Aoki Reika

Aoki Reika is one of the main Cures in Smile Pretty Cure!. With her elegant demeanor, she is an awe-inspiring yet kind girl. As vice-head of the Student Council, she is very reliable. Though she does not get angry at other's carelessness, she can be the most frightening one of all when she does get angry. She is part of the archery team in school. Her alter ego is Cure Beauty (キュアビューティ).

Personality
When first introduced, Reika is shown as elegant and quiet, but also quite understanding. She is quite modest, and hates to put anyone through trouble, going so far as to intitially refuse any help. Reika is also quite calm and patient, not even out off a bit when the other girls told her about Precures, and tried to spare their feelings even when refusing their original request to become a precure with them.

When Reika was revealed to truly be a precure, she was the most accepting of any of them, being the only one that wasn't surprised at all. She showed she was naturally calm and focused in battle, barely breaking a sweat when defeating her first Akanbe.

Relationships
Hoshizora Miyuki - Reika seems to be a bit surprised at Miyuki's airheaded nature, but shares a nice friendship with her and loves her helpfulness.

Meeting Miyuki
Reika first met Miyuki at Miyuki's class presentation, where Akane introduced Miyuki to her.

A few days later, Miyuki saw Reika watering the flowers, where Miyuki was in awe of her kindness and selflessness, describing her as a "water fairy". She, along with the other four Precure, asked her to become a Precure with them. Reika kindly refused, however. Miyuki followed Reika, where she found out that, as Vice President, she was supposed to do a read aloud for the children at the Primary School. Miyuki and the other four Precures offered their abilities to make the presentation better.

Becoming Cure Beauty
At the read along, Majorina showed up and ruined it, turning everything into a bad end. She then tranformed a crafted mirror into an Akanbe, which then cloned intself into nine clones. Though each of the precure tried to guess which one was real, they all guessed wrong and became too exhausted to continue. Reika snapped out of her catatonic state just in time and defended her friends. A beam of blue light hit her on the spot, and she transformed into Cure Beauty. Without stopping to even think about what was happening, Reika used her sharp wit to decide which one was real and proceeded to destroy it.

Cure Beauty


"Shinshin, falling and gathering, noble heart! Cure Beauty!" "しんしんと降りつもる清き心！キュアビューティ！" "Shinshin to furitsumoru kiyoki kokoro! Kyua Byuuti!" Cure Beauty (キュアビューティ) is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Reika. Cure Beauty has the power of Ice.

One of her basic attacks is Beauty Blizzard.

Appearance
Reika has long dark blue hair worn in a hime cut with small blue clips. Her eyes are a darker blue. She normally dresses in a long pale blue-white dress with blue lining, a blue jacket top over it, blue socks, with white boots. She wears her school uniform with a blue tie and a loose pale blue top over it. When doing sports, she ties her hair up in a high ponytail.

As Cure Beauty, Reika has light blue hair with straight bangs and two long strands framing the side of her face and held with yellow bands with a large wing attached. Her back hair is cut in two layers, with the top layer short and the bottom layer extending down to her knees in 4 thick segments. She wears a white tiara with a blue gem in the center. Her outfit is mostly blue and white with dark blue lining. Her top has a large blue ribbon with a golden medallion in the middle at her chest, and ends in two coattails at her back. Her sleeves are double-layered, with a feathery white top layer decorated with small blue beads and a loose frilly bottom layer. Her skirt is blue with dark blue lining and frills at the bottom hem, with dark blue tights beneath. Her boots are knee-length with blue folds at the top with dark blue ribbons and blue toetips. Her white arm protectors are short with dark blue ribbons at the wrists.

Etymology
Aoki (青木) - 青 means "blue", while 木 means "wood" or "tree".

Reika (れいか) - Reika has many meanings. One is "sub-zero", which is a reference to Beauty's power over ice. Another meaning is "beautiful and elegant", a reference to her Cure name and her overall personality.

Trivia

 * In her introductory speech, Cure Beauty says "shinshin", which is the onomatopoeia equivalent of "snow falling and piling up" in Japanese.
 * In similar meaning with the chinese character "麗", it can also be read as "Urara", the name of one of the Cures from Yes! Pretty Cure 5.
 * Cure Beauty is the first Cure to have control over ice, though in some way her attack resembles Frozen brothers from the 2nd movie of Max Heart.
 * Reika shares the same voice actor with Dark Dream.
 * Reika shows many similarities with Minazuki Karen from Yes! Pretty Cure 5:
 * Both are in their school's student council.
 * Both have blue as their theme color.
 * Both have connections to archery: Reika is in the school archery team and Cure Aqua has an attack named Sapphire Arrow.
 * Both are very respected and popular at their respective schools.
 * Both have polite and calm personalities.
 * Water and ice are the same substance in different states, so their powers are similar as well.