Motomiya Nagisa

**Motomiya Nagisa** (本宮凪沙), also known as **Maeda Atsuko the 14th** (14代目 前田敦子) or **Acchan** (あっちゃん), is one of the main characters of AKB0048 Pretty Cure where she is one of the group leaders with the others being Hoshina Hikaru and Oshima Yuko the 9th. She is a member of the intergalactic idol group AKB0048, part of the unit NO NAME and originates from AKB0048.

Her alter ego is **Cure Calypso** (キュアカリプソー).

## Bio

### Appearance

Acchan has short fluffy hot pink hair with an ocean-green scrunchie. Her eyes are of a similar colour to her hair. Nagisa also has heart shaped in her eyes and on her hair.

### Personality

Acchan is friendly, yet innocent and clumsy. She is also shown to be a bit naive when she dislikes General Elections and competitions because her fear of becoming a vengeful person. But in the end she understands that competition is inevitable and later openly tells Chieri that she is her rival for Center Nova at the end of the series.

Initially Nagisa was talentless and not great in terms of singing, dancing, let alone fighting, but she has worked a lot and practiced hard in order to improving it.

### Etymology

**Motomiya** means "base, root, origin" (本) (**moto**) and "temple, shrine, palace" (宮) (**miya**).

**Nagisa** means "calm, lull" (凪) (**nagi**) and "sand" (沙) (**sa**). Her name (in conjunction with Chieri's), is a play on the words of "Nagisa no Cherry", an AKB48 song.

**Maeda** (前田) means "front, previous" (前) (**mae**) and "field" (田)(**da**). Together, Maeda means "previous rice field".

**Atsuko** (敦子) means "honest" (敦)(**atsu**) and "child" (子)(**ko**). Together, Atsuko means "honest child".

**Calypso** is a kind of West Indian (originally Trinidadian) music in syncopated African rhythm, typically with words improvised on a topical theme. It can also relate to the moon of Saturn first discovered by Dan Pascu. The moon is named after the Greek nymph Calypso, meaning "she who conceals".

### Canon Member

Maeda Atsuko (Acchan) was born on July 10, 1991, in ​​Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan. She was one of the most prominent members of AKB48 and was a member of Team A. She has appeared as one of the front girls in almost every single that AKB48 has released. If any one member could be named the "Face of AKB48", it would be Acchan. She also is an aspiring actress, and has appeared in several movies, dramas and TV shows, including "Densen Uta" alongside fellow AKB48 members Oshima Yuko, Kojima Haruna, Akimoto Sayaka, and "Moshidora" with Minegishi Minami. She had her solo singles, "Flower", and the most recent "Kueki Ressha" that earned her a Best New Actress award. Like her former AKB0048 counterpart, Atsuko graduated from AKB48 in August 2012. Some interesting facts about Atsuko include that she is left-handed, her oshimen is  Minami Takahashi and they are really close friends. She loves pets almost as much as she loves tomatoes, currently having six dogs and three cats. She ranked #1 in the 2009 and 2011 elections.

She married actor Katsuji Ryo; they registered their marriage on July 30, 2018. She gave birth to their first child, a son in 2019. On April 23, 2021, she announced that they have amicably divorced.

She later opened her own office agency called "OFFICE MAEDA ATSUKO".

## Cure Calypso

**“Shine bright as the rings of Saturn! Cure Calypso!”**
 土星の輪のように明るく輝く！キュアカリプソー!
 *Dosei no wa no yō ni akaruku kagayaku! Kyua Karipusō!*

**Cure Calypso** (キュアカリプソー) is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Acchan. In order to transform, she needs her Star Colour Pendant and her Star Colour Pen.

## Trivia

* Relating to the space motif of AKB0048 Precure, her birthday falls on the day that the Voyager 2 space probe makes its closest approach to Uranus in the year 1986.
* She shares her name with Misumi Nagisa from Futari Wa Pretty Cure.
* Her father formerly works with DGTO. Due to Acchan becoming an idol, her father was imprisoned and was later released, supporting Acchan as an idol later on.
	+ Her father once denied Acchan's approval to become an idol.
* She is a fan of Oshima Yuko the 9th.
* She looks very similar to the canon Maeda Atsuko.
* Like the canon Maeda Atsuko, her favourite food is tomato.