Yuri Tsukikage

Yuri

Cure Moonlight

**Yuri Tsukikage** is one of the four main Cures in *Heartcatch PreCure!*. She is a student at Myoudou Academy High School.

Her catchphrase is **"I'll keep fighting, for everyone's heart!"**.

Yuri's alter ego is **Cure Moonlight** and she represents the rose.

## Bio

### Appearance

Yuri is tall and slender with pale skin and dark turquoise eyes that require glasses. Her long dark purple hair is worn loose with her bangs mostly facing one side, and she sometimes wears an amethyst clip.

Casually, she wears a pastel purple top with a lilac cardigan, denim capri, a brown belt, and white shoes, but she's mostly seen in her school uniform. In the movie, she wears a lilac buttoned top with dark denim pants, a dark brown belt, indigo jacket, and light brown boots.

As **Cure Moonlight**, her eyes become bright turquoise while her now curled hair grows partially longer and turns lavender, her sharpened bangs spread across her face to partially obscure one eye while the rest stick up on the side, worn with a cluster of indigo roses. Her long, silver ruffled dress has dark indigo lining and white wing-like sleeves to match the chest ruffles. A ribbon wraps around the navel, accenting her choker. On the chest is an indigo rose with a silver and cyan heart brooch to match the layer of skirting beneath her dress. She also gets silver and dark indigo boots, a white and dark indigo wrist piece, indigo flower earrings, and a single indigo opera glove.

### Personality

Yuri is calm and composed, well known for her cool attitude and her frequently chart-topping exam scores at school. She cares for little and was cold towards Tsubomi and Erika initially. After losing Cologne she became quiet and withdrawn, fearful of causing others to feel burdened by her or risk losing someone else she cherishes. She believed it would be impossible for her to become a Pretty Cure again and was deeply saddened. Before this happened, she was shown to be overly confident and bold. She wouldn't listen to Cologne when she believed she didn't need a partner for help until Cologne died for her.

Her true personality is one of content and maturity. She can be stubborn when she sets her mind to something but began to open up as she spent more time with the group. She shows a more friendly side to herself by this point.

### Relationships

**Sabaku:** While they are viewed as enemies in the season's prologue, the opening sets Cure Moonlight and Sabaku together, hinting of a special relationship between them. This relationship is not revealed to be more than that of nemesity. However, in episode 47 it was revealed that Sabaku was Yuri's lost father, Tsukikage Hideaki. She was greatly heartbroken when he sacrificed himself for her.

**Dark Pretty Cure:** Yuri's relationship with Dark Cure seems to be the antagonistic sort. However, just when Cure Moonlight's Pretty Cure Seed is destroyed, Dark Cure gets a shocked expression, hinting a deeper relationship between the two of them HPC01. Yuri herself does not know why Dark Cure has always been obsessed with her, HPC13 though it is revealed that Dark Cure is the shadow of Cure Moonlight, who is the moon.HPC3

**Momoka Kurumi:** Although they are on a first-name basis and Yuri often gives Momoka notes from classes she is absent from and accompanies her during lunch. They do not seem that close, but it is later revealed that they are best friends.HPC13

**Haruna Tsukikage:** The disappearance of Yuri's father seems to have strained her relationship with her mother. Despite this, she deeply cares for her.

**Cologne:** Yuri's fairy partner. Cologne was present with Cure Moonlight when Dark Cure and Sabaku attacked the Great Heart Tree. When Cologne sacrificed himself to protect Yuri the trauma caused Yuri's heart flower to completely wilt due to the guilt she felt for being unable to protect her partner. Yuri's heart was unable to recover from this event until a miracle thanks to heart seeds collected by Blossom, Marine, and Sunshine allowing Yuri to reunite with Cologne's spirit.

**Kaoruko Hanasaki:** Kaoruko has been a mentor and confidant of Yuri's. She knows details of Yuri's past including the fate of Cologne. It was also Kaoruko's fairy Coupe who rescued Cure Moonlight when she lost to Dark Cure.

**Tsubomi Hanasaki**, **Erika Kurumi**, and **Itsuki Myoudouin**- Despite distancing herself from Tsubomi and the others, Yuri will often give them hints and advice. After being able to transform into Cure Moonlight again, she starts to associate and appreciate the group, and deeply cares for them as her friends. Tsubomi, Erika, and Itsuki will often admire Yuri for her experience as a Pretty Cure and maturity.

## Cure Moonlight

**"The flower that shines in the moon's light, Cure Moonlight!"**
月光に冴える一輪の花、キュアムーンライト！
*Gekkō ni saeru ichirin no hana, Kyua Mūnraito!*

**Cure Moonlight** is Yuri’s Pretty Cure alter ego.

## Trivia

* The remaining fragment of Yuri's Pretty Cure Seed resembles a crescent moon, referring to her Cure alter ego, Cure Moonlight.
* Cure Moonlight has sometimes said, "Courage... Love... Friendship... Kindness... Sadness... Happiness..." though it is not common enough to be a catchphrase.
* For the *Pretty Cure All Stars DX3 Movie* Character Polls held by Toei Animation, Cure Moonlight appeared in the following rankings:
	+ 4th in "Favorite Pretty Cure"
	+ 2nd in "The Pretty Cure you want to team up with most"
	+ 1st in "The Pretty Cure you want to be most"
* In the Pretty Cure All Stars Suite Flower Card Collection, Yuri is represented by the lily, which symbolizes unmatched beauty in the Language of Flowers.
* Yuri appears as Cure Moonlight at the beginning of the fourth episode of *Happiness Charge PreCure!* to say the 10th Anniversary Congratulatory Message.
* She is the first Pretty Cure to be 17 years old.
* Her Heart Flower is the white lily, which symbolizes "purity and dignity".
* Her voice actress revealed in an interview that she also auditioned for another character in the same series as Yuri but she never confirmed who it was.
* Due to her being the main character of the *Heartcatch!* novel, a lot of information about her past have been revealed:
	+ It is revealed that Cure Moonlight named herself after Beethoven's *Moonlight Sonata*.
	+ Since fourth Grade, Yuri has excelled in both her studies and sports. But since she is from a poor family background, she needed a scholarship. The scholarship was given to her by Itsuki's grandfather. Yuri has also studied karate and aikido at the Myoudouin Dojo.
	+ Sasorina transformed her mother into Desertrian one month after her husband disappeared, therefore Yuri became a Cure and saved her mother.

## Gallery

Yuri in her school uniformYuri is as Cure MoonlightCure Moonlight’s transformation pose