Hojo Hibiki

Houjou Hibiki is one of the main Cures of Suite Pretty Cure♪, along with her childhood friend, Minamino Kanade. Like Misumi Nagisa, Hibiki has a bright personality and excels at sports, but is bad at school work. Although her father is a violinist and her mother is a music teacher, Hibiki thinks she has no musical talent. She also loves to eat sugary things, especially the cakes from Kanade's family's shop. Hibiki's alter ego is Cure Melody (キュアメロディ Kyuamerodii). She uses the Red Fairy Tone, Dory, to transform.

Early Life
When Hibiki and Kanade were young, they used to be best friends and played together all the time. They used to go to an old church to listen to music and sing together. This all changed at their school entrance ceremony. Hibiki and Kanade made a promise to go to school together under the cherry blossom trees. After waiting under the cherry blossom trees for Kanade, who never showed up, Hibiki gave up and went to school by herself. Then she saw Kanade hanging out with other people and incorrectly assumed that she completely forgot about their promise. In reality, they had had misunderstood each other and both waited under different trees.

Becoming a Cure
When Hibiki went to visit the old church she and Kanade used to play in, she met Ellen, alias Siren, who looks into Hibiki's heart and sees her emblem, a G Clef, which she tries to steal. Hibiki runs out of the church but is cornered by the Trio the Minor and Siren. They are interrupted by Hummy, who falls from the sky with the Fairy Tones. Kanade, who came to church so she could listen to the record she and Hibiki once enjoyed together, walks in and is also revealed to have a G Clef emblem. Siren and the Trio try to steal both girls' emblems but are blown away to their surprise. When Hummy and Siren spot a note on Kanade's record, Siren turns it into a Negatone. Both Hibiki and Kanade are angered by the record being turned into a monster; suddenly, their emblems emerge from their hearts and become Cure Modules, giving them the ability to become Cure Melody and Cure Rhythm. So far, she is the unoffical leader of Suite Pretty Cure.

Mending their Friendship
After Hibiki and Kanade witnessed Siren turn their precious record turn into a Negatone, the two of them transformed into Pretty Cures. But their first attempt at fighting the Negatone was unsuccessful because their hearts were not in sync and end up in failure. After the battle, both Kanade and Hibiki complained each other more about their friendship and the broken promise, which Hummy understands a bit later on.

The next day, Hibiki and Kanade saw a little girl crying under the same cherry tree she's waiting years ago. She approached her and lead her to her friend who is waiting on the other side. Both kids were happy to see each other until Siren, the Trio of Minor and the Negatone they fought earlier. The Negatone starts to spread it's Melody of Sorrow throughout school, which causes sadness to everyone. Both Kanade and Hibiki settle their differences and transformed to fight the Negatone with no avail. But after the two of them worked things out, they were able to control their power and their hearts were in full sync as they purified the Negatone using the Passionate Harmony attack and reverted it back into their old record and the scattered note, which went into Dory's gem. After the battle, the two girls were now determined to protect Kanon Town and collect the scattered notes.

Her Hate in Music
Hibiki was revealed to have actually hated music in episode 3 of the series, due to the fact that her father, Houjou Dan (whose hair seems to resemble Natsuki Rin's, from Yes! Pretty Cure 5), who is also a music condutor at the girl's school, told her that what she was playing on the piano during a recital five years ago was not real music. She had been extremely upset when he told her that, which caused her to stop playing the piano and to stop singing as well. However, during the fight with the Negatone during Hibiki's father's concert, Hibiki's father showed Hibiki that real music was to be enjoyed by the musician playing the notes, making Hibiki realise that she had been rushing through the entire recital because she badly wanted to go to the amusement park like her father originally promised. After realising that and watching her father conduct the concert smoothly, Hibiki mentioned to Kanade that maybe she might enjoy music again, and bring herself to playing on the piano again, although none of this got to Kanade because she had been sleeping throughout Hibiki's little speech.

Cure Melody
" Playing the frantic rhythm, Cure Melody! " 爪弾くは荒ぶる調べ！ キュアメロディ！ "Tsumabiku wa araburu shirabe, Kyua Merodii" Cure Melody is the alter ego of Houjou Hibiki after transforming into a Pretty Cure. She does it by using her Cure Module along with her Fairy Tone, Dory to transform. When transformed, her normally orange hair tints light pink and becomes tied in extra long twintails. Cure Melody and Cure Rhythm can preform an attack together called Passionate Harmony.

Relationships
Minamino Kanade is her childhood friend and they used to sing and play together all the time. Due to a misunderstanding at the beginning of the series they broke up but since this has been resolved and they are friends again. Hibiki seems to still start arguments with Kanade from time to time but they always seem to be able to work things out.

Hummy- Hummy lives with Hibiki and they often have talks and these are usually about what is going on with Kanade. Sometimes these seem like girl talks or they just seem to help Hibiki work out her thoughts.

Ethymology

 * Hibiki - Hibiki Houjou's first name is a Japanese term for "resounding", a term on producing or characterization of sound.

Trivia

 * Cure Melody is the first Cure who wears her hair in pigtails that doesn't have yellow/blonde hair.
 * Hibiki is the first sporty Cure who has long hair, as Nagisa, Saki, Rin, Love (unofficially) and Itsuki, have shoulder-length hair (although Love and Itsuki have long pigtails as Cures Peach and Sunshine).
 * Hibiki's hair has the second most dramatic color change, with Setsuna as the first with hair that changes from purple black to pink. It turns from orange to pink.
 * She is the second Cure to play soccer, besides Natsuki Rin.