Futari wa Pretty Cure: Difference between revisions

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.

Amusing tidbit, in interviews [[Eiichiro Oda]] mentioned his daughter enjoys this show over [[One Piece|her father's work]].

* [[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 Minions]]

* [[Genre Blindness]] (Subverted)

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

* [[Gratuitous English]]

* [[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.)

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]] (Honoka)

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

* [[Magical Girl]]

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

* [[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?]]

* [[Monster of the Aesop]]

* [[Monster of the Week]]

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

* [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]]

** 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]].

* [[Post Episode Trailer]]

* [[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.)

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]

* [[School Play]] (with added [[Les Yay]])

* [[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)

* [[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''.

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

* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]

* [[Tomboyish Name]]

* [[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.