Regina

Regina レジーナ Rejīna
Main information
Season	Doki Doki! Pretty Cure
Debut	Doki Doki! Pretty Cure - Episode 12
Age	14
Home Place	Selfish Kingdom (formerly) Oogai Town (currently)
Relatives	Madoka Aguri (younger sister) King Jikochuu/Trump King (father)
Role	Villain (formerly) Pretty Cure Ally Pretty Cure (post-novel, temporarily)
Theme Colour	Black (main) Red (normal; sub) Purple (evil; sub)
Power	Creating Jikochuus (formerly)
Weapon	Miracle Dragon Glaive
Voice Actor	Watanabe Kumiko Cherami Leigh (English Dub)
Image Song	I am the best
Appearances
Doki Doki! Pretty Cure Pretty Cure All Stars: Haru no Carnival♪ (cameo) HUGtto! Pretty Cure episode 37 (cameo) Doki Doki! Pretty Cure Manga (Kamikita Futago) Live on Stage shows

Regina (レジーナ, Regina)^? is the former secondary antagonist of Doki Doki! Pretty Cure. She is one of King Jikochuu's daughters, and acts as his second in command. Over the course of the series, she strikes up a friendship with Aida Mana.

In the novel, she fuses with Madoka Aguri and Ai to become a Pretty Cure known as Cure Joker (キュアジョーカー, Cure Joker)^?.

Bio

Appearance

Regina has long blonde hair that reaches down to her ankles and is decorated with a red bow on the top of her head. She wears a dark grey dress decorated with red details and a black jacket. When her evil outfit debuts after she is brainwashed by King Jikochuu, her bow, and details on her outfit are purple. Regina's eyes are normally blue, but when she is brainwashed or controlled by the red Royal Crystal, her eyes turn red. Her skin and hair even become pale once she is brainwashed.

As Cure Joker, she retains her blonde hair but has expanded and also has additional flairs that resemble Cure Ace's red hair. Her right eye is red, while her left eye is blue. She wears a purple ribbon on her head's left side, a pink ribbon on her right, and a red and gold crown with fuchsia frills. Her long-sleeved dress is a mix of black and red accents, white frills and collar, a red rhombus gem donned on her neck, a dark pink ribbon with a light pink heart on her chest, dark pink and purple back ribbons, dark pink rims, and adorned with yellow accents, a blue spade, and a green clover. She also has long black and red socks, respectively, the same as the accents of her indigo shoes. Her shoes also have a pink and purple ribbon respectively.

Personality

Regina is selfish, vain, and spoiled. She treats everyone like peasants and hates anyone who is more beautiful than her. She threatens the Selfish Trio if they don't do what she wants. She is also playful and tries to make Mana play with her.

At the end of the season, Regina is no longer evil and has become a friendlier person, despite still being a bit clingy. She is still somewhat bratty, selfish, and childish, but truly cherishes her family and friends.

Relationships

• Aida Mana: Following the previous battle from episode 15, she takes an interest in Mana and befriends her. Throughout the series, she is manipulative and possessive towards Mana, refusing to let her hang out with her other friends. She becomes a better friend to Mana after her reformation.
• Madoka Aguri: Both are sisters and rivals. Aguri is destined to fight Regina since they represent Princess Marie Ange's light and darkness. By the end of the season, they have made amends with each other. Although her childishness often bothers Aguri, both Regina and Aguri care a lot about each other.
• King Jikochuu/Trump King: Regina's father. He continually brainwashes her as he refuses to let Regina join the Cures. Regina loves him deeply, and in return the King does care about her.

Etymology

If the R and the I are removed from Regina, and remaining letters were read from the end, it would be read as "Ange". Regina also means queen in Latin, which foreshadows that she is part of Marie Ange's soul.

Cure Joker is known to be an eccentric genius who has the wits to successfully fool their foes and even their allies with their whimsical actions especially in card games.

History

The History Of Regina And Aguri

Many years ago, Princess Marie Ange fell ill to a terminal disease. Only the Eternal Golden Crown, one of the Three Sacred Treasures, had the knowledge to save her. However, the crown is being used to imprison the evil sealed away by the legendary Pretty Cure. Desperate to save his daughter, the king of the Trump Kingdom stole the crown but was consumed by the evil and transformed into the King Jikochuu. Unable to fight her father, Princess Marie Ange broke her heart into two parts. The part that loves her father, her darkness, and the part that wants to protect her people, her light. Ange's body was then transformed into an egg which will later be born as Ai. The darkness of Ange's heart went back to the King Jikochuu and was reborn as Regina while the light was reborn as Madoka Aguri and was sent to earth.

First Appearance

Regina appears, commenting that the Cures will make fun playmates.^DDPC12 Regina suddenly appears before the girls. Thinking she was the princess, the girls ask her if she liked roses. However, Regina clicks her fingers, and the roses start to shrivel up and die. The girls get scared as Regina suddenly leaves. At the end of the episode, she approaches Bel, Marmo, and Ira, declaring that she's King Jikochuu's daughter and is here to help the Selfish Trio.^DDPC13

Meeting The Cures And Befriending Mana

Regina properly meets the Cures when she summons her first Jikochuu. After watching the Cures defeat her Jikochuu, she formally introduces herself, even telling them she is King Jikochuu's daughter which upsets Cure Sword. Regina then runs off with an interest in the Cures, especially Mana.

Because of her interest in Mana, Regina appears once more while Mana was with her friends. Makoto recognizes Regina and tells Mana not to befriend her, however, Mana walks away with Regina, which angers Makoto. Regina drags Mana out of the school so they can play. As they hang out, Regina tells Mana to forget about her friends, but Mana disagrees. Regina gets angry and creates a Jikochuu to hurt Mana's friends. Mana catches up and transforms into Cure Heart to help defeat the Jikochuu. After everything goes back to normal, Regina wonders it means to be a real friend.

The Crystals

After stumbling across the Marie Ange-like statue with Mana and her friends, Regina notices a crystal on her chest. Taking an interest in it, Regina plucks the crystal off the statue, which in turns breaks it. As she admits to wanting to befriend Mana's friends as well, the crystal glows, making her eyes turn red. Regina then demands for for the remaining crystals. Angry that the girls wouldn't hand them over, Regina turns the statue's creator into a Jikochuu. After a quick run in with Joe, Regina leaves with the red crystal. ^DDPC17

Regina comes up with a game to play with the Cures, where the loser would have to hand over their crystals to the winner. Throughout the game, Regina cheats and becomes upset when she realizes she lost. In one last desperate attempt, Regina creates a Jikochuu to steal the crystals, which works as the Cures go back home without them. Regina decides to appear in front of the girls with the crystals, but as she starts to talk, the crystals glow and fly away. ^DDPC19

While searching for the crystals, Regina comes across the Cures, in which Heart starts admitting her feelings towards her. Regina rejects Mana and summons a big snowball, which Sword destroyed with Sparkle Sword. However, her attack also creates a hole beneath her. As Regina falls, Heart grabs her hand, only to fall down with her. Regina wakes up in an ice cave to see the crystals in front of a frozen Marie Ange. When Mana wakes up, they talk about her recent behavior when the other Cures arrive. Before they could do anything, a Jikochuu appears, which the Cures easily defeat. But then Regina is taken away by the Bel, Ira and Marmo. ^DDPC20

Going Back To Trump Kingdom

After Trio captured Regina, she is taken to Trump Kingdom, and gets scolded by King Jikochuu, who then electrocutes her because of her close relationship to a Cure. The Cures arrive and are fighting hordes of Jikochuu, when Cure Heart realizes that Regina was hurt. Cure Heart arrives to help her, then suddenly a spider Jikochuu came and made a hole in which Cure Heart and Regina were falling into. Cure Heart is then hung by a thread, as Regina had her arms wrapped around her neck to hold on to Cure Heart.

Cure Heart begins to quickly climb but is told by Regina to stop, due to the rope beginning to break. Regina asks what she is to Cure Heart, who replies that they're friends. Regina tells her about her feelings of Mana and Cure Heart, believing that what she feels is love, then a single tear falls on her cheek and she says 'Mana, I love you.' Regina then lets go of Cure Heart and begins to fall into the magma, but Cure Heart doesn't want it to happen and catches Regina with her feet. Regina, seeing this, then recovers, breaking the bind placed on her and flies into the sky with Cure Heart. Regina accompanies the Cures while leaving Trump Kingdom, but she still thinks of her father. ^DDPC21

Becoming Evil Again

After Regina left her father, she becomes worried and has thoughts of being bad again, though Mana tells her not to worry. Being invited by Mana to Mana's home, she eats with Mana's family, and notices that Mana's family is kind. Although happy, Regina simultaneously feels a curious pain in her heart. While in Mana's bedroom, Regina and Mana talked about King Jikochuu, before they decide to temporarily forget about their worries by having a sleepover. The next day, Regina and the others go to the beach and play together, when the Selfish Trio suddenly arrives to attack the Cures and take back Regina.

Then an illusion of the King Jikochuu suddenly comes and engulfed Regina inside a giant black tornado to have a chat with her, as he wants her to come back to him and break all her bonds with the Cures. Regina rejects initially, but he continues about all the pain she felt was caused by the Cures. She still doesn't buy into it, so the King Jikochuu zaps her dark lightning, turning her heart black with selfishness once again. Her usual red and black color scheme for her outfit is turned into a black and purple one. The Cures notice her change in appearance and realize that King Jikochuu is controlling her. Regina fires away with her new found powers, and completely dominates the Cures, until suddenly one of her attacks are stopped right in its tracks by a new mysterious Cure. ^DDPC22

As Regina sees Cure Ace, she continues attacking, but she is no match for Ace. Mana, seeing Regina get hurt by Ace, then starts to cry. Finally, Ace almost purifies Regina with Ace Shot, severely weakening Regina. Bel comes and takes the Regina, who suddenly begins shouting at Mana and blaming Mana for everything. Regina is then put into a coma-like state of sleep by King Jikochuu, after the Selfish Trio retreated with her. ^DDPC23

The Return Of Regina

Regina awakens from her slumber. ^DDPC37 She then continues her role as a second in command of the trio. ^DDPC38 Later on, Regina pulls the Miracle Dragon Glaive out, with her gaining ownership of the Glaive due to her love for her father.^DDPC39 For the next few episodes, each of the Cures attempts to bring her back to the good side, but each time they got close to doing so, she still remains evil.

It is later revealed that Regina and Aguri are light and darkness of Marie Ange. While Aguri chose to protect others, chose to side with her father to conquer Earth. When Heart finally makes her feelings reach Regina, her father attacks Heart, but Regina protects her. Regina, along with Heart and Ace, tries to make King Jikochuu remember what love is, but their words fall on deaf ears.^DDPC45

Saving The King

After discovering that she loves not only her father but also her friends, Regina teams up with the Pretty Cure in order to save her father Trump King, who is trapped inside the heart of King Jikochuu. Together with her biological sisters Madoka Aguri and Ai, Regina is able to help the king regain his love and free him. But before the Pretty Cure can celebrate, Bel arrives and absorbs the remaining evil of the King Jikochuu.

Regina and Aguri, along with their father and friends, then watch Marie Ange fade away after the battle against Bel is over. As explained by Marie Ange, Regina and Aguri have become their own individuals through her Psyches, and encourages them to live out their lives.^DDPC49

Epilogue

It is revealed in the last episode that she has transferred to Oogai First Middle School as a first year student. Even though Regina is not an official Cure, she is acknowledged to be part of the Doki Doki! Pretty Cure team. ^DDPC49

As revealed in the Doki Doki! Pretty Cure novel, Regina struggles to accept herself as an ally of the Cures, and doubts her own abilities. She later temporarily becomes Cure Joker along with Aguri, when the Selfish villains Lust, Goma and Kurata start causing troubles and stirring conflicts between the Trump Republic and United Nations. She and Aguri then later meet Princess Marie Ange's spirit, who tells Regina that she has all the qualities of a Cure despite not being a full-time one. In the end, Regina has gained a new sense of self-acceptance, after she along with Aguri and the other Cures succeed in defeating the villains.

Abilities

Her powers are shown in episode 15. She can turn people into Jikochuu by finding people's hidden selfishness rather than acting when the thoughts come to the surface, as the other villains do. She is able to color a person's Psyche black when she summons a Jikochuu.

To summon a Jikochuu, Regina first tilts her head, jumps and twirls a little, and then jumps again before summoning dark energy. She then shoots it out of her finger towards a heart to paint it black, thus summoning a Jikochuu.

In episode 39, Regina achieves the powers of the Miracle Dragon Glaive, after it responds to the love she has toward her father. The spear is fueled by Regina's love. It can (at full power) propel massive jolts of energy that take the form of a dragon.

Although not a power used in combat, Regina (like Madoka Aguri) can grow older for a short period of time due to the amount of love she receives and emits.

Cure Joker

Cure Joker

"The last trump card, Cure Joker! Want to try an exciting rendezvous with me?"
最後の切り札、キュアジョーカー！私とわくわくランデヴーしてみない？
Saigo no kirifuda, Kyua Jōkā! Watashi to wakuwaku randevū shite minai?

Cure Joker (キュアジョーカー, Cure Joker)^? is Regina's alter ego. She transforms with the phrase, "Pretty Cure! Double Up!", and fuses with Aguri and Ai. It is currently a one-time transformation for Regina so far.

The red eye belongs to Aguri, while the blue eye belongs to Regina.

In this form, Regina and Aguri speak in unison. However, when their opinions clash, Regina's voice converses with Aguri's.

Songs

Regina's voice actor, Watanabe Kumiko has participated in one image song for the character she voices.

• I am the best

Trivia

• Regina shares her voice actor with Natsuki Yu from Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and its sequel, and Jeffrey from Fresh Pretty Cure!.
• Regina shares her Cure name with Joker from Smile Pretty Cure!.
• Regina is the first character in the franchise to:
  • be a black Cure since Cure Black from Futari wa Pretty Cure.
  • become an additional Cure in a novel.
    • She is also the first fusion Cure to be introduced to the franchise.
  • have heterochromia as a Cure.
    • Dark Pretty Cure also has heterochromia, but she doesn't count due to being a villain herself.
• Regina was believed to be Cure Ace by many of the fans before Cure Ace's true identity was revealed.
  • This is because each of the Royal Crystals has a color matching the Doki Doki! Cures. The first three Royal Crystals were found in an episode that revolves around a Cure. The Cure that matched the Crystal was involved in finding it.
    • Alice won the Yellow Rose that had the yellow Royal Crystal.
    • The Karuta Queen gave Rikka two sets of Karuta cards that had the blue Royal Crystal. 
    • Ootori Tamaki gives Makoto her battered script as thanks, the script had the purple Royal Crystal.
  • Since Regina was involved in finding the red Royal Crystal (by breaking a statue) and was the only girl wearing red, fans believed that Regina would be the next Cure.
• Regina ranked as the 15th top anime character in Animage's December 2013 issue.
• Although being an older sister herself, Regina can technically considered as Aguri's twin, as they were born at the same time when Princess Marie Ange's heart was split into two Psyches.

Gallery

Main Page: Regina/Image Gallery