Yukari Kotozume

(琴爪ゆかり Kotozume Yukari)

**Yukari Kotozume** (琴爪ゆかり *Kotozume Yukari*) is one of the six main Cures in *KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode* who is a second year high school student. She is rather selfish and above everyone else like a cat.

Yukari's alter ego is **Cure Macaron** (キュアマカロン *Kyua Makaron*), the Pretty Cure of beauty and excitement, and she is based on macarons and cats.

Her catchphrases are **"How Interesting"** (「面白いわ」 *"Omoshiroi wa"*) and **"Fufufu..."** (「フフフ…」 *"Fufufu..."*?).

## Bio

### Appearance

ukari has sharp purple eyes and long, wavy purple hair. She wears a stylish lilac trench-coat with a lavender ribbon around the waist, over a purple top and a short gray pencil skirt. Occasionally she would also wear either a light purple and indigo dress or a light purple top with a purple skirt. She also wears thin purple boots, magenta earrings, and sometimes a lilac hat. For summer, she wears a long light purple dress with lilac sash and light purple heels. For winter, she wears a light purple cowl-neck sweater dress, indigo tights, and purple stiletto-heeled boots. She sometimes wears a short lighter purple jacket and purple gloves.

In the movie, she wears a loose purple and pink top with a gray knee-length skirt and white boots. At the party, her hair is worn up and she wears a light purple gown with white opera-length gloves and purple heels.

In the future, she has cut her long hair into a bob. She wears a purple top beneath a white coat, dark purple belt, black leggings, and dark purple heels.

As a child, her hair was tied into low twin-tails. She wore an indigo dress with a lilac top and white socks.

As **Cure Macaron**, her hair grows out longer, worn with a macaron hat. She also gains dark purple cat ears and a tail, raspberry earrings, and a purple neck ribbon. Her purple dress has a white chest and puffed sleeves, and her mini-skirt resembles a macaron with raspberry and lavender middle, her waist bow is purple. She also gets purple knee boots with paw-like toe, an anklet with raspberry spheres, and white opera gloves.

As **Super Cure Macaron**, her outfit an accessories lighten in color, with the outfit mostly white and accented with lavender. Her skirt is slightly altered in shape and the bottom turns pale pink. Hanging from the back is a cape-like piece of fabric. She gains a pair of wings.

In her **A La Mode Style**, her hair grows longer and gains more volume. She gains a fluffy lilac hood and a raspberry ribbon hangs from her macaron hat. Her neck ribbon gains a raspberry charm. Her dress changes to resemble a ballgown, the top now purple and raspberry with white fluff covering the top. Her white skirt has large purple spheres around the bottom with a layered purple split peplum over raspberry fabric on top. Her gloves end at the wrist with a raspberry bow around the wrist.

### Personality

Yukari is a clever and refined lady with a fickle personality, who is prone to tease others to get different reactions out of them, mostly out of being egotistical. She is quite perceptive, being immediately able to tell that something was off with Rio. Spending time with Ichika and the others and being a Cure makes every day an unpredictable experience, and this liveliness is something Yukari seeks. She also takes an interest in macarons after her own first batches fail, and she likes the idea of having something she can work on improving.

As a child, Yukari kept on trying out new things in order to find anything she would feel passionate about, but she was not able to. Being seen as "perfect" becomes depressingly dreary to her, and nobody wanting to look beyond that "perfection" makes her feel lonely. Since enjoyment cannot be given to her, she realizes that she needs to create enjoyable situations herself. She embraces this and herself in episode 29, and admits she won't be able to erase her inner darkness and sadness, but being with her friends and surrounding herself with a "colorful world" makes her able to deal with it.

### Relationships

* Ichika Usami - Yukari is interested in Ichika's bumbling and is able to enjoy every day more after meeting her. Ichika in turn admires the older high school student greatly and they are on good terms with each other.
* Akira Kenjou- They go to the same school, and are very popular with the other students. Their personalities initially clash, with Yukari criticizing Akira's selflessness and Akira being at odds with Yukari's fickle nature. After Akira witnesses Yukari's kindness and Yukari recognizes Akira's passion and tenacity, they become very good friends. KKPCALM10 They are often seen spending time with each other afterwards. Akira and Yukari's relationship has developed in a romantic way over time, notably in episodes 25 and 29. Their duet is a love song as well.
* **Three-star Kitty** - Yukari is apparently the only person this elusive cat allows to pet him, even going so far as to run up to her and lie down on his back as soon as he sees her.
* Shino Kotozume - Her grandmother and only known family member.
* Pekorin - Yukari seems to adore Pekorin and enjoys stroking her gently.

### Etymology

**Kotozume** (琴爪): *Koto* (琴) means 'harp' while *Zume* (爪) means 'fingernail' or 'claw' which could be a reference to a cat's claw.

**Yukari** (ゆかり) means 'affinity'. It can also mean "violet", a nod to her color scheme.

*Macaron* is a type of French dessert that has cream in the middle and comes in a variety of colors.

## Trivia

* Yukari's birthday is on June 11th, making her Zodiac sign Gemini.
* Yukari shares her voice actress (Fujita Saki) with Chieri/Past Cure Flora from *Go! Princess Pretty Cure*.
* She is very skillful on taming animals and fairies with her gentle strokes as displayed in multiple episodes.