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Yayoi Kise ( Lily West in the English Dub Glitter Force) is one of the main heroines in Smile Pretty Cure!.
Her alter ego is Cure Peace or Glitter Peace in the Glitter Force dub. She holds the power of lightning.
She is voiced by Hisako Kanemoto in the Japanese version, and by Alex Cazares in the English version, who also voiced Ashura Ōtsutsuki as a child in Naruto: Shippuden and Carlino Casagrande in The Casagrandes.
Appearance
Out of the 5 girls, Yayoi is the shortest in terms of height. She has blond shoulder-length hair with straight bangs. The back of her hair curls inwards to frame her head, and is held back with a white headband with orange ornaments at each end. Her eyes are hazel. She normally dresses in a pale yellow long-sleeved blouse with cuffs, a yellow dress over this, frilly socks and orange shoes. Her summer outfit consists of a white top with short puffed sleeves under a light yellow ruffled blouse, light blue shorts, light yellow socks and light orange sandals. She wears her school uniform with a yellow tie and a pale yellow sweater.
Cure Peace's hair is styled in a high ponytail that fans out wide, with a slight curl at the tips. Her bangs are styled in curls as well. Her eyes become a brighter shade of yellow to match. Her tiara has two angel wings attached, and she wears it on the right side of her head. Her outfit is mainly yellow, with dark yellow lining and white highlights. Her sleeves are double-layered with a puffy piece below, and the bow at her chest is big with a small white frilly piece behind it. Her back of her top is split into two coat-tails, each of which is split in the middle to give a petal-like appearance, and her skirt has a frilly layer underneath it. Her arm protectors are extremely short, with dark yellow ribbons at the wrists. Her boots are short with yellow at the top and small dark yellow ribbons.
In Tiara mode, her white tiara is replaced by a golden crown worn in the center of her head. The centerpiece of her tiara is a yellow star, and the angel wings at the side of her tiara turn golden as well. Her white angel wing earrings are replaced by gold ribbon-shaped earrings with yellow hearts in the center.
Personality
She is a shy girl with a big heart. She was first depicting as a crybaby, "crying over the slightest nudge". Though she had a few friends, she mostly kept to her own due to her shy and modest nature. When Miyuki and Akane saw what potential she had in art, they managed to draw a more passionate fire out of her. When their lives were put it danger, she completely shed her baby-ish personality and showed her true strengths.
Now that she's made a few friends, Yayoi has became more energetic and passionate about being a Pretty Cure, especially the superheroic elements. She is quite bubbly, sweet and outgoing, and while she may appear as a crybaby, she is actually quite strong when it comes to protecting her friends and making the right decision.
Attack
- Peace Thunder - Cure Peace first charges up her Smile Pact with fighting spirit, making it glow and grant her power. Cure Peace then makes a peace sign above her head, and lightning shoots down from the sky onto her hand, giving her an electric shock. She then spins around with lightning bolts circling her, concentrates the energy onto both hands in their peace signs and projects the bolt at the enemy. For Glitter Force, the attack is renamed Sparkle Lightning.
- Peace Thunder Hurricane - An upgraded version of Peace Thunder.
- Thunder Blizzard - Her combination attack with Cure Beauty used to fight together.
- Rainbow Healing - is the group attack, which appears on episode 12, and once the Cures gain the Miracle Jewel Decor, and all are on Tiara Mode, they are capable on defeating the Blue Nosed Akanbe.
- Rainbow Burst - is the second group attack, which appears on episode 23, the attack could be done with the Princess Candle, and also when they are on Princess Mode, and they are capable on defeating the enemy.
- Royal Rainbow Burst - is the third group attack, which appears on episode 32, you need the Princess Candle, and the Royal Clock, and when they are on Princess mode, they are capable on doing the attack.
- Although the name is unknown, another attack is done with her friends, as Cure Peace can summon a huge rainbow shield or barrier in the movie "Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage: Friends of the Future!". This is further enhanced by Fu-chan's last bit of power.
Trivia
- In her introductory speech, Cure Peace says "pikapika", which, like "kirakira" (by Cure Happy), is the onomatopoeia equivalent of "sparkling" in Japanese.
- In her introductory speech, Cure Peace says "jankenpon", the Japanese word for the game "Rock Paper Scissors". This may be a pun on her Cure name, as the hand sign for the scissors in the game is also the hand signal for peace.
- The hand sign she makes during her introduction also differs in each episode, with her randomly making the sign for either rock, paper or scissors. This makes her the first Cure in the franchise to have a varying introduction scene.
- Yayoi is the second Cure to have artistic skills, the first being Mai Mishou that both are different, each with a different style.
- Cure Peace is the third blonde Cure with her hair styled into a ponytail, following Cure Sunshine, Cure Pine and Cure Rhythm.
- She is the seventh Cure to have blonde hair overall, following Shiny Luminous, Cure Lemonade, Cure Pine, Cure Peach, Cure Sunshine and Cure Rhythm.
- Yayoi is the only Smile Cure who is not athletic (Miyuki does cheerleading, Akane does volleyball, Nao does football, and Reika does archery).
- Yayoi's voice actor is Hisako Kanemoto, famous for voicing Ika Musume in the story Ika Musume and Sailor Mercury in Sailor Moon Crystal.
- Yayoi has similarities to Hikari Kujou and Urara Kasugano:
- They are shorter than their Pretty Cure teamates.
- All have yellow as their theme colour.
- Both are third in their Pretty Cure group.
- All are artistic:
- Hikari practises culinary arts (cooking), Urara practises dramatic arts (acting) and Yayoi practices visual arts (drawing, painting, etc.).
- She also shares similarities with Pikachu from Pokémon:
- Both have yellow as their theme color.
- Both have electricity as their main power.
- Both say "pikapika".
- Coincidently, Candy's voice actress voices Pikachu.
- In the Pokemon games, types lays the foundation of a complex yet mostly logical "rock-paper-scissors" system.
- The hand signs Cure Peace makes during her introduction also refers to the game "rock-paper-scissors."
- Yayoi is the third Cure with a deceased parent, preceded by Urara (Cure Lemonade) and Yuri (Cure Moonlight).
- Yayoi is, among the fandom, the most popular of the Smile Cures, if not of the entire franchise in the past four years after the show’s finale, to the point of getting more fanart than the others as soon as her first official full body images were shown. This is probably due to her extreme moe appeal.
- Yayoi shows these following similarities with Urara Kasugano from Yes! Pretty Cure 5:
- Both have yellow as their theme color.
- Both are the only child in their respective families.
- Both have lost 1 of their parents while they were still young.
- Both are the shortest in their respective groups, in terms of height.
- Both of them have their same hair color, that is blonde.
- Both are the third Cures of their respective groups.
- Interestingly, Toshie Kawamura is the character designer for both of them.
- Yayoi will appear as Cure Peace to give the 10th anniversary congratulatory message at the beginning of episode 29 of Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!
- Cure Peace is the first Cure to have thunder-themed attacks.
- For the English dub Glitter Force, Akane (Cure Sunny) and Yayoi (Cure Peace) are the only two who keep their original Cure names, as Glitter Sunny and Glitter Peace.
