Nagisa Misumi/Natalie Blackstone

**Misumi Nagisa** (美墨 なぎさ *Misumi Nagisa*?) (or **Natalie Blackstone** in the English dub), is one of the main characters in the series *Futari wa Pretty Cure*. Because of her role as narrator and the amount of attention she gets in the series, she is considered as the main heroine. Her Pretty Cure ego is **Cure Black** (キュアブラック *Kyua Burakku*?). Although she was previously almost unaware of her existence, Nagisa eventually became best friends with Yukishiro Honoka because of their shared roles as Pretty Cure, admiring her for her intelligence, kindness, and understanding. She has a habit of saying "Arienai!"(ありえなーい！！ *Arienāi!!*?) when she is upset, which can be roughly translated to "Unbelievable!" or "I don't comprehend this!" and also "Lucky!" (ラッキー！ *Rakkī!*?) whenever things go her way. Her catchphrase in the English dub is "Give me a break!"

## Appearance

Nagisa has short, ginger hair and light brown eyes. Her skin is slightly tanned. Her casual outfit consists of a pink, zipped vest jacket with a white and red shirt underneath, a grey skirt, and a pair of blue and white sneakers worn with yellow and orange socks. On her wrist is a black wristband.

When playing lacrosse, she holds some of her hair up with a pink heart-shaped clip and is seen wearing a red and white shirt with a *7* on the front and *Verone 7* on the back, black gloves, a black skirt with shorts, and a pair of red and white sports shoes.

In the*Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart movie*, Nagisa was seen wearing a black turtle neck with a pink dress that has a red and pink heart pattern lined in white. The dress itself was outlined with black, and had dark pink accenting. Along with it, Nagisa wore pale pink gloves and black shoes with small pink bows. In the Futari wa *Pretty Cure Max Heart Movie 2*, she wore winter clothing consisting of a pink coat, purple and red gloves, dark blue snow pants, and red shoes. On her head was a pair of pink snow goggles and a pale pink hat. Nagisa was seen in a white yukata with a purple bow around the waist to match the lavender designs around the bottom. On her feet she wore black and red sandals.

As Cure Black Nagisa's hair is shown to be more sleek, with her thickened bangs brushed to the left and the remainder of her hair slightly flared. Her eyes appear sharper in this form. She wears a black midriff-bearing top lined in white with caplet sleeves lined by pearl pink ruffles and a ribbon on the chest. Her collarbone is covered in mauve fabric, and the collar is black. She also wore a short black folded skirt lined with ruffles over a pair of bike shorts, black finger-less gloves lined in white with a pink heart design to match her leg warmers, and raspberry shoes with lighter sole. Around her waist is a pink belt with a white lined heart. She wears gold heart earrings.

In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart,* Cure Black's outfit was slighty upgraded. Her midriff is covered by black fabric while the chest turned burgundy and the fabric on her collarbone is lightened. Her sleeves are tighter and her skirt gains pink lining and an extra layer of ruffles. The heart on her belt is lined in gold, and she gains a pink heart gem on her chest ribbon. Her leg warmers and gloves are also lined in pink and lose their puffiness while gaining ruffled strips.

## Personality

Nagisa is a star lacrosse player at Verone Academy. She is very energetic and popular among other girls for her passionate nature, much to her dismay. She is weak with academics but her pure spirit makes up for it. She also has a large apetite and loves to eat chocolate, Fujita Akane's takoyaki, and according to Honoka- food with the word "yaki" in it. She can be childish and easily angered, and loves to go out and play when it's nice and sunny.

Despite her tomboyish nature, Nagisa is actually very girly and image conscious. She has a large collection of stuffed animals and loves to shop, although she tends to squander her money and usually doesn't have any when she really needs it. Nagisa also has a crush on Honoka's childhood friend, Fujimura Shougo, and gets flustered whenever he is around. At times she is shown to be jealous of Honoka, since she gets confessions and love letters from boys more than twice a month.

Deep down she can be sensitive, and she hates arguing with friends or seeing someone in pain above all else. Nagisa also has a great sense of justice, but it is hidden inside of her and only comes out when someone is in danger. She hates that innocent people get hurt for things they had nothing to do with.

## Cure Black

**"Emissary of light, Cure Black!"**

光の使者、キュアブラック！

*Hikari no shisha, Kyua Burakku!***Cure Black** (キュアブラック *Kyua Burakku*?) is Nagisa's alter ego, and she addresses herself as the emissary of light, like Cure White. Being the strongest in the duo, she is usually the one laying the most attacks, though she is not as agile as Cure White. She uses her fists more than Cure White while Cure White uses her legs more when attacking. As a Cure, she becomes much more serious, and reveals more of her views on justice. Together with Cure White, she can perform the Marble Screw and Rainbow Therapy attacks. Later, when the duo is powered up by the Rainbow Bracelets from Pollun, they can do a new attack called Rainbow Storm.

In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*, the Pretty Cure's power has increased in speed and strength from their original power, and their special attack is powered-up to Marble Screw Max, and later to Marble Screw Max Spark with the Sparkle Bracelets. Together with Shiny Luminous, they can also do the Extreme Luminario attack, which in the final episode is upgraded to Extreme Luminario Max.

It is also revealed that even though Cure White is not around, Cure Black can use incredible powers by herself, but this depends largely on her emotions and will. The most significant time this is shown is when the Seeds of Darkness kidnap White and tell Black that she (Cure White) will soon die. They recall this event often in the later season, and Cure Black's power will often spike when she is in great indignation. Additionally, while Cure White and Cure Black have both shown to have fairly impressive physical feats while de-transformed, Cure Black has actually been able to defend direct attacks from one of the Seed of Darkness, Regine without getting hurt.

As her and Cure White have grown stronger, they have learned certain auxiliary abilities as well. Near the Max Heart finale, Black and White learn to use wind blasts through their palms just like the enemy to blast Uraganosaway, and have used this ability to attack and destroy even destroy weaker enemies in movies after.

### The Ultimate Power of the Queen

While this power was never given a clear name, the Evil King identified this power as 'The ultimate power inherited from the Queen'. This power only appears in the finales of Futari wa Pretty Cure and Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart. When Black and White's powers are maxed out well beyond their prior limits due to their resolve, for a brief period of time a gold aura will appear and their power will increase even further by enormous degree.

The first time it was used by themselves on the Evil King, their already enhanced Rainbow Storm nearly quadrupled in size and overwhelmed the Evil King despite absorbing the power of creation.

The second time is it was used was fighting Evil King Baldez in the finale of Max Heart. Their Sparkle Bracelets suddenly glows gold, and despite the Evil King maxing his fighting form to its limit, Black and White completely overpowered him and then deliver a double kick with a red meteor-like aura that nearly kills him.

### Golden Powers

In the first movie of *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*, Cure Black, along with Cure White and Shiny Luminous, gains an upgraded version of her outfit thanks to the power of the Diamond Line, accessories of the queen in the Garden of Hope. With these powers, her outfit gets a golden color, and her earrings and other small hearts on her clothes become diamonds. This form is not seen again after the movie, most likely because it needs the power of the accessories to be activated, and it is no longer possible for the girls to visit the Garden of Hope again.

### Power of the Phoenix

In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi*, when Cure Black and Cure White give all of their strength to protect Hinata from Frozenand Freezen, they do not have enough energy left to fight, and in their last try to keep the two villains away from their friends, they freeze the girls. Hinata, touched that it is possible to care so much for a friend, awakens from her icicle and sends her warmth to Pretty Cure, melting the ice and giving them a new power.

Cure Black's hair grows longer and wilder, and feathers hang from her shoulders, bow, gloves, leg warmers, and skirt. Her bow also changes to gold. She also gets boosted powers, as she easily manages to fight Frozen with closed eyes without getting hit once. It also seems like their minds are much calmer in this form, as neither of the girls do anything rash or fast; they just dodge and wait for the final strike.

In this form, they use an even stronger version of Marble Screw Max Sparkle, demonstrating their great friendship against Frozen and Freezen's friendship. After defeating the ice duo, this upgraded version of Black and White disappears, and has never been seen again. This may be because it was summoned by Hinata, who now is in the Garden of Clouds as a fully realized phoenix. However, in *Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: Kibou no Hikari - Rainbow Jewel o Mamore!*, Cure Black's Cure Rainbow form resembles this upgrade.

### Cure Rainbow Black

**Cure Rainbow Black** (キュアレインボーブラック *Kyua Reinbō Burakku*?) is an upgrade Cure Black gains in *Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: Kibou no Hikari - Rainbow Jewel o Mamore!*. Together with the others' upgrades, the group of seventeen girls form the group Cure Rainbow. This upgraded outfit resembles that of Cure Black's upgrade in *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi*, except not using feathers on her clothes, but rather extra cloth, and now has a pair of small, golden wings.

## Transformations

**Dual Aurora Wave!** - Misumi Nagisa's transformation with Yukishiro Honoka. She can only transform when she is with Honoka.

## Attacks

**Marble Screw** - Cure Black holds hands with Cure White, and she initiates the attack by summoning crackling black lightning from her hands, and in turn, Cure White does the same with her respective color. They declare the attack's accompanying catchphrase and name and together, they fire the lightning blast at the enemy.

**Rainbow Storm** - With the power of the Rainbow Bracelets, Cure Black and Cure White hold hands and shoot a beam of rainbow-colored energy in a similar manner as Marble Screw.

**Marble Screw Max** - A powered-up version of Marble Screw, with Cure Black and Cure White charging their lightning energy and then shouting out "Max!", before bringing forth a powerful beam of black and white lightning.

**Marble Screw Max Spark** - An even more powerful version of Marble Screw Max, greatly enhanced by the Sparkle Bracelets. The lightning beam in Marble Screw Max grows into an even larger blast of rainbow energy with black and white lightning being emitted in the attack.

**Extreme Luminario** - A group finishing move done by Cure Black, Cure White and Shiny Luminous. Shiny Luminous summons the Heartiel Baton, in order for Cure Black and Cure White to start the attack incantations after their individual poses. Cure Black and Cure White hold hands, draw back their hands and a giant rainbow heart appears before them. A shining explosion of light is shot out from the heart.

**Extreme Luminario Max** - The ultimate version of Extreme Luminario. When Cure Black and White thrust their hands forward, this time, they shout out "Max!" before a surge of bright, shining light fused with black and white lightning bursts out and continually grows larger and larger.

## Songs

As a main character, Nagisa's voice actor, **Honna Yoko**, has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. Many of them include duets with **Yukana**, who voices Nagisa's partner Yukishiro Honoka, and later also **Tanaka Rie**, who voices Kujou Hikari.

* **I Want To Become Light ~like a diamonds~**
* **A Heart Knows It.**
* **Delight hurray!!**
* **100% Courage with the Power to Believe!!**

### Duets

* **DANZEN! Futari wa Pretty Cure ~Naginagi and Honohono version~** (*Along with Yukana*)
* **Introducing Pretty Cure! ~VOCAL RAINBOW STORM~** (*Along with Yukana*)
* **M☆M Is Like A Jet Coaster** (*Along with Yukana*)
* **With Your Whole Smile** (*Along with Yukana*)
* **Happy ending** (*Along with Yukana*)
* **We Have the Same Dream ~SET ME FREE~** (*Along with Yukana*)
* **GO GO GO by Max Heart!!** (*Along with Yukana and also Tanaka Rie*)
* **Pretty Exercise** (*Along with Yukana and also Gojou Mayumi*)
* **Challenge☆Change** (*Along with Yukana and Gojou Mayumi*)

## TMNT X Pokemon

Nagisa is always ready for a challenge. She loves to fight the enemy

## Trivia

* Nagisa's birthday is on October 10. Therefore, Nagisa's zodiac is Libra.
* Nagisa's blood type is O.
* In the *Pretty Cure All Stars* Suite Flower Card Collection, Nagisa is represented by the pansy, which symbolizes trust and pure love in the Language of Flowers.
* Cure Black has the shortest hair out of all the lead Cures.
	+ She and Hyuuga Saki are the only lead Cures without pink or blonde hair.
* Cure Black is the only Pretty Cure so far never to wear any hair ornaments.
	+ Although Cure Lemonade had no hair ornament in the first season, this was changed in the sequel.
* Cure Black is the only lead Cure who does not have pink as her main theme color.
* Nagisa, Haruka, Mirai and Ichika are the only Cures who have two catchphrases.
* Nagisa appeared as Cure Black to give the first 10th anniversary congratulatory message at the beginning of episode 01 of *Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!*
* In Episode 14, Nagisa breaks the fourth wall during cooking class when she faces the viewers. Shiho asks her what she's looking at.
	+ Nagisa breaks the fourth wall a second time in episode 16 of *Max Heart*.
* Nagisa gets accidentally hit in the face by fairies in various forms (which is Mepple as a Card Commune and Porun as the Rainbow Commune with Moop and Foop in the first DX film). This has become a recurring joke for other lead cures in following series. Such as Hanasaki Tsubomi getting hit by Chypre and Coffret at the same time, Hoshizora Miyuki has been hit by Candy, and Usami Ichika has Pekorin crashing into her during their first meeting.