Ikeda Aya (池田彩 )? is a minor character in Heartcatch Pretty Cure!. She is a member of the light music club in school, together with Kudou Mayu. Her character is based on Ikeda Aya, singer of many theme songs within the Pretty Cure franchise.
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Appearance[]
Aya has medium-length brown hair worn in wavy pigtails with short, straight-cut bangs and forelocks framing her face. Her eyes are bright brown, and she has been seen only in the school's standard uniform for girls.
Personality[]
She and her friend Kudou Mayu have a strong stage fright and are unconfident about their singing skills and they tend to run away instead of singing in front of their schoolmates. However, they are able to overcome it with the help of the other girls.
Relationships[]
- Kudou Mayu: Aya and Mayu are very close friends. They are both in the light music club, and share their love for music together.
History[]
Aya and Kudou Mayu are the singers of the light music club. They should have a live performance during the school festival, but both are too nervous, and are afraid that the other students would laugh at them, so they run away. When the members of the fashion club convince them to step onto the stage, the stage fright overcomes the two girls again. Cobraja uses their stage fright to steal their Heart Flowers, and transforms them into a Desertrian.
After the Cures get Aya and Mayu's Heart Flowers back, the fashion club and the light music club decide to perform a fashion show with a concert from the light music club, with Aya and Mayu as their singers. Aya and Mayu then perform their song HEART GOES ON, and are finally able to overcome their stage fright.HPC36
Aya and Mayu later reappear as ones of the surviving people, whose Heart Flowers were saved by the Pretty Cure before, and support the Cures from Earth with the other survivors.HPC45
Trivia[]
- The real Ikeda Aya, who is the inspiration behind her, is one of the many Pretty Cure theme song singers. She has sung:
- Alright! Heartcatch Pretty Cure! (Heartcatch! OP)
- 17jewels ~Pretty Cure Medley 2010~ (DX 2 ED)
- HEART GOES ON (Heartcatch! insert song)
- Full of Thanks (DX 3 ED)
- Wonderful↑Powerful↑Music!! (Suite♪ ED 1)
- ♯Hope Rainbow♯ (Suite♪ ED 2)
- Let's go! Smile Pretty Cure! (Smile! OP)
- She is one of the characters who is based on a guest singer in the Pretty Cure series, the others are Miyamoto Kanako, Kudou Mayu, the Fujiwara duo, and Komagata Yuri.
- She shares her first name with Mizushima Aya, another supporting character in Heartcatch!, and Kawakami Aya, a minor character from HUGtto! Pretty Cure.
- She marks the very first time in the franchise where two characters from the same season share a first name.
- Aya and Mayu are the first instances in Heartcatch! where two people share the same Heart Flower.
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