Recaps

After the Pretty Cure rejected Ash’s smug behavior and demanded their powers back, he told them they had to break the seal through their own resolve and questioned whether they were still fit to be heroes. Ash followed the lonely Yayoi to a park, where he discovered her drawing of Kamen Rider Fourze and began teasing her.

• Akane, Nao, and Yayoi demanded that Ash restore their transformation powers, but he said only their resolve could break his seal.
• Ash challenged the three girls’ courage and suggested they stop being Pretty Cure if they could not reclaim their powers, leaving the team’s argument unresolved.
• Yayoi separated from her friends and went to a park to draw, feeling lonely and unsure she could still be a hero.
• Ash followed Yayoi after the system urged him to check on her, then startled her by appearing behind the bench and taking her sketchbook.
• Ash saw Yayoi’s drawing of Kamen Rider Fourze fighting Calibur and praised her skill before teasing her until she cried.

Ash made Yayoi cry by dismissing her hopes of becoming a hero, and she revealed that her love of Kamen Rider began with her absent father. After she ran away, Ash followed to make amends, while Yayoi was left dreading an assignment about the meaning of her name, which her father had given her.

• Ash apologized for teasing Yayoi and praised her manga, and they discovered they both loved heroes.
• Ash told Yayoi that admiration and courage alone would not make her a hero, prompting her to explain that her father had loved live-action heroes and that her mother told her he was Kamen Rider after he died.
• Yayoi angrily told Ash not to ruin the Kamen Rider in her heart, shoved him, and ran away in tears.
• Ash regretted hurting Yayoi, accepted that his own choices had changed him, and followed her to make up for his mistake.
• Yayoi checked her schoolbag and remembered that her practical homework was to ask her parents about the meaning of her name, which her father had chosen.

Yayoi remembered her father’s promise that heroes protected those they loved, then found a Tragedy Kingdom barrier at the factory where he had died. After rescuing the despairing workers without her sealed Smile Pact, she was trapped beneath a falling steel beam as the tank exploded.

• Akaoni activated a localized Bad End barrier at a factory and accidentally damaged a pressurized tank while venting his anger.
• Yayoi recalled how her father had called himself a Kamen Rider and promised he would always protect her, helping her confront her doubts about becoming a hero.
• Yayoi followed an instinct to the factory where her father had worked and discovered its workers trapped in a Bad End barrier with Akaoni nearby.
• Yayoi found the damaged tank close to exploding and realized her Smile Pact was sealed, leaving her unable to transform.
• Yayoi carried the workers away from the tank, but it exploded, Akaoni was engulfed in flames, and a falling steel beam threatened the exhausted Yayoi.

Ash rescued Yayoi and the factory workers from the burning warehouse, apologized for his earlier treatment of her, and summoned Kamen Rider Fourze to extinguish the fire. After Fourze shared a friendly fist bump with Ash, Akaoni crawled out of the rubble, blaming Kamen Riders for his ruined hair.

• Ash cut apart a falling steel beam and found Yayoi injured after she had led the workers out of the blast zone.
• Ash scolded Yayoi for risking her life, then apologized when she confronted him about how he had treated her.
• Ash carried Yayoi to safety with a grappling hook, summoned Kamen Rider Fourze, and revealed that heroes and Kamen Riders were real.
• Fourze transformed into Fire Form and extinguished the warehouse fire while Ash carried the unconscious workers outside.
• Ash praised Yayoi for saving the workers, and he and Fourze exchanged a friendly fist bump.
• Akaoni crawled out of the rubble after the explosion and complained that a Kamen Rider had ambushed him and ruined his hair.

Ash and Fourze fought the Tragedy Kingdom’s attackers while Ash and Yayoi grew closer. After Akaoni engaged Fourze, Witch Reina attacked Ash, who protected Yayoi and forced her to flee as he leapt away with the enemy.

• Witch Reina appeared beside Akaoni and joined him in setting out to attack Kamen Rider.
• Fourze befriended Yayoi and urged Ash to be more open with her, while Yayoi realized she and Ash were already companions.
• Akaoni attacked Fourze, who drew him away and activated Cosmic On as Ash carried Yayoi to safety.
• Ash reassured Yayoi that he could try to be her friend, and her inner barrier disappeared.
• Witch Reina ambushed Ash with dark magic, but he transformed into Kenzan and blocked her attack.
• Ash clashed with Witch Reina, told Yayoi to go home, and leapt from the platform while taking the enemy with him.

Witch Reina attacked Ash with a magically charged magnet and lightning, but Ash survived her devastating strike by using Dark Sword Tsukuyomi and a Wonder Ride Book. When falling steel forced Reina to hold it aloft, Ash seized the opening and struck her with his golden blade.

• Witch Reina revealed that Ash had unknowingly humiliated her while she was disguised as an old woman, then attacked him with a magnet she had brewed to attract lightning.
• Witch Reina used the magnet and magic to trap Ash in lightning, stiffening his armor and leaving him unable to move.
• Witch Reina unleashed a massive lightning strike, but Ash survived by using Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to devour the attack’s theme and a Wonder Ride Book to absorb energy.
• Witch Reina prepared to attack Ash again, but a pile of steel fell toward her and she used her magic to hold it up.
• Ash rushed Witch Reina while she was distracted and slashed at her with his golden blade.

Ash battled Witch Reina while Yayoi chose to intervene and was saved by her long-lost father, Kise Yuichi. After her father encouraged her to stand up as a hero, Yayoi faced Witch Reina again, while a yellow light flickered beneath the fallen steel.

• Ash broke Witch Reina’s barrier, wounded her, and turned her lightning attack against her by grounding it through his sword.
• Yayoi pulled the platform’s steel-release lever, distracting Witch Reina, but a magic bullet blasted Yayoi off the platform.
• Kise Yuichi caught Yayoi as she fell and pulled her to safety, revealing himself as her father after nine years apart.
• Yayoi asked whether her father was secretly a Kamen Rider, but Kise Yuichi instead told her she was already a hero he was proud of.
• Witch Reina prepared to attack the steel pile, but Yayoi ran in front of her and shouted for her to stop.

Yayoi overcame her fear and transformed into Cure Peace, then fought alongside Ash to defeat Witch Reina. Elsewhere, Kamen Rider Fourze continued battling Akaoni, who was distracted by the thunder from Cure Peace’s fight.

• Yayoi declared she would protect her friends and used her Smile Pact to transform into Cure Peace.
• Cure Peace overwhelmed Witch Reina with lightning-charged attacks while Ash escaped the steel beams using the Needle Hedgehog Wonder Ride Book.
• Ash joined Cure Peace, and they combined her lightning with Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to tear apart Witch Reina’s magic circle with a V-Slash.
• Kamen Rider Fourze fought Akaoni with the Bari-Bari Holy Sword, but Akaoni’s strength forced him into the ground.
• Akaoni heard Cure Peace’s thunder and realized Witch Reina had failed to stop her transformation.

Fourze and Ash defeated Akaoni, while Yayoi awakened as a Pretty Cure and reunited with her father’s lingering spirit before he departed. Ash and Fourze then turned to a serious discussion about news of Ash’s actions reaching his old friends.

• Fourze tickled Akaoni with the Auto Hand, then sent him into space and defeated him with the Rider Super Galaxy Finale.
• Yayoi explained that she transformed to protect Ash, and Ash scolded her for risking her life before comforting her.
• Pretty Cure’s power repaired the factory and revived its workers, while Ash found a joker card indicating that Witch Reina had escaped.
• Fourze brought Yayoi’s father, Kise Yuichi, to her, and he said goodbye before riding away on the motorcycle.
• Ash comforted Yayoi and told her that her father had been a hero whose love helped her become kind and strong.
• Ash and Fourze exchanged a sign of friendship, then Ash asked Fourze what important news he had brought.

Ash visited Miyuki and the others at school, teasing the girls until Yayoi revealed she had regained her ability to transform into Pretty Cure. The chapter ended as Candy, still convinced Ash was a bully, charged at him to help Akane.

• A week after Fourze warned Ash that the Rider worlds were merging, Ash recalled Fourze's message disappearing before he could learn more.
• Ash appeared at Miyuki and the others' school and lounged dangerously in a second-floor window while Reika tried to make him behave.
• Ash stole Akane's homework and teased her, then caught her when she nearly fell and returned the workbook after Yayoi asked him to.
• Yayoi revealed that she had regained her transformation ability and could become Pretty Cure again, surprising her friends.
• Candy leaped from Miyuki's bag and charged at Ash, intending to help Akane despite the difference in their strength.

After Ash fell from a school window, Akane discovered he was merely asleep and hid him from a teacher. Meanwhile, Joker gave the battered Tragedy Kingdom commanders a Kamen Rider disc and began plotting against Ash and the Pretty Cure.

• Candy collided with Ash at the window, sending them both tumbling outside, where Ash fell asleep after landing on the lawn.
• Miyuki and Yayoi panicked over Ash and Candy, while Akane checked Ash and realized he was unharmed and sleeping.
• The girls distracted a teacher as Akane dragged Ash into the sports equipment storage room and waited beside him.
• In the Tragedy Kingdom, Wolfurun, Witch Reina, and Akaoni lamented their fear of Ash, and Joker showed them a Kamen Rider disc and a card depicting Halley's Comet.
• Akane bounced and spiked a volleyball while complaining that Ash was an annoying jerk despite calling himself an ally of justice.

Akane confronted Ash about refusing to let her and the others fight as Pretty Cure, but he saved her from an enemy’s card attack and teased her afterward. Ash and the girls examined the challenge letter promising a tragic stage “above the heavens,” while the attacker’s identity remained unknown.

• Akane urged Ash to let her become Pretty Cure again so she could protect her companions, then poked his cheek while he pretended to sleep.
• Ash caught Akane’s hand and pinned her down, but pulled her aside when an enemy card shot through the window and shattered the glass.
• Ash picked up the challenge card, which promised a tragic ending on a stage “above the heavens,” and teased Akane before gently fixing her hair.
• Ash showed the challenge letter to Miyuki, Reika, Nao, Yayoi, and the others at the school entrance.
• Miyuki, Nao, and Yayoi guessed that the threat referred to a bird, an airplane, or Superman, and Ash knocked them on the head.

Ash discovered that a massive asteroid was hurtling toward Earth and explained that its impact could devastate the planet. He rallied the Pretty Cure girls with a plan to stop the Tragedy Kingdom from redirecting it, while promising to push the asteroid away himself if they failed.

• Ash spotted a growing darkness blocking the sun and told the Pretty Cure girls that an enemy was falling toward Earth, so they went to their secret base.
• Earth Observatory researchers confirmed that an asteroid had left its orbit near Jupiter and was heading straight for Earth.
• At the Incredible Library, Ash estimated that the asteroid, which he called Original Lifeform Nibiru, was about ten kilometers wide and could cause an extinction-level catastrophe.
• Miyuki urged the girls not to despair, and Reika agreed that they should keep fighting despite the danger.
• Ash revealed that the girls could defeat the Tragedy Kingdom's ringleader to stop the asteroid's approach, and said he would push it away himself if they ran out of time.
• Ash sent the girls home and stayed behind to eat a Tao Su pastry from their snack tin.

Ash planned to use Candy to locate the force pulling Nibiru toward Earth while GokaiOh pushed the asteroid away, but his summoned Gokai Galleon appeared wrecked. A repaired counterfeit GokaiOh emerged instead, and notes from Luka and Emu made Ash realize his old companions had prepared it for him.

• Akane found Ash eating the girls’ snacks, then checked on his injury and put a bandage on his face before hurrying away.
• Ash met the girls on an uninhabited hillside and explained Operation Designator, assigning Candy to help find the culprit behind Nibiru and planning to use a summoned robot to stop it.
• Ash summoned the Gokaiger, but the Gokai Galleon appeared in flames and explosions, leaving him unable to carry out his plan as expected.
• A huge counterfeit GokaiOh rose from the wreckage, and Ash claimed it for himself while the girls prepared to handle the ground operation.
• Ash found notes from Luka and Emu inside GokaiOh explaining that they had seized and prepared the machine for him, and he realized his companions still cared about him.

Ash rediscovered the joy of eating when he caught Akane stealing his curry, then confronted her about recklessly following him into space. Back at Earth, the Pretty Cure stopped Wolfurun from using a telescope monster’s asteroid attack to spread despair, while Akane apologized to Ash and joined him in the cockpit as he began pushing the asteroid off course.

• Ash caught Akane eating the curry left for him and punished her by suspending her from the kitchen ceiling before warning her that fighting without her transformation was dangerous.
• Akane said she had followed Ash to prove she was brave and capable, and Ash told her she did not need to prove herself to him or anyone else.
• Pop and the Pretty Cure searched Nanairogaoka’s research facilities, where Jun realized the astronomical observatory was likely the Tragedy Kingdom’s target.
• Wolfurun and a telescope-shaped Joker monster tried to make the observatory tell the world that an asteroid would destroy Earth, but Cure Happy and the others interrupted their plan.
• Akane apologized to Ash for misunderstanding him, and he invited her into GokaiOh’s cockpit.
• Ash maneuvered GokaiOh around the asteroid and used the ship’s thrusters and hands to begin forcing it off course.

Ash repaired GokaiOh while fighting Joker, who had sabotaged its energy core and trapped him among asteroid fragments. Akane tried to restart the robot under Ash’s guidance, but the thrusters failed again, and Joker wounded Ash as the battle continued.

• Ash left Akane in GokaiOh’s locked cockpit and found Joker’s rapier embedded in the robot’s energy core.
• Joker ambushed Ash and used the surrounding asteroid fragments to make the space battlefield his hunting ground.
• Ash repaired the energy core and asked Akane to restart the ignition while he fought defensively against Joker.
• Akane restarted the switches and struggled to turn the ship’s wheel, but an explosion shut down the thrusters again.
• Ash urged Akane to stay calm and attacked Joker, but his sword passed through Joker’s body and Joker stabbed Ash in the waist.

Akane regained her courage and restarted GokaiOh, while Ash trapped Joker by letting himself be stabbed and fell toward Earth with him. Akane transformed into Cure Sunny and caught Ash with blazing wings, leaving them flying through space as the author added a note about taking a day off and owing reward chapters.

• Ash encouraged Akane to trust her own strength, and she restarted GokaiOh to push the asteroid back onto course.
• Ash let Joker stab him, seized him at close range, and struck his mask before both fell away from GokaiOh toward Earth.
• Akane tried to reach Ash, then transformed into Cure Sunny after her compact cracked and she called for the power to fly.
• Cure Sunny seized Joker and burned him, then wrapped her arms around Ash and summoned flaming wings to slow their fall.
• The author announced a day off and explained that twenty reward chapters had accumulated.

Akane awakened as Cure Sunny and rescued the nearly frozen Ash, but the asteroid Nibiru transformed into a Tragedy-powered monster after Joker’s apparent defeat. As Ash and Akane fought it in GokaiOh, they joined their courage and activated a Pretty Cure Ranger Key, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• After the Telescope Clown Monster was purified, Candy and the Cures spotted fiery wings in the sky, and Miyuki recognized them as Akane’s power.
• Akane carried the revived Ash back to GokaiOh, and he praised her for awakening as Cure Sunny and saving him.
• Nibiru exploded into fragments, revealing a Tragedy Energy-infused core that transformed into the Meteor Clown Monster, while Joker’s voice returned.
• Ash and Akane piloted GokaiOh through a fierce space battle, destroying the monster’s tentacles but facing the terrifying shadow of Pierrot.
• Ash reassured Akane, and they joined hands on the controls as a five-colored Pretty Cure Ranger Key appeared.
• Ash inserted the Ranger Key into GokaiOh’s steering wheel, and the machine erupted in radiant power as a five-colored pegasus emerged.

Ash and the Pretty Cure defeated Joker, and Akane comforted Ash after he cauterized his wounds, healing his scars with her renewed transformation. Meanwhile, the Gokaiger found the six Pretty Cure Ranger Keys and speculated about Ash’s relationship with the girls, while Nao began to feel uneasy despite their quieter lives.

• GokaiOh used Gokai Rainbow Burst to defeat Joker, dispersing the Tragedy Energy as Ash celebrated the victory.
• Akane discovered Ash’s severe wounds, helped him cauterize them with her fire, and broke down over how cruelly he treated himself.
• Ash told Akane that he fought alone because he could not truly be an ally of justice, and Akane embraced him and healed his scars with her Miracle Light.
• The Kaizoku Sentai found six Pretty Cure Ranger Keys in their treasure chest, and their captain concluded that the Pretty Cure were Ash’s girlfriends.
• Nao Midorikawa watched Akane practice volleyball and wondered why the wind felt restless, despite the recent calm in their daily lives.

Nao worried that her Smile Pact remained sealed while her friends regained their powers, then grew jealous as she watched Ash bond with Akane, Yayoi, and Miyuki. The chapter left Nao hiding nearby, uncertain about her place in the lively group.

• Nao sulked over being the only one unable to transform and wondered whether Ash had helped Yayoi and Akane regain their powers.
• Ash entered Nao's classroom through the window, pulled her to her feet, and teased her about her bear panties, prompting her to chase after him.
• Nao spotted Ash waiting with mineral water for Akane, who warmly greeted him and drank the water he had brought her.
• Yayoi ran to Ash, accepted his head pats, and invited him to her house to watch Gundam Seed Blu-rays, while Akane teased them about their closeness.
• Miyuki rushed over complaining that Ash had become close with everyone, and Ash caught her pounce and spun her around as Akane and Yayoi laughed.
• Nao watched from behind a tree as the others joked together and felt timid about joining them.

Nao struggled with being the only Smile Pretty Cure who still could not transform and feared her friends no longer needed her. Ash found her at the school, challenged her to a soccer match, and left her beginning to believe he was not a bad person.

• Nao watched Miyuki and the others laughing with Ash and vented her jealousy by shooting soccer balls at the goal.
• Ash approached Nao, bluntly confronted her self-pity, and told her she would have to overcome despair to find resolve.
• Ash and Nao competed over a soccer ball, and their physical contest helped Nao relax and talk about her five younger siblings.
• Nao stole the ball from Ash and said she thought he was not a bad person because he played soccer with others and her friends seemed happy around him.

Nao Midorikawa struggled with doubts about whether she belonged among the Pretty Cures, but Joker Monster’s attack made her friends see her with hatred and disgust. As Joker challenged Ash about his friendship with the Cures, Nao was left isolated and wondering whether she was no longer needed.

• Ash reassured Nao that she was not an unnecessary member of the team, and she apologized for feeling jealous of his closeness with Miyuki and the others.
• Miyuki and the other Cures arrived, but Joker Monster reversed their emotions and sent them flying before Nao could help them.
• Miyuki, Reika, Akane, and Yayoi rejected Nao, while Ash realized Joker Monster’s attack had altered their feelings.
• Joker taunted Ash about becoming friends with the Pretty Cures, then revealed that Joker Monster had turned their love into hate before teleporting away.
• Nao called to her friends as they treated her with disgust and walked off together without her.

Nao was devastated when Joker’s power made the other Pretty Cure treat her with hatred, and Ash explained that their feelings had been reversed. Ash tried to reject Nao and distance himself from the group, but her desperate embrace left him unable to push her away.

• Nao confronted Reika, who insulted and rejected her, while Miyuki and the other girls discussed replacing Nao as the fifth Pretty Cure.
• Ash returned and watched the girls leave Nao behind as she cried; he told her she should give up becoming Pretty Cure.
• Nao insisted her friends would never truly hate her, and Ash explained that Joker’s power likely reversed their feelings toward her.
• Nao asked Ash to take her along, but he refused, scolded her for ignoring the danger, and said they were not friends.
• Ash resolved to keep his distance from Pretty Cure, but Nao hugged him and refused to let go.

After Nao Midorikawa begs Ash to help her despite losing her ability to transform, he agrees to help once and tests whether she will give up or keep standing by her friends. Nao refuses to retreat, and Ash begins to respect her resolve before she asks why his feelings were unaffected by the change.

• Nao Midorikawa pleads with Ash to help her, and he agrees to help her just this once.
• At Incredible Library, Nao tells Ash and Candy that the other girls have not returned and admits she feels abandoned.
• Ash reveals he has visited worlds with many other Pretty Cure teams and teases Nao about his villainous behavior.
• Ash suggests Nao go home and wait for the others to fix things, but she refuses, saying she will not abandon Miyuki and the others or give up her right to be Pretty Cure.
• Ash recognizes Nao's resolve, and she asks why the change in everyone's feelings has not affected him.

After the other Pretty Cure girls emptied the Incredible Library and rejected Nao, Ash left to find out how they felt about her. He discovered that their reversed feelings had turned cold, while Nao stayed behind clutching their group photo and wondering if she was alone again.

• Nao argued with Ash about whether he could resist the effects of the reversed feelings, while Candy struggled to understand their relationship.
• The Pretty Cure girls returned to the Incredible Library, took their belongings, and told Nao they no longer needed the secret base; Miyuki also took Candy away.
• Ash stopped the girls from throwing away their group photo, then gave it back to Nao as she grieved over the empty library.
• Ash opened a Book Gate and went to find the girls, telling Nao to wait behind; Nao feared she could only remain alone until Joker was defeated.
• Akane said Nao was annoying, and Reika rejected her as a friend when Ash asked about her.
• Miyuki maintained that the girls had not forgotten their sense of justice or their mission, leaving Ash unsettled by his own clenched fist.