Recaps

Ash faced Pierrot as the giant clown emperor revived, while the Smile Precure reached the Tragedy Kingdom determined to rescue him. After fighting through the Three Executives and Joker monsters, the girls split up so Miyuki could reach Ash while the others held back their enemies.

• Pierrot revived from the lava, and Ash prepared to fight the enormous clown emperor with a triple-flash attack.
• Pop guided the girls through the Fairy Tale Kingdom and into the Tragedy Kingdom, where the portal behind them was destroyed.
• The Three Executives ambushed the girls, but they reaffirmed their resolve to rescue Ash and transformed into Smile Precure.
• The girls defeated the charging Joker monsters and raced toward the darkness as the Three Executives blocked their way.
• Reika and Akane told Miyuki to go save Ash while they and the others held back the enemies.

Miyuki reached Ash as he hung wounded from a cross and tried to free him, but a hand from the abyss dragged her away. Ash awakened as his chains broke, while the Three Executives empowered themselves and cornered Yayoi with Witch Reina’s clones.

• Miyuki left the other Pretty Cure to find Ash, fighting through Joker monsters and using Happy Shower to propel herself across a ravine.
• Miyuki found Ash impaled by Dark Sword Tsukuyomi, climbed back onto the collapsing cliff, and tried to pull the sword from his chest.
• Miyuki confessed that she wanted to stay with Ash and kissed him, but a crimson hand seized her and pulled her into the abyss.
• Ash’s chains and the Tragedy Energy binding him cracked and shattered, and Ash opened his eyes.
• The Three Executives used black paint to enhance themselves, while Witch Reina multiplied into a swarm of clones that surrounded Yayoi.

Ash returned to life after Miyuki’s feelings awakened the Wonder Ride Book and rescued her from the darkness. As Pierrot overwhelmed the other Pretty Cure, Ash faced the Tragedy Energy beings and prepared to act.

• Yayoi, Akane, and Reika defeated Witch Reina’s clones, Wolfurun, and Akaoni, but Pierrot appeared and blasted the girls into a crater.
• Miyuki resisted the darkness that was trying to make her despair until Ash’s sword cut through it and freed her.
• Ash carried Miyuki out, and the Wonder Ride Book healed her wounds as he explained that it had awakened through her feelings and restored him to life.
• The four Pretty Cure combined their strength in Precure Rainbow Healing, but Pierrot swallowed their attack and knocked them down.
• The injured Pretty Cure repeatedly stood up to block Pierrot, while Ash recognized the darkness as activated Tragedy Energy connected to his power and prepared to intervene.

Ash forged the Wonder Ride Book of Omnipotence Power with the Precure girls’ strength, then returned to battle Pierrot in his new Kamen Rider Solomon form. He began a godlike clash with Pierrot as the girls recovered below.

• Ash defeated the nearby darkness and absorbed its Tragedy Energy into the Wonder Ride Book, but realized the book lacked the Precure girls’ power.
• Yayoi, Akane, Jun, and Reika stood together against Pierrot, and their shared rainbow power completed the book as Ash flew to their aid with Miyuki.
• Ash’s Caladbolg transformed into the giant robot King Solomon, and his strike injured Pierrot before he reunited with Miyuki and the girls.
• Ash used the Wonder Ride Book to heal the group, then transformed into Kamen Rider Solomon using the girls’ power and Tragedy Energy.
• Ash attacked Pierrot with Solomon Break, launching black-red meteors and meeting its giant arms head-on.

Ash and the Pretty Cures joined forces against Pierrot, whose control of the Tragedy Kingdom made it difficult to defeat. With the Queen’s power, the girls transformed into Princess Form and helped Ash land a combined finishing attack that appeared to destroy Pierrot, but the Omnipotence Power began crumbling into ash afterward.

• Ash fought Pierrot and admitted he sided with the Pretty Cures because he liked them more than the Tragedy Kingdom’s followers.
• Miyuki returned to the battle, but Ash rescued her from Pierrot’s attack and urged the girls to leave; they refused to abandon him.
• The Pretty Cures and Ash pushed back Pierrot’s hand together, and Ash created the Solomon Zone while Candy awakened the Royal Clock’s power.
• The girls received Princess Holy Candles and transformed into Princess Form, then joined Ash in a combined attack that overwhelmed Pierrot with purification light.
• Ash and the Pretty Cures struck Pierrot with their finishing moves, then stood together after the blast as Ash removed the Omnipotence Power from his belt.
• The Omnipotence Power began turning to ash while the Pretty Cures’ laughter abruptly stopped.

After defeating Pierrot, Ash visited the Fairy Tale Kingdom, where the Queen thanked him for restoring part of her book and explained that she had spent her remaining power to help the Pretty Cure. Ash then teased the transformed girls, licked Reika, and followed her home, leaving their friendship awkwardly unsettled.

• Miyuki offered to have the Pretty Cure write a new story for Ash after his fantasy book vanished.
• A surviving fragment of Darkness Emperor Pierrot concluded that only another Kamen Rider could defeat Ash.
• Ash spoke with the Fairy Tale Queen, who thanked him for returning the part of his book that belonged to the light and said she hoped to see Candy again.
• Ash played with the girls in their fairy forms, licked Aoki Reika, and remarked that Pretty Cure tasted good.
• The girls fled to Reika's house, where Ash cut a small window in the door and startled her; the next section began with Reika waking up.

Ash comforted Reika over her chance to study abroad, suggesting she use the Book Gate to stay connected, while she wrote about her growing affection for him in the group’s story notebook. Reika passed the notebook to Nao, whose unresolved hurt over Ash’s actions complicated her decision to contribute.

• Reika told Ash that her approved study-abroad placement in Britain made her fear losing her ties to her friends and to him, and Ash encouraged her to follow her wish while using the Book Gate to visit.
• Reika asked how Ash had returned from exile, and he said he came back because his wife was in danger and answered her call.
• Reika wrote in the notebook that Ash’s strange guidance had drawn her to him and that she might be in love, then gave the notebook to Ash to deliver to Nao.
• Ash found Nao on her way home with ingredients for curry, and she took the notebook while struggling with the lingering hurt caused by his past actions.

Ash visited Nao Midorikawa’s home, where he teased her and met her five younger siblings. He joined the family for dinner and was about to try their rich curry.

• Ash gave Nao a Locust Can, and the mechanical locust frightened her into clinging to him as she tried to escape.
• Nao and Ash bickered while her younger siblings watched, then she cooked curry as Ash lounged in the living room.
• Nao’s younger brother asked whether Ash was her boyfriend, and Ash said he was a male friend who was not her boyfriend.
• Ash admitted he was Kamen Rider and offered to tell the children a Rider story, but Nao called them to dinner before he could begin.
• Ash sat down with the Midorikawa family and eagerly agreed to try Nao’s rich curry.

Nao welcomed Ash into her family and forgave him, then wrote about him in her notebook. Later, a misunderstanding led the police to arrest Ash while the Pretty Cure watched in disbelief.

• Nao served Ash curry with her family, and Ash reflected on how much he had forgotten about family and wondered whether siblings might have changed his past choice to leave his world.
• Nao tried to apologize for hurting Ash with her earlier actions, but he denied saying anything; she understood and decided she had forgiven him.
• Nao wrote about Ash in her notebook, describing his flaws, awkward kindness, and her intention to take care of him, then handed the notebook to Yayoi.
• Nao led the girls in soccer practice, encouraging Yayoi to join in, while Ash watched and made boastful remarks to their teacher about the girls being his women.
• The teacher misinterpreted Ash's comments as a confession of abuse and called the police, who arrested him as the girls stared in shock.

Kise Yayoi struggled to finish her manga before Ash visited, but a Tragedy Kingdom attack struck her house and swapped their souls. The two began figuring out what had happened while trapped in each other’s bodies.

• Kise Yayoi, stuck with a creative block and three days left before the newcomer award deadline, admitted she could not finish her manga.
• Ash escaped the police and kept his promise to visit Yayoi, encouraging her and learning why she called him her big brother.
• A Tragedy Kingdom beam hit the Kise house, and Ash shielded Yayoi from the attack.
• Ash and Yayoi realized their souls had switched bodies and struggled with the unfamiliar changes.
• Kise Chiharu entered the room, mistook Ash in Yayoi’s body for a friend of her daughter, and left to prepare snacks.
• Ash concluded that the beam’s soul-swapping effect had caused the change, while Dark Echo’s collection response stopped in Yayoi’s body.

After Ash and Yayoi switched bodies, Ash went searching for the enemy while Yayoi struggled to control Ash’s strength and accidentally ruined her manga manuscript. Ash later found the ink-stained pages, read them, and realized how much the unfinished story meant to Yayoi.

• Yayoi panicked in Ash’s body, while Ash tested Yayoi’s weaker body and set out to find the attacker.
• Yayoi accidentally damaged her manga pages and stained them with ink while trying to pick them up.
• Candy sensed Tragedy Energy and dark energy like Ash’s near the riverbank, so Miyuki and the other Pretty Cures went to investigate.
• Ash, in Yayoi’s body, drank milk at Chiharu’s urging and beat up three students who mocked Yayoi’s manga ambitions.
• Ash found Yayoi’s ruined manuscript beside a trash can, read it, and asked the System for help after realizing how upset she must be.

After swapping bodies, Yayoi struggled with Ash’s ruined manuscript and fled from a police officer who had come to apologize for wrongfully pursuing him. Ash found her, and they reunited by the lake just as a new Joker monster attacked Pretty Cure.

• Ash used his system to consume the ink-stained manuscript pages, then went looking for Yayoi so she could finish the story.
• Yayoi, wearing Ash’s body, ran from a police officer who had come to bring him back, believing Ash had escaped from prison.
• The officer caught up with Yayoi, apologized after learning Reika had cleared up the misunderstanding, and offered her pork cutlet rice as an apology.
• Ash found Yayoi and took her away with the meal; Yayoi explained she had not used Ash’s strength because she wanted to protect him from harm.
• An explosion interrupted their reunion, and Miyuki called for them to transform and help fight a stitched-together Joker monster by the lake.
• Ash realized he was holding Yayoi’s Smile Pact instead of Dark Sword Tsukuyomi, then headed toward the battle and told Yayoi to leave it to him.

Ash used the Omni-Adapter to transform into Cure Peace through Kise Yayoi’s body and reveled in the Pretty Cure’s immense lightning power while fighting a stitched clown monster. When the monster revealed a stronger attack that seemed to combine Pierrot’s power with something else, Ash answered with a crimson thunderbeam of his own.

• Ash caught Miyuki and used the Smile Pact to transform into Cure Peace through Kise Yayoi’s body.
• Ash cut apart the clown monster’s dark orbs, then attacked it with lightning-powered hair beams, high-speed movement, and a barrage of punches and kicks.
• The other Pretty Cures watched in confusion as Ash laughed and electrocuted the monster, while Yayoi watched from behind a tree in Ash’s body.
• The clown monster repaired its damaged seams, transformed into a more savage form, and attacked Ash with sharp limbs.
• Ash pierced the monster with lightning spears and suspected it combined Pierrot’s power with another force.
• The monster fired a powerful mouth cannon, and Ash countered with Cure Peace’s Superconductive Wave: Thunderforce.

Ash and the Smile Precures defeated a clown monster, and Ash encouraged Yayoi to keep working on her manga. Meanwhile, a dangerous warrior named Gagu arrived in Nanairogaoka City seeking Ash, whose identity was also recognized by a mysterious man connected to the Tragedy Kingdom.

• Ash, controlling Yayoi's body, defeated the stitched clown monster with Cure Peace's Thunder Break and found a belt fragment among its remains.
• Ash and Yayoi returned to their own bodies, and Ash restored Yayoi's manga pages so she could continue working toward her deadline.
• Yayoi's friends praised her manga, and Ash urged her not to abandon the story before she finished it.
• A man in Tragedy Kingdom identified Ash as the Kamen Rider who had brought him to this world, then declared that he wanted to challenge Ash himself.
• Ash's system detected a spacetime fluctuation but froze before identifying the arrival, while Gagu recalled that a man resembling Ash had saved him and warned him about Ash.

Gagu joined forces with Darkness Emperor Pierrot and provoked Ash, while Rider Ash confronted Ultra Ash and Sentai Ash in the world where the Ashes gathered. Ash tracked Gagu down in the city, where he drew his sword at the stranger’s throat as pedestrians watched.

• Gagu agreed to help Pierrot defeat Ash, intending to take Great Darkness for himself and then kill Pierrot.
• Ash felt a murderous presence while working on the Smile Pact and left to investigate, promising Ikuyo he would bring Miyuki back.
• Rider Ash argued with Ultra Ash and Sentai Ash over interfering in Ash’s path, and the three transformed to fight.
• Ash warned Ayumi to leave the area, then accidentally left his Smile Pact and artificial Cure Decor with her.
• Ash confronted Gagu across a city street and held his sword to Gagu’s throat while ordering the nearby pedestrians to flee.

Ash fought En Gagu Ba through a destructive motorcycle duel that carried them from Nanairogaoka City to a rocky shore, where their bikes were destroyed and both riders were badly injured. After trading taunts and recovering from their wounds, they introduced themselves, and Gagu asked whether Ash was really his name.

• Gagu began his Gegel by triggering explosions that devastated a street, and Ash survived the blast before pursuing him on the Diaggo Speedy-go.
• Ash and Gagu raced through Nanairogaoka City, smashing through obstacles and battling at high speed as emergency vehicles headed toward the destruction.
• The motorcycle duel continued down a cliff and across a rocky shoreline, where Ash recognized Gagu as a Gurongi and learned that his Gegel targeted one person every seven days.
• Ash and Gagu charged into one another, destroying both motorcycles and crashing to the ground, then reset their dislocated bones and exchanged insults while their wounds healed.
• Gagu introduced himself as En Gagu Ba, and after Ash rejected his name, Gagu asked whether Ash was really called Ash.

Ash fought Gagu, who revealed that he had become a powerful Gurongi by fusing with an Aguru belt and demanded that Ash turn the Pretty Cure into toys. Their battle crashed into a passenger ship, where Gagu threatened the passengers to provoke Ash, leaving Ash facing the choice of how to stop him without letting the bystanders die.

• Gagu told Ash to torment the Pretty Cure, and Ash attacked him rather than accept his offer.
• Gagu transformed with an Aguru belt and revealed that he had fused it with his Kidaru Spirit Stone, gained power by devouring Spirit Stones, and taken the name Kamen Rider Kuuga.
• Ash rejected Gagu's claim that they were alike and fought him as the two exchanged powerful blows.
• Ash and Gagu crashed through a passenger ship's hull, frightening the passengers and leaving them trapped near the fighting.
• Ash blocked Gagu's strike to keep it from hitting the passengers, but Gagu deflected Ash's gunfire and aimed a makeshift crossbow at the fleeing crowd.
• Ash challenged Gagu as he prepared to shoot the passengers, insisting that he would not let Gagu make them die before his eyes.

Ash fought Gagu aboard the sinking ship but was defeated after Gagu used Ultimate Transformation and Supernatural Ignition, leaving Ash unconscious in the river. Back at school, Yayoi wrote about Ash in the group story as a scarred, rain-soaked figure walked toward the person he sought, while Yayoi asked Miyuki what she planned to write.

• Ash turned the battle against Gagu with his swordsmanship, but Gagu survived Ash’s attack and transformed into a stronger form.
• Gagu shattered Ash’s sword guard, burned him with Supernatural Ignition, and knocked him into the river before deciding to wait for Ash to recover.
• Yayoi’s male classmates apologized for criticizing her manga, and Akane praised her for standing up to them.
• Yayoi told her friends that her manga submission had been approved for the awards judging.
• Yayoi illustrated and wrote about her changing feelings toward Ash in the group story as Miyuki watched rain begin outside.
• A badly burned figure reached the shore and walked through the rain toward someone; Yayoi then asked Miyuki what she would write.

After a series of deadly accidents, the Pretty Cure helped the injured while Akane found Ash gravely wounded and saw a terrifying vision of a dark future. Ash returned carrying an unconscious Akane, and Reika stopped him from leaving to tend to his injuries.

• Miyuki wrote that Ash was adorable before Akane reported explosions, fires, and a ferry disaster in Nanairogaoka City.
• The Pretty Cure joined rescue efforts, but Nao, Reika, and the others learned that people had died and that witnesses had seen motorcycle riders and a purple swordsman fighting a monster.
• Akane searched for Ash and found him gravely wounded beside Dark Sword Tsukuyomi; when she touched the sword, Ash warned her not to touch it, and she experienced visions of the Pretty Cure and Ash falling to a doomed future.
• Ash arrived at the hospital carrying an unconscious Akane, and the other Pretty Cure laid her down while she clung to him and begged him not to leave.
• Reika pressed Ash back into his seat and forbade him from wandering while injured.

After recovering in the hospital, Ash insisted on facing Gagu alone and pushed Pretty Cure away to keep them from being caught in his fight. The girls left hurt and confused, while Ash baited Gagu into coming after him.

• Ash told Reika and the others that the attacker was a bandit pursuing him and arranged for them to take a week off school.
• Ash ordered the girls to stay home or in the Incredible Library while he hunted down and defeated the enemy alone.
• Reika and the others argued that the threat was their responsibility too, but Ash claimed he had a way to win and said they would only get in the way.
• Ash told the girls they had never been friends, then left the hospital to lure Gagu out by revealing that he had hidden Dark Echo at his grandfather's place.
• Akane, Yayoi, Reika, and the others left the hospital, while Miyuki watched them go in confusion.

Miyuki comforted Akane after Akane saw a future where Pierrot and Gagu destroyed the world, and promised they would change it together and save Ash. Gagu captured Miyuki after she used Ash’s Book Gate to bring him food, leaving her in his grasp as he explained that he wanted Ash’s darkness.

• Miyuki found Akane distraught in the hospital, and Akane told her she had seen a dark future in which Pierrot and Gagu won and Ash disappeared or died.
• Miyuki reminded Akane that Ash had once chosen to believe they could change the future, and Akane asked her to save Ash in every future.
• Gagu refused to attack Ash before Friday, threatened Pierrot into giving him more dark power, and decided to use someone close to Ash to draw out his darkness.
• Miyuki prepared food for Ash and used the Book Gate to visit him despite his warning that the girls should stay home.
• Gagu seized Miyuki as she arrived, carried her to the outskirts, and told her that Ash possessed the darkness he wanted.

Gagu transformed Miyuki into Another Kuuga to make Ash suffer, but the monster turned on Gagu and then rampaged through the city. Ash confronted Another Kuuga and identified openings in its attacks, preparing to exploit them.

• Gagu tortured Miyuki, explained his past and his desire to prove his devotion to Catherine, then dismissed her pleas for kindness.
• Gagu used a dark Ridewatch and an electric fragment to transform Miyuki into Another Kuuga, then burned her notebook.
• Another Kuuga attacked Gagu, pursued the notebook, and emerged over the city as terrified people fled.
• Kamen Rider King leaped into the air and slashed at Another Kuuga’s wing cases.
• Ash confronted Another Kuuga at a chemical warehouse, recognized its connection to Gagu, and studied its sluggish attacks and the object it held.
• Ash activated his Jaaku Dragon and Jaaku Hedgehog finishers and launched Mastered Second Flash.

Ash accidentally stabbed Miyuki while fighting Another Kuuga, leaving her critically injured and himself consumed by guilt. As Miyuki clung to Dark Sword Tsukuyomi and refused the Fairy Tale Queen’s offer to heal her in the Fairy Tale Kingdom, she chose to stay by Ash’s side.

• Ash pierced Another Kuuga’s chest, but its armor fell away to reveal Miyuki impaled on his sword.
• Ash admitted that he had wounded Miyuki, and the doctor reported that she had survived surgery but might never wake up.
• Nao confronted Ash, while Reika and Akane stayed with him briefly before leaving him alone beside Miyuki.
• Ash left his notebook and Dark Sword Tsukuyomi with Miyuki, and her unconscious hand later gripped the sword’s hilt.
• The Fairy Tale Queen offered to take Cure Happy to the Fairy Tale Kingdom for treatment, but Miyuki refused and said she needed to stay by Ash’s side.

Ash confessed to Miyuki’s mother that he had caused Miyuki’s injuries and offered her a gun, but she refused to let him escape through death. After Miyuki woke, she urged Ash not to seek revenge or become his former self again, and offered him her love and happiness; Ash promised her something as he bowed his head.

• Ash searched his inventory for Kuuga-related items and found a Colt Python loaded with Nerve Severing Bullets, then formed a plan.
• Ash found Hoshizora Ikuyo grieving outside Miyuki’s intensive care room and confessed that he had caused her daughter’s injuries, offering her the gun.
• Ikuyo struck Ash, called his attempt to die pathetic, and told him not to make Miyuki regret her choices; she then went into the room with her daughter.
• Ikuyo told Ash that Miyuki was awake and wanted to see him, and reassured him that Miyuki did not blame him.
• Miyuki rejected Ash’s plan to become strong again and take revenge, then told him about her childhood, her love for him, and her wish to share her happiness.
• Miyuki offered Ash her heart, and Ash bowed his head and promised her something.

Ash fought Gagu alone in the warehouse, using Dark Sword Tsukuyomi’s prophecy ability to anticipate the monster’s attacks and turn the battle in his favor. The fight continued with Ash overwhelming Gagu’s defenses, though neither the battle nor its outcome had ended.

• Ash arrived at the warehouse alone and declared that he would turn the already hellish place into hell.
• Ash transformed and let Gagu batter him, enduring severe injuries while using Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to accelerate its prophecy ability.
• Ash saw Gagu’s next attack, broke the evil sword on Gagu’s forehead, and severed his hand.
• Ash began reading Gagu’s attacks through repeated visions of possible deaths and countered them with increasingly precise strikes.
• Ash fought as a living storm, cutting through Gagu and the warehouse as their battle continued.