Amanogawa Kirara

**Amanogawa Kirara** (天ノ川きらら *Amanogawa Kirara*) is one of the main Cures in this season. She is a 13-year-old girl who is a very fashionable and popular model. Her alter ego is **Cure Twinkle** (キュアトゥインクル *Kyua To~uinkuru*), the Princess of Stars.

## Appearance

Kirara has brown hair tied into two low pigtails. She wears a purple headband and yellow star earrings. Her eye colour is purple. She wears a yellow off-the-shoulder shirt that has a frilly front and sleeves with the hem of her shirt tying into a bow. She wears teal and turquoise striped shorts and cream-coloured wedged sandals.

As Cure Twinkle, Kirara's hair grows longer and turns orange, and with a darker orange ombre along the top with two red streaks on the sides of her bangs, and light yellow pom-poms tied around the middle of the pigtails. She also wears a gold and cream-colored tiara. Her dress is yellow with light yellow and white accents, an orange belt with a star in front and purple frills in the skirt. Along her chest is a purple bow with a gold brooch and there looks to be a light yellow bow in the back. Her accesories include a light yellow frilly choker and cream-colored armbands, short cream-colored gloves with orange bands around the wrist, thigh-length cream and yellow-colored boots and yellow star-shaped earrings.

When she changes into her Elegant Mode, her skirt lengthens to the floor and it is yellow with purple, light purple and white layers inside and star-shaped beading on each side.

## Personality

Kirara is a freshman at Noble Academy who is a 'my pace' sort of girl and is very fashionable. She is active as a model every day, appearing in magazines and fashion shows. Her dream is to be a top model, and she has the strength to pursue it head on.

## History

### Becoming Cure Twinkle

Upon learning that Kirara found the third Princess Perfume, Haruka, Minami, Pafu and Aroma find the class she was in to talk to her, but she brushes them off. Later, the group goes to Yumegahama Town, where Kirara was doing a photo shoot, when Close appears with a Zetsuborg. The two Cures defeat it and confront Kirara about the perfume and she returns it to them, thinking it was a gift from a fan. Still determined to find out if she is the third Pretty Cure, they attend a fashion show she is participating in. In her dressing room, Kirara finds a Dress Up Key in her make up case and decides to wear it as a necklace. During the second part of the show, Close appears again and creates a Fashion Model Zetsuborg and it starts to attack, causing everyone except for Kirara and the two Cures to evacuate. The two transform, but are defeated, so Kirara took matter into her own hands to protect her show. Suddenly, her Dress Up Key reacts and Aroma hands her the Princess Perfume and she transforms into Cure Twinkle, quickly dispatching of it with Twinkle Humming. However, even after the other Cures ask her to join the team, she returns the perfume yet again, saying she was too busy to be a Pretty Cure.

## Relationships

**Haruno Haruka -** The two of them are classmates at Noble Academy. During Kirara's fashion show, Haruka goes backstage with some donuts to give Kirara something to eat before the second show began. She even gave her a nickname "HaruHaru" because Haruka's name contains two "Harus".

**Kaido Minami -** Kirara is the first person to call her "Minami" without adding '-san' or '-sama' like the other students, and they share a friendly relationship.

## Cure Twinkle

**"The princess of the twinkling stars! Cure Twinkle!"**
きらめく星のプリンセス！キュアトゥインクル！
*Kirameku hoshi no purinsesu! Kyua To~uinkuru!*

**Cure Twinkle** (キュアトゥインクル *Kyua To~uinkuru*) is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Kirara. She controls the power of stars and transforms with the phrase, *"Pretty Cure, Princess Engage!"*. Her main attack is Twinkle Humming, which she can only perform while in her Mode Elegant.

### Attacks

* **Twinkle Humming** (トゥインクルハミング *To~uinkuru Hamingu*) is Cure Twinkle's main attack that can only be used when she is in her Mode Elegant.
* **Trinity Lumiere** (トリニティリュミエール *Toriniti Ryumiēru*) is Cure Twinkle's group attack that she performs with Cure Flora and Cure Mermaid, where she needs the Crystal Princess Rod.
* **Full Moon Humming** (フルムーンハミング *Furu Mūn Hamingu*) is Cure Twinkle's main attack, performed with the Crystal Princess Rod. To perform this attack, she must be in her Mode Elegant Luna.

## Etymology

**Amanogawa** (天ノ川): *Ama* (天) means 'sky', which is probably a reference to how stars are in the sky. *No* (ノ) means 'in' while *Gawa* (川) means 'river'. So, the full meaning of "Amanogawa" is 'River in the sky' or 'Milky Way', which is a more suitable meaning because of how Kirara is the Princess of Stars.

**Kirara** (きらら) mean either 'mica' or 'isinglass'. It sounds very similar to "kirakira" which means 'sparkly' or 'glittery'.

Therefore, Amanogawa Kirara means "sparkly river in the sky", "glittery river in the sky", "sparkly Milky Way", or "glittery Milky Way".

*Cure Twinkle* means the source of light, shines with a flickering light and glimmer.

## Trivia

* Kirara's birthday is September 12. Therefore, her zodiac sign is Virgo.
* Kirara is the first yellow Cure to be a popular model.
* She is the third yellow Cure after Cure Muse and Cure Rosetta to have orange hair in Pretty Cure form.
* She is the first Cure to wear earrings in civilian form.
* She is the second Cure who represents stars, following Cure Fortune.
* She is the fifth Pretty Cure to have the character for "river" ("kawa") in her surname, following Kurokawa Ellen, Midorikawa Nao,Hishikawa Rikka and Hikawa Iona.
	+ However, she is the first Pretty Cure to have the character pronounced as "gawa".
* Kirara is the third Cure to have three Japanese characters in her surname, preceded by Kasugano Urara and Myoudouin Itsuki.
	+ Coincidentally, they are all yellow-themed Cures, the third member of their teams and have twintails in their Cure forms.
* According to unspecified sources who also gave out the info of the Cures' names, Kirara is based off the character Zhinü/Orihime, the titular Weaver Girl from the folk tale *The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd*, which is also the mythos behind theTanabata festival in Japan.
* Kirara is the third Pretty Cure to wear gloves, after Cure Moonlight and her teammate, Cure Flora.
* Unlike the other Princess Pretty Cures, Kirara has her ombre at the top, while the others have it at the tip of their hair.
* She is the first Cure who refuses to become a Pretty Cure and refused to join the team after her first transformation, while others agreed to become a Pretty Cure and joined their teams after their first transformations.