Recaps

Amanogawa Kirara thanked Ash for helping her pursue her modeling dream while staying with her friends, and the two teased each other about their relationship. After Kirara and Ash discussed Saya, Haruka overheard them and left in distress; Ash found her crying in Saya’s arms and learned that Saya had hurt her feelings.

• Kirara explained that Ash’s space-opening key let her attend Paris Fashion Week without leaving her friends or abandoning her Pretty Cure responsibilities.
• Kirara and Ash joked about his jealousy over her nicknames for the others, and Haruka secretly saw them laughing together.
• Kirara asked Ash what he thought of Saya, and Haruka overheard Ash say that Saya seemed warm and that he liked her.
• Ash found a droplet of Haruka’s tears, recognized her sadness, and called out for her through the school.
• Ash found Haruka crying in Saya’s embrace as Saya apologized for saying something hurtful.

Haruka hid her hurt after Saya confessed that she loved Ash, while Ash’s friends and Twilight turned the revelation into a chaotic argument over who he loved. Meanwhile, the fairies of the Black Night Kingdom held a contest to choose Ash’s ideal Queen, beginning with Twilight’s supporters.

• Haruka insisted that her gloomy mood had nothing to do with Saya, Ash, or anyone else, and said she would keep pursuing her dream of becoming a Princess.
• Saya praised Haruka’s shining heart, then told Ash that she loved him most, startling Minami and Kirara and prompting them to accuse him of betraying Pretty Cure.
• Twilight interrupted the argument and declared herself Ash’s rightful wife, causing the girls to square off while Saya watched Ash get surrounded.
• The Black Night Kingdom’s fairies gathered in DeAn Castle Dragon to choose which Pretty Cure would make the best Queen for Ash.
• A carrot-shaped fairy nominated Twilight, showing an image of her performing alongside Ash.

The fairies debated which Pretty Cure was best suited to stand beside Ash, while Twilight revealed that Saya alone was unacceptable to her. At the Fortress of Extinction, Shut unleashed a giant monster against the Pretty Cure after deciding that capturing the fairies might restore his standing with Dyspear.

• The fairies argued over Ash’s possible partners, then asked why they felt uneasy about Saya Frederica and decided to question Ash.
• Twilight played violin for Ash and teased him about comparing her performance with Towa Akagi’s and Haruno Haruka’s.
• A bat urgently summoned Ash away, and Twilight admitted that she would accept Ash choosing other Pretty Cure but hated Saya.
• Shut worried that Catherine’s arrival had made him replaceable, so he resolved to defeat the Pretty Cure and restore his value to Dyspear.
• Shut encountered fairies from the Black Night Kingdom, chased them, and decided to capture them as hostages.
• Shut unleashed the Fortress of Extinction, whose despair energy darkened the sky and turned fleeing passersby into human batteries as Kirara and Minami prepared to fight.

Ash arrived as Dark Kiva and helped the Pretty Cure defeat the Fortress of Extinction, rescuing Kuroro from Shut. After the group regrouped, Ash remained wary of Saya, whose gentle demeanor briefly twisted into something frightening when she looked at the pinned Shut.

• Shut used Kuroro as a hostage, forcing Kirara and Minami to evade the Fortress of Extinction instead of attacking.
• Shut recognized Kuroro as Locke, while Kuroro cried for King Ash to save it.
• Ash arrived with Towa, transformed into Dark Kiva, and charged into the Fortress of Extinction while the Brawn Booster shielded his motorcycle from its attacks.
• Towa used Pretty Cure Scarlet Illusion to trap the Fortress of Extinction and catch Kuroro, then recognized Kuroro as a fairy from Hope Kingdom.
• Ash comforted Kuroro, thanked Minami and Kirara, and ordered Yui to protect it instead of fighting; Haruka and Yui arrived with Saya.
• Saya reunited with the fairies and smiled calmly, but her expression turned extreme when she glanced at Shut pinned to the wall.

Ash rescued Haruno Haruka when her transformation failed, then defeated Shut as Haruka’s doubts about becoming a Princess deepened. Catherine killed the badly wounded Shut after he fled, revealing that she intended to take something important from Haruka.

• Saya disappeared, while Kuroro trembled in fear at a sudden ink-black presence.
• Shut injured his hand trying to wield the Demon Emperor Sword, then powered up the Fortress of Extinction with despair and sent it charging at the Precure.
• Haruka’s transformation failed, but Ash shielded her from the Fortress of Extinction and helped her transform into Cure Flora.
• Ash reassured Haruka before fighting Shut, while Haruka’s guilt and doubts about her dream of becoming a Princess grew.
• Shut transformed into a monster and attacked Ash, who overpowered him with the KIVA crest and seemingly destroyed him.
• Shut fled, but Catherine stopped him and killed him, saying she planned to take something more important to Haruka than life.

Haruka recklessly confronted Fortress of Extinction, awakened a surge of power, and helped the Precure and Ash defeat it. Afterward, Saya took Haruka away just as the others began questioning Haruka’s behavior and how quickly they had become friends with Saya.

• Saya changed back from Catherine and enjoyed the sound of a Heart Flower withering.
• Haruka charged Fortress of Extinction alone, broke its horn with a sudden surge of power, and created an opening for Minami and Kirara to attack.
• Ash transformed, struck Fortress of Extinction with King's Burst End, and helped the Precure purify it with Pretty Cure Eclat Espoir.
• Haruka’s friends questioned her reckless fighting and urged her to explain her confusion, but Saya pulled her away before she could speak.
• Kirara and the others wondered how they had become close to Saya, while Ash failed to understand their concern about Haruka.

Haruka confessed her fear that she was losing her dream of becoming a Princess, and Ash promised to protect her and her dream. After Kanata returned with a plan to save Hope Kingdom, Ash helped the Cures travel there, while Catherine’s betrayal left Dyspear furious.

• Haruka admitted to Ash that she felt ordinary, feared she was changing, and worried that she had lost her dream of becoming a Princess; Ash reassured her and promised to protect her.
• Minami announced that Kanata had escaped Dysdark, and he reunited with Towa and the others.
• Kanata revealed that four castles in Hope Kingdom could awaken hope and weaken Dyspear, and Ash agreed to help the group reach them using Castle Doran.
• Ash and the Cures arrived in Hope Kingdom, where Kirara used a key to open the third castle.
• Dyspear confronted Catherine for letting Kanata escape and killing Shut, but Catherine refused to reveal her plans.

Catherine reassured Dyspear while secretly preparing her own plans, and the Pretty Cure reached the final Flower Castle. After Haruka was tricked into swallowing something and liberated it, she awakened a new power and attacked Kanata, who mistook her for a monster.

• Catherine told Dyspear she had killed Shut because he annoyed her, then agreed to keep fighting the Pretty Cure while privately rejecting any promise to Dyspear.
• The Pretty Cure celebrated liberating three castles, discussed their impending final transformations, and set out for Flower City.
• Haruka followed a voice to Saya, who guided her to the Flower Castle while Ash was trapped in a separate world by an ambush.
• Saya secretly forced something into Haruka's mouth and disappeared as Haruka used the Flower Key to liberate the castle.
• Haruka awakened with Queen markings and a crest on her hand, then unleashed a burst of petals that struck Kanata when he called her a monster.

Haruno Haruka was transformed into a flower monster and discovered that Kanata, Towa, and Kirara no longer recognized her. Catherine revealed that Ash’s Demon Emperor Power had fused with Haruka and that she could never become human or a Princess again, leaving Haruka’s dream shattered.

• Kanata mistook Haruka for a monster and attacked her, then Towa and Kirara fought her as well.
• Haruka saw her monstrous reflection in a pond and fled, insisting that she was still Cure Flora and Haruno Haruka.
• Saya appeared and called Haruka the Queen of the Fangire, explaining that Ash’s Demon Emperor Power had fused with her and that Seeds of Despair had tipped the balance.
• Saya revealed that she was Catherine, a Dysdark executive, and denied that her supposed friendship with Haruka had ever existed.
• Catherine told Haruka that her monster form was permanent and that she could never become a Princess again, breaking Haruka’s dream and leaving her in despair.

Ash stopped himself from killing Haruno Haruka after she transformed into a monster, reassured her that he recognized her heart, and fought beside her. They defeated the Fortress of Despair, but Haruka still struggled to accept her monstrous form.

• Ash diverted his sword at the last moment and asked Haruka why she had not told him who she was.
• Ash comforted Haruka, told her he loved her as his favorite Princess, and listened as she explained Saya's role and how she became a monster.
• Ash encouraged Haruka not to fear her power and charged at the Fortress of Despair while Kivat rested.
• Haruka joined Ash, and they fought together to destroy the Fortress of Despair.
• Ash urged Haruka to return to their companions, but she resisted because she still could not accept being a monster.

Ash and the Pretty Cure recovered from the enemy’s trap, helped Haruka return to human form, and rallied the group despite losing the chance to free Hope Kingdom. They remained determined to find another way forward as an unknown threat appeared.

• Ash encouraged Haruka to reject Saya’s claim that she could never become a Princess again, and Haruka asked him to hold her hand longer after returning to human form.
• Ash explained that the Witch of Despair had sealed Hope Kingdom’s people in another dimension, while Aroma revealed that Flower Castle had been destroyed and the final light needed to break the seal was missing.
• Towa vowed not to cry until Hope Kingdom was saved, and Ash reassured Haruka that the group shared responsibility for falling for Saya’s deception.
• Minami woke after saving Ash and apologized for their failed operation, but Ash promised they would fight together again and protect everyone.
• The group laughed about Ash’s past declarations and discussed helping him face the Doran Castle Dragon, before an unknown arrival cried, “Despair!”

Ash and the Pretty Cure confronted Catherine, who revealed herself and attacked after Ash shared his dream of becoming someone his old friends and parents could be proud of. Ash fought Catherine while the cape monsters split up the Pretty Cure, and the chapter ended with him realizing her deceptive abilities had countered his attacks.

• The Pretty Cure fought mass-produced cape monsters while Minami told Ash she wanted to choose her own dream, and Ash reassured her that her family would support her.
• Ash revealed that he had found a dream: to become someone his old friends and parents could see with pride.
• Catherine emerged, introduced herself, and attacked Twilight before summoning berserk cape monsters to divide the battlefield.
• Ash transformed and blocked Catherine’s surprise strike, then exchanged attacks with her as she used illusions and transposition to evade him.
• The cape monsters kept the Pretty Cure occupied while Ash recognized that Catherine had countered his strength and the Demon Emperor Sword.

Ash fought Catherine in a fierce duel with the Zanvat Sword and Satan Saber while the Pretty Cures held off the cape monsters. Catherine revealed that her mind-reading let her anticipate his movements, enraging Ash as he pressed his attack and she became increasingly eager to take him back.

• Towa started to help Ash, but Twilight urged her to watch because their fight had become a battle no one else could interfere with.
• Catherine transformed her wand into the Satan Saber and countered Ash's attack, cutting through his armor and sending him flying.
• Ash and Catherine traded blows with their divine weapons, laughing as they enjoyed the fight, while Minami and Kirara protected the others from the cape monsters.
• Catherine told Ash she could read hearts and anticipate his movements, provoking him into charging at her in anger.
• Ash unleashed a rapid storm of sword strikes that overwhelmed Catherine and bloodied her hand, while she admired his strength and wanted to take him back.

Catherine tried to turn Ash against love and peace, but Haruka joined him and the two fought together, forcing Catherine back. As Ash moved to finish the fight, a vast, cold white light engulfed Haruka, Ash, the other girls, and Prince Kanata.

• Catherine exploited Ash's anger and wounded him with the Satan Saber, but Haruka interrupted her and challenged her claims about what suited him.
• Haruka told Ash that she and the others would protect his world, and Ash realized she was declaring her feelings for him.
• Catherine revealed that she had plotted against Haruka and resented the miracles that had saved her.
• Haruka and Ash coordinated their attacks and drove Catherine into a boulder, surprising her with their teamwork.
• Ash prepared to stab Catherine, but a vast white light spread across the battlefield and swallowed Haruka, Ash, the other girls, and Prince Kanata.

Haruka woke in Dyspear’s fortress with Ash, but Catherine stole her transformation device and led them to Dyspear, whom Ash accidentally killed while she absorbed despair energy. Catherine revealed herself as Ash’s mother, leaving him shaken and Haruka furious as she confronted Catherine over hurting him.

• Haruka woke beside Ash in the Fortress of Despair and discovered that her transformation device was missing.
• Catherine appeared with Haruka’s device, then fled as Ash and Haruka pursued her through the fortress.
• Ash stabbed Dyspear while mistaking her for Catherine, interrupting Dyspear’s plan to unleash Dysdark’s full power.
• Catherine emerged and welcomed Ash, but he demanded to know who she was and slashed away her false disguise.
• Ash recognized Catherine as his mother, and Catherine confirmed she was his biological mother and said she had opposed them because they annoyed her.
• Haruka told Catherine that Ash was in pain and angrily challenged her for hurting him.

Ash confronted Catherine, who claimed to be his mother and confessed that she had tormented him because she enjoyed his suffering. When Dyspear’s remaining despair energy engulfed Ash and Catherine, Haruka was left outside as Catherine reunited with Ash in the darkness and weakened his resolve.

• Catherine told Haruka that she had hurt Ash to make him submit to her and that his strength had exceeded her expectations.
• Ash rejected Catherine as his mother, insisted that his real mother had been gentle, and drew the Demon Emperor Sword against her.
• Catherine explained that Dyspear had been a vessel for despair energy, which sought a new host after Dyspear vanished.
• Despair energy enveloped Ash and Catherine, and Ash pushed Haruka away before she could be pulled into the darkness.
• Inside the black sphere, Catherine returned to her original form, praised Ash, and claimed they were reunited as mother and son.
• Ash attacked Catherine but hesitated when she touched him gently, while the despair energy strengthened her and weakened him.

Ash resisted Catherine’s attempt to claim him by confronting the truth that she was his mother, while she used his childhood memories to break down his defenses. As Ash began reliving the family warmth he had lost, the chapter ended with his six-year-old self preparing a birthday surprise for parents who were about to divorce.

• Catherine offered Ash a mother’s love and urged him to get rid of the Pretty Cure girls, but Ash rejected her attempt to control him.
• Catherine recalled Ash’s early love of tokusatsu shows, including Kikaider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider, revealing memories he had shared with his mother.
• Ash asked why Catherine had come to this world, and she said she wanted to hurt others and make him return as her possession.
• Ash remembered that his parents had once loved him and that his family had been warm before his parents’ relationship changed.
• On his sixth birthday, young Ash decorated the house and greeted his arguing parents with a party surprise, hoping to bring their smiles back.

Ash recalled the childhood memories that shaped his hatred of a world without heroes, then remembered a joyful day with his mother, Catherine, after his parents separated. The memory ended with Catherine promising to return if Ash became someone stronger and greater than a hero.

• Ash remembered his parents’ separation, his father’s anger, and how those experiences made him hate the ordinary world.
• Catherine secretly took six-year-old Ash to an amusement park, where they spent a happy day together.
• Ash asked Catherine why she could not return, then told her he did not resent his father despite feeling estranged from him.
• Ash declared that he would become the first hero, but Catherine asked him not to become one because heroes got hurt.
• Catherine promised to come back if Ash became someone stronger and greater than a hero, and Ash hooked his little finger with hers.

Ash confronted Catherine, who revealed that she had deliberately hurt him and left his family because she wanted to see how he would change under pressure. She explained her past as an all-powerful Interdimensional Traveler and said she had sought him out again after he became far more remarkable than she expected.

• Catherine revealed that she had bought Ash's Ultraman Tiga figure the day after promising it to him, then deliberately withheld it to make him experience loss; the figure fell and broke as Ash tried to catch it.
• Ash recalled meeting It at age twelve, traveling across worlds, gaining strength and companions, and eventually becoming the Black Night King before confronting Catherine.
• Ash demanded to know why Catherine had become cruel, and she answered that she acted simply because she wanted to, provoking him to charge at her.
• Catherine overpowered Ash with the world's despair energy and forced him to listen as she explained that she had been an Interdimensional Traveler before his birth, using her powers for amusement until she grew bored.
• Catherine told Ash that she had married his ordinary father and enjoyed family life, but left after deciding Ash was as extraordinary as herself and wanting to see what pressure would make of him.
• Catherine admitted that she had initiated the divorce and had expected Ash to change the world, then said she found him again only after he had already become more remarkable than she had imagined.

Catherine revealed that she had killed Ash’s father and tried to claim Ash as her own, but Ash stabbed her before she used Mental Dive to trap him in his inner world. She overwhelmed him with five Oma Zi-Os and then confronted Haruno Haruka, declaring victory as the darkness around Ash expanded.

• Catherine admitted she had killed Ash’s father and kept his head, prompting Ash to stab her with the Demon Emperor Sword.
• Catherine used Mental Dive to enter Ash’s inner world, where she scattered his memory-born Phantoms and summoned five Oma Zi-Os to attack him.
• Haruno Haruka kept striking the dark barrier around Ash until Ash’s Zanvat Sword flew past her.
• Catherine appeared behind Haruno Haruka, confirmed her identity, and said she had won as the darkness around Ash continued to grow.

Catherine became the new Witch of Despair after defeating Ash and crushing Haruka’s hope, then unleashed despair across the Hope Kingdom and toward Earth. The Pretty Cure learned that Haruka and Ash were missing as the spreading darkness began turning people into sources of despair energy.

• Catherine transformed herself into the new Witch of Despair and declared she would carry out Dyspear’s mission.
• Haruka begged Catherine to return Ash, but Catherine threw her down and shattered Haruka’s Princess Perfume.
• Catherine taunted Haruka until she collapsed, apologizing to the darkness-wrapped Ash for being unable to help him.
• The Pretty Cure regrouped and found despair miasma spreading throughout the Hope Kingdom, while Kaito Minami’s purification could not contain it.
• Catherine appeared as a giant illusion, announced she was the new Witch of Despair, and repelled Towa’s attack.
• Puff told the Pretty Cure that she had overheard Ash and Haruka, as despair energy spread across the world and stole people’s hearts.

Nanase Yui transformed into Kamen Rider IXA and stood against Catherine, while Haruno Haruka found the resolve to take up the Demon Emperor Sword and help Ash. As Catherine’s thorn monster attacked, Yui protected the students and drew strength from their encouragement.

• Nanase Yui confronted Catherine and transformed using the IXA Knuckle, declaring that Ash’s trust had given her the power to protect everyone.
• Yui rejected Catherine’s taunts and vowed to keep fighting, even as Catherine decided to torment her and the others.
• Haruno Haruka remembered why she had first dreamed of becoming a Princess and chose to become a hero who could save others.
• Haruka rose and reached for the Demon Emperor Sword, insisting that she could decide for herself what she was able to do.
• Catherine controlled the dark thorn plants to form a giant monster, and Yui held up its foot to shield the students.
• The students shouted encouragement to Yui, urging her not to give up as she struggled beneath the monster.

Nanase Yui’s courage could not overcome Catherine’s second Thorn Giant, and Catherine captured and tormented her while the returning Pretty Cure attacked. Later, Ash teased Snow White about becoming his Queen, then kissed her after she confessed how much she wanted him.

• Nanase Yui used the Knuckle Blaster to blast one Thorn Giant away, but Catherine revealed a second giant that struck Yui and knocked her out of transformation.
• Catherine bound the injured Yui with thorns and demanded that she renounce her beliefs, but Yui insisted that everyone’s dreams had to be protected.
• Kirara and Minami attacked Catherine with their finishing moves as Towa/Twilight charged in behind them.
• Snow White asked Ash why he enjoyed teasing the girls and declared that she would let him bully her for the rest of her life.
• Ash teased Snow White about becoming his Queen until she promised to find a great dream and learn to be virtuous, then kissed her.
• Snow White protested when Ash called it his first kiss, and he clarified that it was his first kiss with Kohime.

Snow White worried that Ash was suppressing his frustration, but he explained that he had learned to resist the enemies trying to provoke him and was waiting for his chance to fight. She was impressed by his resolve and tried to reward him with a massage, leaving him asking her to put on her stockings and step on him.

• Snow White celebrated being Ash's Queen until Ash teased her for forgetting the Black Night Kingdom's name.
• Snow White told Ash she feared he might lose control under the pressure, and he explained that he understood his enemies' plan to provoke him but would not give them the reaction they wanted.
• Ash said he had been spending time with the girls as compensation and was prepared to endure until the chance to fight arrived.
• Ash declared that he feared his enemies would reach his friends first and punish them before he could, which made Snow White swoon.
• Snow White decided to reward Ash with a massage, then took off her shoes and socks to use her feet; Ash asked her to put on her stockings and step on him.

Snow White, Kohime, and Megumi shared a tender bedtime moment with Ash, while Aida Mana sparred with him and later told Kirara stories about their past. Kirara left their conversation with a new resolve to teach the author of Ash’s book a lesson.

• Snow White massaged Ash’s back, and Megumi watched them fondly from behind a wall.
• Snow White found Megumi already in bed with Ash, and Megumi made room for her to join them.
• Aida Mana transformed into Heart Angel and sparred with Ash, but she surrendered after he pinned her.
• Kirara introduced herself to Mana and asked her to recount detailed stories about Ash from the past.
• Mana recalled how she and Ash had changed and saved each other, while Kirara listened and resolved to confront the author who had led Ash astray.