Suite PreCure♪

A poster featuring Cure Melody, Cure Rhythm, Cure Beat, and Cure Muse

**Suite PreCure♪** is the eighth anime series of the *Pretty Cure* franchise.

Directed by Sakai Munehisa and produced by Toei Animation, the series premiered on TV Asahi on February 6th, 2011, succeeding *Heartcatch PreCure!* in its time slot.

The series' theme is music.

## Synopsis

Hibiki and Kanade are two friends who grew up together in Kanon Town. Though their personalities are very different, they share one thing in common: A connection to music. No matter how different they are or how much their differences cause them to quarrel, they both continue to share loving hearts. One day they meet Hummy, who is sent to the Human World from Major Land to collect the scattered notes of the Melody of Happiness. They have to instantly transform into Pretty Cures to resist the threats and evil music from Mephisto. Can they stop the Melody of Sorrow from disrupting their peaceful town, and can their warped friendship measure up to the bonds of Pretty Cure?

## Characters

### Pretty Cure

* **Hibiki Hojo** is 14 years old and has a cheerful personality. She excels at sports, an expert on soccer, but is very bad at studying. She also loves to eat sweet things, in particular, the cakes from Kanade's family's shop. Her alter ego is **Cure Melody**.

* **Kanade Minamino** is 14 years old, and she is Hibiki's childhood friend. Kanade is an excellent student, but she is not really good at sports. Her excellent grades and personality make her sort of a celebrity in her school. She dreams of being a pastry chef and taking over her parents' shop, the Lucky Spoon. She also has a strong love for cat paws. Her alter ego is **Cure Rhythm**.

* **Siren** / **Ellen Kurokawa** is a former Cat-like Fairy of Songs. Although she was born in Major Land and knows Hummy, she, at some point, betrayed Major Land and allied with Mephisto. She then realizes her mistakes and betrays Mephisto for Hummy's sake. Her strong feelings of friendship with Hummy turned her into a Cure and now a human. Her alter ego is **Cure Beat**.

* **Ako Shirabe** is a student in Kanon Elementary, same class with Minamino Souta. She is very mature for her age, but also very cold and not above handing out lectures, particularly towards Hibiki and Kanade. She masks as a mysterious fighter who rescues Cure Melody and Cure Rhythm since episode 11 and attacks with colorful piano keys. She often assists the Pretty Cures if they are trapped, but leaves them to finish off the Negatones. Her origin and status are unknown, and she has declared that she won't partner herself with the Pretty Cures until the moment is right. She also doesn't seem to speak, as her Fairy Tone partner, Dodory, does all the talking. In the events of episode 35, to stop Mephisto's riot, she declares her identity and claims that she is Mephisto's daughter. She turned into Cure Muse and awoken her father from his hypnosis. She rejected to join the Cures, but when they say that she's not alone, she decides to fight along with them. Her alter ego is **Cure Muse** and the **Masked Cure.**

### Mascots

* **Hummy** is a female cat-like Fairy of Songs and the partner of both Hibiki and Kanade. She is the annual singer of the Melody of Happiness and Best friend of Siren. Hummy is sent to the human world to search and collect the scattered notes of the Melody of Happiness and she met both Kanade and Hibiki to help her collect.
* The **Fairy Tones** are nine creatures with different colors, each of which is named after a different note. They lend their powers to *Pretty Cure* in different ways.

### Minor Land

* **Mephisto** is the king of the Minor Land. He attempts to make the Melody of Happiness into the Melody of Sadness to turn all worlds tragic and to fulfill his taste of music. He was actually a pawn and was hypnotized. Before he was brainwashed, he was the King of Major land and husband of Aphodite and father of Ako. He soon was back to normal and dearly loves Ako very much.
* **Trio the Minor** is a trio, who worked for Mephisto, and also worked with Siren. They sing in unison rather than speak individually. However, they do speak individually sometimes. They used to work in Major Land as the Three Musketeers, but they betrayed Major Land and joined Mesphisto and their mission is to gather the Notes to make the Melody of Sadness. The members are:
	+ **Bassdrum** - Is one of the members. He has a deep voice when singing. He has a green beard, which has a similar haircut as his hair.
	+ **Baritone** - Is one of the members. He is smart and has a cool personality. He has long, blue hair.
	+ **Falsetto** - Is one of the members. He has a high pitched voice when singing. After his friends and Mephisto turn good again, he is revealed to be the spy from Noise of Evil, however, later he turns good again. He has pink hair.
* **Noise** is the actual enemy behind the operation. He has three forms: P-chan, beast and humanoid.
* **Negatone** are the monsters summoned in this series, whenever a note is attached to an object.

## Trivia

* Phonetically "suite" sounds the same as "sweet" in Japanese and English. In addition to that, Kanade and her family specialize in making sweets.
* Most of the episode titles have some kind of sound or onomatopoeia at the beginning of them.
* This is the only season of the franchise where Valentine's/White day is celebrated.
* *Suite Pretty Cure♪* had one episode delayed. This was caused by the 9.1 Magnitude Earthquake that hit Japan on March 11th, 2011. The series had one episode less than initially planned due to the delay.
* *Suite Pretty Cure♪* is the only season so far where all of the Cures have different individual weapons from each other.
* An anonymous user on a Japanese board once leaked two fake Cures, which were Cure Symphony and Cure Beat by replicating *Heartcatch!* leaks of Sunshine and Moonlight. Cure Beat later turned out to be real (although not being the same one from the leak), whereas Cure Symphony didn't happen, instead turned out to be Cure Muse. Anon later released the high quality version of the leak after their debut. It was so authentic that fans brought it while *Suite♪* was airing and still do. Partly contributed by the merchandise being unable to datamine like the previous and upcoming seasons. The audio for the Cure Module was playable not within the toy, but within the Fairy Tones you stuck inside it and they have speakers so the only way to unlock Cure Beat's and Cure Muse's audio was to wait for Lari and Dodori to be sold.