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Anzan wrote: Pretty sure Luminous is officially a Yellow Cure, yes.

Out of curiosity what’s the deal with Shiny Luminous and Milky Rose? They’re officially Cures but are the only ones not named as such and were explicitly referred to as something separate in their respective seasons.

I assume the only reason those two get a pass and the Kiryuus and Regina don’t is because they were more heavily tied to the merchandising angle of their shows (and also possibly because the latter three spent a large amount of their tenure on their respective shows as villains, which as far as I can tell don’t really get that much in the way of merch for some reason). Workarounds. The full title of Max Heart translates into “The Two of Us are Pretty Cures,” implying that said season have only two Cures. Thus the added Cure is not given a full-blown Cure title to work around that. Ditto Milky Rose working around the 5 in the title.