Hoshina Hikaru

**Hoshina Hikaru** (星奈ひかる) is one of the main characters in AKB0048 Pretty Cure where she is one of the group leaders with the others being Maeda Atsuko the 14th & Oshima Yuko the 9th. She is a member of the intergalactic idol group AKB0048, part of the unit NO NAME and originates from Star Twinkle Pretty Cure.

Her alter ego is **Cure Star** (キュアスター). Her catchphrase is **"Twincool~☆"** (「キラやば～っ☆」), which was inherited from her father.

## Bio

### Appearance

As a civilian, Hikaru has hot pink eyes and short-medium length slightly curled hair worn in twin-tails with a single yellow sphere at the bottom. She has a large curled lock hanging down the middle. She wears a blue headband with two spheres and a star on the side.

Casually, she wears a pale pink off-shoulder blouse with a white collar. Over this is a pair of denim short-style overalls with a hot pink belt and matching colored socks, along with white and baby pink sneakers with pale pink accent. She wears her Star Color Pendant around her neck.

In the winter, she wears an oversized hot pink hoodie with a light pink hood and star motif. She sometimes also wears a light blue scarf with matching mittens.

As a child, her hair was shorter and her twin-tails lacked the spheres. Her headband also only had one single star. At one point of her childhood, she was only seen wearing star hairclips or tied her hair into buns.

As **Cure Star**, her hair and eyes brighten. Her hair grows to her thighs with a large sphere at the bottom of each tail held with pale pink rings and golden stars. She wears a frilly pink headband with two more golden stars and a light blue Saturn-shaped ornament on the left. Her dress has a light pink and fuchsia bodice with two stars in the front and wing-like straps in the top and below the shoulder. On top is her Star Colour Pendant. At the bottom are large fuchsia sakura petals around her waist. The left has a light pink pouch for her Star Colour Pens and on the back is a pale yellow ribbon. Her skirt is light pink and magenta with a frilly white layer underneath. She also wears fuchsia and light pink shoes with a star on top of each foot. On her right leg is a fuchsia stocking that almost covers her leg with a wide yellow star. Her accessories include fluffy white bracelets with matching anklets, gold dangling hoop earrings, and a fuchsia choker with a star in the middle.

In her **Twinkle Style**, her hair lightens and is decorated with stars. The top star hair pieces now have a white layer, and her headband is replaced by a Twinkle Tiara while her choker turns white. Her dress is slightly lighter now with a white section in the middle of the bodice with small wings appearing on each side of the pendant. The frills below the shoulder are now puffy sleeves. The skirt now has a white layer under it with stars decorating it with a longer bright fuchsia layer over that and a yellow star-shaped layer over that. The anklets on her shoes are now slanted while her bracelets have a small frill at the top.

As **Taurus Cure Star**, her hair is in thick braids with a magenta ombre toward the bottom decorated with light yellow bull horns. Her top is white with golden ruffles around the top part of her arm. Her sakura petals remain, but her skirt is now white with magenta cow-like spots and splits in the right. Underneath that is a longer white skirt that reaches near her feet in the back with a fuchsia insert inside. The bow in her back turns pale pink. Her shoes and stocking are now mostly white and her earrings are now blue butterflies.

As **Pisces Cure Star**, her hairstyle is similar to her normal form, but is mostly light pink with a fuchsia ombre on top and decorated with stars and a seashell. Her star accessories on top also turn blue. The bodice is mostly fuchsia and light pink with the bottom layer of her sleeves turning dark magenta along with yellow straps. The sakura petals and top layer of her skirt are light pink with light blue lining on the skirt and a dark fuchsia layer under it. She also now has a fuchsia and light blue mermaid tail decorated with a yellow and blue star.

### Personality

Hikaru is an imaginative and curious second-year student who loves constellations and space. She can be rather stubborn too, in which she will investigate anything that interests her thoroughly and acts on intuition. She is also ecstatic and has a tendency to drag people into certain activities she finds intriguing, unaware that her enthusiasm can be disrespectful to others. She is also supportive and caring towards others. She does, however, have moments where she can become deeply upset. According to Sorami Ryoutarou, Hikaru used to be selfish because she would go along with things as long as she believed it was fun, but now she considers her friends much more than before.

### Etymology

**Hoshina** (星奈) - *Hoshi* (星) means "star", while *Na* (奈) has no meaning when it is by itself.

**Hikaru** (ひかる) - There are two different kanji variations that elude to Hikaru's theme as a Pretty Cure, 光 and 輝. Both readings mean "light" / "brightness"  which match up with Cure Star's light like theme.

**Star** is a noun that can mean to "a natural luminous body visible in the sky especially at night"

## History in AKB0048 Precure

### Getting into AKB0048

Hikaru and the other main Cures of Star Twinkle Precure were taking a vacation off of Akibastar when they see AKB0048 fighting off against DES. It was her idea to help the idol group and therefore, dragged the others to fight DES. Soon after DES was defeated, Katagiri Tsubasa noticed that she was one of the Pretty Cures and asked her to become one of the members of AKB0048. Hikaru happily accepts.

## Cure Star

**"The twinkling star that shines throughout the universe! Cure Star!"**
宇宙に輝くキラキラ星！キュアスター！
*Sora ni Kagayaku Kirakira Boshi! Kyua Sutā!*

### Transformation

Hikaru's pendant's top pops off, allowing Hikaru to insert her Star Colour Pen. She shouts the phrase and draws a star in front of her to start the transformation. Pressing her pen against the pendant, Hikaru begins to sing and dance, drawing a circle around her as she goes to create her cuffs. She once again presses her pen to her pendant to draw a wave pattern which she skips in between to create her shoes. She then starts hopping from star to star, twirling the extra red wave to create her dress. She then proceeds to create her choker, earrings and have her hair grow longer and change its style. One last time, she presses her pen to her pendant to have it fuse with her dress before twirling the pen in the air and having it fly into its pouch. She stops singing and continues to introduce herself before striking a pose.

### Attacks

* **Star Punch** (スターパンチ?): Cure Star's first attack, which she uses by punching a star towards her enemy. It requires the Star Color Pendant.
	+ **Taurus Star Punch** (おうし座スターパンチ?): An upgraded version of the attack, which she uses by punching a powered-up pink star towards her enemy. It requires the Star Colour Pendant and the Taurus Star Princess Colour Pen.
	+ **Aries Star Punch** (おひつじ座スターパンチ?): Another upgraded version of the attack, which she uses by punching a powered-up red star of energy towards her enemy. It requires the Star Colour Pendant and the Aries Star Princess Colour Pen.
	+ **Pisces Star Punch** (うお座スターパンチ?): Another upgraded version of the attack, which she uses by punching a powered-up light pink star of energy towards her enemy. It requires the Star Colour Pendant and the Pisces Star Princess Colour Pen.
* **Southern Cross Shot** (サザンクロスショット?): An attack Star performs alongside Cure Milky, Cure Soleil and Cure Selene. To perform it, she needs the Twinkle Stick.
* **Star Twinkle Imagination** (スタートゥインクルイマジネーション?): An attack Star performs alongside Cure Milky, Cure Soleil, Cure Selene and Cure Cosmo. To perform it, she needs Unicorn Fuwa and her Twinkle Style.

## Trivia

* Hikaru's birthday is on April 12th, making her star sign Aries. Relating to *Star Twinkle'*s outer space motif, Hikaru's birthday happens to fall on Cosmonautics Day, the anniversary of the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin, adopted as the International Day of Human Space Flight by the United Nations General Assembly in 2011.
* She loves to eat shaved ice.
* She is skilled at scooping goldfish.
* The translation of Hikaru’s catchphrase as Twincool—a portmanteau of twinkle and cool—began in unofficial English fanmade subtitles before being officially getting recognised in merchandise.