Shimabukuro Marin

**Shimabukuro Marin** (島袋まりん, *Shimabukuro Marin*) is the main protagonist of Aquatic Hearts ♥ Pretty Cure. Her alter ego is **Cure Coral** (キュアコーラル, Kyua Kōraru), the Pretty Cure of Coral Reefs.

## **Appearance**

### **Marin**

Marin is a tanned girl with shoulder-length dull orange hair that's parted in the middle and paired with dark red eyes. Part of her hair is tied into a small side ponytail and a pink and silver hair clip is placed near her bangs. She wears a white and salmon pink baseball tee with a cream-colored bow on the chest, baggy brown cargo shorts with a thin pink belt, white socks, and orange and white sneakers. She also has a bright pink band-aid on her cheek and a bright blue one on her knee.

### **Cure Coral**

Cure Coral has wavy thigh-length coral orange hair with hip-length twintails secured by cinnabar-colored hair bows. Her outfit is a stomach-revealing salmon pink shirt with short, frilly sleeves and a cinnabar-colored sailor collar with two salmon pink lines and a white neckerchief. The triangle of fabric in-between the sailor collar is salmon pink with cinnabar lining. A thin, cinched cinnabar line sits just above her frilled shirt hem. A cinnabar choker is around her neck.

Her short salmon pink skirt has box pleats, a cinnabar line above the hem, and dark reddish-pink shorts underneath. Cure Coral's shoes are salmon pink gladiator sandals that cover most of her calves.

Finally, she wears salmon pink and white chandelier shell earrings.

## **Personality**

Marin is an upbeat and confident girl who dreams of becoming rich and successful. She fully believes in the power of good and bad luck, often claiming that her luck is absolutely perfect. Due to this belief, Marin can be extremely reckless and uncaring about her own safety.

She's well-known for approaching tourists that visit her family's gift shop and begging them to let her accompany them on short-distance boat trips, which she uses to search for treasure.

## **History**

### **Preseason**

Ever since she was a child, Marin has been obsessed with the story of the Mermaid's Treasure, and has always dreamed of discovering the treasure for herself.

## **Cure Coral**

**"The Glittering Coral Reef! Cure Coral!"**
きらびやかな珊瑚礁! キュアコーラル!
*Kirabiyakana Sangoshō! Kyua Kōraru!*

**Cure Coral** (キュアコーラル) is Marin's Pretty Cure alter ego. In order to transform, she needs her Shell Mirror.

### **Attacks**

* **Coral Flash** (コーラルフラッシュ): Cure Coral's first attack, it requires her Shell Mirror.

## **Relationships**

* **Ishikawa Noriko:** Noriko is one of Marin's classmates. Initially, they aren't close, despite Marin's attempts to befriend her. After becoming Pretty Cure, they begin to grow closer.

* **Kishimoto Asuna:** Marin's senpai. Despite Asuna's initial abrasiveness, Marin still believes that, deep down, Asuna is a good person.

* **Umino Ruri:** Marin adores Ruri's sweet nature. The pair became friends after Ruri told Marin that she'd become a great treasure-hunter someday.

* **Shimabukuro Yuusuke** and **Shimabukuro Shintaro:** Marin's parents who own and run *Takarahama Souvenirs*, a local gift shop.

## **Etymology**

**Shimabukuro** (島袋): *Shima* (島) means "island", while *Bukuro* (袋) means "bag".

**Marin** (まりん): Due to being written in hiragana, her name has no particular meaning.

## **Citations**

1. ↑ https://jisho.org/search/%E5%B3%B6
2. ↑ https://jisho.org/search/%E8%A2%8B