Futari Wa Pretty Cure

**Futari Wa Pretty Cure is the very first precure series, It featured only 2 cures.**

**The following season is Futari Wa Pretty Cure Max Heart**

## The Plot

*Futari wa Pretty Cure* revolves around two girls, Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro, who encounter the Garden of Light's Mipple and Mepple, who give them the power to transform into the emissaries of light; Cure Black and Cure White, to fight against the forces of the Dark Zone: a dimension of evil that has encroached on the Garden of Light and is now about to do the same to the Garden of Rainbows, Earth. The Cures search for the Prism Stones, placing them in a heart-shaped device known as the Prism Hopish, protected by the Guardian, Wisdom. Once they have discovered all the Prism Stones, its power takes them to the Garden of Light and repairs most of the damage done by the Dark Zone. Later in the series, Porun, the Prince of the Garden of Light, grants the Pretty Cure duo use of their Rainbow Bracelets as they defeat the Dark King.

## The Characters

**The Pretty Cures**

Nagisa Misumi
Voiced by: Yōko Honna
Nagisa is a 14/15-year-old student in the second year (third year in season 2) of Private Verone Academy Sakura Class. The ace of the school lacrosse team, she is strong-hearted, but also incredibly lazy, barely ever doing her homework. She is also a food lover, her favorite dish being the takoyaki from Akane's stand. Although generally courageous, she frequently becomes quite flustered when near Shogo, on whom she has a crush. She is often known for her catchphrase "Unbelievable!" (ありえな～い!, *Ariena~i*). As Cure Black, she is strong and passionate. Her theme colors are black and pink.
Honoka Yukishiro
Voiced by: Yukana
A 14/15-year-old quiet girl who is Nagisa's classmate in both second and third year of her middle school. She lives with her grandmother Sanae and her dog Chuutaro, as her parents are constantly working overseas. She is quite intelligent and extremely knowledgeable, and is thus nicknamed 'The Queen of Knowledge'. She is in fact a member of the school's science club, where she is looked up to by the others. Honoka has not had many friends, but the few she has seem to be really close to her, and she has come to appreciate Nagisa's friendship. Her theme colors are white and blue.
**Garden of Light**
Mepple (メップル, *Meppuru*)
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki
Mepple is the chosen protector of the Prince of Hope who allows Nagisa to transform into Cure Black. He is noticeably selfish, as he is somewhat possessive of Mipple and becomes jealous when Pollun takes her attention away from him. Despite residing with Nagisa, he frequently gets into a fight with her, often begging her to feed him, even occasionally poking fun at her. He ends his sentences with "mepo". Mepple can only stay in his true form for a short time before growing tired, so he generally takes on an energy-saving form resembling a cellphone.
Mipple (ミップル, *Mippuru*)
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima
Mipple is the Princess of Hope from the Garden of Light who resides predominantly with Honoka and gives her the ability to transform into Cure White. She, like Honoka, is generally more reserved than her male counterpart. She ends her sentences with "mipo". Although it is hinted that Mepple has feelings for her, Mipple is always sticking up for Pollun, causing problems between her and Mepple whenever Mepple comes on the scene. Like Mepple, Mipple usually stays in a cellphone-like case for the same reason as Mepple.
Pollun (ポルン, *Porun*)
Voiced by: Haruna Ikezawa
Pollun is the Prince of the Garden of Light. He is sent to Earth once all the Prism Stones have been retrieved by the Cures. The Queen gives a cryptic statement about his powers aiding Pretty Cure. Later, when Wisdom is in trouble, Wisdom places the power of the Rainbow Stones into Pollun without his knowledge. This gives him the ability to remain in his regular form as well as the ability to communicate with various people from the Garden of Light. When communicating with members of the Garden of Light, he turns into what looks like a gaming console and everyone can hear what is said and communicate openly. He also grants Pretty Cure the power of light which gives them their Rainbow Bracelets. He tends to be extremely selfish and think only of himself. He is quite childish and has a lot of energy. He can get a little annoying at times and definitely annoys Mepple when he wants to be alone with Mipple. Conversely, he himself is bothered whenever Lulun wants to play with him. He lives predominantly with Nagisa in *Pretty Cure* and with Hikari in *Max Heart*. He enjoys getting between Mipple and Mepple.
Queen (クイーン, *Kuīn*)
Voiced by: Kaya Matsutani
The ruler of the Garden of Light (光の園, *Hikari no Sono*), a realm protected by the power of the Prism Stones. She appears as a huge CGI woman sitting on a throne, though she is easily overtowered by the Dark King. She carries a heart-shaped item of some sort. She has stated that she is impressed with the courage of Pretty Cure and aids them when she can. She seems to always be closing her eyes. During *Max Heart*, the Queen's is split apart into Hikari and the twelve Heartiels.
Wisdom (ウィズダム, *Wizudamu*)
Voiced by: Taiki Matsuno
Wisdom, often referred to as simply The Guardian (番人, *Bannin*) is the keeper of Prism Stones, often residing on top of the Prism Hopish. His expressions often range from very sleepy to overly spooked.
Elder (長老, *Chōrō*)
Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka
A wise sage who resides in the Garden of Light. Despite his wisdom, he often keeps forgetting Nagisa and Honoka's names and referring to them as the *Pretty Cur**a***.
**Dark Zone**
Dark King (ジャアクキング, *Jāku Kingu*)
Voiced by: Kenichi Ono
The imprisoned ruler of the Dark Zone, somewhat humanoid in form that appears to come out of the ground. He is very tall and muscular with red eyes and extremely long arms. He does not appear to wear clothing. He wants to acquire the Prism Stones to prevent the "power to consume all things" from eventually destroying his own body, and to become immortal—he believes that it is the fate of all things to be consumed by the darkness. Like the Queen of the Garden of Light, the Dark King is animated by CGI.
Zakenna (ザケンナー, *Zakennā*)
Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (ep 1-22), Satoshi Taki (ep 15, ep 28 onwards)
The **Zakenna** are large purple monsters that are summoned by servants of the Dark Zone. These monsters combine with objects or living things to oppose the Pretty Cure. When they are defeated by a purifying move, they burst into numerous smal star-shaped monsters called Gomennah (ゴメンナー, *Gomennā*, derived from the word for 'sorry'), who scurry off apologising.
**Dark Five**
The Dark King's first wave of servants.
Pisard / Pijard (ピーサード, *Pīsādo*)
Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi
The weakest of the Dark Five. Pisard is often thought to resemble a member of KISS, but when one looks closely, his look is closer to that of a male Kabuki actor in "*keshō*" ("make up"), having long hair and a painted face.
Gekidrago (ゲキドラーゴ, *Gekidorāgo*)
Voiced by: Kouji Ishii
The strongman of the Dark Five, large and muscular with a moai-shaped head. He relies on his brawn rather than his brain. Easily having the highest fortitude of the group, Gekidrago can take a direct, unprotected hit from a Marble Screw (or Twister in the English Dub) and only be knocked out for a few minutes. He often ends his sentences with "-Muka".
Poisonny / Pandora (ポイズニー, *Poizunī*)
Voiced by: Sakiko Uran
The only female of the Dark Five. Instead of making a big show of calling on *Zakenna* like Pisard and Gekidorago, she snaps her fingers and is much more discreet about it. She often takes on a human appearance to gain the trust of the girls before attacking. In her true form, she resembles a vampire: She is pale, dresses in black tinted with red, wears a cape and has fangs, dark-rimmed yellow and red eyes and long red hair.
Kiriya / Kirea (キリヤ, *Kiriya*)
Voiced by: Reiko Kiuchi
The youngest of the Dark Five, Poisonny's younger brother, he comes to the Garden of Rainbows (Earth) in order to spy on Nagisa and Honoka, infiltrating their school as a freshman Kiriya Irisawa (入澤 キリヤ, *Irisawa Kiriya*) and ends up becoming friends with them, developing a fondness and love for Honoka after she shows kindness to him. Later on he starts to have emotions and feelings for Honoka while trying to understand human emotions, resulting with him unable to fight the Pretty Cure duo. This act results with him sent back to the Dark Zone, but not before willingly giving a Prism Stone to the Pretty Cure duo. After the Dark King is destroyed, Kiriya returns as a normal human and lives an equally normal life.
Ilkubo (イルクーボ, *Irukūbo*)
Voiced by: Issei Futamata
The leader and most powerful of the five and the Dark King's right-hand man. He can block the Marble Screw (or Twister in the English Dub) with just his abilities, as well as many other attacks, but his fortitude isn't as high as Gekidrago, as a direct hit will still hurt him. He first appeared on Earth, but did not start seriously fighting the girls until after Kiriya is sent back to the Dark Zone. He is defeated in episode 24 but made a brief comeback in episode 25 in which he battles Pretty Cure and takes them to the Dark Zone in a far more monstrous (and powerful) form. He is large, pale and bald with pointed ears and dark-rimmed eyes that resemble those of Kiriya. He wears a white robe and carries a purple sphere.
**Cures Families**
Takashi Misumi (美墨 岳, *Misumi Takashi*)
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu
Takashi is Nagisa and Ryouta's father, and husband of Rie.

Rie Misumi (美墨 理恵, *Misumi Rie*)
Voiced by: Mayumi Sho
Rie is Takashi's wife, and the mother of Nagisa and Ryouta. Although she sometimes can get easily angry with nagisa in which their relationship tends to be very estranged at times.she often scolds her because of her shenanigans like refusing to do some chores because pf her lazy attitude, doing bad and poorly at school or for picking and fighthing with her younger brother ryouta. But despite her occasional anger towards her daughther rie still deeply cares about nagisa very much in which not only she deeply cares about her but she also deeply cares and loves her family so much and she would anything for them. She also seem to be the only one who can just breaks nagisa and ryouta's constant arguments
Ryouta Misumi (美墨 亮太, *Misumi Ryota*)
Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi
Nagisa's younger brother whom he formely shared a sibling rivalry with her , has a habit of pulling pranks on her. A running gag has him put in a headlock by Nagisa in retaliation to shut him up. Much like mepple he and nagisa tends to bickers with each other but deep down they still deeply care and loves with one another despite their frequent quarrels. Initially nagisa does not shown gets along with him at first during the first season because of his irritating attitude ( which to the point of her giving him the "cobra twist " several times throughout in both seasons ) but however as the season progresses their relationship starts to improve as nagisa and ryouta becomes having a better sibling relationship but like mepple they both never stop bicker and argues with each other.
Sanae Yukishiro (雪城 さなえ, *Yukishiro Sanae*)
Voiced by: Masako Nozawa, Yuki Matsuoka (young)
Honoka's grandmother who takes care of her whilst her parents work overseas. She appears to know a lot about the Pretty Cure, as she found Mipple at a young age, though she keeps this a secret from Honoka and Nagisa.
Taro Yukishiro (雪城 太郎, *Yukishiro Taro*)
Voiced by: Takeru Miyashita
Honoka's father, and Aya's husband.
Aya Yukishiro (雪城 文, *Yukishiro Aya*)
Voiced by: Miki Ito
Honoka's mother, and Taro's wife.
Chuutaro (忠太郎, *Chūtarō*)
Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu
Honoka's dog.
**Verone Academy**
Yoshimi Takenouchi (竹野内 よし美, *Takenouchi Yoshimi*)
Voiced by: Ai Nagano
The teacher of Verone Academy. She is romantic and quiet over the season.
Principal (校長先生, *Kōchō*)
Voiced by: Kōzō Shioya
The principal of Verone Academy. He has a big-hearted personality and is a bit clumsy.
Kometsuki (米槻, *Kometsuki*)
Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura
The vice-principal of Verone Academy.
Miyashita (宮下先生, *Miyashita-sensei*)
Voiced by: Nobuaki Kanemitsu
The math teacher of Verone Academy
**Classmates**
Shougo Fujimura (藤村 省吾, *Fujimura Shōgo*)
Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio
Shougo is a childhood friend of Honoka on whom Nagisa has a crush. He is a hardworking player on his soccer team and often finds comfort in Nagisa's advice.
Rina Takashimizu (高清水 莉奈, *Takashimizu Rina*)
Voiced by: Yuka Tokumitsu
Rina is one of Nagisa's best friends, also a member of the lacrosse team. She is always seen with Shiho.
Shiho Kubota (久保田 志穂, *Kubota Shiho*)
Voiced by: Eri Sendai
Shiho is Nagisa's other best friend and a member of the lacrosse team. She is always seen with Rina.
Yuriko (ユリコ, *Yuriko*)
Voiced by: Kozue Kamada
Yuriko is Honoka's friend, and also a member of the science club.
Mayu Kashiwada (柏田 真由, *Kashiwada Mayu*)
Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe
Mayu is an artist inspired by Mario Piccasseci.
Yumiko Nakagawa (中川 弓子, *Nakagawa Yumiko*)
Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame
Yumiko is the captain of the lacrosse team.
Yuka Odajima (オダジマユカ, *Odajima Yuka*)
Voiced by: Mayumi Iizuka
Yuka is a member of the lacrosse team.
Natsuko Koshino (越野 夏子, *Koshino Natsuko*) and Kyoko Mori (森 京子, *Mori Kyōko*)
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu and Kaori Nazuka
Natsuko and Kyoko are a pair of friends who worship the Pretty Cure duo to the point of wearing their costumes.
Seiko Taniguchi (谷口 聖子, *Taniguchi Seiko*)
Voiced by: Konami Yoshida
Seiko is a 13-year-old classmate. The favorite game is the piano.
Kimata (木俣)
Voiced by: Satoshi Katogi
Member of the Verone Junior Boys' Institute's soccer team.
Yui Morioka (森岡 唯, *Morioka Yui*)
Voiced by: Masako Jo
Yui is the love of FujiP.
Chiaki Yabe (矢部 千秋, *Yabe Chiaki*)
Voiced by: Akiko Nakagawa
Chiaki is a classmate. She is part of the choir who directs and plays the piano.
Kazuki Hasekura (支倉一樹, *Hasekura Kazuki*)
Voiced by: Toshinobu Iida
Member of the Verone Junior Boys' Institute's soccer team.
Maki (マキ) and Megumi (メグミ)
Voiced by: Haruhi Nanao (Maki) and Yoko Nishino (Megumi)
Members of the lacrosse team.
**Other characters**
Akane Fujita (藤田 アカネ, *Fujita Akane*)
Voiced by: Mikako Fujita
Akane is the previous captain of the school lacrosse team who now runs her own takoyaki stand, which Nagisa frequently visits.
## About

The opening theme is "Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure" by Mayumi Gojo whilst the ending theme is "Get You! Love Love?!" also by Gojo. The follow up series, *Max Heart*, aired in Japan between February 6, 2005, and January 29, 2006. The opening theme is "Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure (Max Heart Version) by Mayumi Gojo. The first ending theme, used for episodes 1-36, is "Muri Muri!? Ari Ari!! In jaa Na~i?!" by Mayumi Gojo with Young Fresh, whilst the second ending theme, used for episodes 37-47 is "Wonder Winter Yatta" by Gojo. The anime later re-aired on TV Asahi's cable channel, TeleAsa Channel 1, in March 2013.

**Futari Wa Pretty Cure started on February 1, 2004 and ended on January 30, 2005**