Recaps

Ash heard the girls explain what they wanted to protect and discovered Homi was worried about whether he was her father. Maria reunited with Iona and decided to pursue Ash, while Iona sneaked into his room and found someone already in his bed.

• Iona, Snow White, and Megumi each explained their hopes, with Megumi saying she wanted to protect Ash, her family, and the present and future.
• Homi teased Ash about being her father, then privately asked whether he really was before encouraging herself to keep trying.
• Maria visited Ash and then learned that Iona had slept with him, leaving Maria shocked and jealous.
• Maria recalled Ash rescuing and comforting her, then decided to confess to him again and pursue him if he refused.
• Iona sneaked into Ash's room early in the morning and froze when she saw a black-haired figure spread across his bed.

After Maria’s attempted seduction of Ash caused a misunderstanding with Iona, Ash visited Mirror at her secluded shrine before his team departed for another world. Mirror asked to join his dangerous mission so she could use her strength to atone for her past as Phantom Queen.

• Maria told Iona that Ash had rejected her and claimed she had tried a more direct approach, while Ash insisted he had been asleep and nothing had happened.
• Iona stormed off, and Ashu and Nanase Yui assumed Maria would join Ash at the castle.
• Ash visited Mirror at her shrine, where they shared tea and talked about her past devotion to Blue God and her peaceful life.
• Mirror asked Ash to take her with him on his next mission so she could help protect the world and atone for her sins as Phantom Queen.

Ash and Mirror reconciled, and Mirror confessed her love before the group set out for the Fairy Tale Kingdom. When Castle Dragon struck a barrier sealing the kingdom, Ash ordered it to ram through, then looked for another way in.

• Ash rejected Mirror's wish to serve as his shield and urged her to live, after which Mirror confessed her feelings and kissed him.
• The Pretty Cure teased Mirror and Ash, and Ash announced that the group would visit the Fairy Tale Kingdom to find Miyuki and the others.
• Castle Dragon arrived at the Fairy Tale Kingdom but crashed into a spherical barrier surrounding the world.
• Ash ordered Castle Dragon to activate its Photon Ice Blade Ram, but the others stopped him from breaking through the barrier.
• After their attempts to contact the kingdom failed, Ash went to the bookshelves and said there was another way in.

Ash and his companions entered the Incredible Library and found signs that Miyuki and the others had recently been there. Ash went alone to Seven-Colored Hill, where he reunited with the Smile Pretty Cure girls, who greeted him with unusually open affection.

• Ashu and Homi opened the secret entrance to the Incredible Library by pulling books from the shelves in opposite directions.
• The group explored the library, discovered freshly replenished snacks and handmade decorations, and Ash noticed that someone had recently used the hideout.
• Ash left the others behind and walked through Seven-Colored Hill, recalling past adventures and meeting a fan who asked for his autograph.
• Ash unexpectedly encountered Miyuki, Akane, Yayoi, Nao, and Reika, who rushed to embrace and kiss him before he carried them away from onlookers.
• The girls openly professed their affection for Ash, and Akane hugged him while the others argued silently over their agreed share of his attention.

Ashu discovered that the girls who had been showering him with affection were actually Bad End Pretty Cure, the beings he had created. They trapped him in a school equipment room and confessed that they wanted to prove their love was as strong as the other Pretty Cure’s, but admitted they did not know what to do next.

• Akane, Nao, Reika, Yayoi, and Miyuki led Ashu around Seven-Colored Hill while competing for his attention and imagining a future with him.
• At Nanairogaoka Academy, Ashu recognized the girls as Bad End Pretty Cure because their behavior felt wrong.
• Ashu exposed their disguise, and the five Bad End Pretty Cure girls surrounded him and locked him inside the sports equipment room.
• The girls stripped off Ashu’s jacket and pressed against him, but their seduction stalled when they realized they lacked practical knowledge about sex.
• Bad End Pretty Cure told Ashu they wanted to take the initiative and prove their love for him matched that of the other Pretty Cure.

Ash reunited with the Bad End Pretty Cure and learned why they had impersonated the real Smile Pretty Cure and what enemies they had faced. After comforting them, he began punishing them for hiding the truth and attacking him.

• The Bad End Pretty Cure confessed that they wanted to be Ash’s own creations and had attacked him to win his attention.
• Ash interrogated the five girls and learned they had trained with the Heart Tree, returned to this world, and pretended to be Miyuki and the others after the real girls vanished.
• Bad Akane proudly described her good deeds, but Ash showed footage of her carrying an elderly woman across after the woman had already crossed, leaving Akane devastated by his judgment.
• Bad Miyuki explained that strange new enemies could transform people’s clothes, alter the world, and force everyone to speak in slogans, while the girls relied on their Core Medals and training to fight them.
• Ash praised the girls for working hard, then declared that he still had to punish them for withholding important information and attacking him.
• Ash restrained the Bad End Pretty Cure with collars and chains and began teasing them, as the girls reacted with embarrassment and pleasure.

Ash subdued the Bad End Pretty Cure with humiliating ticklish punishment, then learned from Homi that the approaching Sentai Killer was a formidable enemy. At Nanairogaoka Academy, Ash and the Pretty Cure faced the invading force, whose leader welcomed Ash and promised him an inescapable hell.

• Ash teased and tickled the Bad End Pretty Cure until they became affectionate toward him and promised to stop doing bad things.
• Several Pretty Cure arrived and watched the scene, and Megumi transformed into a dog-girl and joined Ash.
• Ash exchanged information with the group and the castle, and Homi warned that the Sentai Killer had multiple abilities and was stronger than her.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure reached Nanairogaoka Academy as the Sentai forces advanced beneath a spreading darkness.
• Ash realized the Bad End girls had been waiting for him, and the enemy leader greeted him and declared that he had prepared an inescapable hell.

Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Saber and fought the Sentai Killer alongside the Pretty Cure girls, but the enemy struck everyone with a conversion beam. Ash awoke to find the real Kise Yayoi and Hino Akane beside him, reunited with them after a long separation.

• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Saber and helped the Pretty Cure girls battle the Sentai Killer's foot soldiers.
• Ash clashed with the Sentai Killer, who revealed a mechanical and enhanced-flesh body and proved stronger than Ash.
• The Bad End Pretty Cure girls protected Ash, and more Pretty Cure allies arrived as the group pursued the retreating Sentai Killer.
• The Sentai Killer opened a face on the back of his head and hit Ash and the others with a conversion beam.
• Ash awoke as the real Kise Yayoi and Hino Akane found him, and he embraced and kissed Akane during their reunion.

Ash reunited with Kise Yayoi and Hino Akane in Fairy Tale Kingdom and learned that Nao had vanished after turning into him and kissing Akane. He traveled with the girls to a guarded castle, where he identified himself as Kamen Rider Enki and prepared to prove it with the Seiken Swordriver.

• Ash recognized Kise Yayoi as Cure Peace and Hino Akane as Cure Sunny after finding them in Fairy Tale Kingdom.
• Yayoi explained that the Smile Pretty Cure had been stranded in the kingdom, and Akane said Nao had suddenly turned into Ash before disappearing.
• Ash summoned Courage Dragon, Storm Hunter Eagle, and Somersault Cloud to carry the group toward a castle, while Akane resolved to show her feelings for him.
• Guards barred Ash and the girls from entering the castle, but Ash claimed to be Kamen Rider Enki and activated his Seiken Swordriver.

Ash and Yayoi disguised themselves to enter Fairy Tale Kingdom, where Yayoi helped Akane dress as Cardcaptor Sakura. Akane’s flustered performance caught Ash’s attention, and after she fled in embarrassment, he turned his attention to teasing Yayoi.

• A guard recognized Ash as Flame Rider and asked him for an autograph, while Yayoi persuaded Akane to visit a tailor and find a cute costume.
• Yayoi dressed as a magical girl from an old series and fooled the guards into letting them enter the city.
• Yayoi asked Ash what kind of girl he liked, and he told her he liked Kise Yayoi herself before she hugged him and urged him to encourage Akane.
• Akane dressed as Cardcaptor Sakura and performed a spell for the fairies, then blushed at Ash’s reaction and ran into the city.
• Yayoi told Ash to go cheer Akane up, but Ash stopped her and teased her about enjoying the situation as an outsider.

Akane Hino found Reika being arrested in the Fairy Tale Kingdom, but Ash stopped her from intervening so they could investigate who was controlling the kingdom. As they reached Reika’s cell, Ash told Akane that he had fallen for her when she stood by him in the rain, leaving her delighted.

• Akane saw guards arrest Reika after Reika insisted that the real Candy would never seal off the Fairy Tale Kingdom.
• Ash silenced Akane when she tried to transform and rescue Reika, explaining that Reika’s arrest could help them uncover clues.
• Akane and Ash went openly through the prison entrance, where they found that Yayoi had already gone ahead to gather material.
• While they walked through the prison, Ash told Akane he liked her because she had stood by him during the rainy day when he was affected by Future Sight.
• Akane blushed and laughed happily after Ash hurried toward Reika’s cell, while Yayoi watched and called it another victory for Big Brother.

Ash entered Reika’s cell disguised as Kamen Rider and learned that Miyuki had been captured in the Fairy Tale Kingdom. After reassuring Reika that Miyuki was safe, he freed her and the group prepared to continue their rescue.

• Ash reached Reika in her cell, and she broke down in relief before telling him that Miyuki had been taken to a room behind the castle hall.
• Reika explained that the Fairy Tale Kingdom had been seized after Candy fell into a trap, and Ash recalled Miyuki’s childhood story and concluded she was not in danger.
• When guards returned, Ash and Reika pretended he was interrogating her until Akane and Yayoi distracted them again.
• Ash freed Reika, but she emerged limping and exhausted, prompting Akane to scold him and Yayoi to ask whether Reika was hurt.

Ash and the Pretty Cure fought their way through the throne hall, where Ash defeated two ogres alone with his Dragonic Knight form. The group reached Hoshizora Miyuki, but someone stepped between her and Ash before they could reunite.

• Two ogres guarding the throne hall attacked Ash and the Pretty Cure, but Ash transformed into Dragonic Knight and stopped Akane and Yayoi from transforming.
• Ash overpowered the ogres, melted their Kanabo, and burned them with his flames while the Pretty Cure watched.
• Ash defeated the ogres with his finishing move, and Reika and Akane praised his new form as Yayoi lamented being spoiled on future Kamen Rider episodes.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure entered the throne hall and found Hoshizora Miyuki dressed as a Princess; Miyuki and Ash called to each other before someone ordered them not to come closer.

Hoshizora Miyuki defended her love for Ash and refused to let Nicole’s anger drive them apart. After Miyuki restrained Nicole, she explained that she planned to help the two understand each other and asked Ash to do what he had done for the others before.

• Nicole accused Ash of causing Miyuki pain and tried to keep him away, while Miyuki insisted that loving Ash also meant accepting his flaws.
• Ash admitted that Miyuki had suffered because of him, but said he could not leave her because he loved her.
• Ash tore apart Nicole’s dark-energy cage as Miyuki explained that their shared memories included happiness as well as pain.
• Miyuki restrained Nicole and told her she was trying to save both her friend and Ash from their conflict.
• Miyuki promised Nicole that the outcome would make her happy and asked Ash to help her as he had helped the others before.

Ash and the Smile Pretty Cure defeated the Demon King, freed Sugar, and returned from the Fairy Tale Kingdom. There they found Nao unconscious and confronted the Sentai Killer, whose machinery-covered shell Ash cut away to reveal its true form.

• Miyuki reassured Nicole about Ash, but Nicole's black mist emerged and transformed into the Demon King.
• The Demon King revealed that it had manipulated Nicole and stolen power from the Fairy Tale Kingdom, then fought Ash and the Pretty Cure.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure joined forces to defeat and purify the Demon King, rescue Sugar, and open the barrier around the Fairy Tale Kingdom.
• Ash and the girls entrusted Nicole to Ashu and returned to Seven-Colored Hill, where they found Nao unconscious in a crater.
• The Sentai Killer admitted it had taken advantage of Nao, and Ash split its mechanical shell open with Kaenken Rekka, revealing a dark Ranger-like form.

Sentai Killer revealed that his ability had replaced the Pretty Cure with counterparts from other worlds, including Ash, and Ash joined forces with Yes! Pretty Cure 5 to fight him. The chapter ended with Ash realizing the replacements had also disrupted their positions in battle.

• Sentai Killer survived the Pretty Cure Rainbow Burst, and Naoki awoke and warned everyone about his ability.
• Sentai Killer’s flash ability replaced the Smile Pretty Cure with Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and Ash with Cyclone Angel, scattering the other Pretty Cure teams across different worlds.
• Sentai Killer explained that he could replace anyone within a category he selected, and Nozomi Yumehara and the others agreed to help Ash defeat him.
• Ash transformed into Dragon Arthur form and attacked alongside Yes! Pretty Cure 5.
• Sentai Killer swung his Red Whip, causing Nozomi to dodge into Ash, and Ash realized the replacement ability had affected their positions too.

Sentai Killer separated Ash from the Pretty Cures by trapping them in a labyrinth, leaving Ash alone to face him. Sentai Killer claimed that Ash’s bonds had made him powerful but had also taught him to rely on others.

• Sentai Killer outmaneuvered the five members of Yes Precure 5 with practiced weapon attacks and disrupted Dream Angel’s finisher, while Ash’s attack was thrown off when she crashed into him.
• Ash and Nozomi argued about their failed coordination, and Sentai Killer used a roll-call pose to trigger explosions that blasted the Pretty Cures away.
• Ash realized Sentai Killer had exploited his separation from Miyuki and the others, while the five Pretty Cures attacked with Pretty Cure Colorful Rose Explosion.
• Sentai Killer’s buckle absorbed the five Pretty Cures and imprisoned them in a labyrinth filled with clones, where they became lost and exhausted.
• Sentai Killer told Ash that his bonds had given him strength but had also made him reliant on others, leaving him alone as the Pretty Cures remained trapped.

Ash used Emotion Dragon to fight the Sentai Killer, whose labyrinth powers let him absorb and wield the abilities of captured Pretty Cures. After Emotion Dragon absorbed the attacks and awakened Ash’s strength, Ash heard Bad Miyuki’s voice and charged toward the Sentai Killer to deliver a finishing move.

• Ash transformed with the Emotion Dragon Wonder Ride Book and attacked the Sentai Killer.
• The Sentai Killer revealed that his labyrinth absorbed victims’ skills and powers, then fought Ash with Pretty Cure weapons and techniques.
• Ash pressed forward under the barrage, and Emotion Dragon began absorbing the purification attacks and filling him with power.
• Ash deflected the Sentai Killer’s Spin Vulcan attack and heard Bad Miyuki call to him from within the labyrinth.
• Ash invoked Emotion Dragon’s courage, honor, and love, overwhelmed the Sentai Killer, and prepared a finishing kick.

Ash freed the captured Precure by destroying Sentai Killer’s hidden labyrinth, but the Bad End Precure’s attack caused his replacement ability to bring every other Precure to the battlefield. Sentai Killer recovered and challenged Ash to prove he could defeat his power.

• Ash redirected his Love Dragon God Strike into Sentai Killer’s shoulder ornament, breaking the labyrinth and releasing the captured Precure.
• The rescued Precure fell from the sky, and Regina, Twilight, Mirror, Maria, and Bad End reunited with Ash.
• The Bad End Precure fired a rainbow-and-darkness attack at Sentai Killer, cracking his visor and sending replacement rays across the area.
• Sentai Killer’s uncontrolled power replaced objects with the other Precure, bringing them all together and prompting Ash to scold Bad End Miyuki.
• The Precure urged Sentai Killer to surrender, but he defended Hyakukai’s cause and asked Ash whether he could defeat his power.

Sentai Killer used Emotion Conversion to raise the Pretty Cure’s favorability toward Ash, hoping their affection would make him hesitate. The dial spun out of control to 1000%, and the enamored Pretty Cure surrounded Ash while Sentai Killer escaped.

• Sentai Killer activated the heart-shaped brooch and raised the Pretty Cure’s favorability toward Ash to 100%.
• The affected Pretty Cure flushed and struggled with their sudden feelings, but Nono Hana and the others continued fighting because of their mission.
• A Pretty Cure’s attack struck the brooch’s needle, making it spin past its limit and climb to 1000%.
• Sentai Killer fled, and Ash turned toward the Pretty Cure as they gathered around him with unnerving affection.
• Chocolate Angel, Macaron Angel, and Hoshizora Angel each tried to claim Ash’s attention as he struggled to escape their advances.

A 1000% affection boost overwhelmed the Pretty Cure, who crowded around Ash with obsessive declarations of love. After Hug-tan knocked away his transformation item, Ash was left unmasked and surrounded as the girls began proposing that they share him.

• The Sentai Killer fled, leaving Ash alone with the affection-struck Pretty Cure, whose attempts to resist the boost failed.
• Galaxy Angel mistook her feelings for a desire to join with Ash, giving the other girls a way to interpret their overwhelming affection.
• Nono Hana and the other Pretty Cure confessed their love and pressed closer, while Hana claimed Hug-tan was the child she had with Ash.
• Hug-tan struck Ash’s Seiken Swordriver, sending the Emotion Dragon Wonder Ride Book flying and ending his transformation.
• The unmasked Ash drew even more attention, and the Pretty Cure began discussing sharing him as they surrounded him.

Ash escaped the Pretty Cure by transforming into a twelve-year-old boy, but Asahina Mirai summoned him back and the girls overwhelmed him with affection. After he transformed into Primitive Dragon to break free, the Pretty Cure purified the form, leaving Ash trapped again and crying out for help.

• Ash used Golden Cicada Sheds its Shell to become a twelve-year-old boy and flee from the Pretty Cure.
• Asahina Mirai summoned Ash back, and she, Izayoi Riko, Hana-dera Nodoka, and the others crowded around him.
• Neko Angel and Inukai Komugi joined the group, while Ash protested their claims and advances.
• Ash transformed into Primitive Dragon and tried to leap away from the crowd.
• The Pretty Cure struck Primitive Dragon with purification attacks, causing the form to vanish and leaving Ash in their arms.
• Ash begged Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, or any hero to save him as the girls pulled at his clothes.

Ashu transformed the Pretty Cure into babies to stop them from overwhelming Ash, leaving him to carry and comfort them as he headed toward the descending castle. Elsewhere, Sougo Tokiwa and Captain Marvelous defeated a group of enemies and spotted a strange Pretty Cure mishmash form.

• Ashu used a camera and her power to turn the Pretty Cure into crying babies, then explained that they still clung to Ash because of their intense affection for him.
• Ash picked up Hug-tan and let the baby Pretty Cure climb all over him, then carried them toward the descending castle.
• Sougo Tokiwa, as Zi-O, and Captain Marvelous, as Gokai Red, defeated the enemies in their area and discussed their elaborate forms covered in symbols and portraits.
• Sougo and Marvelous saw an approaching figure in a Pretty Cure mishmash form and remarked on the dolls of Pretty Cure attached to it.

Ash used the baby Pretty Cure clinging to him to overpower the Sentai Killer’s forces, then brought in the Smile Pretty Cure team to face him. He prepared to hand the fight over to them while Miyuki reassured him that he could become a good father.

• Ash summoned Sougo and Marvelous for help, and they laughed at his appearance beneath the baby Pretty Cure covering him.
• The Sentai Killer fled, but Ash chased him down while carrying the babies as armor.
• The Sentai Killer summoned foot soldiers and monsters, but the babies’ instinctive shields and attacks let Ash destroy them.
• Ash explained that he would not fight the Sentai Killer himself and summoned the five Smile Pretty Cure members.
• The others laughed at Ash’s appearance, while Miyuki comforted him and encouraged him to believe he could become a good father.

Smile Precure used Gokaiger Ranger Keys to defeat the Sentai Killer, and Ash learned that Mugen had been captured and forced to serve Hundred Worlds. The reunions turned chaotic when the Precure babies began crying and then transformed back into their older selves, leaving Ash pinned beneath them as Megumi became Eternal Unlovely Angel.

• Ash gave Smile Precure Gokai Cellulars and Ranger Keys, and the girls transformed into Sentai versions of themselves.
• Smile Precure defeated the Sentai Killer with the Gokai Galleon Buster and absorbed his Dark Echo.
• Ash removed the defeated fighter’s helmet and learned from Mugen that Hundred Worlds had predicted the heroes’ moves, detonated a Dimensional Vibration Bomb, and captured him.
• Mugen left to reunite with the surviving heroes and told Ash to cherish his companions and never betray them.
• The Precure babies began crying and tugging at Ash before smoke and explosions changed them back into their older selves.
• Ash ended up pinned beneath the disheveled Precure, and Megumi became Eternal Unlovely Angel as she clenched her fist.