Iona Hikawa is one of the main cures in Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!. Her alter ego is Cure Fortune. Iona attends the same school as Megumi, Hime, and Yuko but is in a different class than them. She attends her family dojo, Hikawa Karate Dojo. She practises with her grandfather everyday. Her form changes are Pine Arabian and Anmitsu Komachi. Along with the other cures, she also has Innocent Form.
She was the anti-heroine and antagonist in Part 1, but after approaching Part 2, she became one of the main protagonists after making amends with Hime for her harshness.
She was voiced Haruka Tomatsu, who also voiced Asuna Yuuki in Sword Art Online, Sayaka Mibu in The Irregular at Magic High School, Clarus Tonitrus in Matoi the Sacred Slayer and Haru Okumura in Persona 5.
Personality[]
“ | Hikawa… You're such a scrooge! | „ |
~ Hime accuses Iona for being mean. |
Iona has a strong sense of justice, and also helps the poor people. Cure Fortune also knows her duty as a Cure, and is excellent at fighting matches, as well as is not afraid to battle Queen Mirage, and her Saiarks.
While being strict and serious, she is known to have stubborn tendencies where she refuses to team up with the other Cures during Part 1, and is known to be unfriendly, arrogant and strongly aloof. Due to this stiffness and coolness, she is not shown to be laughing because of how she suffered from her traumatic past of Phantom attacking her sister, Maria Hikawa.
In the beginning, Iona appeared as a harsh, cold-hearted and very unsympathetic and holds a grudge against Hime. However, after being reborn from the new PreCards that were from Hime and realizing her errors, Iona apologizes to Hime for everything and begins to reflect her actions after episode 23.
After that, Iona now becomes a kind, warm, gentle and supportive girl who will do anything for her friends and was able to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh at all time. While still continuing her strictness idiom, Iona can be friendly and open if she wants to and was able to free herself from the curse of hatred after episode 41, thus bringing new changes to her character.
In the All-Stars series, Iona becomes more kind, supportive, open and warm than before and is no longer strictly or harsh anymore.
Appearance[]
As Cure Fortune, her uniform is similar to the other three Cures, with a dark grey vest with a light purple collar and a darker purple ribbon in the front. Her skirt is also light purple and is longer toward the back. Her arm warmers and boots are also very long, going past her elbows and knees respectively. Her hair is purple and appears to be in a loose ponytail, with a heart-shaped hairpiece with a ribbon flowing out of it on the left side.
Relationships[]
- Glasan: Glasan is Iona's fairy partner. Like most of the other mascots, she is very helpful and supportive, but can be a little rough. Before Iona became Cure Fortune, she was Cure Tender's partner.
- Megumi Aino: She first reveals herself as Fortune to Lovely, her that she shouldn't trust Princess. Lovely encourages Fortune to work together so they can fight Phantom, and she accepts. She later softens thanks to Lovely's kindness and becomes friends with Megumi.
- Hime Shirayuki: Before episode 22, she held a huge grudge against Hime and blamed her for the Phantom Empire's invasion because Hime opened Axia. She predicts a terrible future for Hime and Megumi and even tells Cure Lovely not to trust Princess or there will be a great disaster. It even got to the point where she refused to team up with her, though she does team up with Megumi and Yuko. Hime gives Iona all the PreCards so she can save her sister, but Iona uses them to regain her powers to help the others. She soon forgives Hime, which makes Hime happy. They both make amends after a shopping trip and battling Saiarks. Iona learns that Hime was lured into opening Axia and regrets blaming Hime. They now have a sisterly relationship, with Iona acting as the older sister role, while Hime is like a younger sister to her.HCPC23
- Sagara Seiji: They both attend the same karate dojo, and are normally in good terms.
- Omori Yuko: They are in different classes. They met their Cure forms. She asked her and Megumi to team up with her.HCPC19 Afterwards, Iona and Yuko have become close friends.
- Maria Hikawa: Her older sister who went missing prior to the series, gravely concerning Iona due to their close bond. She became Cure Fortune to avenge her sister, and she was horrified after discovering that Tender had been revived, but was now fighting on Queen Mirage's side, freeing Oresky from Happiness Big Bang.HCPC37 The Cures tried to free her from the control, but because she could not hear Fortune's voice, it proved to be difficult. However, Iona was able to get her to remember who she was and Tender was completely freed once they used Innocent Purification. Maria tells Iona that she's going to America to be with her parents, which takes a while for Iona to accept. However, she soon understands why Maria had to leave and lets her go.HCPC39
- Blue: Iona first meets Blue in episode 13 when she comes to the Pikarigaoka Shrine to fight Phantom and he asks her about her power source. She remained on guard around him at first, and refuses to follow the rule that prohibits Pretty Cures from falling in love, due to her belief that love for someone else makes them stronger.
- Kaidou Yuya: Yuya is a fellow classmate who is interested in Iona, who also has mutual feelings for him. He asks her on a date because he enjoys seeing her smile. The date itself, however, doesn't go as well as they hoped, as Iona is unsure how to admit her feelings, and Yuya was pushing things too fast. After he is captured by Namakelder, Fortune desperately wants to protect him despite not knowing much about what it's like to be in love, which gives her the power to unlock her Innocent Form. After this, they start to get along more as they learned from their mistakes, while agreeing to understand each other better first before fully entering in a romantic relationship.
History[]
Preseason[]
Years ago, a young Iona watched her older sister Maria battling Phantom. When Iona was almost attacked by Phantom, Maria took her hit and was captured as a result. Iona was later given the PreChanMirror from Maria, and partnered up with Glassan to become Cure Fortune.
Saving Cure Princess[]
Cure Fortune arrives just as Cure Princess is being attacked by a Saiark and de-transforming. She effortlessly uses Stardust Shoot to purify the Saiark and save the person who was trapped inside the mirror. Before leaving, she criticizes Hime for being a coward and not fulfilling her duty as a Pretty Cure. She also blames her for the invasion of the Phantom Empire, and will never forgive her.
Saving The Cures[]
When Oresky is about to finish Lovely and Princess off, she arrives and saves them, and easily takes down the Saiarks. Before she leaves, she advises Megumi not to team up with Princess or else she will face a disaster.
Fighting Phantom[]
Iona decides defeat Phantom to avenge the defeat of her sister, Cure Tender, who gave Iona her Cure powers. When she is able to fight him in-person, she does her mission alone, and is therefore overwhelmed by Phantom's power. However, Cure Lovely convinces her that they may have a chance if they combined their powers.
Fighting As A team And Revealing Her Identity As Cure Fortune[]
Hosshiwa comes at the wedding ceremony of Iona's sister's friends, and calls out a Saiark from the bride and groom. The other Cures are having trouble, when Fortune arrives and says that she'll protect everyone's smiles. Lovely and Honey cone fighting together with her, and then Princess joins, uses Hawaiian Alohaloe attack, making a chance for Honey to purify the Saiark. Lovely thanks Fortune for helping, and she advises them to protect the ones they love but is still strict towards Cure Princess, saying that she doesn't expect anything from her.
When the Cures are trapped in a net, Fortune arrives, hits the Saiark's balls back to it and saves the Cures. Lovely thanks her and together the four Cures fight the Saiarks and the Choiarks. Fortune then attacks the Saiark and defeats it with Stardust Shoot, which helps the match to continue. Finally, Megumi's team wins. Gon gives Iona 60 dangos because she scored 2 goals, but she says the team did it together, so he should share dango for everyone. When Seiji, Megumi, Hime and Yuko are walking home, Iona runs to them and reveals herself as Cure Fortune, while also suggesting Megumi and Yuko to team up with her, which makes Hime upset.
Revealing Hime's mistake[]
Iona finally reveals to the rest of the team that Hime is responsible for the Phantom Empire's invasion because she opened Axia. Upon learning that, Hime runs away. When the others try to look for Hime, Iona advises Megumi not to and states that Hime doesn't deserve to be a Pretty Cure. During the battle with the Saiarks, Fortune teams up with Lovely to defeat them. Lovely tries to reason with Fortune about Hime, but Fortune is still unsure. When they rub Ribbon's nose together, Hime watches and fears the worst that Lovely has kicked her out of the team in favor of Fortune and runs away again.
Confronting And Dueling With Phantom[]
Phantom summons a bunch of Saiarks in order to lure the Happiness Charge Pretty Cures, and Cure Fortune also helps in defeating them. She follows Phantom, but he is actually luring her into his trap by bringing her to his Pretty Cure Graveyard, where he kept all the Cures he defeated and as of the end of episode 21, they are about to duel. However, the duel is horribly one-sided and Phantom defeats Cure Fortune, shunting her back to her transitional state. Taking her PreCards, Phantom destroys them and mocks Iona over her vengeance, revealing that her sister's defeat was not Hime's fault, but her own for following Maria in the first place. At that point, the Happiness Charge team arrives, with Cure Princess confronting Iona and giving her all PreCards that they had collected. Iona ends up using the cards to restore her powers, creating her own device, the Fortune Piano, in the process. With a stronger resolve, Cure Fortune battles and vanquishes Phantom, recovering her sister's PreChanMirror. Through this, she apologizes to the Happiness Charge team and asks to join them, which makes everyone happy, especially Hime.
First Shopping With Hime[]
The girls are planning a party to welcome Iona to their team. Megumi and Yuko want to make a cake, but they realize they don't have enough ingredients. So, Hime and Iona decide to go to the supermarket together. Iona suggests a cheaper supermarket, which she usually goes to. There, they buy some vegetables and eggs. While shopping, Hime sees some Pretty Cure snacks and wants to buy them. Iona initially disagrees but eventually gives in after Hime persistently asks, despite Ribbon's objection. During a break, Iona asks Hime why she opened the Axia. Hime reveals that she heard a sad voice from inside the box. When Iona asks Hime why she never told her before, she claims that she did try to, but Iona never let her. Overwhelmed with shock, Iona quickly runs away, feeling terrible as she realizes she blamed Hime without considering her feelings. Glasan suggests that they make a truce and be friends as they have already apologized to each other. Later, Hosshiwa appears with two Saiarks, making it difficult for Fortune to fight them. Princess arrives just in time, and together they manage to fight the Saiarks. Fortune purifies them with Starlight Ascension. After the battle, Fortune thanks Princess for saving her, and the girls share a moment of congratulations before Cure Lovely and Cure Honey join in to help. However, Princess bluntly informs them that they arrived too late. Afterward, the girls have a party at the embassy, celebrating with a cake adorned with figurines of the Cures, Ribbon, and Glasan. This experience strengthens Iona's friendship with Hime.
Her First Date And Receiving The Innocent Form[]
Megumi, Hime, and Yuko are trying to awaken the power of the Shining Make Dresser, so they try asking Iona to help them. She then shows a more feminine side of herself by making some cute faces, which makes her friends surprised. At school, Seiji and his friend Kaidou Yuya are watching and talking about Iona. Yuya then approaches and confesses to Iona that he likes her, and after thinking carefully, Iona decides to go on a date with him. The other girls, with Yuya and Seiji, go to the zoo, and they leave Iona and Yuya behind so they can bond with each other.
During Iona and Yuya's time together, they watch the animals, play Frisbee, and talk. As Yuya tells more about how he feels about her, Iona is embarrassed by her own crush on Yuya. She, in hopes of avoiding further awkwardness, runs away to buy some ice cream, but when she returns, Namakelder is there with Yuya, who has been turned into a Saiark. The girls arrive and they transform to help Fortune, but are overpowered easily. However, Fortune doesn't give up, as she is determined to save Yuya. With this, her innocent feelings were awakened. She received new PreCards and transforms into her Innocent Form. She received new PreCards and transformed into her Innocent Form. She performed Emerald Illusion to trap the Saiark before purifying it with Happiness Big Bang. After that, Iona and Yuya apologized to each other and decided that they will continue their romantic relationship when both of them feel ready. In the end, they were playing Frisbee again with their friends watching.
Saving Her Sister[]
Cure Tender, who is now under Queen Mirage's control, arrives to free Oresky, who is about to be purified by Happiness Big Bang. Cure Fortune is shocked when she sees her brainwashed sister, almost immediately recognizing her. She tries to reach out to Tender, but Tender fails to hear her and keeps referring to herself as Queen Mirage's servant. Fortune, along with the others, changes into their Innocent Forms to fight Tender, and she continues to try to free her sister and help her remember who she really is. However, Queen Mirage always brings Tender back under control every time, despite Fortune's attempts. Tender is about to land a fatal blow on Fortune, when Lovely steps in to take the hit, reminding Fortune of how she stood in the way of Phantom's attack to protect her. When Fortune cries out as Mirage once again brings Tender back under her power, her feelings are able to awaken another power in the Shining Make Dresser, allowing the Cures to use Innocent Purification to free Tender. Soon after, they all de-transform, and Maria thanks everyone for helping her, and Iona is happy to be reunited with her.
Epilogue[]
After Cure Lovely defeated Red, and Blue parted ways with them, Iona and her friends returned to their normal lives. She questioned Hime if she ever wanted to return home, only for Hime to say that she wanted to stay to make more friends. Iona was relieved by this. Then Hime questioned her if she liked her, which made Iona annoyed yet happy. The last scene shows Iona chasing Hime, who runs happily to throw a crystal before walking to school with her.
Attacks[]
Finishers[]
- Stardust Shoot is the first finisher of Cure Fortune, debuting in episode 1. She first moves by saying "Light of the stars, turn into holy powers! LovePreBrace!" later as she activates her LovePreBrace, she creates a big purple star with her hands, and later shoots it at the enemy, while saying "Stardust Shoot!". As the star traps the enemy, Cure Fortune says "Stars, return to the skies!" and the Saiark purifies.
- Star Stream is the second finisher of Cure Fortune.
- Starlight Ascension is the third finisher of Cure Fortune, performed with the Fortune Tambourine.
- Oriental Dream is Pine Arabian's main attack, performed with Fortune Tambourine.
- Dancing Sakura Blizzard is Anmitsu Komachi's main attack, performed with Fortune Tambourine.
- Happiness Big Bang - her first group attack, where needed the Shining Make Dresser.
- Emerald Illusion - her individual attack using the power of the Shining Make Dresser, in her Innocent Form.
Sub-attacks[]
- Fortune Starburst is a usual attack by Cure Fortune.
- Fortune Star Ring
- Fortune Comet Arrow
- Fortune Shaking Star
Merchandise[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- She is the fourth Cure to have "kawa" in her surname, following Ellen Kurokawa, Nao Midorikawa and Rikka Hishikawa.
- There's an error in the animation of her finisher attack. In the first few seconds, when she turns her hand around, her LovePreBrace glitches through her wrist.
- Unlike the other main Cures, she doesn't have a PreChanMirror hung on her hip in her Cure form.
- She is the third character to work as a fortune teller, after Setsuna Higashi (formerly Eas) and Westar.
- Coincidentally, Setsuna and Iona both have dark purple hair in civilian form, and they're also both the last ones to join their respective Pretty Cure team.
- She is the second Cure to have a relative who is/was a Pretty Cure, following Cure Blossom.
- It is shown that Iona/Cure Fortune doesn't know that Yuko Omori is Cure Honey, or that Cure Honey is fighting with Cure Lovely and Princess for that matter.
- Iona, along with the other Happiness Charge cures, appeared as Cure Fortune to give a special 10th anniversary congratulatory message commemorating the 500th episode of the Pretty Cure franchise.
- Cure Fortune's form changes will be based on traditional Arabian and Japanese dances, Anmitsu Komachi and Pine Arabian.
- Cure Fortune is the second Cure to have a weapon that stays with her all the time, her Fortune Tambourine, similar to the Honey Baton. As the two items are seen on the PreCards for their regular forms and Form Changes.
- Her hairstyle in her Pine Arabian form looks similar to Cure Peace's.
- Her hairstyle in her Anmitsu Komachi form looks similar to Cure March's with a hair bow similar to Princess Sunny.
- Cure Fortune no longer possess a LovePreBrace after Episode 22.
- She is the second Cure whose transformation phrase is different from the other Cures on her team, preceded by Cure Ace.
- Also their transformation items share similarities: Both are horizontal opening boxes. In both teams, the other members have one-handed vertical items. They also require pressing buttons/keys.
- She is the first Pretty Cure to wear a ring for transformation or to summon her item, the Fortune Tambourine.
- An error in the newest title card shows Fortune with a PreChanMirror.
- Almost all her attacks consists the word "Star" in it, except Fortune Comet Arrow. However, "comet" is also a kind of star. This is because her powers related to the stars.
- In her movie profile, she is the only Cure to have her civilian profile redrawn. That may be because she had not been seen in her winter casual clothes in the anime yet.
- In episode 32, when she inserts her Innocent Form PreCards into the piano, an error shows her with a LovePreBrace.
- Althought Fortune is the last one to join the team, she is the first one to receive the Innocent Form.
- Precure Fans consider Iona as a worst character ever due to her stubborn and strict behavior.