HappinessCharge PreCure!
HappinessCharge PreCure!, also called HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! or Happiness Charge PC is a 2014 Japanese magical girl anime series produced by Toei Animation, and the eleventh installment in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure metaseries, released to celebrate the franchise's 10th anniversary. It is directed by Tatsuya Nagamine, who previously directed HeartCatch PreCure!, and written by Yoshimi Narita, who previously wrote for Yes! PreCure 5, with character designs from Masayuki Sato of Air Gear. It began airing in Japan from February 2, 2014 to January 25, 2015, succeeding DokiDoki! Precure in its initial timeslot. The series' main topic is love, with the Cures' motifs are fashion styles and dance moves. It features trading cards, mirrors, and changing forms as important key elements. It was then succeeded by Go! Princess PreCure on February 1, 2015.
Plot
The ruler of the evil Phantom Empire, Queen Mirage, begins her invasion on Earth using an army of Choiarks and powerful monsters called Saiarks. All across the world, Pretty Cures are dispatched to fight against the Phantom Empire threat. Hime Shirayuki, a princess from the Blue Sky Kingdom, which was taken over by the Phantom Empire, joins the fight as a Pretty Cure named Cure Princess, but always finds herself running away scared.Given a Crystal of Love by the Spirit of Earth, Blue, and told to seek out a partner to fight alongside her, Hime goes to the city of Pikarigaoka and randomly throws the crystal in the air, deciding to partner up with whoever it lands upon. This person turns out to be Megumi Aino, a kind-hearted girl always looking to help others, who is recruited by Hime to fight by her side as Cure Lovely. Using the power of the Pretty Cards and their changing forms, alongside Cure Honey and Cure Fortune, they form the Happiness Charge Pretty Cure team as they are given the task to collect all of the Pretty Cards and protect the Earth against the Phantom Empire.
Characters
HappinessCharge Pretty Cures
The Pretty Cures are legendary Warriors of Light who are chosen to protect the Earth from evil threats. Each of these Cures were assigned to different parts of the globe in order to fend off against the Phantom Empire one by one. The Pretty Cures chosen by Blue uses a special transformation item called the Pretty Change Mirror, which uses special cards called PreCards to transform, along with the phrase, "Pretty Cure Rolling Mirror Change!". Cure Fortune, on the other hand, uses the Fortune Piano to transform, using the phrase, "Pretty Cure Shining Star Symphony!". In addition to transformation, the PreCards can also be used to change outfits both in and outside of battle, offering new powers or abilities, and are said to grant wishes to whoever gathers enough of them.HappinessCharge Pretty Cure, the protagonist team of this story, consist of the four Cures that are currently active in Pikarigaoka City from Japan. Cure Lovely and Cure Princess are armed with the LovePreBrace, which allows them to create their own attacks. Cure Honey uses the Triple Dance Honey Baton to attack while Cure Fortune, who previously used the Love PreBrace, uses the Fortune Tambourine. They also can use the Shining Make Dresser, the Axia's true form in order to execute their group finishing attack. In addition to the attack items and main forms, the Cures can also undergo another transformation, called Innocent Form through the power of the special PreCards. However to activate this form, each Cure must have a reason to protect someone they cherish deeply; as it is the only way to unlock the said PreCards.
Together, they introduce themselves as "Infused with happiness! Charged with glee! HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!"
;Megumi Aino Cure Lovely
;Hime Shirayuki Cure Princess
;Yuuko Omori Cure Honey
;Iona Hikawa Cure Fortune
Blue Sky Kingdom
;Ribbon;Glasan
;Blue
;King and Queen
Phantom Empire
The Phantom Empire are the main antagonists of the series. Having conquered the Blue Sky Kingdom after being released from the Axia box by Hime, setting up their base of operations there, the Phantom Empire set their sights on Earth by having their Saiarks terraform the environment while replacing love and happiness with sorrow and misfortune. It is eventually revealed that they were being used by Deep Mirror, who used Mirage as a bewitched figurehead to act through before she is purified. Red then proceeds to summon the Red Planet in a plot to conquer the world with his armies of Saiarks, only to repent once defeated.Leaders
;Red Deep Mirror;Mirage Queen Mirage Cure Mirage
Commanders
They serve as Mirage's elite minions. Each of the commanders' environment depending which Saiarks they created. Namakeruda, Hosshiiwa and Oresky form into the group called Oresky Trio, while Phantom and Momere are sole commanders. They have the powers to trap people into the mirror and create Saiarks, which took away their love and happiness.;Namakelder
;Hoshiewa
;Oresky
;PhanphanPhantomCure Unlovely
;Madam Momere
;Saiark
;Choiark
Pikarigaoka Residents
;Seiji Sagara;Miyo Masuko
;Kaori Aino
;Masaru Aino
;Mao Sagara
;Hiroko Sagara
;Yoko Omori
;Takeo Omori
;Ai Omori
;Yonezo Omori, Ine Omori
;Izumi
;Elena Shiina, Kana Furuta, Rei Takano, Rin Ishigami
;Kenta Yamazaki
;Kazumi
;Yuya Kaido
Other Pretty Cures
Unlike previous seasons of the Pretty Cure franchise, this season is unique at having multiple Pretty Cure teams active at one time in addition to the main team. The earth god Blue has granted the power of Pretty Cure to girls all over the world in order to combat the global threat of the Phantom Empire. The Cure teams range from having one member to multiple members and operate in their own countries of origin, though some large countries, such as the United States, have multiple teams active over different areas. The Cure's outfits are all designed around the same standard theme but usually have regional variations based on the native culture. It is unclear how many Cures are active in total, but in episode 21, Phantom reveals that when he defeats a Cure and traps them in a mirror, he sends them to the Pretty Cure graveyard, where there were over one hundred defeated Cures. After Mirage's defeat, they were all released and return to their own world.;Maria Hikawa Cure Tender Dark Tender
;Bomber Girls Pretty Cure
;Cure Earl
;Wonderful Net Pretty Cure
;Alo~ha Pretty Cure
Unidentified International Cures
Nothing is known about them besides their appearance and current location.England's Pretty Cure team consists of only one known Cure, who is confirmed to be Cure Continental. Cure Continental has bright yellow hair held up with a blue bow, and blue eyes. She also wears white, spade-shaped earrings. Continental is defined as coming from or characteristic of mainland Europe or an inhabitant of mainland Europe.
Cure Katyusha is the only known Cure from Russia. She was seen in episode 14, being defeated by Phantom. Not much is known about her at the moment. Her Cure name, Katyusha, means a short form of the Russian name Ekaterina.
Australia's only Cure is known as Cure Southern Cross. Her name most likely refers to the representation of the Southern Cross constellation on Australia's flag.
Italy has two Cures - Cure Gonna and Cure Pantaloni, which means Cure Skirt and Cure Trousers. They are twins, both of them look the same and even have the same theme color as Cures. They have blonde-orange ponytails and orange eyes.
Cure Nile is the only known Cure from Africa, and is originated from Egypt. She has blue hair in a ponytail she has a crown that embraces her whole head with a blue gem and a yellowish transparent cloth is hanging. She has blue collar she has a black vest that has a white design, her vest is shorter that her stomach was seen and attached to her vest are long puffy sleeves, she white wears a skirt-like with a golden lining which forms a "V" and a yellow cloth is hanging in front she also has a transparent loose yellowish leggings, she has a yellow pair of sandals. Her attack is Nile Stream.
Movie Characters
;Tsumugi Orihara;Prince Zeke
;Black Fang
;Funassyi
Production
The series was first filed by Toei in the Japan Patent Office for a variety of goods on October 2, 2013 and made public on October 24, 2013. In an issue of Nikkan Sports PreCure Shimbun newspaper, Dokidoki! PreCure's producer, Hiroaki Shibata, confirmed the series and series writer Ryota Yamaguchi confirmed Dokidoki! PreCures 49 episode run and that HappinessCharge Precure! will air in the beginning of February, 2014. The project was then officially revealed in the January 2014 issue of Kodansha's Tanoshi Yochien Magazine. The anime's form changing is also used in the ending and will make use of advanced 3D/CGI graphics and motion capture, which is used in the previous series' dancing ending videos.On January 3, 2014, Megumi Nakajima of Macross Frontier fame announced she will voice the series' main character, Megumi Aino. She stated that Pretty Cure was something she has adored for a long time, so it was like a dream to be allowed to star in it herself. It is the first time she took another lead anime role after announcing her indefinite hiatus from her music career at the end of March 2014. A day later, the first commercial for the series was aired at the end of episode 46 in DokiDoki PreCure!, showcasing Cure Lovely and Cure Princess' transformations. On January 26, the trailer for the first episode is aired at the end of the final episode in DokiDoki PreCure!.
Media
Anime
The series began airing on ABC and other ANN stations from February 2, 2014, replacing DokiDoki! Precure in its initial timeslot with the Broadcasting System of San-in broadcasting on February 8, 2014. The first 34 episodes feature a special 10th anniversary message presented by one of the previous Pretty Cures in the franchise including the HappinessCharge Cures themselves. DVDs and Blu-rays of the series were released in volumes.Film
The main characters of the series also appeared in the film Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 3: Eternal Friends on March 15, 2014. The movie's single and soundtrack was released three days prior to the movie's premiere.A spinoff movie of the series has also been revealed, titled was released on October 11, 2014. The single and soundtrack for the movie was released on October 8, 2014 along with the anime's second ending theme single.