Minami Kaido

Minami

Cure Mermaid

**Minami Kaido** is a main character in *Go! Princess PreCure*.

Minami's alter ego is **Cure Mermaid**, the Princess of the Sea.

## Appearance

Minami has sharp blue eyes and long teal hair with a portion braided across the head to hang over the left shoulder. Her bangs have a corner intake. Casually, she wears a pale blue blouse with a lilac neck ribbon, a blue pencil skirt, and blue high-heels with lilac bows. During summer, she wears a blue dress with a light blue top over it and white sandals. For winter, she wears a light purple buttoned top with a pearl necklace, a long blue skirt, gray stockings, and blue heels.

As **Cure Mermaid**, her eyes turn blue while her longer hair turns ocean blue, worn in a curled ponytail reminiscent of flowing water with a dark ombre. Most of her bangs are braided and they gain purple streaks, and from the corner stick out four, large curled strands of hair. She gets a gold tiara with pink clam, a blue gem, and pearl blue fabric, and pearl dangles with a shell at the bottom. Her outfit consists of a blue top with white and light blue detail, a sky blue collar, and white scalloped sleeves. A chain of pearls wraps around the neck and goes down the center with a large gold sphere at the center. Her sky blue skirt has light pink fabric circling it and a trim of blue ruffles, accenting the scalloped waistband which has a chain of lilac pearls circling it. Hanging from the back are a pair of fin-like tails in various shades of blue. She also gains white warmers with blue accent and pearl on the finger, and white boots with scalloped blue and teal trim, pearls, and dark blue sole.

## Personality

The "*Academy Princess*", Minami is proper, noble, and has a strong sense of responsibility. She is wise and can come off as strict at times, but she has the personality of an older sister. She is fair and caring about others and is likely to worry over them if she sees anything to be concerned with, and she won't let them recklessly get into harm's way if she can help it. She dreams of becoming a respectable person who can be useful to others.

Minami is very close to her family, and as such she struggled to tell them of her true dreams of becoming a Marine Veterinarian, rather than inheriting the family business. She was very worried that she was being selfish, but over time she begins to learn to speak her mind and began making her own decisions that everyone could be happy with.

## Relationships

**Haruka Haruno** - Initially brisk towards Haruka, Minami wasn't pleased with her showing up late on the day of the welcome ceremony and scolded her. But when Haruka expressed interest in learning ballet, Minami agreed to tutor her. She bluntly told Haruka of her shortcomings but this encouraged her to keep going, and Minami was impressed by her determination as they started to become closer. When she saw Haruka transform and struggle against the Zetsuborg, she tried to protect Haruka, resulting in her becoming Cure Mermaid. They became close friends following this, to the point of Minami choosing Haruka as her dance partner and confiding in her when concerned.

**Kirara Amanogawa** - Kirara is the first person to call her "Minamin" without adding -san or -sama honorific like the other students, and while they may differ on opinions they can agree on other ones and understand the others point of view. They share a friendship after joining together as Pretty Cure.

**Towa Akagi** - In episode 25, Towa and Minami started to form a deeper friendship when Minami comes to Towa's aid when she has a nightmare because of her fear of the darkness and the resurfacing of her memories as Twilight. Minami helps her to try and overcome that fear and that she should depend on her friends and the rest of the team. When Shutambushes the Cures' firework celebration, he sees Towa and recognizes her as Twilight and tries to get rid of her when Minami defends her and tells Shut that she is now Akagi Towa. She precedes to help Cure Scarlet in defeating the Zetsuborg.

## Cure Mermaid

    **Princess of the crystal clear seas! Cure Mermaid!**
澄み渡る海のプリンセス！キュアマーメイド！

*Sumiwataru umi no purinsesu! Kyua Māmeido!*

**Cure Mermaid** is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Minami. She controls the power of water and in order to tranform, she needs her Princess Perfume and the respective Dress Up Key.

## Trivia

* Minami's birthday is July 20th. Hence, her zodiac is Cancer.
	+ Her birthday occurred on a Japanese national holiday, "Ocean Day" (海の日) of 2015.
* Minami shares her surname with Kaidou Yuya from *Happiness Charge PreCure!*.
	+ She also shares her name with Soular's human surname from *Fresh PreCure!*.
* Minami is the oldest in the *Go! Princess Pretty Cure* team, as she is the only member to be 14, while Haruka, Kirara, and Towa are 13.
* She is afraid of ghosts.
* She's the first Cure who can fight underwater.

## Gallery

MinamiMinami as Cure MermaidCure Mermaid poses
## Roleplay Details

At Noble Academy, Minami is known as "the academy's princess" and is highly admired by both teachers and students. She also loves all things marine; she even has a dolphin named Tina who is one of her best friends. Minami is able to keep her cool in pretty much any stressful situation, and she fights gracefully as a Precure. As Cure Mermaid, her catchphrase is as follows: **"Princess of the crystal clear seas! Cure Mermaid!"** (*Sumiwataru umi no purinsesu! Kyua Māmeido!*) She has multiple power-ups that include her base Mode Elegant, Mode Elegant Ice, Mode Elegant Bubble, Mode Elegant Sango, and Grand Princess.