Soaring!! Pretty Cure

'Soaring!! Pretty Cure '(ソリング！！プリキュア Soringu!! Purikyua) is a Japanese magical girl anime produced by Toei Animation in the long-running Pretty Cure franchise. The series’ motifs are the sky, birds, flight, travel and navigational systems, while some recurring themes are physical/mental illness and overcoming it, self-love, uniqueness and accepting others who are different.

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Synopsis
Exactly 263,900 feet in the air, right along the borderline of space, lies the sky kingdom of Avion. It's always been known for its cross-dimensional transport system, but other than that, the place is often described as a beautiful oasis for all magical creatures alike. However, ever since prehistoric times, the kingdom had always had a hiearchy between those who were considered weak and disabled and those that weren’t; the ones who did being looked down upon and shunned away from society. This got to the point where it split the kingdom in half due to the numerous wars this hiearchy caused.

The king and queen of Avion sent one of their eldest daughters, Plume, to be the balancer between these two sides, always keeping an eye on them, preventing them from causing any more chaos. With the many years of experience in magic she underwent combined with the barrier separating the two sides that she established, it worked. And for many years to come, the kingdom was at peace.

Until one day, when Plume suddenly disappeared without a trace. Without her presence, the barrier dividing the two sides vanished. This lead to another war, this time even greater and more catastrophic due to the anger and spite that built up when the two sides couldn't contact each other. While Avion's two sides were distracted by the ongoing war, an unknown force by the name of Meridian begun an attack on the kingdom without any of the inhabitants realizing it at first. Soon, Meridian’s attacks grew in scale and caused even more catastrophy than the war did. The war came to a halt as the two sides tried to flee from the kingdom to escape the clutches of this new threat.

All while this happened, Plume’s sisters suspected Meridian was the cause of her disappearance, and went to the place she usually resided to investigate. They discovered three quills and compasses in her place. One of the sisters had read about a legend, one that told the tale of a group of magical warriors that would bring the two sides of Avion together and unite them once and for all; the Pretty Cure. Believing that Plume intentionally left the trinkets in her place as a form of last resort, and that the trinkets themselves would help find these warriors, the sisters sent the objects through the transport system, scattering them through the sky, in hope that their kingdom could be restored to its former glory. They also sent two fairies - a brother and a sister - to follow the trinkets in order to find the warriors and lead them back to Avion.

In order for their plan to go through, the sisters cast a spell that spread throughout the land, turning the whole kingdom into solid ice, postponing any more destruction to the kingdom until the two fairies return. But before the whole kingdom could be affected by this frozen spell, Meridian learned of the sisters’ plan and sent some of their own affiliates to Earth in order to thwart it and stop the two fairies from ever finding the Pretty Cure. Those who escaped Avion lived in hiding on Earth for the time being, including the affiliates Meridian sent, waiting for the time to strike if ever the Pretty Cures are found.

The trinkets happened to all land in the same place; the city of Yokohama, Japan, which is where our story begins today.

Ahina Wakatsuki, 16, a disabled yet optimistic girl with a love for all things astronomy. One day while visiting a local trinket shop, she comes across one of the quills and buys it. Soon after, she walks through a local park on her way home and is confronted by a pair of siblings, commenting about the quill she just bought. Bewildered, Ahina tries to get away from the two, but they insists she follow them. That’s when a seemingly innocent park-goer steps in front of the three and starts attacking them, as well as the other park-goers, summoning a monster. The siblings revert back into butterflies, and a now confused Ahina tries to get away, only to be slowed down by her wheelchair.

The villain mocks Ahina’s disabled state, calling her ‘capabiliites useless for a functioning society’, and in a state of fury, the quill suddenly glows. The siblings-now-butterflies, realizing that she’s one of prophecied legendary warriors, toss her an also glowing compass and tell her to ‘transform’. Immediately feeling a connection to these trinkets, words leave her mouth, and with a flash of light, Ahina transforms into the legendary warrior of the eagle, Cure Flyway.

However, unbeknownst to the sisters and to the fairies, there were four quills and four compasses left behind. Someone took one pair of them. They happened to find the trinkets way before the sisters did, years before. And the individual who took them is now on the run from Meridian.

Pretty Cure

 * Ahina Wakatsuki (若月明日菜 Wakatsuki Ahina) / Cure Flyway (キュアフライウェイ Kyua Furaiuei) -   The unofficial leader of the team. Ahina (often called ‘Hicchi’ (ひっち) by close friends) is a wheelchair-bound girl, having paralysis in her lower half due to a car crash in her childhood, but that doesn’t stop her from being endearing and passionate about the things she loves. Ahina is part of the school’s astronomy club, and is fascinated by the night sky and space. She has the ability to transform into Cure Flyway, the Pretty Cure of the Eagle, whose theme color is blue.
 * Kanna Amano (天野勘案 Amano Kanna) / Cure Aerial (キュアエリアル Kyua Eriaru) -  A girl born and raised in the tropical Okinawa Island of Japan, Kanna is very used to being in nature and the outdoors. She’s mute, but unlike Ahina, she feels like the condition is pulling her down. Not really having to talk, she has grown to be quite an introverted and timid person who strongly depends on others. Kanna is very knowledgeable on birds, her father being an ornithologist. She has the ability to transform into Cure Aerial, the Pretty Cure of the Warbler, whose theme color is pink.
 * Chie Hasegawa (長谷川智恵 Hasegawa Chie) / Cure Current (キュアカレント Kyua Karento) -  The captain of her school’s hockey team. She has a condition in which she gets fatigued and can faint easily, but she wants to prove everyone that she can challenge that and still be a solid athlete. She’s spunky and has a ‘don’t care what you think attitude’, wanting to live life to the fullest despite her condition. Her mother being a flight attendant, she’s seen a lot of the world and has a love for traveling. She has the ability to transform into Cure Current, the Pretty Cure of the Parrot, whose theme color is orange.
 * Yasuko Ito (糸康子 Ito Yasuko) / Cure Horizon (キュアホライゾン Kyua Horaizon) - The oldest of the group and a Cure prior to the season.  Although caring when you get to know her, she’s very cold on the surface and can be blunt and harsh with her words, mainly due to the fact that she’s overprotective and never lets her guard down. She has PTSD due to things that happened during her battles as a Cure. Seeing this as a weak point, the affilliates sent by Meridian converted her into a villain by the name of Celeste (セレステ Seresute) at the beginning of the series. Eventually, the rest of the Cures purified her and she officially joined the team. She has the ability to transform into Cure Horizon, the Pretty Cure of the Avocet, whose theme color is white.

Mascots

 * Merle (メル Meru) -  A butterfly-like fairy sent from Avion to find the legendary Pretty Cure, and Merlin’s older sister. Merle is always determined to fullfil her missions. She’s very unpredictable, her emotions are tough to handle and are forever changing. She can get irritated easily and she has sort of an inferiority complex. She’s also very overprotective of her younger brother. She ends her sentences in ‘~meru’. Her human form is known as Merumo Ozora (大空めるも Ozora Merumo).
 * Merlin (メリン Merin) -  A butterfly-like fairy sent from Avion to find the legendary Pretty Cure, and Merle’s younger brother. Merlin is quite the troublemaker; always finding ways to slack off and annoy the people around him. Although he doesn’t show it much, he does care for his older sister in some way. He ends his sentences in ‘~meri’. His human form is known as Minoru Ozora (大空みのる Ozora Minoru).
 * Wren (レン Ren) -  Yasuko’s hummingbird-like fairy partner. Before the fall of Avion, he used to be one of the king and queen of Avion’s youngest but most trusted generals. Much like Yasuko, he appears stoic and unfeeling, but he can be unknowingly clingy to others. Unbeknownst to everyone, he was the one who took the fourth quill and compass, as he also found out about the Pretty Cure legend. He only took one pair of the trinkets, thinking he’d find each Cure one at a time and retrieve another pair after he found the last, but unfortunately, fate had other plans. As he‘s an easy target for Meridian due to being a partner of a Cure, he and Yasuko are constantly on the run from them. He ends his sentences in ‘~ren’, but he hides this and stops himself from adding it to the end of his sentences, thinking it sounds dumb. His human form is known as Ren Torikawa (鳥皮れん Torikawa Ren).

Villains
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