Akane Hino

Akane

**Akane** **Hino** (or **Kelsey** in the English Dub *Glitter Force*) is one of the five main Cures in *Smile PreCure!*.

Her alter ego is **Cure Sunny**, or (**Glitter Sunny** in the *Glitter Force* dub.) She controls the power of fire and flames.

## Bio

### Appearance

Akane has dark red eyes and short hair worn in a ponytail with a few clips, her messy bangs mainly facing the right. She wears a loose orange long-sleeve top with pastel yellow stripes and red pockets, worn over a dark red tank-top, blue pants and dark red flats. For summer she switches to a light orange tank-top over an orange T-shirt, khaki shorts, white stockings, and tan shoes.

As **Cure Sunny**, her eyes and hair turn orange, and her longer hair is worn loose with a portion held up in a bun with two locks of hair and a white wing, a large curled cowlick on the right and her bangs have lengthened. She gains a white tiara with an orange gem and matching earrings worn on the upper-ear. She wears a burnt orange choker. Her short pastel orange dress has burnt orange and white detail. Her white feathery sleeves have two orange spheres on top, and on the chest is an orange bow with light yellow fabric and a gold brooch. Hanging from the back is a ruffled, pale yellow coat-tail, and she gains burnt orange shorts. Her tall white boots have burnt orange ribbon and a pale orange sole, an she gains similar sleeves.

### Personality

Akane is a passionate girl who loves making others laugh. The first impression she gives is that of the class jokester, always full of puns and jokes to make her classmates laugh. As such, she appears to be generally popular and well-liked. Her friends see her as an interesting girl who always manages to make them laugh. She has a habit of speaking her mind, which can get a little out of hand sometimes, such as when she introduced Nao, Reika, and Yayoi to Miyuki as being a "female gang leader", "Miss Popular" and "crybaby" respectively, causing visible discomfort to the three. Yayoi, with her crybaby personality and fascination with superheroes, is often the target of Akane's jokes. However, there does not seem to be any ill-meaning behind the teasing, and the other girls seldom take offense.

## Cure Sunny

**"The brilliant sun, hot-blooded power! Cure Sunny!"**
太陽サンサン熱血パワー！キュアサニー！
*Taiyō sansan nekketsu pawā! Kyua Sanī!*

**Cure Sunny** is Akane’s Pretty Cure alter ego. In *Glitter Force*, her introduction is **"When you mess with me, you're playing with fire! I'm Glitter Sunny!"**.

## Trivia

* Akane comes from Osaka and speaks in the Kansai dialect.
* The air date of episode 2, in which Akane becomes Cure Sunny for the first time, also happened to be the birthday of her voice actress, Tano Asami.
	+ Like Akane, Tano Asami is also a Kansai native, born in Hyogo Prefecture.
* Most of the episodes that revolve around her have the word "Nekketsu" (lit: Hot Blooded) in its title.
* Akane appeared as Cure Sunny to give the 10th anniversary congratulatory message at the beginning of episode 31 of *Happiness Charge PreCure!.*
* Okonomiyaki Akane was named after her by her parents following her birth.
* Akane shares her name with Fujita Akane from *Futari wa PreCure* and *Futari wa PreCure Max Heart*.
* For the English dub *Glitter Force*, Akane (Cure Sunny) and Yayoi (Cure Peace) are the only two who keep their original Cure names, as Glitter Sunny and Glitter Peace.
* She and Cure March are the two Smile! Cures not to have ruffles under their skirt.

## Gallery

Akane in her casual outfitAkane as Cure SunnyCure Sunny’s transformation pose