Pretty Cure Bukatsudo Energetic is a Pretty Cure fanseries by TwinklingCupcake featuring an after-school activities thematic. It can be read on Fanfiction.net here
. The series is officially complete.
After the Dream Charm, a magical crystal that nurtures everyone's hopes and dreams, is destroyed during an invasion and escape their home, Dream Peaks, to Earth, two snakes named Kaana and Hisa take it upon themselves to send five emails containing a special program that, when the message is opened, will turn the pure-hearted recipient into a Pretty Cure. Soon, they assemble four girls into a team.
- Fumie Motou (Cure Ink): Main character and self-proclaimed leader of the group, aged 14. Fumie is a member of the art club, very cheerful, and...is the only Cure to not have a definitive dream.
- Kurako Kaneyama (Cure Twirl): The Lancer, aged 14. Comes from a rich family, though she lacks any of the snobbery that her classmates expected her to have—she does, however, like to charge people money for nearly everything.
- Aoi Wada (Cure Spice): Team Mom, 15 years old. A chef-in-training who adores spicy food. Soft-spoken and sweet, she is the self-proclaimed chef for Pretty Cure and their friends.
- Kotone Suzuki (Cure Beat): The Big Girl, 14 years old. Loves rock music and wants to be a rock-star in the US someday. Her floor has a problem with the volume of her practicing.
- Uta Suzuki/(Cure Aria): The Fifth Ranger, and Kotone's twin sister. A girly-girl who loves to sing and help others.
- Hisa and Kaana: Mascots and The Mentors. Kaana and Hisa are snake-sisters who are the princess's royal bodyguards, and took her with them when they fled to Earth. Kaana, the younger, is more juvenile and cheerful, while her big sister, Hisa, is much more serious.
And then, there's Mora. A group of five people who want the Dream Charm for themselves and aim to steal the dreams of everyone in the universe, in Dream Peaks and on earth.They consist of:
- Nocturna: The Big Bad of the series, a surprisingly-young girl who was left horribly weakened by the attack on Dream Peaks, and now relies on her followers to do the dirty work for her until she is fully healed. Is implied to be in a relationship with Gachan.
- Gachan: The Dragon / Battle Butler. Wears a mask to hide his heterochromia and large birthmark that covers half his face. The gentleman of the group, he only does evil deeds because it's what Nocturna wishes, not because of any ill will he himself has.
- Chuusha: The Medic, a woman who claims to not feel pain herself, but loves inflicting it on others—including her own team-mates. Uses needles to fight, and loses her temper far too easily.
- Kemuri: An over-dramatic girl who treats battles as stage-performances and rates herself (and her opponents) at the very end. Tends to use colored smoke-bombs.
- Fureyaa: The Minion with an F in Evil, a 14-year-old boy who relies on bright lights to cover him in battle, and enjoys eating lunch with Pretty Cure and hanging out with them. He adopts a civilian disguise later and uses it to date Uta.
This fanfic contains examples of:
- All Part of the Show: In episode 15, Kemuri falls onto the stage during a school play and creates a Bakuko that Pretty Cure have to fight off. Everyone in the audience just assumes it's part of the play and comment that the effects are amazing.
- Alternate Universe: As with many Precure series.
- Ambiguous Gender: Kotone and Uta's parent, Hibiki doesn’t have a confirmed gender. It doesn’t help that “Hibiki” is a gender-neutral name.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: In episode 11, Kurako doesn't believe youkai or ghosts can exist. This despite herself being a transforming heroine who fights giant monsters and is mentored by talking snakes.
- Arson Murder And Jay Walking: Cure Twirl in episode 2"You dare to not only harm a student, to allow another to vandalize this precious school, but you also interrupt my practice time?!"
- Artsy Beret: Cure Ink (the artist of the group) wears a big, dark blue beret.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Ayumu in the finale, after Nocturna is defeated.
- Beach Episode: Episode 17 focuses on the Cures staying at Kurako’s beach home for summer vacation.
- Berserk Button: For Aoi, it's foul-tasting food. For Kemuri, it's anyone touching/knocking off her monocle.
- Bittersweet Ending: Mora is defeated for good, the Dream Charm is restored as is Himemiya, and both worlds are safe. Chuusha and Kemuri have been revived and live better, happier lives, and Mari is now a Magical Girl Warrior too. However, Gachan and Ayumunote are both dead, though Fumie's sure they'll be revived eventually.
- Boarding School: Atama Academy is this, with a whole lot of scholarship students, including Fumie.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: This season’s transformation phrase is "Pretty Cure, show my future!"
- Cerebus Retcon: In Fumie's first attempt at battling, she starts bleeding and flips out. When Aoi transforms, she keeps her glasses. Both of these go against canon (Pretty Cure being Made of Iron and Meganekko losing their glasses when they transform), which Hisa calls attention to. Both are played for laughs until we find out that Mora has dramatically weakened the power of Pretty Cure, and so the girls can't be Made of Iron or get their sight fixed until Mora is destroyed.
- Circling Monologue: Happens a couple times, usually with the villains.
- Combined Energy Attack: Sparkling Dream Festival is this team’s.
- Cool Mask: Gachan wears a harlequin-mask to hide his "deformed" face.
- Crossover:
- Episode 17 crosses over with Pretty Cure Mirai ~ Spark!.
- The series also shares a universe with Starshine! Pretty ✰ Cure; Fumie and Ibuki are cousins, and Ibuki gets a brief appearance in a video-call in episode 25.
- Curbstomp Battle: Chuusha versus Fureyaa in episode 18, with Fureyaa being the one getting curbstomped.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Ayumu counts, despite the Cures being scared of her at first.
- Dark Magical Girl: Nocturna used to be a Pretty Cure herself, but she joined Mora after he spilt her in half.
- Disappears into Light: Ayumu does so as she ascends to a higher plane of existence
- Elsewhere Fic: Is this to Pretty Cure Mirai ~ Spark! and Starshine! Pretty ✰ Cure.
- Eye Catch: One of them has Fumie with Mari and the Cures as she paints a watercolor of Cure Ink then one whereFumie bangs a gravel to call a club meeting over.
- Face–Heel Turn: Believe it or not, it's Mari, being manipulated into join Mora in episode 28 after being left out of Fumie’s activities one too many times. It doesn't last long, thankfully.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Kurako administers this to Fumie after the girl is left a mess after Mari’s Face–Heel Turn.
- Ghost Amnesia: The only things Ayumu remembers are her name and that she's looking for "someone."
- Gratuitous Japanese: The Combined Energy Attack features some."Sparkling Dream Festival...Ganbatte!"
- Half-Identical Twins: Kotone and Uta. Both have purple hair, but Kotone's looks closer to black and is straight and long, Uta's is more plum-purple, short, and in curly pigtails. And then as Cures, they look even less alike.
- Heel–Face Turn: Fureyaa switches sides after his love for Uta purifies him.
- High-Class Glass: Kemuri wears a gold monocle with tiny rubies inset in, demonstrating her dramatic and spoilt nature. Nobody touches it but her.
- Humanity Ensues: Kaana and Hisa have human forms, though it takes until episode 25 for them to be unlocked.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Mari wants to be a Cure so she can stop being left out of Fumie’s adventures.
- I'm a Humanitarian: When the team hears that Mora — actually the essence of Mora's power — "ate" the previous Precure and their companions, Fureyaa thinks he's being accused of cannibalism.
- I'm Having Soul Pains: How the members of Mora determine there's an activated Dream Shard nearby. Turns out it's their own destroyed hopes reacting to the embodiment of hopes and dreams itself.
- Improbable Age: Would you believe that Nocturna is only 16? And the leader of a villainous group of people who are old than her?
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Happens to Uta and Fureyaa in episode five.
- Inter Species Romance: The movie has Hisa (snake) and Washi (eagle).
- Japanese School Club: The main theme of this series.
- Late for School: Subverted. In the first episode, Mari wakes Fumie by telling her she's late, and Fumie rushes around in a panic before realizing it's only five-thirty and Mari's pulling her leg.
- Nonuniform Uniform: The Cures' uniforms are all unique, with Cure Twirl wearing a red leotard over magenta bike shorts and Cure Beat wearing pants instead of a skirt.
- Now or Never Kiss: In the movie, Washi and Hisa share a quick kiss just before the climactic battle.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted; one of the girls' parents is named Hibiki and so is one of their classmates. It actually causes a brief moment of confusion.
- "On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase:
- "Don't be late for next meeting!"
- Replaced by "I don't know if I can make the meeting..." for more serious episodes.
- The preview for episode 13 has "We're taking over the next meeting!"
- Orcus on His Throne: Justified. The reason Nocturna doesn't go after Pretty Cure herself is because she's been horribly weakened and is recuperating.
- Original Character: Full of them, as it is a Fancure season.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Ayumu is eventually revealed to be Nocturna’s good side split apart from her. She ascends after Nocturna’s defeat.
- Parental Abandonment: Mari is unwanted by both her mother and father, and hasn't seen them in years.
- The Power of Friendship: A big sub-theme in this season, counting for both the good side and bad side.
- The Power of Love: Fureyaa's love for Uta cements his transition to the good side, Gachan's love for Nocturna keeps her sane, and Nocturna's love for her team is her redeeming quality.
- Puppet Permutation: The Dream Charm being shattered not only mode-locked Hisa and Kaana, but turned Himemiya into a lifeless plush doll.
- Scholarship Student: A lot of the students at Atama Academy are this, but Fumie is the only one out of the main cast.
- Secret-Keeper: Mari, Uta (before she becomes a Cure anyway), and now Hibiki, sort of.
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Hisa and Kaana were locked in their cute snake forms when the Dream Charm shattered. They get their human forms back by episode 25.
- Shout-Out:
- Kotone first transforms into Cure Beat while seemingly falling to her doom.
- In episode five, Fumie sings a bit of the dub-theme for "Thumbelina: A Magical Adventure."
- When meeting Gachan for the first time, Kotone freaks and momentarily mistakes him for Dimentio.
- In episode 15, Kemuri ends up in a dark green cloak and hood, and the Drama Club calls her "Majorin." Sound familiar?
- In episode 19; one of Fumie's flashbacks reveals she had originally applied to Etoile Academy.
- Nocturna is voiced by the woman who voiced Cure Moonlight, and her dub voice is Luna.
- Sick Episode: Episode 10 sees Fumie too sick to carry on her Cure duties for the day.
- Sixth Ranger: Cure Aria joins the team in episode 16.
- Stepford Smiler: Mari turns out to be Type A, putting up a cheery front while hiding her sadness about Fumie being too distracted with her Cure duties to hang out with her much anymore.
- Transformation Trinket: The Pretty Cure PC, a handheld personal computer is this season’s.
- True Companions: The Precure team is this by the end.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: The members of Mora each have their own quirks and are rather endearing.
- Victim of the Week: The Dream-Eating Cranes can possess both humans and inanimate objects.
- Villain Episode: Mora gets the spotlight in episode 13.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: All Fureyaa wears on his upper body is a pair of shoulder-pads and a cape.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Mari for her grandmother—though it's a variation, since her grandmother is already proud of her. In the movie, Carrol is this for her father.
- Wham Episode: Episode 28. Nocturna manipulates Mari into turning into a Dark Magical Girl, taking advantage of Mari's weaknesses and feelings of abandonment to turn her against Fumie, who is quite understandably hurt by Mari's Face–Heel Turn.
- Wham Line:Fumie to Nocturna: That's not true, Ayumu! We know who you are! You were a Pretty Cure! Cure Honoria!
- You Have Failed Me: Averted. No matter how often a member of Mora screws up, Nocturna always gives them another chance.
