Recaps

Ash fought the Pretty Cures from other countries, but Red God’s influence turned their defeat into renewed rage and they overwhelmed him. Megumi, Yuko, and the others broke through the fight to protect Ash and offered to help him, leaving him surrounded by friends who refused to let him face his troubles alone.

• Ash endured the Pretty Cures’ attacks and fought back until they were all knocked down, hoping to let them vent their frustration.
• The defeated Pretty Cures rose again with red-glowing eyes, and Ash realized Red God’s power had intensified their resentment.
• The Pretty Cures swarmed Ash and pinned him down as they cried about the ordinary lives and people they feared losing.
• Megumi, Yuko, and the others arrived, drove the Pretty Cures away, and Yuko used Honey Healing Rhythm to clear the unnatural red glow from their eyes.
• Megumi told Ash that everyone had decided to help him, and she offered him her hand.

Phantom tried to corrupt the sealed Pretty Cure to strengthen the Phantom Empire, but Ash interrupted him and began rescuing them as the Pretty Cure Graveyard collapsed.

• Phantom gathered misfortune energy and used it to corrupt Hikawa Maria, the sealed Cure Tender, planning to control her mind.
• Ash arrived at the Pretty Cure Graveyard and confronted Phantom, saying he had come to rescue the sealed Pretty Cure.
• Phantom fled after deliberately causing the small world to collapse, hoping Ash would be delayed.
• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Kabuto, activated Clock Up, and began collecting the coffin lids before the ground fell away.

Ash rescued the girls sealed in mirror coffins and reunited Hikawa Maria with Iona. Maria reclaimed her strength as a fallen Cure Tender, and Ash reassured her that her power did not disqualify her from being Pretty Cure; the chapter ended with Ash bringing dumplings to Megumi and the others.

• Ash freed the girls trapped in mirror coffins, and Hikawa Maria recognized him as her rescuer.
• Ash brought Maria to Iona, and the sisters reunited with Sunglasses after years apart.
• Maria fought four Bad Beasts and defeated them with her newly strengthened fallen Cure Tender powers.
• Maria worried that wielding darkness meant she could no longer be Pretty Cure, but Ash told her that her choices defined her role.
• Maria blushed at Ash's words and wondered if she had fallen in love at first sight.
• Ash arrived at the Blue Sky Kingdom embassy with dumplings for Megumi and the others.

Hikawa Maria joined Ash and the HappinessCharge Pretty Cure, whose jealousy grew as she openly acted affectionate toward him. Later, Maria and Iona reunited at the dojo, where Maria admitted she liked Ash and teased Iona about her own feelings.

• Ash brought out dumplings he had cooked, and Yuko explained that he had insisted on helping in the kitchen.
• Maria asked Ash for dumplings and tea, prompting Iona to suspect that her sister had feelings for him.
• Iona struggled with insomnia over Maria’s closeness to Ash while the girls discussed the attention they received after revealing their identities.
• Ash answered the girls’ questions about why he chose them and pointed out that their team lacked Student Council members.
• Maria hugged Ash, then left with him as the other girls watched jealously.
• Iona challenged Maria to meet her at the dojo, where Maria admitted she liked Ash and teased Iona about her feelings.

Iona lost a karate match to Maria and joined Megumi and the others in trying to win Ash over. Their first attempts failed because Ash remained oblivious, and Yuko began her own seduction plan at her family’s restaurant.

• Maria told Iona she planned to move to America and declined to join the Pretty Cure team, so Iona challenged her to a karate match to persuade her to stay and keep away from Ash.
• Iona lost the match, and Snow White advised the girls to seduce Ash instead of letting Maria win him over.
• Megumi invited Ash to her home and staged an accidental encounter after bathing, but Ash simply helped dry her hair and told her not to do that around men who were not family.
• Yuko invited Ash to Omori Bento, then tripped in front of him while trying to begin her own seduction plan.

Ash realized the Pretty Cure were acting strangely because Snow White had encouraged them to tempt him, then turned her attempted seduction into an embarrassing toothbrushing lesson. The chapter ended with Ash effortlessly defeating Hikawa Maria in a sparring exchange and teaching her that real battle was nothing like a fair contest.

• Ash helped Yuko up after she fell and pulled her pants back into place, then warned her to dress properly.
• Iona tried to prepare a seductive karate sparring session, but Ash entered the changing room and saw her in her underclothes before she chased him out.
• Ash discovered Snow White’s plan to use a dress and a date to win his attention, agreed to go out with her, and made her brush her teeth while teasing her.
• Ash explained to Maria that the girls should value themselves more, and Maria praised his kindness.
• Maria asked Ash to test the gap between them in the dojo, but he moved too quickly for her to see and touched her neck, showing her how dangerous a real battle could be.

Maria confessed her love to Ash, but he rejected her, and the girls teased her afterward. The Phantom Empire launched its final attack across Earth, prompting Ash to gather the Cures and reveal that they needed to learn more before facing the Phantom Queen.

• Maria finally threw Ash to the ground during their training, then confessed that she loved him because he had saved and encouraged her; Ash said he could not return her feelings.
• Maria accepted Ash’s answer but vowed not to give up, and she chased Iona and the other girls around the dojo after they teased her.
• Kaito searched Yuko’s room for treasure, and Yuko gave him rice balls; when the Phantom Empire attacked Light Hill and sealed her parents, Kaito sent Yuko through an Aurora Curtain and transformed to fight.
• Yuko arrived at the embassy, where Ash and the girls watched reports of Phantom Empire attacks worldwide and recognized that the empire had begun its full offensive.
• Ash led the girls toward the embassy’s depths to tell them what they needed to know, then questioned the newly awakened Blue God about the Phantom Queen and placed the Aksia box on the table.

Blue God revealed that the Phantom Queen had once been a Pretty Cure he loved but rejected, and Ash helped Megumi accept that they still had to fight her. Corrupted by Red God, the Phantom Queen embraced destruction and launched a worldwide attack, setting the stage for a final battle.

• Blue God explained that Aksia could strengthen Pretty Cure and recounted how the Phantom Queen had once been a shrine maiden and his close ally before he rejected her confession.
• Blue God bowed before the heroes and begged them to defeat the Phantom Queen and end the tragedy.
• Megumi struggled to fight the Phantom Queen out of pity, but Ash reminded her of the harm she had caused and promised to find a way to end the conflict.
• Red God manipulated the despairing Phantom Queen into seeing love as a calamity, and she resolved to destroy everything.
• The Phantom Queen unleashed an ability that created Bad Beasts across Earth, then ordered her officers and Narutaki to prepare for the approaching Pretty Cure and Kamen Rider.

Phantom Queen prepared to use Orihara as a misfortune-energy generator while Ash and the HappinessCharge Pretty Cure fought through the Phantom Empire toward her. Narutaki’s Aurora Curtain separated Ash from the others, and Ash discovered Pretty Cure around the world were losing their transformations, so he prepared to use a charged Dark Sentai Gear to help them.

• Phantom Queen ordered Phantom to guard Orihara’s cocoon and declared that the cocoon’s misfortune energy might be their final chance.
• Ash transformed into Drive Type Formula and helped the Pretty Cure defeat the Phantom Empire’s hordes with high-speed attacks and finishing moves.
• Hikawa Maria stayed behind to hold off the enemies as Ash and the Pretty Cure headed for the castle, but Narutaki’s Aurora Curtain scattered the group.
• Ash found Yuko nearby and discovered that Pretty Cure around the world had lost the ability to transform while Bad Beasts attacked them.
• Ash revealed that he had prepared forty-five charged Dark Sentai Gears and combined them into a rainbow-lit All-Rider Sentai Gear.

Ash’s worldwide Sentai forces protected people while he and Yuko watched, but Narutaki’s ambush led Kaito to sacrifice himself defending Yuko. Kaito died after giving Ash the K-Touch, leaving Ash and Yuko to face the Phantom Queen’s forces.

• Ash showed Yuko Sentai teams fighting the Phantom Empire’s forces around the world, then Narutaki attacked him from behind.
• Yuko shielded Ash, and Kaito arrived to block Narutaki’s strike before battling him alone.
• Narutaki transformed into Another Decade and gravely wounded Kaito, who refused Yuko’s healing and said he had found the world’s most precious treasure.
• The three officers prepared to confront the Pretty Cure girls in the castle as their final battle for the Queen.
• Kaito gave Ash his K-Touch and died, leaving Ash grieving beside him.

Ash and the Pretty Cure were separated across the Phantom Empire castle and forced to fight their own enemies, while Ash faced Another Decade in a battle of summoned Riders. Ash broke free of Another Decade’s time stop with Tomorrow Energy, as Aino Megumi entered the throne room and sensed something wrong with the Phantom Queen.

• Ash sent Yuko away, transformed into Grand Zi-O, and learned that Narutaki had obtained the Another Decade Ridewatch from the version of Ash who defeated the Kamen Riders.
• Aurora Curtains scattered the girls around the castle, where Iona fought Oresuki, Snow White fought Namakeruda, and Yuko was intercepted by Hoshiwa.
• Megumi reached the throne-room doors alone and entered to confront the Phantom Queen despite Ash’s advice to wait for the others.
• Ash summoned Riders to battle Another Decade’s villains, then attacked Narutaki directly and pinned him with Rider weapons.
• Another Decade stopped time and prepared to kill Ash, but a girl’s voice and a burst of Tomorrow Energy let Ash move again.
• Megumi met the Phantom Queen among broken objects in the throne room and asked whether she was all right.

Megumi fought Phantom Queen alone and was overwhelmed by the Queen’s power and memories of misfortune. Meanwhile, Ash survived Another Decade’s finishing attack and vowed to keep fighting for someone waiting for him.

• Phantom Queen rejected Megumi’s appeal and told her to abandon her dreams, but Megumi answered with a punch and declared that her fight as Pretty Cure was reality.
• A miraculous light briefly appeared to Ash, who then moved despite the stopped time and layered his defenses to survive Another Decade’s finishing kick.
• Ash told Narutaki he would not give up because someone was waiting for him, then raised his fists and vowed he could fight all day.
• Phantom Queen transformed the throne hall into her battlefield, revealed four black wings, and attacked Megumi with her scepter and misfortune.
• Megumi challenged Phantom Queen over her choices and fought with twin swords, but the Queen shattered her weapons and wings, flooded her with tears, and left her floating limp in the lake.

Aino Megumi overcame Phantom Queen’s despair with her conviction that loving Ash was meaningful even without a response, then joined forces with Tsumugi to send her confession to him. The chapter left Ash fighting alongside the others as he shot another Decade for mocking Diend.

• Aino Megumi rejected Phantom Queen’s claims about Ash and declared that her love would make her happy even if he did not return it.
• Megumi transformed into a giant golden fist and struck Phantom Queen with Lovely Big Bang Punch, but Phantom pulled Megumi into a darkness-filled world to protect the Queen.
• Megumi found Orihara Tsumugi and promised to help her escape, while Tsumugi encouraged Megumi to voice her feelings to Ash.
• Megumi confessed her love to Ash, and Tsumugi used her Heart Power to help convey the confession to him.
• Another Decade mocked Diend, and Ash fired the Diend Driver at him.

Ash and the HappinessCharge Precure united their powers, transforming him into a pink Decade who fought the Phantom Empire’s strongest enemies. After defeating their allies, Ash faced Narutaki’s Another Decade in a final clash.

• Ash rejected Narutaki’s claim that his travels only caused tragedy and declared that his friends had changed him.
• Megumi emerged from the Cocoon of Misfortune with the Shining Make Dresser, and the HappinessCharge Precure transformed into Innocent Form.
• Ash used the Precure cards to become Decade Complete Form Pretty Cure Ver. and fought Gamedeus Cronus, Eternal, and Evolto.
• Ash and Mana defeated Eternal, then Ash and the HeartCatch Precure destroyed Evolto’s black hole and struck him into the earth’s core.
• Ash and the Smile Precure joined forces to defeat Gamedeus Cronus, leaving Narutaki as the last enemy.
• Narutaki refused to flee and launched a finishing kick at Ash, who charged forward to meet him.

Ash defeated Another Decade with Decade’s final attack as Aino Megumi became Super Happiness Lovely and fought the Phantom Queen. After overpowering her, Megumi unleashed Lovely Nova, and the saintly Pretty Cures overwhelmed the Phantom Empire’s executives.

• Ash used Decade’s Final AttackRide to defeat Another Decade.
• Orihara Tsumugi’s prayers strengthened Aino Megumi as she transformed into Super Happiness Lovely and destroyed the Bad Beasts threatening her.
• Megumi battled the Phantom Queen, broke her scepter, and tore off her wings while urging her to seek happiness.
• Megumi unleashed Lovely Nova into the sky above the Phantom Empire.
• The Saintly Mode Pretty Cures overpowered Namakeruda, Hoshiwa, and Oresuki.

Megumi purified the world and spared Phantom Queen, but Red God seized control of her and forced her to merge with a monster. Ash interrupted the transformation by kissing Phantom Queen, while Red God triggered hidden mind-control traps around the world, leaving Ash to face the anger of the girls he had collected.

• Megumi used Love Power to restore the ruined castle, cleanse the world's miasma, and free people trapped by dark power.
• Phantom Queen awakened beneath the rubble, but Red God burned away her sanity and drove her to absorb dark threads and misfortune energy into a growing monster.
• Snow White asked Ash to save Phantom Queen, and Ash climbed the monster before kissing her to throw her feelings into confusion and halt the fusion.
• Red God reacted to Ash's kiss by activating hidden traps that caused girls around the world to attack, while the Super Sentai subdued them.
• Ash restrained Phantom Queen with SPD silver handcuffs and prepared to leave, but the girls blocked his way with angry expressions.

Ash faced the Pretty Cures’ jealousy after kissing Phantom Queen, then joined them in fighting a giant Red Bad Beast as Precure worldwide went berserk. While flying aboard Jet Icarus, Megumi reassured Ash and kissed him, leaving them together in a quiet moment of happiness.

• Yuko, Iona, and Snow White confronted Ash for kissing Phantom Queen, while Megumi told him she was not angry and was glad he could pursue happiness.
• A giant Red Bad Beast burst out beneath the castle and attacked the group, but Ash sent Phantom Queen to Auto Vajin and summoned Jet Icarus to carry the others into the sky.
• Ash learned that Precure around the world had gone berserk and wondered how to awaken them, while Megumi suggested reaching their hearts.
• Megumi asked Ash whether he liked Phantom Queen and the other girls, then gently turned his face toward her.
• Megumi kissed Ash aboard Jet Icarus, and they held each other as they shared a moment of happiness.

Megumi sang “Interstellar Flight” from Jet Icarus’s palm, reaching the hearts of people around the world and breaking the darkness controlling the Pretty Cure. After the performance, Ash caught her as her legs gave way, and Megumi said she was happy her song had reached everyone.

• Fairy Ribbon gave Megumi a new Light Card while Ash and the others fought Red Bad Beasts attacking Jet Icarus.
• Megumi proposed singing to awaken everyone, and Ash broadcast her image worldwide using Jet Icarus’s speakers and public screens.
• Though frightened to perform, Megumi drew courage from her friends and began singing “Interstellar Flight” in a new idol outfit.
• Megumi’s song reached the Sentai Rangers, Pretty Cure, Kamen Riders, masterminds, and even the Bad Beasts, weakening the darkness controlling the Pretty Cure.
• Ash watched Megumi dance and sing, blushed at her wink, and admired her as the hero he had always sought.
• When Megumi finished, Ash caught her as her legs gave way, and she happily told him that her song had reached everyone.

After the Phantom Empire’s defeat, Ash and his friends celebrated the restored peace as Snow White reunited with her family and ? performed onstage. Megumi promised to protect Ash from the forces that could take his life, while Ash concealed his plan to eventually disappear and agreed to stay with her for now.

• Snow White reunited with her freed parents, thanked her friends, and cried in Ash’s arms as he praised her growth as a Princess.
• Ash and Megumi joined their friends at a performance, where Megumi spoke about her new fame and everyone watched ? dance.
• Megumi asked Ash about the other Pretty Cure connected to him, and he explained that he had died in those worlds before arriving in theirs.
• Megumi vowed to defeat the blue giant and the red god so Ash could remain with her, and Ash promised he would stay despite hiding his eventual plan to disappear.
• Megumi admitted she was afraid Ash would vanish, and Ash teased her before she called him awful for making her heart race.

After the Phantom Empire’s defeat, Megumi encountered a man who looked like Ash, and Ash confronted him in a battle between near-mirror opponents. The stranger revealed himself as Dust, a distinct being with Ash’s memories, and Ash struggled to understand what he was.

• Ash tore up Mr. God’s thank-you letter and explained that he had fought for Megumi and the others, while they complained about God’s failings.
• Megumi followed Ash into an alley and mistook Dust, who wore Ash’s face, for him until Dust revealed he was not Ash.
• Dust taunted Megumi about her relationship with Ash, then attacked as Ash arrived and ordered Megumi to leave their fight to him.
• Ash fought Dust, whose movements matched his own, and Dust transformed into Kamen Rider Dust using a golden Ziku-Driver.
• Dust called Ash’s story nauseating and addressed him as his brother, prompting Ash to ask whether Dust was his evil cloned twin.

Ash fought Dust, who used stolen Creation Power and revealed that Ash’s memories had begun returning and his progress collecting Dark Echoes had changed. Dust claimed the system had made him die and travel between worlds for its own plan, while Megumi overheard and became consumed by anger; Ash rejected Dust’s attempt to turn him against the system.

• Dust confronted Ash and transformed into Evol, but Ash used Decade and Pretty Cure powers to overpower him and knock the Evol watch away.
• Dust told Ash that his memories had stopped disappearing after the second world and that his Dark Echo collection was progressing differently than before.
• Dust shattered the system’s screen and claimed the system was his accomplice, while Ash demanded to know what he meant.
• Megumi returned and overheard Dust claim that the system had parasitized Ash and forced him to die and travel between worlds.
• Dust produced the collected Dark Echoes and said they were in his group’s hands, but Ash accused him of trying to drive a wedge between him and the system.

Ash and Dust fought over the system while Dust revealed that it had planned to share Dark Echo’s burden through Ash’s bonds with the Pretty Cure. Aino Megumi’s attack struck Ash as he shielded the system, but he survived and angrily confronted her for disrupting his plan.

• Dust revealed that the system had created the Ashes to help Ash carry Dark Echo, and planned to free him by sharing its karma through the love of the Pretty Cure.
• Dust used Dark Echo to pull the system into the real world and began tearing it away from Ash while accusing him of fearing death and attachment.
• Aino Megumi used the power of the Evil God Grimde Light Ring to fire a destructive attack at Dust and the system.
• Ash shielded the system from Megumi’s attack and was blasted away, leaving Megumi horrified at the blood on her hands.
• Ash recovered, kicked Megumi, and scolded her for nearly ruining his plan to take Kadoya Tsukasa’s Decade power and finish off the system.

After Dust gave Megumi a device that could transfer life force, Ash was left near death in the hospital, and Megumi used it to revive him. Ash woke, but his fragmented memories triggered a horrified outburst when he realized what she had done.

• Dust began turning to ash as the world expelled him, gave Megumi the life-transfer device called "perfect," and slipped a card into Ash's Card Case.
• Snow White and the others arrived to find Ash gravely wounded, and the Pretty Cure took him to Light Hill Central Hospital, where Yuko's healing could not restore him.
• Megumi blamed herself and confessed to the unconscious Ash how loving him had changed her, before his heartbeat monitor showed a flat line.
• Megumi used "perfect" to transfer her life force to Ash, collapsing beside him as his heartbeat returned.
• Ash woke to Megumi crying beside him, recognized her as Rei, and then screamed in horror after realizing what she had done.

Ash survived Megumi’s attack, but the system that had always accompanied him was left badly damaged. He drove Megumi away and then found that the system’s fragments were still alive, though it needed to rest while Ash turned to face his enemies.

• Ash awoke with his wounds healed, discovered the system was missing, and angrily confronted Megumi for attacking it while trying to save him.
• Megumi explained that she had acted to protect Ash, but he struck her after realizing their lives had become linked through the perfect.
• Ash pulled Megumi to the door and told her that his happiness meant keeping her as far away from him as possible.
• Ash summoned the damaged system panel and found its core fragments still alive, though the system could no longer respond normally.
• Ash decided to deal with Toregier and Dust first while the system rested, and it apologized before withdrawing.

Ash questioned Phantom Queen about the gods behind the invasion, urged her to live and atone, and reassured her that he had tried to save Pretty Cure rather than treat the world as a game. He planned to face Red God and Toregier, but told the girls he would stay for now, while Megumi remained missing and her birthday became a chance to reconcile.

• Ash found Snow White and the others outside his hospital room and discovered that Megumi had disappeared.
• Megumi cried outside the hospital and found that the Monster Light Ring on her finger would not come off.
• Ash questioned Phantom Queen, who explained that Red God had influenced her and that Blue God had later apologized to her.
• Ash refused Phantom Queen's request for death and told her to live and atone, then explained that he had tried to repay Pretty Cure for saving him.
• Ash told the girls he intended to confront Red God and Toregier, but reassured them that he would not leave them so soon.
• Snow White told Ash that Megumi's birthday was on Sunday and urged him to attend so they could help the two reconcile.