Watanabe Mayu Type 3

**Watanabe Mayu Type 3** (3型目 渡辺麻友) or **Watanabe Mayu MK3**, also known as **Mayuyu** (まゆゆ), is one of the main characters in AKB0048 Pretty Cure. She is a member of the intergalactic idol group AKB0048 and originates from AKB0048.

Her alter ego is **Cure Aurora** (キュアアウロラ).

## Bio

### Appearance

Mayuyu has long, twintails with pink ribbons, blue hair, a cybernetic right arm that launches missiles, and rose-colored eyes. She also usually wears a scrunchie on her left arm. Like all members of AKB0048, she has a heart-shaped lining on her hair and eyes. Her twintails act as a radar and can detect trouble, such as DES.

### Personality

Mayuyu acts cute in front of the crowds, giving the impression of an energetic and bubbly personality. In truth, she's a relatively emotionless girl, speaking in a monotone voice and has little social contact with the others. However, her emotions are extremely difficult to predict as she has a poker face personality. If there's no more food, she'll threaten Chef Papa until he gets her more food. Whilst it is never explicitly stated, she's heavily hinted to be a cyborg or even an android as she is the only one classified as MK3 Mayuyu .

### Etymology

**Watanabe** is a common Japanese surname, meaning 渡 (**wataru**) "cross, ferry" and 辺 (**be**) "edge, side"

**Mayu** means "hemp" (麻) (**ma**) and "friend" (友) (**yu**)

**Aurora** is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

### Canon Member

Watanabe Mayu was born on March 26, 1994 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She was an original member of AKB48's Team B sub unit as of 2006 and is also a part-time actress. She has a solo career and was part of the Sub-Unit Watarirouka Hashiritai 7,. She has a passion for things that are pink and cute, and is said to resemble her mother. She is an anime otaku and is also the voice actress of Sono Chieri (Cure Celestial). She is known as "Cyborg Idol"/"Cyborg Girl" (CG). She is known for her good relationship with Kashiwagi Yuki (MaYuki), Oshima Yuko (Oshiri Sisters) and former teammate Ota Aika. She is also a Pretty Cure fan and says that Heartcatch Pretty Cure is her favourite season and guest starred in Mahou Girls Pretty Cure as herself. She graduated AKB48 on December 31st 2017 and later appeared in various dramas and starred in Amélie: The Musical.

As of June 1st 2020, she has retired from the entertainment industry and all of her social media accounts are deleted.

## Cure Aurora

**“The flying colours crossing together in the sky! Cure Aurora!”**
飛び交う色が空を駆ける！キュアアウロラ!
 *Tobikau iro ga sorawokakeru! Kyua Aurora!*

**Cure Aurora** (キュアアウロラ) is the Pretty Cure alter-ego of Mayuyu. In order to transform, she needs her Star Colour Pendant and her Star Colour Pen.

## Trivia

* Relating to AKB0048 Precure's space motif, her birthday falls on the death date of Auguste Charlois, an astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice Observatory in France. Her birthday is a tribute to Charlois.
* She and Sono Chieri owns stuffed alpacas.
* The canon Watanabe Mayu is the only member of AKB48 to voice a character in the series and have a character based on them.
* She is currently the only member in AKB0048 not to have a real name and uses a name from a previous member as their real name, likely because she is a cyborg.
* She is always seen accompanied by Kashiwagi Yuki. The canon Mayuyu was always accompanied by the canon Yukirin as well.
* Her missile-arm may be a reference to an episode of AKBingo where the canon Mayuyu lost a dodgeball game and as punishment, had her arm "cut off" in a prank.
* Her seiyuu, Tamura Yukari, also voices Ruru Amour from HUGtto Pretty Cure.
* Her attack, "Aurora Beam", is based on the same attack from the Pokémon series.