Aguri Madoka

*This article is about the **Aguri Madoka** character. For articles that share the same name, see Aguri.*

## Profile

### Age

11
17 (Ace)

## Professional Status

### Occupation

Student
Pretty Cure
Princess

### Paraphernalia

Love Eyes Palette
Cure Loveads
Love Kiss Rouge
Magical Lovely Pad

## Voice Actors

### English

Erica Lindbeck

**Aguri Madoka** (円 亜久里, *Madoka Aguri*) is a recurring character of the series and is one of the five main Doki Doki! Cures. She is a fourth-grader.

Aguri's alter ego is **Cure Ace** (キュアエース, *Kyua Ēsu*).

## Description

### Appearance

Within her group, Aguri is the shortest and youngest member. She has burgundy eyes and long brown hair with her bangs pulled back. She normally wears a sleeveless red dress with white stripes around the bottom of the skirt and a white neckline with a ribbon at the center. She also wears magenta sneakers and white socks. During winter, she wears a red jacket with a white collar, along with a black skirt and burgundy boots.

#### Cure Ace

As **Cure Ace**, Aguri grows taller than the other Cures and she wears pink makeup. Her eyes turn magenta and her thicker, longer hair bright red, worn in one thick curl with two thinner curled segments, forelocks, and bangs brushed aside. She wears a gold pointed hair piece with a winged bow adorned by a heart and white fabric, accenting her gold earrings and necklace. She wears a red and black scalloped dress with white pointed petticoat. Over the dress is a white jacket with red detail lining and pale pink sleeve cuff. On the chest is a gold heart with two, pale pink heart-shaped fabric, while sewn to the back is a large pale pink bow with a cape-like tail. She also gets white feathered wrist pieces with red straps and matching colored knee-length boots.

### Personality

Aguri is composed, calm, and wise beyond her young years. She can be strict and expects others to follow the rules, so she can appear to be bossy and accidentally say hurtful things. However, she has an appreciation for good food, most notably sweets; such as a peach roll and Sebastian’s cake, both of which she described in great detail, and how she was a regular of a restaurant ever since being "*drawn*" in by their anmitsu.

She is known for speaking elegantly, such as saying "*Bravo*," when she eats something she thinks tastes good, and "*Adieu*" when departing.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **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.
* **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.

* **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.

## Etymology

* **Madoka (円, ***Madoka***):** 円 can mean *circle* or *yen*, the latter being the Japanese currency.
* **Aguri (亜久里, ***Aguri***):** *Aguri* is a name from the ancient times of Japan when male children were considered more important than female. It was normally used by parents who had many daughters but no sons, therefore was an incantation towards gods or Buddha, with the intent of having the named daughter be the last female child in the family. Her name is actually an anagram hinting at her identity. The kanji for Madoka can alternatively be read as *en*, which when combined with a romanized *Agri* can be rearranged to spell *Regina*.
* **Cure Ace** is one of the four playing cards with a single mark or spot, but it's also a person who excels at a particular sport or other activity.

## 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 true birthday and star sign. They eventually decide on her birthday to be celebrated on December 1st, making her zodiac sign a Sagittarius.
* Aguri appeared as Cure Ace to give the 10th Anniversary Congratulatory Message.
* With her bangs loose, she resembles Regina.
* Aguri is the first Cure to grow older when she transforms.
* Aguri's surname is homophone with the given names of Kaguya Madoka and Madoka Akimoto.
* Aguri is the only Doki Doki! Cure who does not share her birthday with her Japanese voice actress.