Azumaki Kazuha

Azumaki Kazuha (東木和葉 Azumaki Kazuha) is a protagonist in Destiny Star PreCure, she transforms into Cure Manticore (キュアマンティコア Kyua Mantikoa), the maiden of the East.

Personality
Kazuha is a nature girl through and through. She loves nature and spending time outside, admiring flowers or trees, or just sitting in her favourite tree while watching her surroundings. She rarely wears shoes and has a favourite outfit she almost always wears, so she dislikes her school uniform. She used to skip school a lot but begins to attend more often to be able to meet her new friends. She is quite the trickster, loving to play pranks on various people or just annoying them. One of her frequent victims is Natsuko. It seems like she can talk to birds, as she regularly talks to a bird that has taken a liking to her and which she has named “Toriri”.

Cure Manticore
'''"The lawless wild beast, Cure Manticore!" '(無法野生の獣、キュアマンティコア！Muhō yasei no kemono, Kyua Mantikoa!'')

Kazuha can transform into Cure Manticore (キュアマンティコア Kyua Mantikoa), the Cure of earth and nature with a green colour scheme. She is represented by Heth, the 8thletter of the Phoenician alphabet and her cardinal direction is the east. Like the other Cures, she transforms using her (TBA), while her weapon is called the Manticore Scythe.

Attacks
Manticore Hurricane - Manticore's first attack

Etymology
Azumaki (東木) - composed from "Azuma" which means East and "Ki" which means tree

Kazuha (和葉) - composed from "Kazu", meaning peace, harmony and "Ha", meaning leaf

Manticore (マンティコア) - a manticore is a legendary creature similar to an Egyptian sphinx

Trivia

 * Originally, Sumire's and Kazuha's places in the story were switched. This was changed for unknown reasons