Minazuki Karen

Minazuki Karen is one of the five main Cures in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!. She is a third-year student at L'École des Cinq Lumières, and she's also the student council president and in the same class as Akimoto Komachi Her alter ego is Cure Aqua and she is known as the Pretty Cure of Intelligence. Karen has dark blue eyes with thick eyebrows. Her matching colored hair is worn loose with some strands over the left shoulder and her bangs brushed to the left. In GoGo! her casual outfit is a bluish-gray top and skirt with a bow on the back, and navy heels. In Yes! Pretty Cure 5: Kagami no Kuni no Miracle Daibouken!, Karen wore a light purple jacket with fluffy trim over a dark teal outfit with light grey boots. As Cure Aqua, her eyes and hair turn bright blue, with her hair growing out into a straightened ponytail held with a blue butterfly adorned by a red gem. She also gains blue butterfly earrings. Her outfit is styled like Cure Mint's, a white mini-dress with blue lining and bow around the waist and pale yellow straps circling the off-shoulder sleeves. These are trim with pale blue ruffles to match the secondary skirt layer, and on the chest is a butterfly, but this one is pale yellow. She also gains dark blue shorts and blue boots with a butterfly, and gloves to match her dress with a light blue butterfly on the hand, her Pinky Catch worn on the wrist. As Super Cure Aqua, the ruffles on her sleeves and boots grow longer while her skirt gains an extra layer. She has large blue butterfly wings. In GoGo!, her earrings and shorts remain the same, while her hair butterfly loses it's gem in favor of a magenta flower. Her gloves and boots change in style, along with her chest butterfly, which connects to her CureMo. Her dress loses it's outer layer in favor of a pastel blue vest lined in blue, accenting the new straps of her full sleeves. The ruffles have become pale chiffon. As Super Cure Aqua, her outfit is similar to Shining Dream's. She has pale pink roses on her chest and her hair ornament and small gold wings. Karen is strongly admired for being calm and stoic, a mature young woman who has come to cover up her insecurities and feelings of loneliness. She dearly misses her parents as they are usually away, but out of obligation and feeling that everything rests on her shoulders she refuses to let it get to her, she has come to think she needs to do everything by herself. She was originally very enthusiastic about being class representative prior to meeting Komachi, but by the time it began wearing her down she was forced to keep going to be there for her. Because of her position, Karen is able to memorize all the names and faces of all the Cinq Lumières students, and also easily takes responsibility when something happens to the school, as seen in the second episode where she wants Nozomi to explain what happened to the library the other day. While usually calm in temperament, when pushed enough she can sometimes get to a point where she ends up saying hurtful or offensive things to other people, shown in episode 23, where she called Komachi naive and indecisive. Even though she wasn't involved in the issue that upset her. In episode 5 and 6, Karen acted as though her time with the Pretty Cure had been a made up story. But with their company, she had a lot of fun. When she meets Coco, she was quite stunned and scared after they were attacked. She wanted to help her friends after they got hurt, but when the blue butterfly disappeared, she was shocked and held a lot of grief and depression. But encouraged by Nozomi and stunned by her hopes and friendship, she was happy and dealt with it the best she could. Finally, she became a Pretty Cure at the end of Episode 6 and the more she spends time with her teammates, the more she has fun with them. In episode 29, Jii-ya was happy to see her making jokes, glad to see she's began to open up.