Yoshida Momoko

Yoshida Momoko (吉田桃子) (Originally called Maria Yoshida) is a fourteen-year-old girl who loves to play video games. Momoko is kind and has a good heart, and also has as best friend Asuka Eri. Momoko is innocent and sometimes a little naive. Momoko is a great player of platform games but is very bad in fight games, easily lose for Eri. Momoko's catchphrases are I will do my best (私はがんばるわ) and Okaydokey! (オッケー！).

Momoko's Pretty Cure alter-ego is Cure Mushroom (キュウマッシュルーム). As Cure Murshroom, Momoko can jump higher than her teammates and also get a little stronger. Cure Mushroom is represented by mushrooms and platform games, especially those of the Mario franchise. Her theme colour is red and her powers are related to fire.

History
When Momoko was a child, she was initially shy, but then began to become more confident and make lots of friends. One day, her father, Yoshida Teruko, introduced her to Asuka Eri and it was not long before they became great friends. Years later, both being to attend the Odayakana Primary Middle School, and there they met Hayato Ayame, who became their friend and Momoko and Eri join in the Games Club. A few days later, they met Kaminari Ki, a girl who was little mysterious and new at school. Ki join in the club and became friends with all of them and also came to be called "Brat" by Eri and sometimes by Momoko. Sometimes later, the school vacations strart.

When her school went on vacation, Momoko spent the school holidays at her home without seeing Eri, Ayame or Ki. When school vacations were over, Momoko reunited with her friends, and also met Pussy, who came from Dreamland. Pussy turned her sister into a huge monster named "Muchitsujo," and in an attempt to protect her sister, she met with Luma, a star-like fairy who transform her into Cure Mushroom to fight.

Personality
Momoko is a fourteen-year-old girl who is cheerful and full of life. She has a personality similar to her father's, as she does not care what others say or think of her, she continues to follow what she believes. She likes to play platform games, and believes that good double play can help improve the people's relationships and collaboration. She always tries to help the people in need and believes that everyone can become a better person. Momoko is kind and has a good heart, and also has as best friend Asuka Eri. Momoko is innocent and sometimes a little naive. One of her friends, Sawashiro Tsuna, is in love with her and is always proving it and trying to have her heart, but Momoko is in love with Akarui Seiun, who also has a crush on her.

Appearance
Momoko has a long curly brown hair that reach her hips and whose she lets loose, two curly strings that framing both the sides of her face. She also has blue eyes. Her casualties clothes consistent into a white, short sleeved shirt beneath dark blue, overalls. She also use brown shoes and a white ribbon-choker with a mushroom-shaped pendant. For the summer, Momoko wears a red sleeveless shirt, beneath a dark blue overall skirt and she also wears dark blue sandals.

As Cure Mushroom, her hair grow longer and turns into red. Her bangs turns into straight and also has two strings that framing both the sides of her face. Red mushroom-shaped earrings with a red ribbon-choker with a red mushroom-shaped pendant on the front, and a red Mario hat. Her pretty cure outfits consist into a red, long sleeved shirt beneath a dark blue overall skirt with two golden buttons on each handle of the overall, in the back and front. Long red stockings lined with pale blue frills. Her boots are red with dark blue toe and heel, along with navy blue lining and with short white sleeves. Her GamePact is keep into a dark blue bag that stay on her waist.

Relationships
Asuka Eri - Eri and Momoko are childhood friends and do almost everything together. Even if they do not agree on a few things, their relationship is stable and can easily be fixed, even if sometimes they get into serious fight and it's a little harder for them to get it right, for Eri does not like to think about the situation and always want that she is right, not wanting to apologize.

Hayato Ayame - Ayame is the president of the Games Club, the club that Momoko participates, and Momoko calls Ayame of "Ayame-san". Ayame is also her friend and teammate. They have a stable relationship, as they are very good friends too, they share the same love for platform games, even with them different powers and games of rival franchises, they do not share any rivalry, they never fight to see if Mario is better than Sonic and vice versa, they find that both are amazing games and adhere to the opinion of each other. Ayame affectionately call Momoko of "Momo-chan"

Kaminari Ki - The relationship between Ki and Momoko had not been so explored until Episode 20, where we can see that Momoko always helps Ki with whatever it is, and that they also have a good relationship between them, being that Momoko always helped Ki, as she says, and that both have always been good friends.

Cure Mushroom
Cure Mushroom is the Momoko's pretty cure alter ego. She controls the power of fire and transforms with the phrase, "Press Start! Pretty Cure". Her basic attack is Fire Shoot. Different from the others cures, she can do a high jump and with her GameStick she can shoot fire balls.

Cure Mushroom can perform an attack called Fire Shoot, though with the Mushroom Rod, she can perform Fire Shoot! Final Smash, with the Rainbow Card, she can perform a group attack called Rainbow Renovation and in her Rainbow Form she can perform other group attack called "Hope Rainbow".

Rainbow Murshroom
Rainbow Mushroom (レインボー マッシュルーム) is Cure Mushroom's upgraded form. In this form, her usual Cure outfit is replaced by a white dress with a ribbon on the front with the gold Go! Gamers insignia on the front with a white collar and sleeves and a skirt with a silver ribbons on the back. Her hair becomes longer and turns into light red with bright orange on the tips, she wears a golden crown worn in the center of her head. The centerpiece of her tiara is a red mushroom, and golden angel wing at the side the crown. She also use white angel wing earrings. She also wears very long white gloves and white knee-length boots.

Attacks

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 * Fire Shoot (ファイアシュート！) - Cure Mushroom's basic attack. Momoko pick up her GamePact then put the Attack Card at her GamePact as she say the first part of the incantation, she press the start button and a fire ball appears in Cure Mushroom hands. She plays with the fire ball and then announces the attack name and while shoot the fire ball on the target.


 * Fire Shoot! Final Smash (ファイアシュート！ファイナルスマッシュ) - Cure Mushroom put the Rod/Stick Card at her GamePact then her rod appears she press the button and light red lights are lit going upward until reach the mushroom. Cure Mushroom say the first part of the incarnation and shouts out "Pretty Cure" and draw a mushroom then filling up with energy as she announces the attack name and shoot the mushroom on fire into the target.


 * Rainbow Renovation (レインボーリノベーション) - The first group attack that Cure Mushroom use along with Cure Fight, Cure Sonica and Cure Thunder in Episode 9. They insert the Rainbow Card on their GamePact and they announces the attack name and an atmosphere of light covers the area, purifying all Muchitsujos present and doing all negative energy be purified.


 * Hope Rainbow (ホープレインボー) - The second group attack that Cure Mushroom use along with Cure Fight, Cure Sonica and Cure Thunder in Episode 14. To perform this attack they needs be in their Rainbow Form. They take their respective GameSticks, and they shouts out the attack name while Ki perform her sub attack, Thunder Arrow, Eri perform White Punch! Final Smash and Sonica perform Blue Sonica Waves and Mushroom shot a Fire Ball and their powers are combined and recorded directly on target.


 * Burning Thunder (バーニング・サンダー) - A dual attack that Cure Mushroom perform along side of Cure Thunder. Thunder perform Heart Thunder! Final Smash and Fire Shoot and their powers are combined and are recorded directly on target.


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 * Orange Flames (オレンジフレイムス) - Her sub-attack used for the first time in Episode 22. Cure Mushroom points to the top and blue flames are created, then, making the gun signal with her finger, she points to the target firing the flames at the target. Sometimes the fire is blue.

Abilities

 * Transformation - An ability that all of her teammates have. Momoko can active her transformation once she says Press Start, Pretty Cure!.


 * Pyrocinese - An ability that she recently discovered. Cure Mushroom can create and shoot fire balls with or without her Mushroom Rod. Cure Murshroom's Pyrocinese is often activated by accident, but now she is learning to control it better. By a unknown reason, the fire sometimes is blue. The first time this ability was used was in Episode 22.

Etymology
Momoko - From Japanese 桃 (momo) meaning "peach" combined with 子 (ko) meaning "child". This name can be constructed from other kanji combinations as well.

Yoshida - Yoshida write with the kanji "吉田" means lucky ricefield.

In Episode 02, Momoko write her full name with the kanji "吉田桃子"

Trivia

 * Cure Mushroom is the first red cure lead.
 * Momoko's birthday is September 13 that makes her of the Virgo sign
 * Coincidentally September 13 is the day that the game Super Mario Bros. Is released in Japan.
 * Momoko is the second red cure to have brown hair.
 * Cure Mushroom is the sixth cure to have fire powers.
 * All members of the Momoko's family has her names ending with "ko"
 * Momoko has some similarities with Hojo Hibiki from Suite Pretty Cure♪
 * Both are the lead of they respect groups.
 * Both the cures not are good at the studies.
 * Both the cures are childhood friends of the white cures.
 * Momoko has share some similarities with Natsuki Rin from Yes! Pretty Cure 5! (GoGo!)
 * Both the cures has fire powers.
 * Both the cures has the theme color red.
 * Both have soccer-related attack, Fire Strike and Fire Shoot.
 * Both has brown hair at they civilian forms but red at they cure forms.
 * Both has afraid of ghosts.
 * Momoko has afraid of scary movies and ghosts.
 * Momoko is the fifth cure to have afraid of ghosts preceded by Natsuki Rin, Kurokawa Ellen, Midorikawa Nao and Kaido Minami.
 * Eri also said that Momoko dislikes of the
 * Momoko is the third cure after Momozono Love and Madoka Aguri to dislike of carrots.
 * Momoko share the same voice actor with Queen Mirage and Hoshizora Ikuyo.
 * Momoko is the second after Kurokawa Ellen to play guitar.
 * Momoko is the first to have blue eyes and brown hair.
 * Cure Mushroom is the first red cure to have light blue eyes.