Nodoka Hanadera

* Pretty Cure
* Civilian

**Nodoka Hanadera** (花寺のどか) is one of the four main Cures in *Healin' Good♥Pretty Cure*, and she is also one of the three protagonists of *Pretty Cure: Cutie Girls Squad* Series along with her two best friends, namely Lala Hagoromo and Kanade Minamino.

Nodoka's alter ego is **Cure Grace** (キュアグレース) and she is known as the Pretty Cure of Flowers. When impressed, she often says **"Whoa~"** (ふわあ～ *fuwā~*). Her other catchphrase is **"I feel so alive!"** (生きてるってカンジ！ *Ikiteru tte kanji!*).

## Bio

### Appearance

Nodoka has dark pink eyes and auburn colored chin-length hair worn with clips on the side.

She normally wears anything comfortable and soft, but usually in the color of pink. This reflects her calm but cheerful and optimistic personality. She always wears skirts and dresses and is almost never seen with shorts or pants.

As **Cure Grace**, her eyes and long wavy hair lighten in color. Her hair is worn loose with some bunched on top and she gains curled forelocks. She wears a pearl crown with a dark pink gem heart, a yellow flower, and green leaf to match her earrings. In her hair are small white flowers, and she gets a dark pink choker. She wears a scalloped pink, lilac, and white dress with pastel yellow detail and a dark pink flower on the chest with pale chiffon ruffled fabric. Over this is a pearl pink jacket with dark pink detail and a pink heart-shaped peplum divided into four sections, yellow leafy fabric on each side. She also wears white gloves with a heart design, and white shoes with scalloped cuff, dark pink detail, and a green bow on the foot.

### Relationships

**Lala Hagoromo** - Lala is Nodoka's first best friend among her Cutie Girls Squad teammates. Despite almost the polar opposites, Lala and Nodoka get along well and they also enjoy each other's company, although they have a little disagreement sometimes. Nodoka promised to protect and comfort Lala no matter what.

**Kanade Minamino** - Kanade is another best friend of Nodoka. At first, they don't interact much even though they get along very well. As they came to realize that they have many things in common, they grow closer than ever. She and Kanade also team up to protect Lala from others who wants to harm her. Nodoka considers Kanade her "Big Sister" because of her mature personality.

**Alice Yotsuba** - One of her Cutie Girls Squad teammates. They get along so quickly due to their gentle personality. Nodoka and Alice are close friends.

**Emiru Aisaki** - Emiru and Nodoka get along well and they are closer due to having similar dreams and goals, which is to help people in need.

**Yayoi Kise** - One of her Cutie Girls Squad teammates and friends. Although Nodoka and Yayoi don't interact much, they enjoy each other's company.

**Erika Kurumi** - Although Erika and Nodoka don't interact often, they get along very well. Nodoka is fastinating with Erika's energy and passion as well as Erika liking Nodoka's kind-heartedness.

### Etymology

**Hanadera** (花寺) - **Hana** (花) means "flower" , while **Dera** (寺) means "temple" .

**Nodoka** (のどか) - There are four different meanings for the name, Nodoka, which are “tranquil”, “calm”, “quiet”, and “peaceful” .

**Cure Grace** has many different meanings depending on the context surrounding the word. In the context of politeness, it is a noun that means "the quality of being pleasantly polite, or a willingness to be fair and honest" . The name Grace is also given to an English shrub rose originally bred by David C.H. Austin.

## Cure Grace

**"The two overlapping flowers! Cure Grace!"**

重なる二つの花！キュアグレース！

*Kasanaru Futatsu no Hana! Kyua Gurēsu!*

**Cure Grace** (キュアグレース) is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Nodoka. In order to transform, she needs her transformation Element Bottle, her Healing Animal partner Rabirin and her Healing Stick.

### Attacks

* **Healing Flower** (ヒーリングフラワー): It is her first attack that she can perform with her Healing Stick and Rabirin.
* **Lively Party** (ライブリーパーティー): It is her second attack that she can perform with Miracle Tambourine given by Soprano, The attack is as powerful as the Pretty Cure group attack.
* **Flower Music Shock** (フラワーミュージックショック): It is a group attack she performs with Rhythm and Milky. To perform it, they need the Healing Stick, Star Color Pendant, and Fantastic Belltier, as well as the fairies, Rabirin and Fary.

## Trivia

*Nodoka Hanadera/Trivia*

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