Yuni

**Yuni** (ユニ) is one of the main characters in AKB0048 Pretty Cure. She is a member of the intergalactic idol group AKB0048, part of the unit NO NAME and originates from Star Twinkle Precure.

Her alter ego is **Cure Cosmo** (キュアコスモ) and her catchphrases is **"~meow"** (～ニャン). Her other alter egos include the phantom thief **Blue Cat** (ブルーキャット), the cat idol **Mao** (マオ), and formerly, Aiwarn's butler **Bakenyan**.

## Bio

### Appearance

Yuni resembles a humanoid cat with cream fur and sharp red and gold eyes. Her hair is dodger blue and worn in thick curled twin-tails. She has a brown button nose and whiskers, and a fanged tooth visible at times. She also has a black cat tail, ears, and gold claws. She wears a dark navy bodysuit with a rounded collar and white and pink puffy shorts. At the middle of the chest is a light blue sphere. She wears gold bracelets with blue angled fabric and tight-fitting white and blue shoes with gold anklets.

As **Cure Cosmo**, her eyes turn orange and her hair brightens to neon blue with fuchsia streaks. She gets an additional triangle clip on each side of her head with larger triangles toward the end of her longer pigtails. On her right ear is a small blue top hat with a rainbow star. Her dress has a blue and white bodice with a round collar and two gold buttons in the front. On top of her chest is her Star Colour Pendant. She also has a translucent light pink cape in the back. Her skirt has white fur trim on top and different coloured pleats. Underneath are white and translucent layers. Her gloves are blue and opera-length with white fur trim and a star on top of the wrist while her boots are knee-length also with fur trim and triangles on each side. Her accessories include a black choker with a gold bead, thin gold triangular earrings, and a light blue ring around her tail. Cure Cosmo was designed with a "alien cat" motif in mind, and from there, the motif spread to her idol and phantom thief aliases.

In her **Twinkle Style**, her hair grows even longer with light blue streaks added with white rings above the triangles and gold stars. A tiara appears on her head. Her collar turns pink with rainbow-coloured curve design going down along her bodice. The skirt pleats become more rounded with the translucent pink layer growing longer.  In addition to that, she now has a blue layer that opens in front and is longer in the back. The fur trim on her gloves becomes thinner while the sleeve openings are now lined with it. The top of her boots becomes slant with thinner trim on top.

As **Virgo Cure Cosmo,** her pigtails become thinner and shorter while the rest of her hair is wore down and curls at the ends with a pale pink ombre. The top of her dress turns white with blue inside and the collar turns pink. Her gloves are now white while the trim around them and the top of her skirt turns light blue. She also gains a long pale pink skirt that almost reaches the floor now. On top is a shorter blue and white layer that is rounded and opens in the front, while another similar-shaped layer with rainbow pleats is underneath it. Her boots turn magenta, a pink flower appears near her left ear, her cape turns yellow, and she now has white angelic wings.

As **Gemini Cure Cosmo**, her pigtails are still shorter, while the rest of her hair is worn in another pair of twintails with a green ombre. One side of it is wavy while the other is a gigantic curl. Each side of her outfit is different. The right side of her bodice, right glove, and right boot are dark green while the left side of the bodice, left glove, and left boot are mint green. The right side of her skirt has a green ruffle on top and a shorter white layer on top while the left side has a larger light blue ruffle with a white ribbon and mint green ruffle looping below it and a mint green, dark green, and white skirt under it. Her cape is red and her earrings are cherry-shaped.

As **Aries Cure Cosmo**, her hair becomes puffy with a red ombre and decorated with green clovers. She also has gold ram horns on each side of her head. Her dress becomes red with a lighter shade in the middle. Her skirt opens a little in the front with a short red layer followed by her rainbow one and finally another red layer lined with light red fluff. Her gloves and boots are now white with red stars and triangles respectively.

As **Aquarius Cure Cosmo**, her twintails are shorter and smaller with the rest of her hair becoming wavy with a deep blue ombre and stars decorating it. Her top is white and blue with a blue collar and the pleats of her skirt are sharper. Under it is a longer dark blue skirt that opens in the front and is light with a light blue ruffle. Her gloves are dark blue while her boots are white. She carries a turquoise jar with shooting star designs on it that shoots out water.

As **Blue Cat**, Yuni becomes human, losing most of her Rainbownian features except for her cat ears and tail, with her human ears pointed. Her blue hair is lighter in colour and also thinner and braided, held with gold triangular pieces. She wears a blue top hat that conceals her ears with a gold triangle near the brim. She wears blue and pink sunglasses to hide her face similar to how a phantom thief wears a mask. Producer Yanagawa Akari said that as there are children who wear glasses, she hoped that they would play along with the idea that you could use your glasses to transform into a phantom thief like Blue Cat does. The same idea applied to the hair, which does not like thief-like, but is simple enough that children could imitate it to become like her. Her top is white with a flaring collar with a navy blue vest-like top over it with tails in the back and her skirt is blue and pleated. She also wears long white stockings with short navy blue boots along with white opera-length gloves with shorter blue gloves over them. Her choker is also navy blue with a gold triangle hanging from it. On Earth, Yuni uses this form but ditches the glasses and hat to reveal she wears gold triangle clips in her hair.

As **Mao**, Yuni has thick purple hair and lime green eyes. She wears a pair of pearl bun caps on her head lined in gold pearls to hide her cat ears. Her dress is pink on top with two gold buttons and a sky blue sash. On top of her chest is a hot pink bow with a bell in the middle. Another hot pink ribbon is tied to her tail. The skirt has alternating pink and pale blue pleats with a cream-coloured layer under it. Her gloves are white with a flaring cuff and her shoes are blue and white, resembling paws. Around her upper arms and ankles are gold pearl bands.

### Personality

As Mao, she is very friendly and acts cutesy towards others. As it later turns out, it was merely an act she puts on to conceal her true identity as a thief.

As Blue Cat, she is shown to be cunning by using the bright fireworks to make her break with the Princess Star Colour Pen and Madoka's plan to use the star donuts as bargaining chips to win the pen at the Auction. According to Lala, she always gets what she seeks.

As Yuni, she tends to prefer being a lone wolf and generally holds a strong responsibility for herself mainly rooted from the guilt she has of being unable to save her planet Rainbow, rejecting her friends' kind offers and assistance in the beginning and blaming herself when she fails to accomplish her goals, but she gradually warms up around them as the series goes on. Despite all this, Yuni is still kindhearted, and she would help and rescue the needy, and has since grown to give up her prejudice, particularly toward Aiwarn.

Despite being a major heroine, Yuni is overall a morally grey character: on one hand she is learning to be heroic enough to save the universe, but on the other hand, she still thieves the plundered treasures of Planet Rainbow.

### Etymology

**Mao** (マオ) is most likely from the Chinese word **Mao** (猫 *Māo*) which means cat.

**Yuni** (ユニ) is taken from the prefix "uni" meaning one, seen in words such as unit, uniform, unique, and universe, creating a word with multiple meanings as Yanagawa put it. Head writer Murayama Isao added that, as the Rainbownians are all like an "embodiment" of Olyfio, the "uni" name has that connotation as well.

**Cosmo** is an alternate word for "universe" and comes from the Ancient Greek word: "κόσμος" (Cósmos). Yanagawa believes that they chose the name "Cosmo" to invoke the strength typical of an additional Pretty Cure.

## History in AKB0048 Precure

### Getting into AKB0048

Yuni and the other main Cures of Star Twinkle Precure were taking a vacation off of Akibastar when they see AKB0048 fighting off against DES. Following Hikaru's plan to help the idol group, she agreed to fight DES. Soon after DES was defeated, Katagiri Tsubasa noticed that she was one of the Pretty Cures and asked her to become one of the members of AKB0048. Yuni hesitates first and then reluctantly accepts.

## Cure Cosmo

**The rainbow spectrum lighting up the galaxy! Cure Cosmo!**
銀河に光る虹色のスペクトル！キュアコスモ！
*Ginga ni hikaru nijiiro no supekutoru! Kyua Kosumo!***Cure Cosmo** (キュアコスモ) is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Yuni. In order to transform, she needs the Star Colour Pendant and her Star Colour Pen. Her weapon is the Rainbow Perfume.

### Transformation

* **Colour Charge!:** Yuni's pendant top pops up, allowing Yuni to insert her Star Colour Pen. She shouts the phrase as her hair clips disappear and she draws a triangle. Before her transformation starts, her aliases, Bakenyan, Mao, Blue Cat, and her alien form are quickly shown in the rainbow-coloured backdrop. Yuni then spins around as four triangles made of light appear and fly off. After Yuni flashes a V-sign over her eye, two of the triangles hit her arms first to form stars on the front side of her wrists, and the other two hit her legs and travel upward, forming her boots. She then touches the centre of the pendant again, causing two more triangles to appear, eventually forming her gloves and dress. Yuni then dances around before tapping the pleats of her skirt with her pen, each of them coloured differently. She then forms the ring around her tail before drawing on her choker, earrings, and hat as her hair grows longer and lighter. She presses her pen to her pendant one last time as the cord disappears and attaches to her dress. She then draws another star that shoots across the sky before landing on her hat. She stops singing and introduces herself before striking a pose.

### Attacks

* **Cosmo Shining** (コスモシャイニング): An attack Cosmo can perform as long as she has her Rainbow Perfume.
* **Rainbow Splash** (レインボースプラッシュ): Another attack that Cosmo can perform as long as she has her Rainbow Perfume and a Princess Star Color Pen.
* **Star Twinkle Imagination** (スタートゥインクルイマジネーション): An attack Cosmo performs alongside Cure Star, Cure Milky, Cure Soleil, and Cure Selene. To perform it, she needs Unicorn Fuwa and her Twinkle Style.

## Trivia

* Relating to *Star☆Twinkle'*s outer space motif, Yuni's birthday happens to fall on the anniversary of the Apollo 7 mission's launch in 1968, and NASA's 100th space shuttle launch in 2000.
* She is shown to have a passion for singing as shown with her Mao persona.
* Due to being a feline alien, she tends to instinctively try to catch fish upon seeing them, and won't snap back to her senses until her friends remind her.