to know him.
* **Yukishiro Sanae:** Honoka's Grandmother. She is kind and very concerned about Honoka, always giving useful advice to the girls when the situation is hard and the importance of never losing hope. She knows Honoka very well and she often surprises the girls with her secretive abundance of knowledge. Although she won't speak about these things unless asked, she's perfectly capable of handling herself. Honoka loves her grandmother and prefers to think that Sanae doesn't know about her Pretty Cure identity.

### Etymology

**Yukishiro (雪城, *Yukishiro*?):** May mean *snow castle* by separating the words to *yuki* (雪, **yuki**?) and *shiro* (城, **shiro**?); *snow*, which is white, might be a reference to alter-ego Cure White, and *castle* might be a reference to her family's wealth, as everyone who visits her home is astonished by how large it is. *Shiro* may also be referring to the Japanese word for *white* which is romanized the same way, though it is written as しろ (白, *しろ*?) in kanji rather than the kanji that appears in Honoka's name.

**Honoka (ほのか, *Honoka*?):** Since her name is written in hiragana rather than kanji, and because there are many different ways that Honoka can be written in kanji, there is no way to find a specific meaning for this name. One common way of writing it in kanji is 穂香 (, *Honoka*?), which can be broken down to "*hono* (穗の, *ほの*?)", which translates to *spike*, and "ka", which translates to *flower (花) or (香)*, which generally means the flower/fragrance of spikes. Hono (和, *Hono*?) also means harmony. Again, that is not necessarily the meaning of Honoka in this case.

Her name means "snow castle spike fragrance", "snow castle harmony flower." or "snow white spike flower."

Her name was changed to **Hannah Whitehouse** for the English dub. However, the spelling is inconsistent. YTV's official website lists her as **Hannah**, and her family's voice actors are credited with the roles "Hannah's Grandma", "Hannah's Mom" and "Hannah's Dad" in the end sequence, but she herself is credited as **Hanna** in this same sequence and in the closed captions for the hearing impaired.

**Hannah:** The name comes from the Hebrew name *Channah* (חַנָּה) which means *favor* or *grace*.

**Whitehouse:** This name is a pun on her Cure ego as Cure White. This may also refer to *Yukishiro*, which is translated to *white castle*, in which castle is the house of royals.

**Cure White:** Honoka's Cure name may be from the symbol "Yang" from the symbol Yin & Yang, in which "Yin" is black, just like White's partner, Cure Black who she is almost exactly opposite from.

## History

### *Futari wa Pretty Cure*

Honoka starts her adventure when she finishes a science club meeting. While she is getting her shoes back on after school, she overhears Nagisa and her friends talking about the upcoming shooting stars and how they may mean bad luck, but Honoka explains that shooting stars are not dangerous.

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When she comes home, the family dog Chuutaro is acting weird, and Honoka follows him as he goes inside one of the buildings. There, she sees a shining box. She opens it, and there she sees a strange cell phone with a set of cards. Off-screen, Honoka met Mipple and was told by her to go to the playing ground, where she meets Nagisa and Mepple. There, they get attacked by a creature of the Dotsuku Zone and suddenly transform into the legendary warriors, Pretty Cure. They manage to defeat the creature, and while Nagisa is against continuing being a Pretty Cure, Honoka thinks it will be rather fun and agrees to help the small creatures.FwPC01

For a long time, they defeat Pisard time after time whenever he shows up. One day when Nagisa comes over to Honoka so that Mepple and Mipple can be together, they go to the park. When two boys try to flirt with them, Honoka shows great anger that they do not take them seriously. The rest of the day, the girls have fun looking at clothes and eating takoyaki at Akane's store. At the end of the day, however, Pisard appears before Honoka, and Honoka tries to run for her life. Although trying to tell Pisard that what he and the Dotsuku Zone is doing is wrong, it is in waste, but she and Mipple are saved by Nagisa and "the power of love". Together, they finally defeat Pisard once and for all, though Honoka worries whether what they're doing makes them murderers or not.FwPC05

As the story goes, Honoka becomes closer to Nagisa, and also helps her to accept her role as a Pretty Cure. As time goes, Honoka begins to consider Nagisa as a friend, and really wishes to be acknowledged as that. When Honoka finds out that Nagisa has a crush on her friend Shougo Fujimura, she presents the two the day afterward and tells how great Nagisa is. However, Nagisa, thinking she is humiliated, gets angry and runs off. When Honoka tries to confront her, she is rejected and is told that they will never be friends. Because of this, Honoka decides to give Mipple to Nagisa, and entrust her to find another girl to be Cure White, as she now thinks that the Pretty Cure would work much better between girls who can trust each other. They eventually manage to get over it and decide to become real friends.FwPC08

When the girls have defeated two creatures from the Dotsuku Zone, one of the servants, Kiriya, decides to do things his own way, and infiltrate the school as a new freshman while trying to find the Pretty Cure's weak points. When Honoka meets Kiriya, she is the first girl not to be affected by his look or actions, which also surprises Kiriya himself. After being properly introduced off-screen, Honoka helps Kiriya to get along with everyone, and also tells Kiriya about human feelings. Eventually, they begin a strong friendship.

Halfway through the series, after Kiriya's sister dies, Kiriya confesses to Honoka that he actually is from the Dotsuku Zone, and shows her his yellow Prism Stone. Honoka refuses to believe it at first but eventually realizes that he is serious. Through the night and the day afterward, she is thinking about what he told her and eventually decides to tell Nagisa, Mepple, and Mipple about it. After telling, Chuutaro gives her a message where it tells her to meet Kiriya under the bridge the next day. She tells Nagisa, and they meet Kiriya there. They try to get him to stop, but he refuses, and they are forced to fight. However, Honoka tries to stop him from hurting himself, and rather fight against his destiny. Eventually, Honoka cannot take it anymore and falls down. That is when Kiriya realizes that he does not want to fight, and gives Honoka his Prism Stone. However, he is then taken away by Ilkubo, despite Honoka's desperate cries for him to stay. The nights afterward, Honoka cries until she has no tears left.

After finally defeating the last servant from the Dotsuku Zone, Honoka and Nagisa are overpowered by the Evil King. However, their hope and courage make them want to fight, and in the end, the Queen comes to the rescue, helping them defeat the Evil King. This is not over, though, as they get a visit from Pollun, the Prince of Light, who is going to stay with Nagisa in order to help them fight against the Seed of Darkness, which are creatures that the Evil King managed to make right before he got destroyed. These Seeds of Darkness will eventually awaken and work together in order to revive the Evil King. Right before Wisdom is being kidnapped, he considered giving the power of the Prism Stones to Honoka, as she seemed like the most reliable to him. However, time was short, and Wisdom was forced to give the powers to Pollun, which, in turn, uses them to power up Cure Black and Cure White with the Rainbow Bracelets.

After fighting with the Seeds of Darkness for a long time, the latter eventually realize that Pretty Cure cannot fight at their strongest without each other, and thus manage to kidnap Cure White and put her in a pit made of darkness. Because she is in her Cure form, which represents the light, she is slowly being swallowed by the darkness. In the end, she has to rely on the strong friendship she has with Black, both in their human and Cure form, before she is eventually saved.

At the end of the series, when Mepple and Mipple say goodbye to them, Honoka has become so good friend with them that she cries and begs Mipple not to leave her alone. Although they're no longer Pretty Cure, she and Nagisa continue being best friends and still keeps the cell phone the small creatures used to live in.

### *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*

At the beginning of their new year, Honoka and Nagisa start up a little awkward. They try to find something to do but are unable to do so, and they avoid talking about having been Pretty Cure and their now sleeping mascots. However, a new Zakenna suddenly comes forth, and they have to run for it. While they seem like they've been trapped, however, a light suddenly sprouts from their cellphones, and Mepple and Mipple are shown. They transform into the Card Communes again, though they look different; they are now Heartful Communes, and the cards have become heart-related instead. Upon transforming, they notice that they look different from the last time, but have to fight before figuring it out properly. During the fight, they realize that they have gotten an amazing power-up in strength, and when they try to do their attack Marble Screw, they add in a "Max" so it becomes even more powerful.

Sometime later, they meet a mysterious sixth-grader named Kujou Hikari. Eventually, it is revealed that she can transform into Shiny Luminous and have her own amazing powers. The Elder and Wisdom later come to Nagisa in order to explain these events to the girls and also tell them the sad news: the Queen has disappeared and is now separated in three representatives for her will, heart, and life. They soon figure out that Hikari is the representative of the Queen's life, and that is why she seems to be so confused in the Garden of Rainbows.

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Throughout the season, the duo go through hard times against the new evils, who are guarding the representative of the Evil King's life, who looks and acts like a little boy. Eventually, however, the Evil King is resurrected, despite Hikari's efforts to not sacrifice the little innocent boy. Pretty Cure tries to defend the earth while Hikari goes into another dimension in order to try to become the Queen again to help the girls. During the fight, however, Baldez actually sucks the Evil King into himself, thus becoming the new Evil King. Pretty Cure ends up utterly defeated, but then Cure White remembers how Honoka always used to cry when her parents left home, and how her grandmother used to tell her that as long as she had hoped, there were always coming a new beautiful morning. Together with Cure Black remembering Nagisa's parents' words about courage, they stand up and continue fighting.

Using Marble Screw Max Sparkle, they think they have won, but it is in vain when Baldez tells them that he is impossible to destroy, and destroy the whole city. In depression, Pretty Cure stands beside the tree Honoka's grandmother loves, and begin remembering things they have forgotten to do that day; Honoka was supposed to buy ingredients for her grandmothers' miso soup. At the end, when Cure Black tells Mepple that they must be allowed to talk about it even in a situation like this, Cure White realizes that every heart has the right to live and live it like they want. With new power, Pretty Cure try to fight against Baldez once again. Just as they are about to be crushed by the now giant Baldez, the Queen is regenerated and saves them. An illusion of Shiny Luminous tells them that this is their final moment, and they use all of their powers to use the ultimate attack: Extreme Luminario Max.

After Baldez is being defeated, Pretty Cure realize that they will never see those from the Garden of Light again and that they will never become Pretty Cure again, either. They then de-transform back to Honoka and Nagisa and sent to the graduation ceremony. Although wondering how they got there, Honoka is reminded of Mipple and begins to cry. She continues crying while going to Akane's shop, where they suddenly meet Hikari again, telling them how incredible the graduation was. Mepple and Mipple also show up, and Hikari has also with her the representative of the Evil King's life, now named Hikaru. It is revealed that Hikari and the Queen managed to separate and that Mepple and Mipple are now able to fully live in the Garden of Rainbows. Happy that she and Mipple always will be together, Honoka cries in joy.

## Cure White

**"Emissary of light, Cure White!"**

光の使者、キュアホワイト！
*Hikari no shisha, Kyua Howaito!*
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**Cure White** (キュアホワイト, ***Cure White***?) is Honoka's alter ego, and addresses herself as the "Emissary of light", like Cure Black. Because Cure Black is the stronger of the duo, Cure White uses agility and intelligence to surprise the enemy, usually with a kick. However, she is capable of concentrating all her power into one move and take down a giant Zakenna by herself easily. She is most notably known for flipping Zakenna during battle. She sometimes powers up her attacks by spinning around, also using this to avoid objects when she is sent flying by her enemies. As Cure White, she becomes more serious and stronger, and also seems like having a stronger will and voice. Later in the series, the duo is powered up by the Rainbow Bracelets.

 File:FwPCMH Cure White intro movie footage.png   In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*, the Pretty Cure's attacks are powered-up thanks to the Sparkle Bracelets as well as their strength and speedness. Together with Shiny Luminous, they can also perform Extreme Luminario.

It is also revealed that as a Cure, Cure White cannot stand being in the darkness for too long. This is shown once in the first series, where the Seeds of Darkness kidnap White in order to separate her and Cure Black, and put her in some kind of void made out of darkness. The longer she is there, the more of her body begins to disappear, becoming darkness itself. However, when the void eventually is broken by Cure Black, Cure White quickly returns to normal. It is unknown if this rule is for all Cures through all the series, though.

### The Ultimate Power of the Queen

While this power was never given a clear name, the Evil King identified this power as 'The ultimate power inherited from the Queen'. This power only appears in the finales of *Futari wa Pretty Cure* and *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*. When Black and White's powers are maxed out well beyond their prior limits due to their resolve, for a brief period of time a gold aura will appear and their power will increase even further by an enormous degree.

The first time it was used by themselves on the Evil King, their already enhanced Rainbow Storm nearly quadrupled in size and overwhelmed the Evil King despite absorbing the power of creation.

The second time is it was used was fighting Evil King Baldez in the finale of *Max Heart*. Their Sparkle Bracelets suddenly glows gold, and despite the Evil King maxing his fighting form to its limit, Black and White completely overpowered him and then deliver a double kick with a red meteor-like aura that nearly kills him.

### Golden Powers

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In the first movie of *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*, Cure White, along with Cure Black and Shiny Luminous, gains an upgraded version of her outfit thanks to the power of the Diamond Line, accessories of the queen in the Garden of Hope. With these powers, the outfit gets a golden color, and her earrings and other small hearts on her clothes become diamonds. This form is not seen again, most likely because it needs the power of the accessories to be activated, and it is no longer possible for the girls to visit the Garden of Hope again.

### Power of the Phoenix

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In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi*, when Pretty Cure gives all of their might to protect Hinata from Frozen and Freezen, they do not have enough energy to fight, and in their last try to keep them away from their friends, they freeze the girls. Hinata was touched that it is possible to care so much for a friend, awakens from her icicle and shoots her warmth at Pretty Cure, melting the ice and giving them a new power.

Cure White's hair gets slightly longer and is shown flowing more freely. She gains feathers on her sleeves, skirt, legs, and arms. The bow on her chest is now gold and feathery. She gains a boost in power, easily fighting Freezen with closed eyes without getting hit once. It also seems like their mind is much calmer in this form, as neither of the girls does anything rash or fast; they just dodge and wait for the final strike.

In this form, they use an even stronger version of Marble Screw Max Spark, demonstrating their great friendship against Frozen and Freezen's. After awakening Hinata again, these upgraded versions of White and Black disappear and have never been seen again. This may be because they were summoned by Hinata, who now is in the Garden of Clouds as a fully realized Phoenix. However, in *Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: Kibou no Hikari - Rainbow Jewel o Mamore!*, Cure White's Cure Rainbow form resembles this upgrade.

### Cure Rainbow White

 File:Cure Rainbow White.png  **Cure Rainbow White** (キュアレインボーホワイト, ***Cure Rainbow White***?) is an upgrade Cure White gains in *Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: Kibou no Hikari - Rainbow Jewel o Mamore!* Together with the others' upgrades, the group of seventeen girls form the group Cure Rainbow. This upgraded outfit resembles that of Cure White's upgrade in *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi* with slight modifications and golden accents.

### Transformations

**Dual Aurora Wave!** - Yukishiro Honoka transforms with Misumi Nagisa. She can only transform when she is with Nagisa.

### ***Futari wa Pretty Cure***

**Marble Screw** - Cure Black holds hands with Cure White, and she initiates the attack by summoning crackling black lightning of energy from her hands. In turn, Cure White does the same with her respective color. They declare the attack's accompanying catchphrase and name and together, they fire the lightning blast at the enemy.

**Rainbow Therapy** - A purifying attack that is used on possessed humans and animals.

**Rainbow Storm** - With the power of the Rainbow Bracelets, Cure Black and Cure White hold hands and shoot a beam of rainbow-colored energy in a similar manner as Marble Screw.

### ***Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart***

**Marble Screw Max** - A powered-up version of Marble Screw, with Cure Black and Cure White charging their lightning energy and then shouting out "Max!", before bringing forth a powerful beam of black and white lightning.

**Marble Screw Max Spark** - An even more powerful version of Marble Screw Max, greatly enhanced by the Sparkle Bracelets. The lightning beam in Marble Screw Max grows into an even larger blast of rainbow energy with black and white lightning being emitted in the attack.

**Extreme Luminario** - A group finishing move performed by Cure Black, Cure White, and Shiny Luminous. Shiny Luminous summons the Heartiel Baton, in order for Cure Black and Cure White to start the attack incantations after their individual poses. Cure Black and Cure White start to hold hands, draw back their hands and a giant rainbow heart appears before them. A shining explosion of light is shot out from the heart.

**Extreme Luminario Max** - The ultimate version of Extreme Luminario. When Cure Black and White thrust their hands forward, this time, they shout out "Max!" before a surge of bright, shining light fused with black and white lightning bursts out and continually grows larger and larger.

## Songs

Honoka's voice actor, Yukana, has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. Many of them include duets with **Honna Yoko**, who voices Misumi Nagisa, and later also **Tanaka Rie**, who voices Kujou Hikari.

* **TSUBOMI**
* **Thank You ~I'm Glad I Met You~**
* **If...**
* **Always By My Side**

### Group Songs

* **With Your Whole Smile** (*Along with Honna Yoko*)
* **Introducing Pretty Cure! ~VOCAL RAINBOW STORM~** (*Along with Honna Yoko*)
* **M☆M Is Like A Jet Coaster** (*Along with Honna Yoko*)
* **Happy ending** (*Along with Honna Yoko*)
* **We Have the Same Dream ~SET ME FREE~** (*Along with Honna Yoko*)
* **DANZEN! Futari wa Pretty Cure ~Naginagi and Honohono version~** (*Along with Honna Yoko*)
* **Pretty Exercise** (*Along with Honna Yoko and also Gojo Mayumi*)
* **Challenge☆Change** (*Along with Honna Yoko and also Gojo Mayumi*)
* **Max Heart let's GO GO GO!!** (*Along with Honna Yoko and also Tanaka Rie*)

## Trivia

* Honoka's birthday is on April 4th. Therefore, her zodiac is Aries.

## Gallery

Main article: Yukishiro Honoka/Image Gallery

## Reference

1. ↑ Behind The Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Honoka - Retrieved 05-25-2009.
2. ↑ Behind The Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Hannah - Retrieved 05-25-2009.