Fresh PreCure!

A poster featuring Cure Peach, Cure Pine, Cure Berry, Cure Passion, along with Tarte and Chiffron

### Premiered

Animax, TV Asahi, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)

**Fresh PreCure!** is the sixth anime series of the *Pretty Cure* franchise.

Directed by Shimizu Junji and Zako Akifumi and produced by Toei Animation, the series premiered on TV Asahi on February 1st, 2009, succeeding *Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo!* in its time slot.

The series' themes are fruits, clovers, card suits, and dancing.

## Synopsis

Love Momozono is a second-year student at Public Yotsuba Junior High School. One day, Love goes to see the concert of a popular dance unit called Trinity and she is impressed!! Seeing Miyuki, the leader of Trinity, kick starts Love's dream to dance. However, because of the sudden appearance of a Nakewameke, the concert becomes a disaster!! Labyrinth intends to overthrow the town and control the whole world but doesn't that seem like a far-reaching conspiracy...!?

Love yearns to protect the people and see Trinity perform live once again. As a Linkrun is motivated by the strong feelings of Love, it turns her mobile phone into a transformation device turning her into a legendary warrior - Pretty Cure!! Along with Tarte and Chiffon, fairies from the Sweets Kingdom, Miki Aono, and Inori Yamabuki, they use their power of love, hope, and prayer to defeat Labyrinth's evil plans.

## Characters

### Pretty Cure

* **Love Momozono**: The cheerful and selfless girl who is the leader of Pretty Cure. She is liked by everyone in town and hates to see others suffering, even if they are her enemy. Her alter ego is **Cure Peach**, representing the power of love through the symbol of the Heart.
* **Miki Aono** : The elegant young girl who is talented in several fields and dreams of becoming a model, though Pretty Cure and her friends always come first for her. She states she is "Perfect" at times. Her alter ego is **Cure Berry**, representing the power of hope through the symbol of the Spade.
* **Inori Yamabuki**: A shy girl who loves nature and animals, and aspires to become a veterinarian just like her parents. Her alter ego is **Cure Pine**, representing the power of faith through the symbol of the Diamond.
* **Setsuna Higashi**: After having fought the other three girls for a long time as **Eas**, Setsuna eventually joins them when she is revived as **Cure Passion** by Akarun and found out that she's the missing fourth Cure, representing the power of happiness through the symbol of the Club/Heart.

### Labyrinth

* **Eas** : The only female of Labyrinth during the first half of the series. She has an obsession with defeating Pretty Cure in order to get Moebius to pay attention to her. Her human alias is **Higashi Setsuna**, and after some time, she became Cure Passion.
* **Westar** : The more clumsy member of Labyrinth, who is more of a comic relief character despite his tough appearance. He never learns about a thing before attacking the people. His human alias is **Nishi Hayato**.
* **Soular** : The quieter member of the group, who prefers planning before actions. He seems to care for no one and enjoys people suffering. He often plans out his attacks before going on a mission, always knowing beforehand what to do. His human alias is **Minami Shun**.
* **Northa** : The fourth member who appears late in the series, though she was shown with her face hidden in the second opening before her official introduction. She is an elite within Labyrinth and uses Sorewatase as monsters and in battle can manipulate plants. Her human alias is **Kita Nayuta** but has never officially used it.
* **Klein** : An elite member of Labyrinth, he acts like Moebius' right-hand man, sending messages to the lower-ranking members.
* **Nakewameke** : The monsters used most often by the villains. They are made using a diamond imbued with evil energy that can be created by Eas, Westar, and Soular using magic, which is then used to possess both animate and inanimate objects to do the bidding of whoever summons them.
* **Nakisakebe** : The new kind of monster that Moebius presented to Eas after she asked for more time to defeat Pretty Cure. Although it is incredibly strong compared to Nakewamekes, it works by sapping energy from the user and causing him or her pain. Eas was given only four cards to summon Nakisakebes, and those four are the only ones that appeared in the series.
* **Sorewatase** : The third monster used by the villains, stored within a fruit with a vaguely humanoid shape that is grown by Northa using the liquefied Fuko Energy stored in the Fuko Gauge. It was introduced by Northa, and only she can use them fully. They are also used by Westar and Soular a few times.
* **Moebius** : The leader of Labyrinth who wishes to rule all worlds, thinking of all his subjects to be only mindless pawns.

### Kingdom of Sweets

* **Tarte** : A ferret-like fairy of the Kingdom of Sweets, he is Chiffon's caretaker and speaks in Kansai dialect. He takes Chiffon to the human world on his search for Pretty Cure. He is prone to worrying and often grumbles, but becomes weak to a good story and will become overly emotional. He also loves Kaoru's donuts.
* **Chiffon** : A baby fairy from the Kingdom of Sweets. Chiffon likes to play practical jokes on others, often by using her esper powers. The mark on Chiffon's forehead gives a light that has many different abilities, including bestowing Pretty Cure with the ability to transform and giving them some of their power-ups.

## Trivia

* The mascots look quite different compared to the mascots that came before them. Furthermore, they do not end their sentences with a suffix, and the tradition of ending each story with four mascots ends.
* In the second opening, a Nakewameke appears below the ground Soular and Westar are standing on; however, since the Nakewameke has a dark-red diamond on it, it means that Eas was the one who summoned it, but by that time she already became Cure Passion and left Labyrinth.
* The fate of the Pretty Cure franchise once depended on the performance of this series, since it was an experimental work. If *Fresh!* failed, it would have been the final season. If it had succeeded, the franchise would continue furthermore.
	+ Fortunately, it had succeeded, thus the franchise still continues.
* Unlike most seasons of the franchise, the areas affected by the battles between the Cures and the villains don't revert to normal even after the battles have ended.
* *Fresh Pretty Cure!* is the first season:
	+ To have Atsutoshi Umezawa as a producer until *Smile PreCure!.*
	+ Where the main characters go to separate schools.
	+ To not have instrumental version of its opening theme during its fight scenes.
	+ To have CGI-animated endings.
	+ Where the main team has four members.
	+ To get 50 episodes.
	+ To have the opening changed mid-season.
* If you line up the catchphrases of the four Cures in hiragana and read the first character of each line, it spells "Shiawase", which means "happiness" in Japanese. This is coincidentally, one of the main themes of the season.