Budou Ayuko

Budou Ayuko is the main protagonist and one of the main cures in Sign ★ Pretty Cure. Ayuko is a sensitive and romantic girl, who has the soul of the guardian of Neptune, Cure Pisces. She's on her first high school year.

Appearance
Ayuko is a short girl with pale skin and a delicate physique. She has large and hypnotic water blue eyes, big ears, full eyebrows and sand blond, wavy hair that reaches her armpits, which she mostly wears on a braid held by a pink hairband.

As Cure Pisces, her hair grows to her knees, and is worn on two buns, one on each side of her head, and two big braids, held by lotus.

Personality
Ayuko is sensitive, romantic, intuitive, faithful, gentle and an airhead, always daydreaming. She loves arts, especially music, and enjoys playing guitar. Her friends often go to her when they need advice. But sometimes this leads to others taking advantage of her kindness. Ayuko is very fearful as well, and wishes she could be more courageous and heroic, like the heroes in her books. She easily gets taken away by her thoughts and forgets about reality, and has a hard time focusing, which harms her performance at school. Her hobbies include singing, playing guitar and reading about astrology or romance. She's also rather lazy, and often oversleeps.

Etymology
Ayuko: the name Ayuko has many different meanings, but the most likely meaning for her name would be a meaning "affection", "freshwater trout" or "harmony", yu meaning "fish", "dream" or "help" and ko meaning "child" or "rainbow".

Budou: bu means "martial", and dou means "shrine".

Trivia

 * Ayuko loves foods that have a lot of butter in them.
 * Her favorite colors are pink, lilac and teal.