Pretty Cure/Ships

Erisu
 Erisu is the femslash ship between Erika and Tsubomi.

Canon
Erika was interested in Tsubomi the first time she met her and tried to befriend her, and even tries to give her a new look but Tsubomi had no interest and can't stand Erika's own pace, Erika also used to tease Tsubomi for her shy personality. When Erika realizes that she will be alone in the fashion club when the other members have to quit she tries to convince Tsubomi to join her club, but she eventually fails and takes a walk, this is when Erika's heart flower is taken and this is what causes Tsubomi to become a Pretty cure. After having her Heart Flower purified she apologizes to Tsubomi for her energetic personality. Tsubomi said that if Erika can make the doll that her Heart Flower possessed pretty, Tsubomi will join the fashion club and Erika storms off to buy the necessary supplies to fix up the doll.

The next day Tsubomi helps her recruit for the fashion club during lunch, but they fail to find any new members. Erika was the first person to know that Tsubomi was a Pretty cure and after seeing her fight for the sake of everyone's Heart Flowers, Erika decides to become a Cure too and help her and decide to work hard together to protect everyone. Because of Erika's strength as Cure Marine, she was giving Tsubomi low confidence in being Pretty Cure, though Erika misunderstands why Tsubomi is feeling down and thinks it is because of her still open personality. However, when they encounter Kumojaki, who they the day before, Cure Marine gives her all to protect Cure Blossom, and together, they come to an understanding and use the dual attack Floral Power Fortissimo. On their way home, the girls agree that their friendship has become stronger, and declare themselves best friends.

When Tsubomi shows admiration for Erika's sister and asks if they are related, Erika admits their family situation to her. Tsubomi tries to cheer her up by proposing to have their next fashion club meeting outside at the new cafe, which Erika agrees on. When Erika finds herself unable to fight, Tsubomi cheers her up and thanks her. So Erika is able to stand up and finish it off. Erika can also easily notice the changes in Tsubomi's features and encourage Tsubomi.

Fanon
sailed due to Erika's teasing with Tsubomi making people misinterpret it as if Erika held romantic feelings for Tsubomi, its the most popular ship for Erika and one of the most popular ships for Tsubomi. They have received multiple fanart and official artwork, its a popular yet underrated ship.

Erisu is more popular in the Japanese fandom more than the western fandom, however in the Japanese fandom it can be overshadowed by Olitsubo or Itsutsubo and it can even also be preferred as friendship ship.

Both Erika and Tsubomi are also very popular characters in the fandom and franchise as they also have received the most official artwork and merchandise together in the Heartcatch team.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

PIXIV

FlaMer
 FlaMer is the femslash ship between Asuka and Laura.

Canon
The two first interact with each other in episode 5. Asuka beats up some delinquents in front of Laura's Aquapot which impresses Laura so much so that she decides she must become a precure, Asuka is annoyed by this.

In episode 8, Asuka teaches and helps Laura to cook a bento box for herself.

In episode 17 when Laura is talking to the queen of grand ocean her memory of Asuka is her telling Laura that she could win a chorus competition. In the same episode Asuka is also the first girl to notice Laura's new legs.

in episode 31, Laura and Kururun secretly follow Asuka on her school field trip because Laura wanted to go on the field trip too and Asuka scolds her for it, Asuka and Laura run into Numeri and they trick her into believing that she won as the trains kept going. Laura asks Asuka to open up to her and Asuka does and tells Laura her backstory and relationship between Yuriko.

in episode 33, Asuka chases Laura to take a weird photo of Laura and she chases her around.

during the last episode of the series, Asuka is playing has a bodyguard for Laura and they both laugh at each other and play along. before Laura leaves, she wishes Asuka good luck in Highschool but before she could continue, Manatsu butts in.

Fanon
Fans often like to portray the two bickering with each other. as they both share tsundere personalities and are both a little complicated with their friendship with the others, it is not really that popular compared to SuMer but still thrives on being enough for people. Laura and Asuka seem to sit or stay next together in every episode or official art.

HariHoma
 HariHoma is the het ship between Hariham Harry and Kagayaki Homare.

Canon
Throughout numerous episodes of the season, Homare displays an obvious crush on Harry, especially when Harry is in his human form. She tends to blush red when she’s around him.

In episode 32, after winning her comeback ice-skating competition, she looks into the Little Mermaid story for inspiration. As Etolie, she becomes involved in Bicine's VR Headgear Oshimaida, and is turned into a mermaid during the "Little Mermaid" simulation, which projects Harry's memories. However, instead of having a happy ending as she slowly falls for Harry more, she witnesses him running towards a girl covered in veil. With no help from Bicine, who breaks her even more, Homare falls into despair and is dragged into the ocean by another trio of mermaids, slowing turning into sea-foam also like in the story. However, with her friends' support, especially Cure Yell, who reminds her of her skating career, Etolie regains her courage and emerges from underwater to fight against Bicine, arguing that love is about respect. In the end, she manages to save Harry from the Oshimaida, but decides to keep her experience as a secret since she does not consider it to be righteous on knowing his secret love.

In episode 43, after knowing that Harry is going to return to the future, Homare is at a loss about their romantic relationship that is destined to be fruitless. She then gets her courage to confess to him and in return receives the expected reply, breaking down into tears as she returns to her friends. But she quickly recovers as she feels glad to be honest to herself and Harry which clears away her trouble, and is able to perform perfectly in her ice skating competition, earning her a gold medal with a beautiful quadruple jump.

Quotes
"My name is Kagayaki Homare, and I love you, Harry!"

- Homare to Harry

Songs

 * Once Again, to the Sky Ahead | Ogura Yui
 * Cure Étoile's first character song, despite being sad about Harry turning down her love confession, Homare continues to move on with acceptance

Fanon
is a very popular ship. Just like NozoCoco, it involved a Pretty Cure and a fairy mascot, which can weird out some people. It's also overshadows what is supposed to be the main ship of Harry. Though it has its rivals ships like HomaSaya or other ships popular in the fandom like MasaHenri, its still quite popular and has multiple artworks of them together. The fact that there is fairy tales motif (here The Litle Mermaid) may also help for the popularity.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

ART

TUMBLR

Trivia

 * When Homare and Harry are transported into a virtual reality world of The Little Mermaid, she learns that Harry is actually in love with a mysterious young woman and she is initially heartbroken, but she becomes relieved soon after, promising to help save his future.
 * Homare tends to blush whenever she's around him.

JokaRei
 JokaRei is the het ship between Joker and Reika Aoki. AKA: RasChlo

Canon
When they went to Bad End Kingdom, the commanders, Wolfrun, Akaoni, Majorina and Joker were waiting for them. While the other Cures were fighting the 3 commanders, Joker tried to stop Happy. But Beauty and Pop battled him instead and Joker was quite impressed by her strength and intelligence. All the Cures were almost defeated, but when they remembered their promise, Beauty and the Pretty Cures pumped their adrenaline and powers allowing her to have a strong Beauty Blizzard and defeated Joker, but he managed to escape.

After the three generals all fail to defeat any of the Cures, Joker decides to target them himself. And then chooses to attack Cure Beauty. As Reika questions her decision to study abroad, Joker appears before her and drags them both into an alternate world. Reika transforms into Cure Beauty and prepares to fight, but Joker instead congratulates her, explaining that he would love for her to leave for England, as it would give him one less Cure to defeat. He twists and turns his words, taunting Beauty and stating that it would be selfish to stay with everyone in Japan as they all wanted her to go. As expected, Beauty is broken by his words, and turns back into Reika.

However, with the help of her fellow Cures and Candy, Reika then realizes that her path is to stay with her friends and to remain a Pretty Cure. Once again, she transforms into Cure Beauty. Joker utilizes the Black Nose Akanbe to have a sword fight with Beauty. In an attempt to beat her, Joker makes multiple copies of himself. However, she is able to see through them and unlocks her new attack: Beauty Blizzard Arrow.

10 years later, Reika becomes a teacher of the same school she attended. She felt tired due to a culprit in school so she tried to sleep on the one of the desk. When she wakes up, it was dark and the sun had set meaning, everyone had gone home but the atmosphere felt weird to her. She noticed someone sitting on the culprit's sit named Irie. she thought it was one of his pranks that is when she was met with a cackle. the moon reflects to the figure making it clearer for her to see a familiar figure. It was Joker. Due to her lack of memory of her being a Pretty cure, she fails to see him as a dangerous person until he attacks. Joker uses his sharp cards trapping her in the classroom instantly. he then grabs on to her neck and throws her against the blackboard calling her names and telling her that she doesn't have what it takes to be a teacher while choking her until she finally wakes up sweating heavenly and realizes that it was all a dream.

Fanon
Many of the fandom ships them, especially the Japanese fanbase. However, much like other ships in the Smile PreCure series, many people also do not like it and disregard it as pedophilia due to Reika being 14 during the show and Joker being hundreds of years old. However, despite this, it's one of the most popular ships in all of Precure. It has hundreds of fanarts on sites like Pixiv and Zero-Chan, and there's a couple edits of it on Instagram as well as other sites.

The support for the ship depends on where you look. In multiple Smile PreCure Amino's, the ship is banned due to it's controversial undertones. However, in different communities such as Pixiv and a few discord servers, the ship is highly praised and welcomed.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Joker/Reika on FanFiction.Net
 * Joker/Reika on FanFiction.Net

Trivia

 * Joker and Reika are always paired up together during fights. This can be seen during "An Abroad Decision," and "Into the Shadow Realm."
 * Joker and Reika are also frequently drawn together, such as in the light novel or in height comparison sketches.

MasaHenri
 MasaHenri is the slash ship between Henri Wakamiya and Masato Aisaki.

Canon
In episode 19, Masato points out rather rudely to Henri, who pays no attention to his insult, that he shouldn't be wearing feminine attire as it violates school rules. After learning that Emiru volunteers to be a model at Yoshimi Rita's latest fashion runway show, he rudely tries to take Emiru away from Ruru, only for Hana to stop him. He then criticizes Henri for dressing like a woman, only for Henri to retort him for having an outdated mindset. Insulted and angered, he becomes an easy target for Gelos who turns him into an Oshimaida. Henri then tells Masato that he can change himself and embraces him. After being saved by the Cures, Masato stays to watch the runway show, and thinks that he had a nightmare that is beautiful in its own way. Masato tries to apologize to Henri at campus, but Henri has already forgiven him, and both of them start becoming friendlier to each other. He later hands a concert ticket to Emiru, showing that he has become more supportive of her, later in episode 25 Masato joins Henri in attending the summer festival. He and Henri exchange greetings with the girls there before resuming their time at the festival. Masato was initially unfriendly towards Henri, finding his choice to wear a dress to be ridiculous, Henri was eventually able to cause Masato to change his opinion, and the two have become good friends afterwards. Their relationship can be interpreted to be a romantic relationship. In the finale, after everyone gets turned into a Pretty Cure, Masato bridal carries Cure Infinity (Henri).

Fanon
sailed after episode 19 aired, as it is few of the non-femslash or het ships in the fandom. It is pretty popular in the fandom and it's one of the most popular ships in the season. Fans can interpret it as a romantic or just a platonic relationship. Either way, their relationship's evolution is pretty sweet. It is a bit less popular in the Japanese fandom than it is on the western fandom.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

ART
 * Masaann tag on Pixiv
 * Annmasa tag on Pixiv

Trivia

 * Their color palette is the same as the new gay men flag that was proposed in 2019.

NodoHina
 NodoHina is the femslash ship between Hanadera Nodoka and Hiramitsu Hinata.

Canon
Nodoka and Hiramitsu instantly become close as soon as they meet due to Hinata's friendliness. The first time they meet, Hinata crushes into Nodoka after she ran into her. She is quick to apologize profusely, but Nodoka reassures her that she's ok. So Hinata invites her to visit her family's juice shop and animal clinic sometime soon. Nodoka is shocked and frozen at first, but she sees Hinata blushing and excited as she walks away.

Fanon
Nodoka and Hinata are considered two best close friends, and especially two best friends of heart for fans in all the world. One of the best Pretty Cure ships of all time.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

TakuYui


Canon
Takumi has loved Yui since they were kids. When Takumi found out about Yui's role as a Pretty Cure, he decided to help by fighting alongside her as Black Pepper.

In episode 1, Takumi blushes when his mom tells Yui to get omurice with him. Together they eat omurice at a restaurant. When the Ubauzo appeared and caused a commotion, he gets worried about Yui and looks for her to make sure she's safe.

In episode 13, Takumi's father mentions his crush on Yui, which confirms that it is canon. Takumi had doubts about Rosemary after seeing him put Yui in the face of danger countless times. He worries about her and remembers the delicious stone his father gave him.

Fanon
TakuYui is a pretty popular ship. It has been around since the start of the air of Delicious Party Pretty Cure'.

HaruKira
HaruKira is the femslash ship between Haruno Haruka and Kirara Amanogawa.

Canon
Haruka and Kirara are two kind close friends.

Fanon
Haruka and Kirara are considered one of the most under-apprecciated but positive Pretty Cure duo ships for fans.