Amane Kasai

**Amane Kasai** (菓彩あまね *Kasai Amane*?) is a student council president at Shinsen Middle School and her family owns a fruits and cafe parlor called "Fruit Parlor KASAI". She is formerly a member of the Phantom Bundle Gang, **Gentle** (ジェントルー *Jentorū*?) until episode 12. Her alter ego is **Cure Finale** (キュアフィナーレ *Kyua Fināre*?).

## Info

* Season:Delicious Party Pretty Cure
* Age:14
* Gender:Female
* Eyes Color:Red (Evil), Blue (Normal)
* Hair Color:White (Evil), Black (Normal)
* Homeland:Bundle Headquarter (Formerly), Oishiina Town (Currently)
* Relatives:Yuan Kasai (Older brother), Mitsuki Kasai (Older Brother), Shuichi Kasai (Father), Botan Kasai (Mother)
* First Appearance:Episode 1, Episode 4 (As Amane), Episode 18 (As Cure Finale)
* Alias:Gentle (Evil), Cure Finale
* Theme Color:Purple
* Voice Actor:Ai Kayano

## History

### Origins

As a child, she met the Parfait ReciPipi by chance. Since then, she had become its friend and also made a promise to become a person who can make everyone around her smile.

### First Appearance

She was brainwashed by the Bundle Gang to do their evil deeds as Gentle. Throughout the first few episodes, Gentle steals the ReciPipis and summons Ubauzos when the Cures catch her. But from episode 8 onwards, Gentle starts experiencing headaches, with Amane continuously appearing within her to tell Gentle to stop hurting the ReciPpiss.

### Identity Revealed and Rebrainwashed

Her headaches get even worse to the point that she starts doubting herself, and tries her best to make sure her actions don't hurt the captured ReciPipis. However, in episode 11, despite her desperate actions to get back to the Bundle Gang hide-out, she is forced into the Delicious Field, where Delicious Yum-Yum Drain breaks her mask. Gentle reverts back to being Amane, and the control over her is released. But then Narcisstor appears and takes her back to the hide-out to brainwash her again.

### Final Battle

She is brainwashed again, this time more intensely, to carry out her duties without hesitation. She attacks the Cures again, declaring that she is a phantom thief and nothing more, even not caring about hurting the ReciPipis anymore. She retreats after her Ubauzo is defeated, but not without the Cures figuring out that the control she is under is way stronger and will erase her actual heart soon. Later, the girls trick Gentle into targeting a hamburger steak restaurant that hadn't opened yet, not knowing it opens early, to try and talk some sense into her, but she refuses to listen. Just then, a hamburger steak ReciPipi appears and Gentle captures it and summons another Ubauzo. She then duels against Precious while Spicy and Yum-Yum take care of the Ubauzo. While she gains the upper hand at first and rebukes Precious' attempts to befriend her, the control starts to waver again after Precious shows her a drawing of a ReciPipi Amane drew. She tells the Cures to break the spell over her, but Godatz intervenes and sends her dark heart to the Ubauzo to strengthen it even more. However, the Cures use Mix Heart Attack to purify it and destroy the heart, freeing Gentle from Godatz's control and turning her back into Amane. She later returns to her home and has to temporarily leave school to recover both physically and mentally.

### Doubts About Being A Cure

After some time off, she goes back to school again. However, burdened by her time as Gentle, Amane discusses with Moe Yamakura, the vice president that she is thinking of stepping down from her role as student council president. She then receives an unexpected heart crystal and notices the Parfait ReciPipi. Upon realizing Narcisstor is out there stealing people's memories, Amane feels more guilty than ever. Although afterwards, Rosemary and the three girls insist that she will be a good fit for their team, along with more of the Parfait ReciPipi's begging, Amane declines the offer, still believing that she is unfit, causing the crystal to darken.

### Becoming Cure Finale

While working in the parlor, she witnesses the Parfait ReciPipi being stolen by Narcisstor. She runs out to confront him, but Narcisstor uses his Motto Ubauzo to pick-up Amane just as Rosemary summons the Delicious Field. Amane helplessly watches the Cures try to fight the Ubauzo without hurting her. There, she expresses anguish over seeing them get hurt because of her. She remembers how she hurt everyone despite her dream of making those around her smile. However, the Cures and Rosemary praise her and go all out to save her. Despite expressing more anguish, Precious' words resonate with her, which helps Amane admit that she wants to be the one to make everyone smile just like a parfait does.
With hot lava raining down, Amane is protected by the heart crystal, where its light has her remember her true feelings and her friendship with the Parfait ReciPipi. The heart crystals turns into the Heart Fruits Pendant, which Amane uses to transform into Cure Finale. Without hesitating, she overwhelms the Motto Ubauzo with punches and kicks, before purifying it with Delicious Finale Fanfare. Having saved the Parfait ReciPipi, Amane returns to the fruit parlor, where she reflects about everything that had happened with her friends and the Parfait ReciPipi.

### Baking Cakes

After becoming Cure Finale, she meets CooKing, Cook Queen and Fennel for the first time. After she informs them about the location of the Bundle Gang's hideout, she starts opening up to her new friends, and also decides to remain as the student council president. She decides to bond with her friends by baking and decorating cakes for her two brothers' birthday.
While baking the cakes, Amane warms up to her friends more, by telling them the reason why her brothers usually have two separate cakes for their shared birthday. She gets embarrassed when Yuan is the first one to find out. Upon realizing that Narcisstor has stolen her brothers' memories, Finale is determined to retrieve them by cooperating with her friends and even rescuing Precious who gets into a pinch, as well as harnessing her attacks to purify the Motto Ubauzo. At the end of the day, she is delighted that she gets to make brothers happy with the help of her friends.

### Bonding with Kokone

She and her friends are invited to Kokone's family's restaurant, but upon seeing Yui and Ran's lack of mannerisms, she decides to teach them how to behave at high-class restaurants. Despite her good intentions, her lesson comes off as unenjoyable. When the girls and Rosemary rent dresses for the occasion, Amane learns about Kokone's love for cute things, and notices how Kokone advises their friends differently than her.
That evening when the girls walk home together, Amane thanks Kokone for helping her understand that manners are about putting people's needs first. Upon noticing that Kokone does miss her own parents, Amane reassures Kokone by telling her that she has learned invaluable things from them, just like how Kokone taught her about consideration, and is left with lots of feelings when Kokone heads home.
The next day during the fight with Narcisstor, Finale is angry at Narcisstor for stealing the diners' memories that she almost gets attacked, until Spicy protects her. She then asks why Spicy thanked her the day before, and realizes through Spicy's answer that she had helped Spicy understand the lesson itself. Now understanding each other, both Finale and Spicy cooperate with each other to defeat the Motto Ubauzo, with Finale performing the finishing blow. Finally, both girls have a fun time dining with their friends, and take part in a graceful dance together.

### Understanding Ran

When meeting Ran on the streets, she notices Ran is upset that the sweets store Hagoromo House is closing soon. Amane and her friends visit the store to have some of its sweets. However, Amane has a disagreement with Ran afterwards, as she believes that Sakie has other reasons for closing the store, but unintentionally hurts Ran's feelings, so she can only watch Ran storm off.
The next day, after seeing Ran failing to advertise the sweets store at school, Amane gets worried and goes to the store with the others to find her. When fighting against Narcisstor's Motto Ubauzo, Finale finally understands why Yum-Yum's memories are connected to the store, and helps Yum-Yum by defeating the Motto Ubauzo. She then kindly explains to Ran that a place's history can be passed down through memories from one person to another, and both make up with each other as they enjoy the sweets with their friends on the store's last day.

### Helping Kome-Kome

hen she and the other girls are doing their summer homework, she advises Kome-Kome to play with Pam-Pam and Mem-Mem so Yui won't be distracted. However, when she goes to get tea for her friends, she notices that Kome-Kome and Pam-Pam have gotten into an argument, so she tries to calm Kome-Kome down, only to watch Kome-Kome storm off. When searching for both Kome-Kome and Pam-Pam, she is accompanied by Mem-Mem and Rosemary, as they find out that Narcisstor has held Pam-Pam hostage. During the fight with Narcisstor, Finale decides fight him one-on-one, and also encourages Kome-Kome to apologize, as she, after having a difficult time with Narcisstor, finds an opening to attack him. After the fight, she has a pizza party with her group of friends, and is pleased to see Kome-Kome having grown up again.

### Helping Princess Maira

When Princess Maira visits Oishiina Town, she and Yui are tasked to guide her around town. When Yui suggests she and Maira switch places, Amane protests but ends up obliging to take Maira around town. During the trip, Amane takes Maira and her friends to her house for a good meal, and to remind Maira about what she truly loves about food and smiles, although Amane is embarrassed by her brothers' carefree antics.
When Amane realizes that Yui has been kidnapped, Amane and her friends try to cover up Yui's transformation. Finale then takes Maira to the location of the speech with Yum-Yum and Spicy as the three claim that they are special delivery service people. In the end, they all watch Maira's speech and are all glad that Maira has found her smile.

### Facing Her Darkness

She and her friends are planning their Halloween party, but Amane begins to get upset after she and her friends listen to Rosemary's report about Narcisstor, remembering her past confrontations with him and even dreaming about being stopped by herself. She tries to soothe her spirits by making a parfait for herself and her brothers, but the Parfait ReciPipi notices that she isn't okay. When feeling bothered by the Parfait ReciPipi, Amane accidentally lashes out at it and hurts its feelings, causing it to disappear in front of her. Soon, to her shock, her Heart Fruits Pendant refuses to respond to her due to her immense guilt, meaning she cannot transform.
During the fight against Secretor, Amane and Rosemary almost get hit by a razor attack from the Gossori Ubauzo, but they are both saved by the Parfait ReciPipi. Understanding the Parfait ReciPipi's perspective, Amane admits that she has to finally face the darkness within her, mainly stemmed from her grudge against Narcisstor. But after Rosemary tells her that having such feelings are natural and that she should never let it affect her, Amane finally comes to terms with herself and sincerely apologizes to the Parfait ReciPipi, earning its forgiveness and apology, which fixes her pendant. After the fight, Amane invites the Parfait ReciPipi to the Halloween party, with their bond becoming much stronger.

### Making Amends With Narcisstor

With her reign as the student council president coming to an end, she hosts her last cultural festival for the school. To her surprise, however, she notices that Narcisstor seems to have infiltrated the school. At first, Amane thinks she's seeing things, but quickly realizes Narcisstor is at the school when she sees him fixing appliances for Moe and her brothers.
Upon witnessing Secretor about to dispose of Narcisstor with her Gossori Ubauzo, she remembers how he enjoyed the candied apple she made, and decides to rescue him. She and her team then help him return to prison after receiving his size-shrinking device, where she gives him another candied apple to encourage him to finish his sentence before he leaves. After realizing that Narcisstor did contribute to helping the festival, Amane is glad that he has finally changed after all.

### Epilogue

After the final battle, She helps her family at Fruit Parlor KASAI, where she interacts with the Parfait ReciPipi. She and her friends then visit CooKingdom, where they celebrate with its citizens. In the end, Amane says goodbye to Rosemary and the Energy Fairies, but still visits CooKingdom from time to time.

## Appearance

She has long wavy dark purple hair, and wears a yellow headband with a diamond pattern. Her eyes are blue, but while being evil, they were dark red. She wears a buttoned white blouse with a purple bow on the collar and a long purple skirt that has straps, a yellow trim at the bottom, and a pale purple layer beneath it. She also wears dark magenta Mary-Janes with white socks. In the summer, she wears a white blouse with a ruffled collar and sleeves that reach her elbows along with a calf-length purple checkered pencil skirt with matching suspenders. In the winter, she wears a purple sweater over a white top with a frilly collar along with a long dark gray checkered skirt. She also wears black Mary-Janes with white frilly socks.

In the movie, she wears a purple jacket over a white shirt with a frilly collar. Her black skirt reaches pass her knees and has a sheer layer. She wears black shoes with white socks.

As a child, her hair was slightly shorter and she wore a yellow headband. Her dress was purple with a dark purple belt around her waist that covered a white long sleeved blouse. She also wore a red bow beneath her collar.

As **Gentle**, she has silver hair with straightened bangs styled in pigtails held by black hair ties. She wears a purple top with a grey skirt underneath a black vest with a white trim, and two white bone-like buttons. Her tights and opera-length gloves are black, while her cape is black with a red undertone, and she has silver spikes on her shoulders. Her boots are black with grey accents, and silver spikes on top of her feet. She also wears a blue mask, and a black hat with a purple ribbon tied around it like a bow. The Bundle Gang's logo appears on her hat and vest.

## Personality

She is calm and collected, and doesn't show much emotion. She isn't fond of using violent methods as it's against her policy. Gentle prefers to carry out her mission without the Cures noticing. She is also rather sly and selfish, capable of easily deceiving her victims with clever words. However, when feeling stressed she can start getting impulsive.

She is actually a diligent, kind and thoughtful person. Amane cares about everyone around her, and can be very stubborn. She wishes to make everyone smile, just like a parfait does. However, she was quick to deem herself not worthy of being a Pretty Cure or a student council president due to her actions as Gentle. Ever since she put her trust in her friends, she managed to overcome those doubts.

In her **Party Up Style**, her hair grows longer and her tiara is replaced with a long veil as well as two turquoise ribbons with blue, purple, pink, and yellow flowers. Konpeitos on her hair becomes colorful and a little addition of some pearls. Her sleeves become shorter and turn transparent with two amethyst pearls on each side. Her Heart Fruits Pendant now rests at the center of a large white flower and purple ruffles hang from it. Her apron becomes larger with pink and purple accents and four flowers at the bottom that match the ones in her hair. The skirt becomes wider with a white ruffly layer on top and the colors on the center part of it become inverted. There is also an additional orange layer while the spheres turn magenta. The bottom part is also more ruffled at the end. Her heels turn white with golden toetips and white anklets. She wears white elbow-length gloves with a pale pink heart at the back of the hand along with a gold band and light purple ruffles on top. She also wears a gold ribbon-shaped ring with a pink heart in the center on her left middle finger.

In her **Children's Lunch Dress**, her hair grows longer and decorated with red hearts. She has a pale purple headband with a larger purple ribbon above it with a strawberry in the middle and orange half-circles on each side. Her bodice is white with puffy purple sleeves and a white collar. Below her Heart Fruits Pendant is a mint green ruffle. Her skirt resembles a flan with apple slices around the waist and on orange ruffle resembling caramel below it. The lining on the bottom of the skirt resembles cream dollops and there are also white ribbons looping both sides of the surface. She also wears white fingerless gloves with a red sphere in the center and pale brown ankle-length boots with darker toetips and purple bows with red hearts on them. On her back is a giant purple and white checkered ribbon.

## Abilities

### Gentle

Like the other members of Bundle Gang, she is able to summon a Ubauzo using the stolen ReciPipi and her Bundle Gang container. When she captures ReciPipis, the taste of the food they represent changes.

### Cure Finale

She transform into Cure Finale by using Heart Fruit Pendant.

* **Finale Bouquet** (フィナーレブーケ?)

Her sub attack. Requires Creamy Fleuret to perform it.

* **Delicious Finale Fanfare** (デリシャスフィナーレファンファーレ?)

Her main attack. Requires Creamy Fleuret to perform it.

* **Light My Delicious** (ライト・マイ・デリシャス?)

Her group attack with the other Cures. Required Party Candle Tact to perform it while in Party Up Style.

## Etymology

The Japanese spelling of Gentle's name (ジェントルー) likely comes from "gentle" (ジェントル) and "to steal" (取る).

**Kasai** (菓彩?): **Ka** (菓?) can mean many things, such as "candy", "cakes" and "fruit" which alludes to her motif as Cure Finale.

**Sai** (彩?) simply means "coloring", "paint" and "make-up".

**Amane** (あまね?) has various meanings when written in kanji. Such examples are "heavenly sound" (天音?) and "the sound of rain" (雨音?).

## Song

Her voice actor, **Ai Kayano** has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. Many of them include songs with **Hana Hishikawa**, who voices Yui Nagomi, **Risa Shimizu**, who voices Kokone Fuwa, and **Yuka Iguchi**, who voices Ran Hanamichi.

* **My true self**

### Group Song

* **Bonds Speciality** (*Along with Hana Hishikawa, Risa Shimizu and Yuka Iguchi*)

## Trivia

* She is so far the first female villain to appears in the series, after Eas and Sasorina.
* Her birthday is on November 24th, making her zodiac sign Sagittarius.
* Her favorite sweets are ohagi and parfaits.
* She is the first official gold Cure in the franchise.
	+ In *Heartcatch Pretty Cure!*, Cure Sunshine was frequently called "the gold Cure" by several characters of the series despite her official profile listing her as a yellow Cure.
* She is afraid of ghosts, as seen in episode 25.
* She doesn't like spicy food.
* She is the only *Delicious Party* member to not have an Eneregy Fairy as her partner.
	+ She is also the oldest among the four *Delicious Party* Cures, being approximately older than her three friends by 1-2 years.
* As stated in the *Oops! All PrettyCure Animage* interview, she was originally going to be called "Cure Gorgeous" but her name was changed to match her dessert motif.
	+ Kyoko Yufu also stated in the same interview that she wanted Finale to look like a fighting princess.
* In the *Delicious Party* manga, she gets treated with a welcome party by the other girls and Rosemary after she joins the team. There, Amane admits she feels happy for the first time in a while.
* During the *Delicious Party* Kanshasai, she and her friends are surprised to find out that there is a replicated Gentle out there collecting ReciPipis based on Amane's past in the Bundle Gang. After Finale and her friends lose and then regain powers to fight against more Ubauzo, she and Precious chase after the Gentle replica, who is upset about the truth. In the end, both Finale and Precious inspire the Gentle replica to fight against her own summoned Ubauzo, and they and their friends let her live in CooKingdom with the former Bundle Gang members.
	+ Also during the Kanshasai, Ai Kayano said that her ideal romantic partner is someone she can train martial arts with and watch sunsets afterwards.