Tategami Aoi (立神あおい )? is one of the six main Cures in KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode. She is a second-year student at Ichigozaka Middle School. She is the vocalist of Wild Azur. She is as brave and free as a lion. Her parents run the famous Tategami Corporate.
Aoi's alter ego is Cure Gelato (キュアジェラート )?, the Pretty Cure of freedom and passion, and she is based on ice cream and lions. Her catchphrases are "I'm getting fired up!" (燃えてきたーーー! )? and "Woooah!" (ウォーーー! )?
Bio[]
Appearance[]
Aoi has bright blue eyes and dark blue hair styled in a thick ponytail held by a yellow ribbon. Her usual attire consists of a white raglan top with light blue sleeves, a light blue mini-skirt, and a dark blue leather jacket with a tiny gold crown pinned on the lapel. She wears a pair of black and white sneakers with blue thigh highs. During summer, she wears a light blue T-shirt that has holes cut out of the shoulders and a gold crown design at the bottom. She also wears light blue denim shorts and blue sandals.
In winter, Aoi wears a sky blue hoodie with a dark gray pleated skirt along with dark gray lace-up boots and blue stockings. Occasionally, she may wear her leather jacket and a pair of blue gloves. Notably, she has visible fanged teeth.
In the movie, Aoi can be seen wearing a long-sleeved cerulean blue shirt with light blue denim shorts and dark blue boots. At the party, she wears a blue dress with a red brooch, white gloves, and blue shoes.
As Cure Gelato, Aoi's hair turns brighter and thickens, resembling a lion's mane. Her lion's ears are blue and white, and her tail is light blue with a tuft of fur. Her top is indigo and metallic with a white fluffy collar and short indigo and yellow sleeves. Across the chest is a triangular patch resembling an ice cream cone. She also wears a cream and sky blue skirt resembling ice cream with her Sweets Pact on the left decorated with a blue bow. She also wears thick deep blue gloves and matching boots with white animal toes. Under her boots are cyan stockings with the right one pulled up. Her accessories include gold crown-shaped earrings, a gold crown with a scoop of ice cream inside, and a blue choker.
In the movie, she wears a sloth costume. As Super Cure Gelato, her hairstyle, crown, ears, tail, earrings, and gloves remain the same. Her dress slightly resembles her original one, but the top is light blue with fluffy sleeves and a different collar. Her skirt is also lighter in color with a longer white layer in the back underneath the blue and white layer. Her boots, stockings, bow, and choker are also lighter in color. In the back are white wings.
In her A La Mode Style, her hair grows out more, and she gains a fluffy pale blue hood. Her choker is dark blue. Her sleeve cuffs are fluffy to match her altered collar, and her skirt changes in shape to gain an additional, fluffy pale blue layer. A long, cape-like layer with large light blue spheres hangs from the back. Her gloves gain a fluffy wrist, while one boot extends to the thigh, the other above the ankle with a fluffy cuff.
Personality[]
Aoi is an enthusiastic and bold individual, who is brave and passionate. Her strength seems boundless, and she is always eager to try new things. Above everything else, she desires freedom and feels stifled by the strict rules at home, which require her to behave and dress more appropriately. Initially, Aoi's competitive nature makes it hard for her to accept her own shortcomings, but she eventually learns to let go and embrace her personality, which is "hard and chewy," and develops her own unique musical style.
Relationships[]
- Usami Ichika: Ichika is a big fan of Aoi, and is delighted when she finds that Aoi goes to her school. After becoming Cure Gelato, Aoi and Ichika become good friends with each other.
- Arisugawa Himari: Despite being almost the exact opposite, Aoi and Himari are good friends, and become quite close throughout the events of episode 35.
- Misaki Ayane: Aoi was inspired by Ayane to start singing, and idolizes her. In episode 27, Aoi tells Ayane that her dream is to someday surpass her, which Misaki appreciates.
- Mizushima Mitsuyoshi: Her butler. They have a close-knit relationship as he had looked after her since she was a child. At first, Mitsuyoshi was unwilling to allow Aoi to be a rock star, but later changes his mind and respects her dream.
- Sonobe Kei, Yokogawa Ryuuta and Asaka Sara: Her three friends from the band Wild Azur, who all share their love of music with her. Kei found Aoi busking on the streets, and introduced her to Ryuuta and Sara. Aoi succeeds Kei as the leader after Kei leaves the band.
Etymology[]
Tategami (立神 )? - Tate (立 )? means "stand" while Gami (神 )? means "god". However, when combined together, it means "spirit". With the use of a different kanji (鬣), Tategami can also mean 'Mane', which references her theme animal.
Aoi (あおい )? means "blue" (青い) which probably has something to do with her signature color.
Cure Gelato is the Italian word for ice cream.
History[]
Past[]
Childhood[]
As a child born in the prestigious Tategami Corporate, Aoi grew up with her butler Mizushima Mitsuyoshi, but gradually grew tired of her routinely life. One day after she noticed Misaki Ayane's show, she became inspired and sought to get freedom through rock music, but grew distant with Mizushima who was more about adhering to the rules of the Tategami household.
Joining Wild Azur[]
Aoi has always dreamed to become a rock star, so she practices her music skills through busking. One day, Sonobe Kei finds her on the street, and he befriends her by inviting her to join his then unnamed band with his other friends Yokogawa Ryuuta and Asaka Sara. She enthusiastically agrees, and Kei names the band based on her theme color and passion.
Present[]
Becoming Cure Gelato[]
While Ichika and Himari are on their way to buy ingredients to make sweets, they overhear someone singing. They decide to check it out and see Aoi singing with her band Wild Azur, and Ichika enjoys the music. Aoi meets the two while they wait in line for some ice cream, stopping a couple of taunting high schoolers from cutting the line. Later, the band finds out that there will be a Battle of the Bands competition with Misaki Ayane, Aoi's idol, being one of the judges, so she volunteers to write the lyrics for the song. She has a difficult time coming up with anything decent, and even though Ichika tries to help her out, she still can't figure it out.
By the day of the contest, Aoi still hasn't come up with anything and starts to lose confidence when Ichika and Himari arrive backstage to give her some blue sky-inspired ice cream with a lion's face on it. Aoi takes a bite from it when she starts to have flashbacks of hearing Ayane perform live for the first time, which inspired her to become a rock singer. After eating it, she suddenly came up with the perfect lyrics for it and soon it is Wild Azur's turn to perform for the competition when Hotto, one of the Kirakiraru Thieves, attacks the stage, causing the crowd to evacuate. Ichika and Himari transform into Cure Whip and Cure Custard respectively, but Hotto's heat made it difficult for the two to hold him off. He then targets the ice cream that was kept safe in a cooler, but Aoi steps in to defend it, and her determination to protect it causes the ice cream to turn into an Animal Sweet and a Sweets Pact. Aoi then immediately transforms into Cure Gelato.
Using her newfound ice powers and lion's roar, she was able to hold Hotto off before she and the other two Cures sent him flying, freeing the Kirakiraru he consumed. Soon after, even with there being no crowd in sight, Aoi and her band perform the song she wrote and little by little, the audience returns to listen, including Ayane.KKPCALM03
Relationship With Mitsuyoshi[]
One day, when Aoi has a concert with her band, her butler Mitsuyoshi appears and drags her away without warning. This later results in Aoi's family heritage being exposed as her friends investigate Mitsuyoshi. Mitsuyoshi himself appears to object Aoi from playing rock music since he believes that she should be a refined heiress of her family, much to Aoi's frustration.
Later at the dinner party, Mitsuyoshi is one of the guests being harmed by Julio who crashes the event. Gelato then learns that Mitsuyoshi actually enjoys her songs which explains why his Kirakiraru is intact, and uses his Kirakiraru to overpower Julio.
In the end, Mitsuyoshi allows Aoi to be a band member and a pastry chef at the KIRAKIRA Patisserie as long as she is doing well at school.KKPCALM14
Falling And Getting Up[]
When realizing that she and her band have been chosen to be part of the Blue Rock Festival, Aoi is overjoyed. Unfortunately, it turns out that she and Misaki's band's performances clash with Wild Azur being overshadowed by Ganache. This causes Aoi to lose faith in her own dream, even when her friends try to cheer her up with gummies. This in turn makes her vulnerable to Elisio who turns her into Dark Gelato where she proceeds to destroy the festival.
However, her friends still want to wake her so Whip tells Gelato that the stage means a lot to her because it signifies her passion for music. This finally wakes Gelato up. She later meets up with Misaki and challenges Misaki to a duel the next time they meet each other.KKPCALM27
Farewell Concert[]
Aoi and the other members of Wild Azur are preparing for another concert battle with Ganache when Kei suddenly announces that he has to leave because of his entrance exams. Aoi, once again feeling lost because she will greatly miss her friend, decides that she will accept Misaki's offer to cancel the concert.
Her friends then decide to cheer her up by throwing a slumber party for her. Aoi is encouraged so she composes a new song. The next day, she tells her Wild Azur band mates that they won't give up easily nor will they fall apart. They all manage to have a blast at the concert despite it being temporarily interfered by Elisio. Their song "Aile" earn both Misaki and the audience's respect, as well as appreciation from Aoi's own parents.KKPCALM42
Epilogue[]
Years later, Aoi has finally accomplished her dream of becoming a rock star, and has become Wild Azur's leader as its lead singer. She is last seen singing passionately on stage with a beautiful smile.KKPCALM49
Cure Gelato[]
自由と情熱を!レッツ・ラ・まぜまぜ!キュアジェラート!できあがり!
Jiyū to Jōnetsu wo! Rettsu・Ra・Mazemaze! Kyua Jerāto! Dekiagari!
Cure Gelato (キュアジェラート )? is the Pretty Cure alter ego of Aoi. In order to transform, she needs the Sweets Pact and her Animal Sweets. She gains great physical strength and ice attacks and can also roar loud like a lion.
Transformation[]
Cure La Mode・Decoration!: The sequence begins with Aoi's Sweets Pact opening up and her reflection is shown in the mirror. She is now wearing a blue translucent dress and she then shouts "Cure La Mode・Decoration!" as she spins around, undoing the ribbon holding her ponytail, which disappears after she takes it out, and her hair becomes down. Her Animal Sweet appears and she then shouts "Ice!" as she grabs it and inserts it into the pact. Then a small light pink beater-like pen appears, which she takes and presses the light pink stars, saying "freedom" when pressing the first one and "passion" after pressing the second one. Beams of blue and cream-colored light respectively shine from the small bowl-like part of the pact after she presses them. She then shouts "Let's・La・Mix It All Up!" as she uses the stylus to mix the two lights together, which spin around and coalesce into what appears to be ice cream, which shoots from the pact.
Aoi then uses it to form four ice cream cones, with two of them having blue-colored ice cream and the other two having vanilla-colored ice cream. She spins around and her skirt appears. Then some of the ice cream travels to the upper part of her body, and she tugs part of it upward, forming her jacket-like top. She then draws a six-point star using her stylus, forming her Animal Sweet and after it disappears, her hair, hands and feet are seen glowing. First her gloves appear, and then her boots appear after landing. After that, her earrings, lion ears and tail appear before her hair becomes neon blue and becomes way longer and wilder. The case for her pact appears as it slides into it. Then her crown with a scoop of ice cream in it appears on top of her head. After that she pulls her right sock up and holds up devil horns with both hands before grabbing a guitar made of blue light, which she strums before striking a finishing pose.
Attacks[]
- Kirakira♪Kiraru: The main method of attack used by the Cures, which manifests in the form of magical batter within the Sweets Pact. As Cure Gelato, Aoi has shown she has the ability to:
- Encase her fists in ice.
- Completely freeze her opponents with her punches.
- Create large ice structures to launch at the foe.
- Combine her batter with Custard's and Whip's to perform a group attack.
- Whirl her Candy Rod around and roar to create a powerful sonic kirakiraru wave.
- Three・2・Wonderful A La Mode! (スイー・2・ワンダフルアラモード! )? is the group attack Cure Gelato performs with the other four Cures. To perform it, she must use the Candy Rod.
- Gelato Shake (ジェラートシェイク )? is the first sub attack Cure Gelato uses in episode 14. To perform it, she needs the Candy Rod.
- Animal Go Round! (アニマルゴーランド! )? is the group attack Cure Gelato performs with the other five Cures. To perform it, she must use the Kirakiraru Creamer and her Crystal Animal.
- Fantastic Animale (ファンタスティックアニマーレ! )? is the group attack Cure Gelato performs with the other five Cures. To perform it, she must she must use the Kirakiraru Creamer and her Crystal Animal and be in her A La Mode Style.
Songs[]
Aoi's voice actress, Muranaka Tomo, has participated in several image songs for the character she voices. Many of them include duets with Miyama Karen, who voices Usami Ichika, Fukuhara Haruka, who voices Arisugawa Himari, Fujita Saki, who voices Kotozume Yukari, Mori Nanako, who voices Kenjou Akira, Minase Inori, who voices Kirahoshi Ciel, and Machico, who voices Misaki Ayane.
Duets[]
- Let's・La・Cookin'☆Showtime ~KIRAKIRA☆Patisserie・Version~ (Along with Miyama Karen, Fukuhara Haruka, Fujita Saki, Mori Nanako and Minase Inori
- Mémoire・Mille-feuille (Along with Miyama Karen, Fukuhara Haruka, Fujita Saki, Mori Nanako and Minase Inori)
- Happiness☆Flavor (Along with Fukuhara Haruka)
- Soul Believer ~Misaki VS Aoi Version~ (Along with Machico)
Trivia[]
- Aoi's birthday is on August 27th, making her Zodiac sign Virgo.
- Aoi shares her given name with Natsuumi Aoi, a minor character from Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure.
- Aoi shares her voice actor with Kin, one of the Pumpkin Kingdom's fairies from Go! Princess Pretty Cure: Go! Go!! Gouka Sanbon Date!!!.
- Aoi is the first and so far only Cure to have fanged teeth.
- Cure Gelato is the only KiraKira A La Mode Cure who wears colored gloves. All other members wear white gloves.
- The band name Wild Azur was inspired by Aoi's theme color and spirited nature.
- According to the Ino Marie Toei Animation PreCure Works artbook, Aoi, along with Ichika and Himari, are twenty years old in the epilogue.
- It is implied that Aoi used to play the violin before she became interested in rock music.KKPCALM03
Gallery[]
- Main Page: Tategami Aoi/Image Gallery
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