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''"-shall crush your evil heart!"'' }}

 

 

Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro are two eighth-grade girls who normally would have never become anything more than passing acquaintances. Nagisa is an [[Tomboy|energetic jock]] and ace of the lacrosse team, [[Even the Girls Want Her|loved by all the girls]] but secretly wishing for a male admirer straight from a romance novel. Honoka is the star pupil and class president, incredibly popular with all the guys but not too fussed about acting upon it.

That was until the day Nagisa made a wish on a shooting star and [[Crash Into Hello|(violently) came into contact]] with Mepple, a fairy on the run from the sinister agents of the Dusk Zone. Fleeing from the Dusk Zone's monsters, Nagisa runs into Honoka, who happens to have Mepple's partner (and lover) Mipple. To defend themselves, Nagisa and Honoka use the fairies' power to transform together into Cure Black and Cure White: the Emissaries Of Light, Pretty Cure.

 

 

 

 

All their magical abilities [[Wonder Twin Powers|come from teamwork]]: they have no solo attacks and cannot even transform into their Pretty Cure forms unless they do so in unison. The show focuses heavily on the [[The Power of Friendship|developing friendship]] between Nagisa and Honoka, even throwing in some blatant [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|yuri subtext]] for the older audience. From an animation standpoint, the show seemed to have an aversion to [[Stock Footage]]: if Nagisa and Honoka were in different clothes when they transformed, a new transformation sequence would be animated. All of this makes for one of the more unique [[Magical Girl]] shows to come along in a long time.

YTV signed a deal with Toei to air the show in Canada in 2009 where the English dub debuted. Additionally, it has aired in this form in Australia and New Zealand on Cartoon Network; and in the UK on PopGirl. And if you live in America, you can legally watch the subtitled version [http://www.funimation.com/pretty-cure/episodes right here], right now.

 

 

 

 

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* [[Alternate Continuity]] (At least five so far)

* [[Alternate Reality Game]] (Garden of Dreams, which even [[Somewhat Cure|spawned a comic]])

* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]] (The English opening is different from the Japanese version, although the dub does use some of the original songs.)

* [[Balance Between Good and Evil]] (As always, this trope is used to, basically, ensure that no matter what the heroines do, the evil (namely, the Evil King) is guaranteed to return to wreak more havoc.)

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]] (Honoka at one point appears to do this to a Zakenna's gigantic sword... but there was also a tree holding it in place.)

* [[Berserk Button]] (Nagisa's friends and her brother serve as her buttons: harm them, and your life is forfeit, as Gekidrago learned the hard way in episode 11)

** Later, in episode 42, when Honoka/Cure White is in serious danger, Nagisa/Cure Black (after initially panicking and crying) [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|fights the bad guys on her own and shows of a LOT of power]], especially considering she and Cure White are supposed to get their powers from teamwork. [[Les Yay]]? [[Sarcasm Mode|Noooooooooo, of COURSE not...]]

* [[Big Fancy House]] (Honoka's)

* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]] (the Butler Zakenna)

* [[Catch Phrase]] (Arienai!)

* [[Conspicuous CG]] (The Queen of Light, the beginning of the [[Transformation Sequence|Transformation Sequences]], and Mepple's first appearance.)

* [[Converging Stream Weapon]] (The "Pretty Cure Marble Screw" attack.)

* [[Crosscast Role]] (Done twice by Nagisa and once by Honoka, each for a school play.)

* [[Dancing Theme]] (The ending theme)

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] (The Evil King {{spoiler|loses ''three'' times to the girls}}.)

* [[Downer Ending]] (The first season)

* [[Do Wrong Right]] (Episode 11 has an instance where Nagisa's dad catches her using a grappling move on her brother. Instead of scolding her for tormenting her [[Annoying Younger Sibling]], he corrects her technique and goes on his way.)

* [[The Dragon]] (Ilkbo in the first arc)

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]] ([[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|Kenta Hoshino]] makes a brief cameo during one episode of ''Max Heart''.)

* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]] (When she was pissed in episode 42, Cure Black's [[Battle Aura]] was the bolt in the differential necessary to destroy an entire subway car, making this one Every ''Subway'' Car Is A Pinto)

* [[Evil Counterpart]] (In one episode, two of the heroines' classmates- who loved [[Pretty Cure]] so much that they were cosplaying as them and putting on amateur stage shows for little kids- were [[Brainwashed]] to become evil counterparts. However, far from being equals their [[Brainwashed]] state made them sluggish and gave them no other superpowers save for [[Super Strength]]. The main obstacle came from [[Made of Plasticine|Black and White trying not to accidentally cripple them]].)

* [[Evolving Credits]] (The ending changes partway through to showcase the new [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] and Pollun.)

* [[Evolving Music]] (The opening theme of ''MaX Heart'' is a remix of the original theme.)

* [[Expy]] (their [[Alternate Continuity]] successors)

* [[Fighting Your Friend]] (The second movie ''finally'' answered the [[Fanon]] question of who would win in a straight Cure Black vs. Cure White fight. (It only took some [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] magic to make it happen.) The answer: {{spoiler|Cure White by TKO}}.)

* [[Fleeting Demographic]] (young girls)

* [[Genre Blindness]] (Subverted)

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] (Well, before they start raining hell on their opponents)

* [[Heel Face Turn]] (Done twice, first by {{spoiler|Kiriya}} and later, in part, by {{spoiler|King Haaku, whose ''life'' makes the turn and splits from him}}.)

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] (Nagisa and Honoka)

** [[Lampshade Hanging|The first time they do this, Nagisa responds by asking what the heck she is saying.]]

* [[Intertwined Fingers]] (The girls hold hands like this whenever they perform the Marble Screw.)

* [[Invisible to Normals]] (Subverted most of the time)

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]] (the fate of the english dub apparently.)

* [[Lampshade Hanging]] (So much of it going around due to Nagisa that it deserved having it as its own trope.)

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]] (Honoka)

* [[Love Letter Lunacy]] (Nagisa and her female admirers)

** [[Magical Girl Warrior]]: A lot more action based than the typical [[Magical Girl]] show.

* [[Magic Realism]] (Hints of it; for instance, the art gallery episode)

* [[Malaproper]] (Nagisa)

* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] (The Pretty Cure Rainbow Bracelets.)

* [[Modesty Shorts]] (Nagisa wears them both in her lacrosse uniform and as Cure Black.)

** [[Fridge Logic|But why would a lacrosse uniform include a skirt in the first place?]]

* [[Motor Mouth]] (Shiho, who punctuates her verbal barrages with a stutter-like triple repeat of the occasional word.)

** This becomes a plot point later on when {{spoiler|Kiriya manages to communicate with the girls through a rift in the darkness.}}

** Turns to [[Fridge Horror]], when the Evil King describes what the darkness is and you realise that if the defeated minions retained their consciousness, they are stuck in [[Nothing After Death]].

* [[Odd Couple]] (Honoka is a tidy, feminine intellectual from a rich family; Nagisa is a rough-and-tumble middle-class tomboy)

* [[Off-Model]] Episode 11 of Max Heart is infamous for its fight scene.

* [[The Power of Friendship]] (Very important in the series, as the Cures' attacks are powered by their friendship.Even when they're arguing/yelling at each other, they can still manage to dodge all the enemy's attacks -- in perfect sync -- and pull together long enough to defeat it.)

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] (Nagisa and Honoka respectively)

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]] (Implied: Nagisa's admirers)

** They only aired the first 12 episodes for the first few months.

* [[Ship Tease]] (Possibly with the aforementioned [[School Play]] episode)

* [[Shorttank]] (Nagisa)

* [[Shout-Out]] (''[[Sailor Moon]]'' and other ''mahou shoujo'' references, both straight and satirical)

* [[Slow-Motion Pass-By]]

* [[Snot Bubble]] (Mepple does this, sometimes with added drool.)

** For that matter, the Marble Screw was already pretty much useless against Ilkubo several episodes before the Bracelets were introduced, forcing Pretty Cure to rely on luck and tactics to survive against him.

** Then when ''MaX Heart'' comes along, they use an upgraded version of Marble Screw, but that too is eventually outclassed by Extreme Luminario . . . and then Marble Screw is upgraded ''again''.

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: '''Nagisa'''. She's tolerable in the first season, but in ''MaX Heart'', she gets more episodes than Hikari and Honoka ''combined'' and then some. The first [[Non-Serial Movie]] is nothing but Nagisa doing cool things while Honoka and Hikari are barely more than [[Living Prop|Living Props]]. Averted in the second movie, however. Worse, [[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|Saki]] and [[Suite Precure|Hibiki]] are both [[Expy|expies]] of her and both do this too.

* [[Stock Footage]] (There's the usual stock footage, and some surprise ones, like Nagisa's lacrosse goal.)

* [[Teen Genius]] (Honoka)

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]] (Honoka, ''every single week'')

* [[Verbal Tic]] (the mascots)

* [[Wave Motion Gun]] (Their signature attack, "Pretty Cure Marble Screw" (or [[Dub Name Change|"Pretty Cure Marble Twister"]]), greatly resembles one.)

* [[Weasel Mascot]]: Mepple.

* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Subverted. The infamous "[http://www.lurkmore.com/w/images/6/66/1189463749040.jpg You should be able to solve this]" screencap (the equation resolves to 0=26) is taken from seconds before Honoka points out that the equation can't be solved--it's the in-universe math teacher who made a mistake, not the writers.

** But it's a really dumb mistake no teacher should make.

 

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