Emily Hoshizora/Glitter Lucky

Emily Hoshizora is the main character of Smile Precure. She is one of the five main Cures in Smile Pretty Cure! and she's the group leader. She attends Nanairogaoka Middle School in Nanairogaoka Class 2-2 along with the other Cures. Her alter ego is Cure Happy (キュアハッピー,Cure Happy?) or Glitter Lucky in the Smile PreCure English dub. Her catchphrase in the English version is "Another happy ending!". In the Japanese version, her name is Miyuki Hoshizora (星空 みゆき).

Background

During her childhood, Miyuki was quiet and timid girl who was too afraid to interact with others. She however dreams of becoming a writer for children books.

Personality

Emily is a bright, kind-hearted, and energetic girl who loves fairytales. She is always happy and optimistic, but seem occasionally naive. Emily is also really clumsy to the point where she sometimes ends up hurting herself when she gets overly excited, such as hitting her head after falling back. Multiple running gags in the series include Emily falling flat on her face after she randomly trips and her always getting hit in the face by random objects such as Candy and Pop's storybook.

During her childhood, Emily was quiet and timid girl who was too afraid to interact with others. She would often read storybooks to console herself until her grandmother, gave her a mirror necklace and tells her to always put a smile on her face in front of it. An encounter with a mysterious girl results in her becoming who she is now. Despite being normally cheerful, she still shows notable signs of nervousness such as her class introduction, being on stage for the fashion concert, and finding the Akanbe frightening in her first battle. However, Emily gains confidence in her abilities and develops courage over time. Her enthusiasm, motivation, and determination often help her to lead the other Cures in battle.

As she loves fairytales, her favorite childhood is reading storybooks. Emily loves them because the happy endings to these stories always leave a warm and happy feeling inside her heart, which she summarizes as a feeling of being "ultra happy!", making her cherish happiness and smiles in high regard. She hates seeing others being sad or crying and does her best to cheer them up when they do. Emily eventually realizes what her own happiness is and wishes to share that kindness and feeling with others.

Appearance

Emily has light skin with magenta hair in cone-shaped buns tied by yellow bows. Her bangs and forelocks frame the face, and she has a curled cowlick. She has magenta eyes. She wears a pale pink long-sleeved shirt beneath a pale yellow and fuchsia vest, a layered pale pink and magenta mini skirt, white tights with pink stripes, as well as pink sneakers with white accents. For summer, she wears a ruffled short-sleeved pink shirt with a magenta ribbon on the chest, pale blue denim capri's and fuchsia sandals with ankle straps.

When Emily and Candy switch bodies, Candy's ears change to Emily’s buns while her eyes become more similar to Emily’s, while Emily’s hair turns into spherical buns and her cheeks become blushed.

Glitter Lucky

As Cure Happy, her eyes become lighter with hair reaching knee tied in low pigtails with a large curled strand of hair on each side of the head. She gains a white tiara with a dark pink gem and chibi wings to match her earrings. She wears a dark pink choker. Her short, light pink dress has dark pink detail and pearl pink ruffled trim. The sleeves have a feathered white layer with two, dark pink spheres on top, and on the chest is a magenta bow with a gold medallion in the middle. A pair of short tails hang from the back of the skirt. She also gets white and light pink boots, fuchsia shorts, as well as white and magenta wrist pieces.

In Tiara mode, her tiara becomes a gold crown and she gains gold ribbon earrings, both adorned by a heart.

As Princess Happy, her hair is tightly curled with her forelocks and cowlicks lengthening. She gains the tiara and earrings from Tiara Mode, along with gold wings and a halo. Over her outfit is a ruffled white dress with a ribbon on the back, and a pale pink and white striped ribbon on the chest, where her brooch resides.

As Ultra Cure Happy, her hair grows longer and is thicker, with her cowlicks resembling small pigtails. Her gold crown gains two pink diamond gems and gold wings, and she gets a large droplet gem earring. Her cure dress turns pale pink with light pink detail and shorts, and over her outfit is white feathery fabric covering the chest and hanging down the back like a cape. Small pink wings are attached beneath the brooch. Her choker turns white with a small pink gem, and her wrist piece becomes feathered with a pink ring and diamond on the wrist. Her boots gain a wing-like cuff, one ending at the knee while the other reaches mid-lower leg. She obtains white wings.

Trivia

• Miyuki appears as Cure Happy at the beginning of the fifth episode of Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! to give the 10th anniversary congratulatory message.
• In episode 13, Miyuki reveals that she has a crush on the legendary fairytale hero, Peter Pan.
• Miyuki's character design changed several times during the series' initial development. Series character designer Kawamura Toshiechanged Miyuki's expression after it was decided that she was a transfer student with no friends. However, she changed it again after hearing how her voice actress Misato Fukuen played the character, especially how quickly she spoke.

Voice Actresses

• Japanese : Misato Fukuen
• English : Laura Bailey