Ako Shirabe

Ako

Cure Muse

**Ako Shirabe** is one of the four main Cures in *Suite PreCure♪* . She is the Princess of Major Land.

Ako's alter ego is **Cure Muse**. She was previously known as the **Masked Cure**, who wore a disguise before revealing her actual form.

## Bio

### Appearance

Ako is a little girl with orange eyes, which require magenta glasses. Her short orange hair frames her face with a loose strand on each side of the head. Normally, she wears a pink long-sleeve shirt, but short in the summer, with a purple buttoned one-piece over it, short magenta socks, and white sneakers with pale blue detail. In the movie, she wears a light-indigo buttoned top over a pearl blue dress, pink socks, and white shoes with periwinkle accents.

In **Masked form**, Ako appears to be much older due to wearing platform boots. Her eyes turn magenta and her head is hidden by a large purple and black mask with a heart gem to match her full body outfit and cape.

As **Cure Muse**, her eyes are the same as in masked form while her now bright orange hair grows very long and is worn loose, splitting in two segments so far down with a yellow ribbon on each side. Besides her white forehead piece which is adorned by a hot pink heart gem, she also gains a gold choker and heart earrings. She wears a pale yellow long-sleeved blouse with yellow detail and ribbon on each hip. Around the shoulders is a yellow shawl with white ruffles and the Cure Module in the center, with a yellow bow. The short, yellow balloon skirt has a ruffled light yellow peplum over it. She also gains white and light yellow boots with a yellow ribbon adorned by a heart on top.

### Personality

Ako is a sweet and considerate girl who enjoys music and loves to sing. She adores her parents and looks up to them, although she gets flustered by her father's awkward behavior. She is also mature for her age and capable of understanding things most kids her age wouldn't.

However, after Minor Land's takeover of her home, she fled for Kanon Town and was led to believe she would be forced to save everyone on her own. As such, she became cold and pushed others away, showing a rude and inconsiderate side around people older then her unless she liked them, and even then she could come off as condescending and sternly cold if annoyed.

## Cure Muse

**"Playing the Goddess' tune, Cure Muse!"**
爪弾くは女神の調べ、キュアミューズ
*Tsumabiku wa megami no shirabe, Kyua Myūzu!*

**Cure Muse** is Ako’s Pretty Cure alter ego.

## Trivia

* Ako is the youngest main character in the franchise thus far. She is also the smallest Cure. Her age is not stated in the show but is 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 one episode, it was shown that Ako knows how to walk on stilts, hinting to her Cure identity.
* She is the first and only yellow Cure to join the team as the fourth member.
* Ako appeared as Cure Muse to give the 10th anniversary congratulatory speech at the beginning of episode 33 in *Happiness Charge PreCure!*.
* She 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.
	+ She is also the only member of the *Suite♪ Pretty Cure* team to only have one character song.

## Gallery

Ako in her casual outfitAko as Cure MuseAko as Masked CureCure Muse’s transformation pose