Smile PreCure
Cast:
Cure Happy, Hoshizora Miyuki - age 14
Cure Sunny, Hino Akane - age 14
Cure Peace, Kise Yayoi - age 14
Cure March, Midorikawa Nao - age 14
Cure Beauty, Aoki Reika - age 14
Kise Chiharu - Yayoi's mother - age 33
Cobraja, Kuchinawa Masaru - age 24
2012
Fusion Group has registered Cure Happy, Cure Sunny, Cure Peace, Cure March, and Cure Beauty as Pretty Cure.
Hyuuga Kazuya is now a graduate student. Cure Dream, Cure Rouge, and Cure Moonlight are now college students. Kurumi Momoka has graduated from high school. Cure Blossom, Cure Marine, Cure Sunshine, Ichijou Kazuki, and Ban Kenji are now high school students.
"Is this really such a good idea?" Now that she is outside the Fusion Group's building, Yayoi is having second thoughts.
"We've come this far," Akane points out. "Why stop now?"
"In a hero story, sometimes a gift that appears out of nowhere is a trap!"
"The story of the Trojan Horse," Reika says, nodding.
Yayoi blushes. "Actually, it was an episode of Kamen Rider..."
Nao seems uncertain. "Is that really possible here, though? Other people have done this Pretty Cure thing, and nothing bad happened to them?"
"That's right!" Miyuki shouts, "This is an ultra-happy occasion!"
"And if something does go wrong, we'll all be there to back you up!" Akane adds.
"Are you ready to go on?" Reika says, "We can wait here for a while if you want to."
Yayoi nods. "It's okay. I can handle this."
As five girls enter the building to meet with the director, a man and a woman watch them from a cafe on the other side of the street.
"No Rebel Cures this year! Chiharu, I weep for the youth of today." Kuchinawa Masaru grouses over a gigantic fruit-topped parfait.
"You're just mad because they liked Erika's designs better." Kise Chiharu, mother of one of the five, responds from behind a hot cup of tea.
He brandishes his spoon. "I weep for them!"
"Don't you think you're taking it just a little too personally? You might have gotten one or two of them into those black, bat-winged outfits you wanted to make for them, but my little girl is just too pure-hearted for that sort of thing. And they did all want matching dresses."
"Your little girl is fourteen years old this year, Chiharu. Girls get ideas at that age. You should be careful."
Chiharu sips her tea. "I really don't think I have anything to worry about."
"Who was it and what age was she who tried to convince my best friend at the time to kiss me because I 'was too cute to be a boy'? Hm? And didn't she succeed?!" Masaru stands, pointing his spoon at Chiharu. "The daughter of that woman is that age this year! Fourteen is the age when girls become dangerous!"
"Oh, but you actually were that cute, though!"
"I was four years old!"
"And already so interested in fashion! Metro wasn't a thing back then! It was an honest mistake!"
Masaru takes his spoon to his desert. "I repeat: Dangerous. This world has suffered grievously at the hands of such girls."
Chiharu laughs. "What about that fiancee of yours? She was that age once."
Now it is Masaru's turn to smile. "Yes, but Mai is special. Her kind of danger, I rather enjoy."