Yuuka Manaka

**Yuuka Manaka** is one of the four main characters of Kirameki Charge Pretty Cure. She is a third-year student at Universum Academy. Yuuka's alter ego is **Cure Quantum**.

## Appearances

Yuuka is the shortest of the group, reaching to Mimi's chest. She has creamy beige skin, emerald eyes, and straight, shoulder-length hair and forelocks, her bangs parted at the center. She also wears a blue butterfly hairclip.

She wears an off-shoulder pale blue top with elbow-length sleeves and green shoulder straps, a folded blue and green plaid skirt, and a pair of midnight blue sandals with white socks.

As **Cure Quantum**, she became taller and her eyes turn Neptune green while her long hair turns french sky blue, worn in straight pigtails reminiscent of sparkling crystal with a mint green ombre and purple streaks. Her bangs have a corner intake.

Her outfit consists of a pastel blue dress with a fluffy skirt and a purple lace layer over it covered in ivory lilies. The chest has a blue crystal with a vine plant design and the sleeves are off-white elbow-length. Her skirt is puffy and mint-colored with a gradient and ivory lilies printed around. Her boots are sky blue and emerald green with white crystal decorating them, reaching the middle of her calves. She also wears violet fingerless opera gloves.

## Personality

Yuuka is a feminine young girl who loves to play piano and dreams of becoming a pianist. She also loves to revolve around fashion, and she has turned it into an art form capable of helping others open up and feel their best. One of her favorite hobbies is collecting insects and studying them up close. Usually, she is sweet and confident, but she has times when she can come off as selfish by acting sensitive, nervous, and shy. She is endearingly dorky and can be impatient, and she's pretty blunt and likely to be nosy when curious. Yuuka is also stubborn and headstrong and can be impatient and determined.

As Cure Quantum, She became confident, pure, elegant, and beautiful. Her strength has no bounds and she's always ready to try something new.

## Relationships

* Ginger - Yuuka instantly starts a friendship with Ginger upon realizing Ginger is a fairy. Ginger initially treats her with contempt, but after Yuuka rescues her, she begins to regard her as a friend. The two have met each other in the past, but Yuuka didn't know at the time that Ginger was an eagle.
* Kujaku Shiroguchi - her childhood friend.
* Mimi Hoshiyama - Yuuka is classmates with Mimi, and they quickly become friends after they recognize each other on their first day of school.

## History

### Prologue

When she was young, she played the piano for the first time in a performance, and soon after, her mother, who is an entomologist, showed her a rhinoceros beetle she found on a log in the forest. Yuuka decided to keep the beetle as a pet and named it "Kabuto-chan", promising to take good care of it. A few days later, she was exploring the beach when she spotted Kujaku. Though unaware that Kujaku was a human the entire time, Yuuka almost immediately befriended her, and they spent the day together, with Yuuka promising to meet Kujaku again.

### Reunion with Kujaku and meeting Ginger

Yuuka sets off to Nagareboshi City to live with her mother, but on the way there, she drops her hat into the ocean. She later encounters Kujaku, who had found her hat, and quickly gets excited because she has met an eagle fairy, even immediately considering Kujaku and Ginger as her new friend.

### Becoming Cure Quantum

When Ginger is captured by Ajimi's Lemures, Yuuka decides to rescue her and becomes Cure Quantum for the first time. She successfully defeats the Lemures and slowly becomes closer friends with Kujaku and Ginger.

## Cure Quantum

"**Spreading blessings to the blue wind! Cure Quantum!**"

あまねく生命に青き風！ キュアクォンタム！

Amaneku inochi ni aoki kaze! Kyua Kuontamu!

'*Cure Quantum* (キュアクォンタム, *Kyua Kuontamu*) is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Yuuka. Cure Quantum has the power of crystals. This gives her the ability to manipulate both wind and crystalline material and make a crystal whip for herself. Her name is an allusion to the quantum crystal, also known as a "time crystal", which is made of a quantum system of particles whose lowest-energy state is one in which the particles are in a repetitive motion.

### Attacks

* **Quantum Crystal Spray** - Cure Quantum charges her Jewel Star Bracelet with spirit until it glows. When this happens, the Jewel Star Bracelet becomes windy and is compressed into a star, gathering on her right hand. With her free hand, she creates a crystal and both the star and crystal are combined into one. Cure Quantum then releases a beam of wind at her enemies.
* **Quantum Crystal Dance** - Cure Quantum's main attack with the use of the Pluto form. It debuted in episode 13.

## Songs

Yuuka's voice actor, **Miyu Kubota**, has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. Many of them include duets with **Yūko Minaguchi** (who voices Mimi Hoshiyama), **Etsuko Kozakura** (who voices Amane Rin) and **Mirai Shida** (who voices Shishinaka Leona).

## Trivia

* Yuuka's birthday is March 2nd, making her star sign Aquarius.
* Her favorite insect is the rhinoceros beetle.
* Her favorite dish is chocolate millie feuille.
* The canon Precure characters that inspired us to create Yuuka are mostly Erika / Cure Marine, Hime / Cure Princess, and Aoi / Cure Gelato.