Kujou Hikari (九条ひかり )? is one of the three main characters in the series Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart and she is considered to be the "life" of the Queen, a part of her spirit that appeared when the Queen, as a whole is broken up into three parts: the Heartiels, the embodiment of her will; Hikari, who represents the Queen's life; and the Queen Chairect, her heart.
She has lost all of her abilities and memories from being Queen and is living as a passive human girl. She makes friends and goes to Verone Academy with Misumi Nagisa and Yukishiro Honoka and works for Fujita Akane's mobile store.
Her alter ego is Shiny Luminous (シャイニールミナス )?. She grasps the concept of being Shiny Luminous quite quickly but is always wondering about her past and often stares at the sky.
Bio
Appearance
Hikari has olive green eyes and long blonde hair that is often worn in a braid over her shoulder and tied with a small bow and heart. She is usually seen wearing an off-white long-sleeved shirt with a magenta tank top underneath, cuffed blue jeans, and pink and white sneakers when not in uniform.
In the first Max Heart movie, she wears a cream-colored long-sleeve shirt and cuffed blue jeans under a pink-colored dress with ruffled sleeves and a skirt. Her sneakers are white and light pink. During the party scene, she wears a short pale yellow frilly dress with bows on the straps, white gloves, and pink ballet flats. In the second Max Heart movie, she wears a large light pink turtleneck sweater with a purple Tako Cafe apron, denim pants, and sneakers.
As Shiny Luminous, Hikari's hair brightens in color and grows out very long, worn in a pair of pigtails held by dark pink bows with red hearts. She gains gold heart earrings and wears a light pink ruffled dress with white frilly trim and a pink band going down the center line. On the chest is a white ribbon adorned by a ruby heart, and a yellow ribbon wraps around the waist held together by a smaller heart with a purse hanging from it. Her shoes are light pink with pink soles and white ruffled leg warmers to match her sleeves, decorated with pink bows and ruby hearts.
With the golden powers, Hikari's entire outfit turns gold while her earrings and brooch turn silver and resemble diamonds.
As Super Shiny Luminous, Hikari's hair grows longer and her dress gains additional pale yellow details. Her chest brooch changes in shape and turns magenta. She also gets feathery trim on her sleeves and arm warmers while her leg warmers have additional hearts on them and slightly alter in shape.
Personality
Having lost all memories of her life as the Queen, Hikari lives life as a passive human girl. Initially a blank state because of this, she comes off as naive, innocent, and wide-eyed while trying to adjust to her sudden life. She quickly befriended Nagisa and Honoka after formally meeting them. Hikari is nice and polite, and very considerate towards others. It's hard to get her upset, and her gentle disposition tends to worry others. She usually keeps things to herself to avoid worrying others or upsetting them.
Relationships
- Misumi Nagisa and Yukishiro Honoka: Nagisa and Honoka met Hikari at Akane's stall. Since becoming Shiny Luminous, the three have become good friends, and have shown her many things during her time in the Garden of Rainbows. The two can also be seen as motherly figures for Hikari due to their caring nature and being protective with her when she's in danger.
- Pollun: She befriends Pollun after he ran into her and feeling a connection together, he was officially given to her to keep an eye on. She never yells at Pollun and is always concerned for his well-being, which makes him worry since getting mad at a friend is one way to show someone cares about them.
- Lulun: Hikari has a motherly relationship with her and will protect her to the extent that she can, as shown when she got lost in an amusement park and later found her attacked by Circulas.
- Fujita Akane: Akane met Hikari and quickly took her in, saying she was her cousin. She has a motherly or older-sister relationship with her and will gently scold Hikari should she show up late.
- Tabata Nao and Kagayama Miu: Her classmates who befriended Hikari when they approached her one day. They are similar to Nagisa and Honoka, which allowed Hikari to feel comfortable enough around them to properly befriend them.
- Kujou Hikaru: Hikari and the mysterious little boy had many meetings through the season, leaving them to wonder how they knew each other and often thinking about them. At the end of the series he was revealed to be alive and is now Hikari's biological little brother.
Etymology
Kujou (九条 )?: Ku (九 )? translates to nine, and jou (条 )? translates to article; clause; condition. The use of the number nine could be a loose reference to the Queen splitting herself into multiple parts, particularly since nine is divisible by three, the number of parts the Queen divided herself into. The jou may also refer to her role as the life of the Queen; queen in Japanese is jouou.[1]
Hikari (ひかり )?: Translates to light, which Shiny Luminous's powers are based on.
Shiny Luminous both words mean "very bright."
History
Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart
Hikari first appears beside a river wondering who she is. The Queen's voice tells her that her name is Hikari. Then she goes to Tako Cafe and meets Fujita Akane. Sometime later, when the Pretty Cure visit Tako Cafe as well, Akane introduces Kujou Hikari as her cousin. That may have been because of the mysterious power of the Queen. When the girls meet each other, Honoka feels some uncertain connections between them and Hikari feels the same. In episode 5, when a Zakenna starts to attack her, Pollun runs towards her and she transforms with Pollun into Shiny Luminous. Elder and Wisdom recognize Hikari as the Queen's life.
After that, the girls begin to collect the Heartiels. During the season, they have to face off against new villains (Circulas, Uraganos and Viblis), guardians of the representation of the life of Evil King (Boy in the mansion), which has the look and character of a small child. Hikari and the boy have an encounter that leaves the two marked. The girls also find a new source of power, the Sparkle Bracelets, and fight with the four guardians and meet Pollun's little sister, Lulun, who later gives a new power to Hikari, which turns out to be the Heartiel Brooch. The boy from the mansion and Hikari meet again when she visits Kyoto. Hikari begins to understand who that boy is and Baldez, the leader of the dark guardians, realize that the balance between light and darkness is becoming weaker.
When Pretty Cures collect 11 of the 12 Heartiels, Hikari suddenly disappears. She awakes in the Dotsuku Zone, with the boy from the mansion. They start a ritual and Baldez uses it to resurrect the Evil King. But Nagisa and Honoka refuse to allow Hikari to resurrect herself as the Queen of Light and continue to fight alone. Hikari watches their fight and decides to start the resurrection by herself.
Hikari is taken to the Garden of Light in the end, and the Queen reawakens and resembles her transformed form. Later, she grants the rest of the team the final finisher: Extreme Luminaro Max. Since she is combined into the Queen again, Honoka and Nagisa thought that they can never see her again. But soon after their graduation ceremony, they go to visit Akane's Cafe, and it is revealed Hikari somehow was able to separate from the Queen. Not only that, she has brought Hikaru along too. In the end, Hikari is able to become her own person and live with her two friends happily.
Kibou no Chikara ~Otona Pretty Cure '23~
Shiny Luminous returns during the final battle against the Shadows, by helping the other Cures seal the Shadow off from the human world. She later questions Bell about whether protecting the town is worthwhile if innocent people are hurt during the process. After the battle, Luminous joins the group, and is glad everyone is alright.
Shiny Luminous
The light's heart and the light's will, for the sake of uniting all as one!"
輝く生命、シャイニールミナス!
光の心と光の意志、総てをひとつにするために!
Kagayaku inochi, Shainī Ruminasu!
Hikari no kokoro to hikari no ishi, subete wo hitotsu ni suru tame ni!
Shiny Luminous (シャイニールミナス )? is Hikari's alter ego. She transforms with Pollun when he is in his Touch Commune form. Her weapon is the Heartiel Baton which she uses to perform the attack, Heartiel Action and she also uses it in group attacks. Later, when Lulun appears, she receives the Heartiel Brooch.
As Shiny Luminous, she wields the Heartiel Baton, and uses this for Heartiel Action, as well as combining strength with Cure Black and Cure White to perform Extreme Luminario, later upgraded to Extreme Luminario Max for the final battle as the reborn Queen. She is very strong and is a lot of help in battles, but she often gets protection from Cure Black and Cure White. Little do they know, as long as she's with them, no protection is needed.
Transformation
Holding the Touch Commune in her right hand, Hikari first waves her left hand across the Commune to activate it. She then lifts up her head and shouts out the transformation phrase. A golden stream of light can be seen rising up to the sky behind her in this scene. Golden light then shines from her chest, and clouds of gold dust whip up from the ground to surround her. The hairtie and hairpins then disappear and her braids start to unravel. Close-ups of her costume are then shown, focusing on her sleeves and skirt. The large bow at her chest then forms, and her hair, which has changed shade of color, is shown to lengthen. The pink silhouette of her Heartiel Baton in Heart Mode then spins down from the sky and into her hands, before exploding in golden light. Luminous introduces herself as the camera spins around her, and stretches out her hands as the Heartiel Baton silhouette explodes in pink light. She then speaks her introductory speech as golden light surrounds her. At the end of the sequence, the Heartiel Baton silhouette zooms towards the camera and the winds down around Luminous.
Attacks
Golden Powers
In the first movie of Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, Shiny Luminous, along with Cure Black and Cure White, gains an upgraded version of her outfit thanks to the power of the Diamond Line, accessories of the queen in the Garden of Hope.
This form is not seen again, most likely because it needs the power of the accessories to be activated, and it is no longer possible for the girls to visit the Garden of Hope again.
Power of the Phoenix
In Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi, Hinata ran out of power after the fight against Frozen and Freezen and was out cold. Shiny Luminous was inspired by Hinata's desire to fly, and encouraged her to not give up. She, Cure Black, Cure White, the Sage of the Garden of Clouds, Muta, Mepple, Mipple, Pollun, and Lulun all transfer their powers to the newborn. This allows Shiny Luminous to undergo a second transformation, and turn Hinata into a phoenix.
She gets a boost in powers, as she used it to restore all of Hinata's energy. In this form, the Heart Baton becomes a lighter pink, and uses fire powers.
After awakening Hinata again, her upgrade disappears, and is never seen again. This may be because it was summoned by Hinata, who is now in the Garden of Clouds as a fully realized phoenix. However, in Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: Kibou no Hikari - Rainbow Jewel o Mamore!, Shiny Luminous' Cure Rainbow form resembles this up-grade.
Rainbow Shiny Luminous
Rainbow Shiny Luminous (レインボーシャイニールミナス )? is an upgrade Shiny Luminous gains in Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: Kibou no Hikari - Rainbow Jewel o Mamore!. Together with the others' upgrades, the group of seventeen girls form the group Cure Rainbow. This upgraded outfit resembles that of Shiny Luminous' upgrade in Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi with slight changes and a pair of small gold wings.
Songs
Hikari's voice actor, Tanaka Rie, has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. One of them includes a group song with Honna Yōko, who voices Misumi Nagisa, and also Yukana, who voices Yukishiro Honoka.
Group Songs
- Max Heart let's GO GO GO!! (Along with Honna Yōko and also Yukana)
Trivia
- Hikari is the first character to:
- Be a Cure who has the ability to transform and attack individually.
- Not to be a human.
- Be a reincarnation along with Hikaru, in this case she is the Queen's new life.
- Have a cousin, though not a biological one but a proclaimed one, Akane.
- Hikari's birthday falls on September 9th, which is a reference to her family name for Kujou means "nine". Therefore, Hikari's zodiac is Virgo.
- Hikari's blood type is AB.
- In the Pretty Cure All Stars Suite Flower Card Collection, Hikari is represented by the oxalis, which symbolizes joy and kindness in the Language of Flowers.
- Hikari appeared as Shiny Luminous to give the 10th anniversary congratulatory message at the beginning of episode 21 in the Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! series.
- According to her voice actor, her favourite quote from Hikari is: "Life is something that just keeps shining... something that is not used by anyone and is free from anyone... even if this child is born from darkness, it is kindness, warmth, and life." It has the brilliance of...that's why!" (命は...ただそこに輝き続けるもの...誰にも利用されず、誰からも自由であるもの...この子は、たとえ闇から生まれたとしても、優しさ、ぬくもり、命の輝きを持っている…だから! )?
Gallery
- Main Page: Kujou Hikari/Image Gallery