Kokoro Akamine

"*Sometimes, between the four of us, I don't think we have the brains God gave a doorknob.*"— Kokoro
**Kokoro Akamine** (赤嶺 心, ***Kokoro Akamine***?) is one of the main protagonists of Chojo Gensho Pretty Cure!. Her alter ego is **Cure Anima** (キュアアニマ, ***Cure Anima***?) and she is known as the Pretty Cure of the Heartbeat.

## Bio

### Appearance

Kokoro has dark skin and curly, black hair split at the middle. She has dark brown eyes. She usually wears a mint, short sleeve shirt and black shorts, with a cherry necklace and braclet and red sneakers.

She does not wear the Sedai High School uniform.

### Personality

Kokoro is the voice of reason in the Investigators of Spectral Activity group. She really likes being friends with everybody, which is hard considering the generation she lives in. Kokoro is the most social out of the bunch. She has a lot of friends out of town and she likes going places. She also has the most feasible plans out of all the girls and is really skeptical, usually agreeing with Iori about dangerous stuff.

## Pretty Cure

**"This is your last chance! Let's have our last dance! Let's go, Cure Anima!"**
これが最後のチャンスです。 最後のダンスをしましょう！ 行こう、キュアアニマ！
*Kore ga saigo no chansudesu. Saigo no dansu o shimashou! Yukō, Kyuā Anima!*

**Cure Anima** (キュアアニマ, ***Cure Anima***?) is the alter ego of Kokoro. She was originally given to **Lonlynn** (ロンリン, ***Lonlynn***?) and she represents the soul of this world. She has the ability to either transform separately or as a group with her teammates.

### Special Attacks

* **Fire** (ファイア, ***Fire***?), not to be confused with any Pretty Cure fairy of the same name, is one of Kokoro's basic special attack. All she does is fire her ghoul baton like a loaded weapon. Since it can only shoot small, fast balls of fire, it's not really that useful.
* **Lovely Stream Charge** (ラブリーストリームチャージ, ***Lovely Stream Charge***?) is an unironic basic special attack of Cure Anima. She summons a red water lion with her Ghoul Baton and makes the lion roar at the opponent. Kokoro thinks this attack is confusing.

### Weapons

* **Ghoul Baton** (グールバトン, ***Ghoul Baton***?) is the basic weapon for all of the Chojo Gensho Pretty Cure. They can shoot proton beams and turn into parachutes, but Cure Anima's baton allows her to make water or summon water spirits.

* **Some Unnamed Smoke Bombs** are grenade weapons used by both Lonlynn and Kokoro, although Lonlynn is not a frequent user of it.

## Trivia

* Kokoro is the anime equivalent of Winston Zeddemore.
* Kokoro is physically based on Angelica Schuyler from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.
* Kokoro is the second red Pretty Cure with black hair, preceded by Misaki Kagome from *Happy Happy Pretty Cure!*.
	+ Detransformed, she would be the third red Cure with black hair, preceded by Higashi Sestuna and Misaki.
* Kokoro is the third red Pretty Cure with neither red, orange, or pink hair, preceded by Misaki and Aisaki Emiru.
* Kokoro is the first/second main Pretty Cure with dark skin, tied with Elena Amamiya. Elena is half-Latina, while Kokoro is three quarters Black.
* Her original cure name was Cure Pauroso, which was Italian for scary, but it sounded too villainous.
* Her original surname was Eida (栄田, *Eida*?), but to differentiate her from Mana Aida, who was also based on hearts, the surname was changed to Akamine.
* Her super form was originally called Pure Anima.