Pretty Cure Lucky Shuffle

Pretty Cure★Lucky☆Shuffle is a fanseries by TV Tropes member CyanFox27.

Kazue, Miho, and Takara, an inseperable trio of childhood friends known as the "Lucky Three", have their ordinary lives disrupted when a monster attacks during their class trip and Takara is taken hostage by a strange man. They're saved by a dove fairy named Chance, who gives Kazue and Miho the two Fortune Rings he carries, allowing them to become Pretty Cure. Although neither is exactly sure what's going on, Kazue and Miho decide to become Cure Saber and Cure Etoile in order to rescue Takara.

After a bit of explanation, the trio resolves to help Chance with his mission: to track down and seal the rogue cards of the Cure Tarot, said to hold the power to grant the "truly worthy" their greatest desire, and thwart the operatives of Lustre, a corporation that seeks to give its leader, Reine godlike status. Kazue and Miho are soon joined by a third Cure, Yori, a stoic older girl with a connection to Lustre, and the quartet is later completed by Takara, who awakens as Cure Argent, but not without complications.

Pretty Cure:

 * Momoi Kazue (Cure Saber): The main girl, a peppy, kind-hearted, and (mostly) scatterbrained photographer.
 * Kiyama Miho (Cure Etoile): The Team Mom and aspiring Ms. Fix-It. Often clashes with Kazue but still cares about her a lot.
 * Oume Takara (Cure Argent): A tomboyish aspiring detective and the self-appointed group strategist.
 * Akaki Yori (Cure Chalice): An aloof, composed, and conflicted girl. She has the best fighting abilities of the four.
 * Chance / Shirayuki Mitsuo: The shy and nervous Mentor Mascot, a dove who can take the form of a young boy.

Lustre:

 * Reine: The main antagonist and Yori's mother. She aspires to acquire godlike powers and recreate existence.
 * Trebol: A handsome but self-absorbed Mad Artist and the group enforcer.
 * Dimante: The resident Evil Genius, a Mad Scientist who has given herself the abilities of plants.
 * Corazone: The most feminine member, a vain woman who became a Cyborg so she'd remain beautiful forever.
 * Espada: A near-emotionless marksman and Reine's top devotee. Revealed early on to be Takara's missing brother, under Lustre's control.

"Miho: From the waist down, you'd think I was the boy."
 * All Your Colors Combined: Pretty Cure Lucky Jackpot.
 * The Atoner: Before becoming Black Prism, Gemma had been a member of an organization resembling Lustre.
 * Badass in a Nice Suit: Every single person in Lustre wears business suits in and out of combat, although Dimante usually wears a lab coat over hers, and Corazone flings hers off to reveal a more formfitting outfit during battle.
 * Berserk Button: Don't tell Kazue that friendship is useless, don't harm children in front of Yori, and don't make Takara's friends cry, let alone mess with her hat. It will not end well. Endangering any of the Cures in front of each other is also a very bad idea.
 * Bifauxnen: Takara is fairly androgynous and almost always cross-dresses, while Miu, who never cross-dresses outside of plays, is fawned over by fangirls for her "cool, handsome appearance" and is once mistaken for a boy wearing a girl's uniform. Dimante, who is also androgynous, looks very good in men's clothing (at least according to Corazone), making her an evil version of this trope.
 * Brainwashed: Happens to both of the Oume siblings - Tadao is brainwashed into becoming Espada pre-series, while Takara is subjected to this after trying to infiltrate Lustre and reclaim her brother. The latter gets better after a few episodes, but the former doesn't recover so quickly.
 * By the Power of Grayskull: "Pretty Cure Lucky Draw!"
 * Chekhov's Gunman: Yori is introduced this way before her debut episode. Ace and Kreuz are only minor characters in the series proper, but they get larger roles in the movie.
 * Chekhov MIA: Takara is established early on to be looking for her older brother, Tadao, who vanished two years ago. He turns out to be alive... but he's now with the villains, who twisted him into a cold-hearted enforcer who is nothing like his former self. Takara is not very happy to discover this.
 * Childhood Friends: Kazue, Miho, and Takara have been friends since they were five years old. Each knows one another very well, and they consider their friendship the most important bond they'll have in their lives.
 * Dark Magical Girl: Yori and minor character Gemma Kuroishi. Takara also achieves DMG status for a few episodes.
 * Date Peepers: Kazue and Takara (unintentionally) do this to Miho and a minor male character during an early episode. A few onlookers also mistake the two of them for boyfriend and girlfriend, to Kazue's amusement and Takara's annoyance.
 * Elemental Powers: There's a whole line of cards that bestows these, while Saber, Etoile, and Argent have at least one elemental attack of their own. Espada's weapon also allows him to wield several elemental powers.
 * Elsewhere Fic
 * Alternate Continuity
 * Original Character
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Takara and Miu, the two resident Bifauxnen both have female admirers, although the latter gets most of it. Yori also attracts some female attention, with Kazue even nonchalantly gushing over her a few times.
 * Everything's Better with Spinning: Cure Saber's Spade Spiral involves a lot of spinning, of course. There's also Cure Argent's habitual Gun Twirling.
 * Festival Episode: The town's art fair features in an early episode. The second half of the series kicks off with a more traditional festival, complete with traditional Japanese dress for everyone... which turns out to be a bit less than practical when an ice-based Cure Tarot starts freezing everything.
 * Five-Bad Band:
 * Big Bad: Reine
 * The Dragon: Espada has traits of it, while Yori is being groomed to become this.
 * Evil Genius: Dimante
 * The Brute: Trebol
 * Dark Chick: Corazone
 * Foil:
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Chance/Mitsuo is soft-spoken and domestic, while Aika is spirited and tomboyish. Their casual outfits even reflect this, with Chance favoring pink, and Aika favoring blue. Arata, who has a cavalier attitude towards liking "girly" things and even crossdresses on occasion, and Takara, who almost always dresses and sometimes acts like a boy, also count.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kazue and Yori, whose eye color even corresponds to the trope. Takara is both; she plays the more sensible and collected Blue Oni to Kazue and Arata, but her stubborn and impulsive aspects make her the Red Oni to Miho and Yori's Blue.
 * Trebol and Espada are a villainous example, which is especially evident when they work together. However, the colors are inverted, since Trebol's suit is blue and Espada wears a red cravat with his suit.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Trebol and Espada, although the latter was actually more of a Sensitive Guy himself pre-brainwashing.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Takara and Kazue, who double as Pink Girly Girl, Blue Tomboy. Club presidents Sayo and Miu are this, although people assume the opposite of them due to their appearances, while Dimante and Corazone are a villainous version.
 * Aika is a tomboy, but she has Chance as her foil instead. However, she gets her own girly counterpart during the movie in the form of her Identical Stranger, Himeko.
 * Four-Girl Ensemble: Kazue is sweet and ditzy, Takara is the boyish one, Yori is stoic and aloof, and Miho is the sensible one.
 * Gotta Catch Em All: The Cure Tarot cards. Lustre's operatives have also been collecting 108 mystic objects from various dimensions.
 * Heel Face Turn: Yori made one of these pre-series. ]]
 * Hot Chick in a Badass Suit: Takara and Yori wear suits as their formal attire. Kazue, Miho, and Yori also wear pantsuits while Dressing as the Enemy in episode 13. And of course, this is the default attire for every female member of Lustre.
 * Hot Springs Episode: Episode 11.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: This is gradually inflicted on almost everyone in Ento in one episode. Tadao's memories were also wiped when he was turned into Espada; however his sister, Takara doesn't undergo this upon "joining" Lustre - she remembers her former life, but her emotions are twisted against her friends.
 * Lucky Charms Title
 * Mid-Season Upgrade: The Lucky Bracers, which give each of the Cures' weapons an alternate mode. Additionally, all of the core Lustre members get some sort of powerup later in the series.
 * Monster of the Week: Homcrux, which also come in Mook form.
 * Motif: Cards, namely suit symbols. Not the tarot as much, despite the collectible items' name.
 * Noodle Incident: Trebol is connected to several of these, namely the time Kreuz caught him putting the moves on Ace and the company party where someone "accidentally" spiked the punch. He doesn't appreciate either of them being brought up.
 * Arata is connected to a Noodle Incident of his own - the events that led him to lose his job at the arcade. Only Takara seems to know all the details; whatever it was, it's apparently embarrassing enough to make good potential blackmail fodder.
 * And then there was that one time where Kazue and Takara got into an immature food fight involving spaghetti...
 * Nonuniform Uniform: None of the main trio wears their school uniform properly, and several of their classmates aren't any better. Apparently, the handbooks of both Ento Girls School and Destin Academy have easily exploitable rules regarding uniforms. There's even at least one Destin student who wears Proper Tights with a Skirt as part of his own uniform, as Miho observes in one episode:


 * One-Gender School: The main cast attends Ento Girls School, which is next door to Destin Academy, a school for boys.
 * "On the Next Episode of..." Catchphrase: "Our happiness is in the cards!"
 * Our Homunculi Are Different: Homcrux are artificially created familiars; the Monster of the Week variety is completely inhuman-looking, but the Mook types look like faceless humanoids. Yori is an advanced Homcrux who could almost pass for a real human, save for her above-average constitution, her psychic link to Reine, and her inability to bleed.
 * Outlaw Couple: Lustre operatives Ace and Kreuz are this, at least during the series. As revealed post-series, while there was some attraction between the two of them, it didn't stop Kreuz from turning face and dissolving his partnership with Ace after discovering what she was up to.
 * Parental Abandonment: Takara and Tadao's mother died when they were fifteen and eight, respectively. Their father, Tatsuya, threw himself into his work in response, partially to distract himself and partially, as a fed-up Tadao eventually pointed out, to avoid being a father to them. Apparently, Tatsuya is trying to get better, especially after Tadao vanished.
 * Miu's parents leave her home alone while they work overseas for extended periods of time, leaving her to look after the house and take care of her little brother in their stead.
 * Platonic Life Partners: Takara and Arata. Very close friends, yes. Lovers, no, despite what others might assume about them.
 * Playing Against Type: In the 3D Movie, Ciaran Hinds, known for playing villains such as Botticelli, voices a jaded ex-thief who's sick and tired of the profession and decides it's more worth it to side with the good guys after what his partner-in-crime had put him through.
 * Red Shirt: Unintentionally - the expendable, nonhuman mooks all wear red suits ... because Reine does, and she's narcissistic like that.
 * School Play: The Orange Class puts on a production of Peter Pan in a later episode. Since this is a girls' school, Crosscast Roles abound.
 * Shout-Out: The Youth Center is an obvious one to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Bonus points for the protagonist in red teaching martial arts there.
 * Also, in an early episode Kazue refers to a food fight between herself and Takara from when they were younger as the spaghetti incident.
 * Sick Episode: Miho is the focus of one in a later episode. She tries carrying out her duties anyway.
 * The Stoic: Espada, whose emotions were artificially suppressed, and Yori, whose upbringing left her clueless on how to emote normally, although she certainly tries.
 * Supervillain Lair: The Lustre building.
 * Theme Naming: Everyone in Lustre is named after a suit of cards, while the Oume family all shares the same initials.
 * Colorful Theme Naming: All of the Cures' surnames include their theme color.
 * 3D Movie: In-universe, Kazue loves and knows a lot about them, which she first reveals while excitedly dragging Takara to see one in an early episode.
 * Transformation Trinket: The Fortune Rings
 * Weapon of Choice: Each of the Cures functionally get two, thanks to the Lucky Bracers:
 * Cure Saber: Excel Foil, Forte Sai
 * Cure Etoile: Stellar Batons, Brillant Lance
 * Cure Argent: Minted Sling, Dia Fusils
 * Cure Chalice: Royale Bouclier, Amour Spinner