Talk:Kujou Hikari/@comment-31762901-20170205103338/@comment-26868869-20170205123404

LONG POST

Back when they made her, they didn't really know about the All Stars future Precure would have. Now, in merchandising, they count her with the Yellow Cures to distinguish her from Nagisa. http://i.imgur.com/Qbd9Gc1.jpg

But back then, Luminous was "cute, new", and with the new, cute girl, they usually go for making her blonde or giving her a lighter but similar theme compared to the actual main character. (They went for blonde - white colors with Mew Berry. Also obvious choices)

They went with pink with Chibiusa for example because pink was usually the "innocent girl" role in Sentai - which SM was inspired by, and PC is also inspired by. This is also why Usagi herself has red coding in her costume - red is always the sentai leader. And Futari wa's concept was duality, this is why they went with black & white, but the base sentai colours (red & blue, blue usually being second in command) are still there. Nagisa's pink is much stronger than Luminous'.

The concept of the "pink Cure" didn't really exist until Yes5, because Splash Star did things very similarly to Futari wa. But Luminous is something else entirely compared to the pink Cures of today and also compared to the yellow Cures, she was supposed to be "the new girl" - cuter, more feminine, soft pink in clothing, blonde.

(Japan usually goes two ways with blonde hair - it either means to imply innocence or arrogance (because dying your hair or make-up is means self determination which is bad, kids!! - some guy executive. why else do female villains always wear make-up?) this is why Mirage changed her hair colour from blonde + make-up + lolita clothing to black + no make-up + no lolita clothing).

They also didn't want to call her a Cure because the concept of Precure back then was all about the duality of the team - Cure Black and White are considered unseperable.