Mikanki Amber

Mikanki Amber is one of the main protagonists of the Sky Pretty Cure Series. Amber is a smart and very elegant young girl. Other people might think that Amber might be a bit arrogant when they first meet her. But actually she is the exact opposite of that. Amber has got a good sense of fashion and designing. She is usually described as very helpful by to people who know her well. Currently, she lives with her aunt since her parents are somewhere else in Japan. Her catchphrase is "Completely elegant!" (完全にエレガント！).

Her alter ego is Cure Sienna (キュアシエナ), the Pretty Cure of light and elegance. She is represented by the orange color.

Basic Statistics

 * Name: Amber Mikanki
 * Japanese: 蜜柑木アンバー
 * Birthday: July 4th
 * Birthplace: Feather-Castletown
 * Zodiac: Cancer
 * Height: 172 cm
 * Weight: 65 kg
 * Blood Type: B
 * Species: Human
 * Personal Quote: Completely elegant!
 * Habit(s):
 * Favorite...
 * Food: Parfait; Strawberry, Pudding
 * Color: Yellow, Red
 * Music: Calm music

Fears

 * Amber is afraid of ghosts.
 * It has been shown that Amber might be afraid of heights.

Dreams

 * Amber has the dream to making something her imagination.
 * She wants to make other happy this the things she designs.
 * Amber loves working at MIKAN~PAN and wants to take it over one day.

Skills

 * -|Sport=
 * Amber has no skills in sport at all.
 * -|Studying=
 * Amber is pretty good at studying.
 * Compared with her two best friends, she is the best in studying.
 * -|Other=
 * Amber has a great imagination.
 * She loves and is really good at desgning things.
 * Amber has a big heart and help everyone as good as she cans.

Personality
Amber is a smart and very elegant young girl. Other people might think that Amber might be a bit arrogant when they first meet her. But actually she is the exact opposite of that. She might have got some ego and is very interested in how she looks, but she is a caring person who likes to help others with their problems. Like her two best friends, she can be pretty stubborn at some time and easily gets annoyed, especially when Ruby keeps being late. Adding to that, Amber is pretty clever and is always trying to help Ruby to get better grades. Amber has got a good sense of fashion and designing. And besides that, she good in creating ‘new sweets’ for the MIKAN~PAN, to help her aunt. She is usually described as very helpful by to people who know her well.

Clothing Style
Amber has a good sense of fashion, however, she only wears the things she likes. She has not many preferences but usually is not a big fan of "cool" clothes. She rather wears cute clothes or clothes that are considered as "sexy" by others. In civilian, Amber wears a orange tshirt that is one sleeved and ends under her chest. Underneath the tshirt, she wears a yellow top that goes over her hips and even covers parts of her skirt. Her skirt is dark blue, almost grey with white-yellowish buttons on it. She wears dark brown ankle boots and bracelets. A red one around her right wrist and an orange as well as a yellow one around her left wrists. Amber has wavy dark brown hair that goes past her shoulder. She also wears an orange hair band and her eye color is brown.
 * -|Casual=

During winter seasons, Amber wears a dark orange pullover with yellow dots on it. She wears a brown skirt that ends far over her knees. She wears black ankle boots and yellow socks. Outdoors, she wears a dark green winter jacket over it. In school, she has to wear the Nijiiro Private Middle School uniform for girls. The summer uniform consists of a short sleeved top that also as a dark sailor collar and a purple ribbon it. The uniform has a dark skirt that has a dark cyan belt. The students wear grey stockings and blue slippers.
 * -|School and Sport=

The winter uniform consists of a black blazer with a similar sailor collar as the summer uniform has. The skirt and it's belt is the same as well as the stockings and the slippers. As Cure Sienna, her hair becomes langer and become a orange color. She wears a yellow colored headband with a red ribbon on it. She wears a orange colored dress with a red ribbon, with a yellow heart on it, and a double-layered skirt and has a frilly layer underneath it. Her arm warmers have a orange color and her right arm warmer is shorter as the left one. Her boots are knee-length.
 * -|Pretty Cure=

When transforming as Mermaid into Cure Sienna, her hair grows longer, turns orange and is tied into a low pony tail, that is hold by a yellow shell. She wears a midriff bearing orange outfit. The top has a light blue layer of cloth and the skirt has two different layers. The first is yellow, while the second is orange. Over her skirt, she wears a sparkling grey-greenish cloth which looks like a mermaid's tail. The cloth is held by some pears. Her boots are knee-length.

In Holidays at Skyriver Cure Sienna gains small white, angel-like wings that are attached to her back. She is wearing a white tiara with a orange gem at it in her hair. The tiara is a part of the Heavenly Tiara. When working at MIKAN~PAN, Amber wears a greenish yellow dress with orange colored sleeves. She wears a light green apron with MIKAN~PAN's logo on it over the dress' skirt. She wears brown boots that have a little star on them. And she wears a light green headband.
 * -|Other=

As Sangatsu Amber Usagi-chan, she wears a dark white, long-sleeved shirt and wears a brown tie with yellow stripes. She wears a brown skirt with brown suspenders. She wears dark brown loafers and beige socks, ending under her knees. She wears a green head band with brown bunny ears attached to it.

When Amber transforms into a mermaid in Sky Pretty Cure 32, she wears a orange colored bikini top with a light blue layer. She wears a green and yellow colored mermaid's tail with an orange something that looks like a belt. She wears a organge gem on a necklace. A part of her hair is tied into a small pony tail, hold by a yellow shell and little pearls. She wears a orange colored tiara. In Holidays at Skyriver, Amber wears a long, one sleeved orange colored top with a white shirt, which is also one sleeved, underneath. She wears black jeans that reach under her knees and black and white boots. Instead of the orange hair band, she wears a bright yellow ribbon in her hair.
 * -|Movie=

In The Legend of the Rainbow Jewels, Amber wears a shoulder free blue colored top and a white skirt. She wears silver, almost grey, boots and a pink and red colored bracelet on her right arm.

Family

 * Mikanki Haru - Amber's aunt.
 * Mikanki Hinata - Amber's mother.
 * Mikanki Kenshin - Amber's father.

Friends

 * Mandarine - Amber's Fairy Partner.
 * Akahane Ruby - One of Amber’s best friends. Amber seems to like make jokes of Ruby’s way to be. She also gets fast annoyed by her always-being-late nature. But these are just minor facts and besides all of that, they are really good friends, even though Ruby doesn’t understand her love for fashion at all. And Amber would wish to see Ruby in a skirt one more time.
 * Kiishi Topaz - One of Amber's best friends. Unlike Ruby, Topaz actually understands Amber's 'love' for fashion. Sometimes it also seems like Topaz and Amber have a better sync together than with Ruby. Adding to that they usually have the same opinions most of time.
 * Midorikusa Emerald - Amber met Emerald for the first time, when the "Shiro students" had to move to the Nijiiro Private Middle School due to the renovating at their school. Even though they didn’t interact much on that day, the two became good friends. Originally the friendship seemed to be based off their Pretty Cure destiny but turned out to be real friendship.
 * Aomizu Sapphire - Amber and Sapphire are very good friends. They might have just become friends because they are in a Pretty Cure team, but they have really grown to each other. It might seem that Sapphire and Amber don’t have anything in common. Sapphire is the cool rocking girl, while Amber is the elegant fashion girl. But actually, they have quite a lot in common. For example both were raised with music. Sapphire also was very impressed that Amber was able to play the piano.
 * Shirosora Diamond - will be added soon
 * Low - Amber warms up fast towards Low. As she is to the most around her, she starts being nice and sometimes even smiles at him. She often brings him something from MIKAN~PAN.
 * Akahane Robin - Ruby's younger twin sister. Amber also gets along with Robin. They both share their hobby, which is designing things. They agree to let their dreams come true together one day.

Etymology
Mikanki (蜜柑木) - Mikan (蜜柑) means "Mandarin" or "Tangerine" or Mikan (ミカン) meaning "mandarin orange" references to her alter ego as Cure Sienna and her theme color, which is orange. Ki (木) means tree. Together, her surname means "Mandarin tree" or "Tangerine tree".

Amber (アンバー) - From the English word amber that denotes either the gemstone, which is formed from fossil resin, or the orange-yellow colour.

Cure Sienna - Her Cure alias is from the given name Sienna, which comes from the English word meaning "orange-red". It is ultimately from the name of the city of Siena in Italy, because of the colour of the clay there.

Sangatsu Amber-Usagi-chan (三月アンバーウサギちゃん) - Amber's name in Emerald's Adventures in Wonderland. Playing the role of the March Hare, her name is a mix of her name and the Japanese name of the March Hare; Sangatsu Usagi (三月ウサギ).

Nicknames
Ambii (アンビー) - The first nickname she got from Yousei A. Sina. Ambii is basically a cute version of her name Amber. However, it can also be seen of a different way to say Bambi.

Amber-chi (アンバーっち) - The more Japanese-like nickname for Amber, which is more likely used than Ambii.

Cure Sienna
Cure Sienna (キュアシエナ) is Amber's alter ego. She holds the power of elegance and controls the power of light. Cure Sienna is the Pretty Cure of the orange rainbow and the partner of the guard of the orange color Amber transforms into Cure Sienna in episode 3. Alone, Cure Sienna can perform Orange Showtime. Later, she can perform Crystal Rising after getting her Heaven Crystal. Together with Cure Crimson and Cure Saffron, they can use Warm Explosion. All Cures together can perform Rainbow Heart Hurricane and with their Crystals Rainbow Crystal Fantasy.

In the sequel, Cure Sienna is able to use the attack Shining Orange Sunshine. Togehter with the others, they can use Full Rainbow Circle. After getting the Color Palette they can use Magical Rainbow Finale.

In the German dubs, Sienna introduces herself with "Das Sonnenlicht voller Eleganz! Cure Sienna!", which can be translated as "The sunlight of full elegance! Cure Sienna!".

Weapons

 * Luce Crystal (ルース結晶) - Cure Sienna's main attack item that she gains during her fairytale adventure. It allows her to use a powerful attack and can even use to reflect other attacks.
 * The Twin Blade (ふたごブレード) - Cure Sienna's main weapon in Rainbow Star, which resembles a bow and can be used as one. The bow can be split in two, which become to swords for offensive attacks.

Super Cure Sienna
In Sky Pretty Cure: Kyūjitsu ni soragawa, Pretty Cure are nearly defeated by Marcasite and Tanbaga, but thanks to the Royal Family, as well as the Miracle Lights, a special power is brought upon Pretty Cure, giving them a pair of small Angel wings and a tiara with their jewel. Thanks to this, they are able to use a powerful version of Rainbow Crystal Fantasy to defeat Marcasite and Tanbaga.

Precious Cure Sienna
Precious Cure Sienna (プレシャスキュアシエナ) is Cure Sienna's super form from Legend of the Rainbow Jewels.

Attacks
Cure Sienna used in The Final Sky Pretty Cure some sub attacks, these are:
 * -|Sky Pretty Cure=
 * Orange Showtime - Cure Sienna's main finisher.
 * Crystal Rising - Cure Sienna's ultra finisher.
 * -|~Rainbow Star~=
 * Shining Orange Sunshine - Cure Sienna's main finisher in Sky Pretty Cure ~Rainbow Star~.
 * -|Sub Attacks=
 * Shining Elegnace (シャイニング·エレガンス) - Cure Sienna waves her hand towards the enemy and a light flies to it.
 * Sienna Impact (シエナインパクト) - Cure Sienna concentrates all her powers into her palm and strikes at the enemy.

Transformation
"Pretty Cure Rainbow Paint Over!" - Pretty Cure Rainbow Paint Over is the official transformation speech used by Mikanki Amber to transform into Cure Sienna in Sky Pretty Cure.

First, her Commune's screen changes from greyish blue to orange. Then, Amber appears in front of glowing light. She is completely covered in this light and her eye color changes. Then her hair becomes longer and a hairband with a red ribbon appears. She spins around and the light starts to disappear. Her whole Outfit appears after the light was gone. At last, der belt appears and she puts her commune on it. The Cure Sienna does her Speech.

"Pretty Cure Rainbow Miracle!" - In Sky Pretty Cure: Kyūjitsu ni Soragawa, Amber and her friends transformed into Super Pretty Cure by the power of the Miracle Jewel Lights. While transfroming, they used the transformation pharse "Pretty Cure Rainbow Miracle".

Music
As a main character, Amber's voice actor, Taneda Risa has particated in several image songs for the character she voices:

Trivia

 * Her birthday falls on July 4th while her star sign is Cancer.
 * She is the only Sky Cure to share her birth month with another Cure (Ruby).
 * Like many canon Cures, Amber is afraid of ghosts.
 * Amber's favorite place in Feather-Castletown is the Nijiiro Kaigan.
 * Amber is the third Cure whose family owns a bakery, after Hyuuga Saki and Minamino Kanade.
 * However, this time it's owned by the Cure's aunt.
 * Cure Sienna is the first orange Cure to hold the power of light.
 * She also is the second Cure to have orange as theme color. The first was Cure Suny.
 * Therefore she is also the second orange Cure to have orange hair.
 * However, she is the first orange Cure to have brown hair in civilian.
 * After the Cures in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! and Smile Pretty Cure! she is the eleventh Cure to transform into a mermaid.
 * However, she transformed alone, while in the previous seasons, the whole team became mermaids.
 * She is the 12th, if counting in Milky Rose the Cure-like helper of this season.
 * She is followed by Shirayuki Hime, who used her PreCards to turn into a mermaid.
 * Also in the 12. Canon season, there is a Cure called Cure Mermaid.
 * In the 13. canon Pretty Cure season, the Cures visited a Mermaid Village.
 * Amber shares her initials with Madoka Aguri and Murasakiiro Amethyst

Links

 * Mikanki Amber / Akihen Amber
 * Mikanki Amber / HaSky