Aguri Madoka

**Madoka Aguri** (円 亜久里 *Madoka Aguri*?) (or **Natalie** in the English Dub*Glitter Force Doki Doki*) is one of the Cures in *Doki Doki! Pretty Cure*. She is a mysterious character who appears at the end of episode 22 while saving the Cures' life. She finally reveals herself as Aguri in episode 23. She is very wise for her age and has a major sweet tooth. Aguri's alter ego is **Cure Ace**(キュアエース *Kyua Ēsu*?) (or **Glitter Ace**in the English Dub). She uses Ai's power to transform. It was revealed in episode 45 that she is the light of Princess Marie Ange and Regina is her darkness, revealing she is the Princess of Trump Kingdom.

## Appearance

Within her group Aguri is the shortest member. She has downward slanted maroon eyes and long brown hair worn loose with her bangs pulled back and her short forelocks framing her face. She normally wears a sleeveless red dress with a white collar accent by a single line of red and a thin ribbon. Two rings of white circle the bottom of her dress. She pairs this with a pair of magenta and white flats and a pair of socks. During winter, she switches this for a red jacket with ruffled collar and a loose black ribbon to match her layered pleat skirt. These are paired with burgundy boots and slightly longer socks. As Cure Ace, Aguri grows to surpass the other members in height and frame build. Her eyes turn magenta and she gains pink lipstick and eye makeup. Her hair turns vibrant red and grows in length worn in three large curled segments. Her bangs are worn loose and brushed to the side, while her forelocks grow chest length with a curl on end. She wears a gold necklace, dangle earrings, and a gold crown-like hair piece with a winged heart amulet attached to white tulle. Her outfit differs from the other members, composed of a red short dress with scalloped skirt trim with feathery petticoat and black black line detail. A white jacket-like piece is worn over this with red detailing, shaped with three long, loose flaps that have soft pink coloring inside to match the ribbon sewn to the back of the waist. Her puffed sleeves have a soft pink split cuff sewn to a red strap. The lapel of her top is heart-like shaped with red lining and a gold heart sewn to the middle that has a soft pink heart-shaped ribbon tails hanging from it. She also gains a white feathery cuffs with a red strap and a pair of matching colored boots.

## Personality

Aguri is calm and wise beyond her young years. She tends to tell rules to people, and is also strict, reaching the point where her comments can be hurtful. She has an appreciation for good food, as seen with the flavor of a peach roll, which she described in great detail, and how she was a regular of a restaurant even since being "drawn" by their anmitsu. She sometimes says "*Bravo*," mostly when she eats something she thinks tastes good, and when departing often says "*Adieu*".

## Cure Ace

**Cure Ace** (キュアエース *Kyua Ēsu*?) is Aguri's alter ego. Cure Ace represents love. As Cure Ace, Aguri has limited time to be in this form, five minutes at most. Later, by gaining the knowledge of her history from the Eternal Golden Crown, there's no limit for her to stay in this form. In Glitter Force Doki Doki, her introduction is **"'A' for absolutely fabulous! I'm Glitter Ace!"**

### Transformation

To transform to Cure Ace, Aguri uses the Love Eyes Palette, and the power of Ai, who produces a Lovead to transform. Aguri places her Cure Lovead on it, grabs the make-up stick and taps the Royal Crystals placed on the palette. She creates her eye shadow and the heart in the middle flashes three times and then forms a shape of a golden bow that spins and starts the transformation. Madoka appears in a flash spinning around and growing up a bit, then creating flames that ignite her. Her costume appears from the flames and she introduces herself. She seems to be the only Cure that ages during transformation.

### Attacks

**Ace Shot** - Her main attack. She needs the Love Kiss Rouge to perform this attack. Depending on the color of lipstick she puts on, the effects of the attack are different.

* **Red** - used to purify Jikochuus
* **Purple** - used to freeze enemies in place
* **Yellow** - used to trap enemies with vines
* **Blue** - used to encase enemies in a bubble

**Ace Mirror Flash** - is Cure Ace secondary individual attack performed with Magical Lovely Pad. It has appeared in episode 32.

### Power-Ups

Like her Cure partners she can Power Up by herself when she takes the battle seriously, this happens when a red light appears around her body.

## Songs

Aguri's voice actress, **Kugimiya Rie**, has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. Many of them include duets with **Nabatame Hitomi**, who voices Aida Mana, **Kotobuki Minako** who voices Hishikawa Rikka, **Fuchigami Mai**, who voices Yotsuba Alice, and **Miyamoto Kanako**, who voices Kenzaki Makoto.

* **5minutes**
* **Power of Love**

### Duets

* **Where The Future Lies** (*Along with Miyamoto Kanako*)
* **Beyond The Sky** (*Along with Nabatame Hitomi, Kotobuki Minako, Fuchigami Mai, Miyamoto Kanako, Yoshida Hitomi and Kurosawa Tomoyo*)

## TMNT X Pokemon

Aguri is usually the responsible one and tends to tell the rules to others even though most of the time they would either ignore her or doesn't pay attention to her.

## Trivia

* Cure Ace is the only *Doki Doki!* Cure to be represented not by a card suit, but by a card itself, the "Ace".
	+ This might be a reference to card games like poker, where the ace is a wild card that can completely change the course of a game.
* She does not know her birthday and star sign, as shown in episode 42. They eventually decide on her birthday to be celebrated on December 1, making her zodiac sign a Sagittarius.
* Aguri shares her English dub name with Misumi Nagisa from *Futari wa Pretty Cure*.
* Aguri shares her voice actress (Kugimiya Rie) with Dark Lemonade of Dark Pretty Cure 5.
* Aguri appeared as Cure Ace to give the 10th Anniversary Congratulatory Message at the beginning of episode 19 in *Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!.*
* With her bangs loose, she resembles Regina.