Yes! PreCure 5

A poster featuring Cure Dream, Cure Rouge, Cure Lemonade, Cure Mint, and Cure Aqua, along with Coco and Natts

### Premiered

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**Yes! PreCure 5** is the fourth season in the series and third series in the *Pretty Cure* franchise, directed by Komura Toshiaki, succeeding *Futari wa PreCure Splash Star* in its time slot.

The story is about a group of five girls who have the ability to transform into Pretty Cures. Their goal is to collect the fifty-five Pinkies spread across the land and save the Palmier Kingdom. The five girls' powers are based on natural elements, human characteristics and emotions (hope, intelligence, etc.) that embody each Cure's personality, and butterflies.

## Synopsis

Nozomi Yumehara, a regular middle school student, finds a magical book called the Dream Collet in the library and meets Coco, a creature from the Palmier Kingdom. Nozomi decides to help restore Coco's world, which has been destroyed by an organization called Nightmare, by completing the Dream Collet and finding the 55 Pinkies to make any wish come true. By making her decision to help Coco, she proves she has the heart to be a Pretty Cure and is given her Pinky Catch from a pink butterfly letting her transform into Cure Dream. Meanwhile, the Nightmares are fighting the cures to steal the Dream Collet and defeat Pretty Cure. To help, she must choose a team of four other students to be Pretty Cure so that she may help protect the Dream Collet and save Nuts from his entrapment within. Together with Cure Rouge, Cure Lemonade, Cure Mint and Cure Aqua, they form the Pretty Cure Team.

## Characters

### Pretty Cure

* **Nozomi Yumehara** : Nozomi is the first girl to become a Cure. Before meeting Coco and assisting him in granting his wish, she did not have a dream, however, she soon decided that her dream would be to help Coco save his kingdom. Although she is not very smart and is constantly getting into trouble with her goofy attitude, she has a strong and kind heart that eventually makes her the leader of the group. Her alter ego is **Cure Dream**, the Cure of Hope and she has powers related to starlight.
* **Rin Natsuki** : Rin is Nozomi's best friend since childhood. Being proficient in all kinds of sports and also a responsible older sister to her younger twin siblings, she is often the one to reason with Nozomi when she comes up with unreasonable ideas or is acting too childishly. Although she doesn't want to be a part of Pretty Cure at first, Rin accepts her Pinky Catch when she wants to protect Nozomi from danger. Her alter ego is **Cure Rouge**, the Cure of Passion and she has powers related to fire.
* **Urara Kasugano** : Urara is an exchange student who aspires to be an actress. She is half Japanese from her mother's side and half French from her father's side. Before becoming Pretty Cure, she did not have any friends and could not be herself in front of others. Her alter ego is **Cure Lemonade**, the Cure of Effervescence and she has powers related to light.
* **Komachi Akimoto** : Komachi is an aspiring author, and is already halfway through her first book thanks to Nuts' help. She is kind and shy, but when she is angered enough, she will snap and release her temper. Her family owns a traditional Japanese sweets shop where she gets Coco and Nuts' food from. Along with her best friend and partner Karen, she is one of the popular seniors at the school. Her alter ego is **Cure Mint**, the Cure of Tranquility and she has powers related to earth.
* **Karen Minazuki** : Karen is the oldest member of the team and comes from a very affluent family. She is the president of the student council at L'Ecole des Cinq Lumieres. Despite her popularity and strong outward personality, Karen is lonely at home, and because of her awkward relationship with her parents, she has problems properly showing her real feelings. Komachi is her best friend and a fellow student council member and also the only one she could tell her real feelings to before she met Nozomi. Her alter ego is **Cure Aqua**, the Cure of Intelligence and she has powers related to water.

### Nightmare

* **Girinma** : The first Nightmare to appear. In his human form, he wears large glasses, a bowler hat, and holds a cane. His original form is a deadly praying mantis with arms that slice. He greatly fears his superiors and is often threatened by Bunbee.
* **Gamao** : The second Nightmare to appear, Gamao is often extremely lazy and refuses to do any work, even if his survival and duty as a Nightmare depend on it. He is a toad, and his human form is that of a large, unkempt man.
* **Arachnea** : The third Nightmare to appear, Arachnea is a woman who transforms into a spider. In her human form, she has short light purple hair and wears a red office dress suit.
* **Bunbee** : The boss of Girinma, Arachnea, and Gamao. His original form is a bee. For the first part of the series, he seems to be leading the Nightmares, but it is soon revealed that he takes orders from Kawarino.
* **Hadenya** : One of the villains appearing in the second part of the season after Arachnea's death. She can transform into a colorful bird-like creature reminiscent of Brazilian Carnival. She likes to take what she wants and often forces Bunbee to serve her in some way. In her human form, she is a large woman with short, purple hair and wears a red jacket with blue pants with lots of large jewelry.
* **Bloody** : Bloody is the last Nightmare to show up. He can transform into a bat-like creature, shooting sonic waves at his enemies. He usually tries to win by persuasion and talking, only using Kowaina to help him rather than to do all of the work.
* **Kawarino** : Desparaia's secretary. He conveys her intentions and orders to other Nightmares and reports to her on the missions. Most of the other Nightmares fear him. His name is a play on the Japanese word "kawari" which means "substitute".
* **Kowaina** : A tool of the Nightmares that is created by putting a special mask on to an inanimate object, causing it to come alive and cause destruction. The villains often use it for both offense and defense.
* **Desperaia** : The leader of the Nightmares who intends to gain eternal life and to bring despair to the world. She has ordered for her subordinates to obtain the Dream Collet for this purpose. She has long brown hair and wears a purple dress. For much of the series, her face is obscured by a mask whenever we see her.

### Palmier Kingdom

* **Coco** : One of the mascot creatures from the Palmier Kingdom. Coco is a yellow-furred tanuki-like creature who is searching for the Dream Collet when he meets Nozomi. He is always calm, kind and understanding, especially to Nozomi. When he talks in mascot form, he ends his sentences with "-coco". He can transform into a human and later becomes a teacher at Nozomi's school to keep watch over her under the alias **Kokoda Kouji**. About halfway through the season, it is revealed that he, along with Nuts, is a prince of the Palmier Kingdom.
* **Nuts** : Nuts another creature from the Palmier Kingdom, resembling a brown squirrel that ends his sentences with "-natts". In the beginning of the series, he is sealed within the Dream Collet and is freed after all five members of Pretty Cure receive their powers. At first, he has an aloof and cold personality due to his past, and he has difficulty trusting Pretty Cure as well as Coco's judgment. However, he eventually warms up to them, especially Komachi, who shares his fondness of books. Like Coco, Nuts can transform into an extremely handsome human, acting as the clerk of a jewelry shop called Natts House, by the name Mr. Natsu. Like Coco, Nuts is also a prince of the Palmier Kingdom.
* **Milk** : Debuting half-way through the season, Milk resembles a white and pink lop rabbit who, unlike Nuts and Coco, is unable to transform into a human. Milk and Nozomi are always in constant disagreements over food and Pretty Cure's treatment of Coco and Nuts. Milk wants to be the perfect servant to Coco and Nuts and often gets into trouble because of this desire.

### L'Ecole des Cinq Lumieres

* **Mika** **Masuko** : Mika is the chief editor of the Cinq Lumieres News. Her goal is to get the "scoop" on Pretty Cure, but she always either fails or is distracted. Whenever introducing herself, she asks people to call her "Masukomi-ka", a play off of the Japanese "masukomi", which means "mass media".
* **Otaka-san** : The mistress of the cafeteria in the girls' school where they always eat lunch. She is a cheerful, middle-aged woman who sometimes gives them good advice. Secretly, she is the school headmistress.

## Trivia

* *Yes! Pretty Cure 5* has the shortest single transformation sequences with everyone's full normal transformation lasting for just or under 30 seconds.
* *Yes! Pretty Cure 5* is the first series to have a *Super Sentai* like dynamic with its Cures. A team of heroes, each a different color, who work together to defeat an evil organization that threatens mankind and sends monsters to destroy them. This dynamic is also present in all *Pretty Cure* series that followed.
* The buildings in the setting of this season strongly resemble France's 19th-century cities.
* In early sketches, the 5 Cures were originally going to have some kind of personal vehicles, but unfortunately this idea could never come true and got scrapped instead.
* *Yes! Pretty Cure 5* starts a trend where most or all of the main characters of the show have their birthdays unstated. This was done because the production staff wanted fans to celebrate their birthdays whenever they wanted.
	+ The trend breaks in *Doki Doki! PreCure* despite the fact that there are still a few characters who have unrevealed birthdays in subsequent seasons.
* A novel adaption was announced to be released along with the Fresh Pretty Cure! novel in 2015 for the season but the staff struggled writing it and cancelled its production. In 2019, it was announced that its production was revived with no more information since then.
	+ A book collection featuring interviews of the staff that was involved in the season's production and its sequel was released five years prior to the first announcement of the actual novel. Making it the first ever novel or book adaption to be released for a season outside of the Manga adaptions.
* This is the first season to be produced in the modern widescreen format. However, there are still international translations that use the original SD format that was used until *Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star*.
* This is the first season where:
	+ The fairies do not transform into the transformation device.
	+ The fairies can transform into humans.
	+ All Cures can transform and attack independently.
	+ The main team includes five members.
* Along with *Futari wa* and the series' perspective sequels, these are the only two seasons where the main setting's name is unrevealed.
	+ In *Futari wa* however, the fairies were adressing the human world as "Garden of Rainbows", including the city the Cures lived in.