Honoka Yukishiro

**Yukishiro Honoka** (雪城 ほのか *Yukishiro Honoka*?) (or **Hannah Whitehouse** in the English dub), is one of the main characters in *Futari wa Pretty Cure* and *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*. Her alter ego is **Cure White** (キュアホワイト *Kyua Howaito*?). Although she didn't even know she existed at first, Honoka eventually became best friends with Misumi Nagisa, admiring her for her courage and cheerful attitude.

## Appearance

Honoka has long, dark blue hair worn loose with clips on the side of her bangs, allowing few strands to hang loose. Her eyes are the same color. As a civilian, she often wears dresses with simple shoes and accessories like a jacket or purse. Her common attire is a white jacket with a pale yellow dress and white flats. She is often seen wearing a lab coat and glasses during club.

In the Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart movie, Honoka was seen wearing a long, blue and white dress, with white gloves, a light blue frilly decoration on the bottom, a big blue bow on the back and white high heels. She wore her hair in a bun. She also wore winter wear clothes which was a white hat, blue snow goggles, a white fur coat, white mittens, blue pants and darker blue snow boots.

As Cure White, Honoka's hair becomes curly and grows in length, allowing her to wear part of it on top of her head in a ponytail bound by a white ribbon that has a blue gem heart in the middle. She gains pearl heart earrings. Her attire is composed of a white dress that has pearl blue ruffles on the sleeves. Going down the middle of the chest is a sky blue line to match the lining of her scalloped tutu, and a white ribbon. Around he navel are two bands of blue, one of which holds has her commune hanging from a sky blue heart. Pale blue tulle lines her skirt. She gains white sleeves and leg warmers lined with ruffles and adorned with a blue gem on the hand, and sky blue hearts on the leg. Her white shoes have a sky blue sole.

In Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, Cure White's outfit is slightly upgraded a bit. Her sleeves, leg warmers, and sleeves gain further shape, while her chest ribbon gains a blue gem heart. Her skirt turns pearl blue while the tulle beneath it is white to match the peplum layer she gains. The heart of her belt turns into a larger gold clasp shaped like a heart. Her gloves gain blue detail around the top, and her leg warmers gain powder blue lining and a straightened cuff with a strip beneath it. The sky blue hearts of the warmers are now blue colored. Her earrings are gold to match Cure Black's.

## Personality

Honoka is a gentle, 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 others 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, such as when she attempted to help Nagisa get to know Fujimura better.

## Cure White

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

光の使者、キュアホワイト！

*Hikari no shisha, Kyua Howaito!***Cure White** (キュアホワイト *Kyua Howaito*?) is Honoka 's Pretty Cure 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 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. Together with Cure Black, she can perform the Marble Screw and Rainbow Therapy attacks. Later, when the duo is powered up by the Rainbow Bracelets, they can do a new attack called Rainbow Storm which makes Honoka stronger. Honoka is the younger out of the two.

In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*, the Pretty Cure's attack is powered-up to Marble Screw Max, and later to Marble Screw Max Sparkle with the Sparkle Bracelets. Together with Shiny Luminous, they can also do the Extreme Luminario attack, which in the final episode is upgraded to Extreme Luminario Max.

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.

### Golden Powers

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

In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi*, when Pretty Cure give 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, 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 do 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 Sparkle, 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 up-grade.

### Cure Rainbow White

**Cure Rainbow White** (キュアレインボーホワイト *Kyua Reinbō Howaito*?) 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.

## Attacks

**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 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.

**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 done 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 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**

### Duets

* **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 Gojou Mayumi*)
* **Challenge☆Change** (*Along with Honna Yoko and also Gojou Mayumi*)
* **GO GO GO by Max Heart!!** (*Along with Honna Yoko and also Tanaka Rie*)

## TMNT X Pokemon

As one of the most intelligent of the group, Honoka can give out important information that would help the team win a battle

## Trivia

* Honoka's birthday is on April 4th. Therefore, her zodiac is Aries.
* Honoka's blood type is B.
* Honoka and Mishou Mai have some similarities, matching the similarities of Misumi Nagisa and Hyuuga Saki.
* In the *Pretty Cure All Stars* Suite Flower Card Collection, Honoka is represented by the gardenia, which symbolizes purity and elegance in the Language of Flowers.
* Honoka's favorite flower is the Aster.
* Cure White is one of three Pretty Cures whose Cure name has a color in it, along with Cure Black and Cure Rouge (French for "red").
* Honoka appeared as Cure White to give the final 10th anniversary congratulatory message at the beginning of episode 34 in *Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!*
* Honoka is one of the Cures who owns a pet, the others are Hyuuga Saki and Aida Mana.