Recaps

Ash and Mana fought together against the army that invaded the tower, while Homi stopped the others from entering the Dimensional Warp Field so the pair could have their battle alone. Mana unleashed her Heart's Light at Ash's request, and the chapter ended with him shouting at her not to touch him because he was hot.

• Ash and Mana joined forces against the foot soldiers and monsters that appeared inside the Dimensional Warp Field.
• Mana helped Ash in battle, and the two teased each other as they fought side by side.
• Rikka and Ayumi tried to break through the Field, but Homi blocked them and insisted that Ash and Mana's fight belonged to them alone.
• Ash encouraged Mana to use My Sweet Heart on the enemies, with himself still standing in the blast's path.
• Mana's attack purified the enemies and struck Ash, who stopped her from touching him afterward.

Ash used Heart Angel’s finishing move to enter Flame Rider’s Re-Burning form and defeat the surrounding enemies, then revealed his identity to Mana and confessed that he loved her. His mother Catherine appeared and rejected their relationship, but Ash defended Mana, who then confronted Catherine herself.

• Ash had Mana strike him with Heart Angel’s finishing move, triggering Flame Rider’s Re-Burning form and wiping out the enemies around them.
• Ash removed his helmet, asked Mana to trust him, and revealed that Catherine Frederica had returned as the mastermind.
• Ash told Catherine that he loved Aida Ai and asked for her blessing, leaving Ai and Catherine stunned.
• Catherine insulted Ai and demanded that Ash choose a more suitable woman, but Ash calmly insisted that he loved Ai for who she truly was.
• Catherine admitted that she treated Ash as her possession because of his strength and talent, and Ai took Ash’s hand and declared that he belonged only to himself.

Ash and Aida Ai fought Catherine, who had returned as the Witch of Despair, while she tried to reclaim control over her son and crush their relationship. As Catherine pressed them with overwhelming power, Ash insisted that his bonds with Ai and the Pretty Cure mattered more than Dark Echo, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Ash told Catherine to let go of her child, but she transformed into the Witch of Despair and unleashed a wave of negative energy.
• Aida Ai joined Ash in battle, and Catherine rejected Ai’s attempts to appeal to their mother-son bond before breaking her barrier.
• Catherine summoned a giant spider of despair energy and chased Ash and Aida Ai with its attacks.
• Catherine mocked Ai as a lowborn woman who had stolen her son, while Ash defended Ai and blocked Catherine’s attacks.
• Ash revealed that he had given his Dark Echo to Them, enraging Catherine, who attacked him with a dark scythe.
• Aida Ai stood beside Ash to help him resist Catherine, and Ash declared that his bonds with the Pretty Cure were enough without overwhelming darkness.

Ash broke free of Catherine’s web and fought back with the strength Mana sent him, while Mana emerged in Parthenon Mode and helped him face his mother. Ash chose to strike Catherine not only to defeat her but to break her resentment, and their final clash ended with his flaming fist illuminating her darkness.

• Catherine bound Ash and Aida Mana in a dark web, then beat Ash and urged him to abandon his friends and rule the world with her.
• Aida Mana struggled to reach her friends and sent Ash strength, while Ash thanked Catherine for the life she had given him but rejected her plans and broke free.
• Ash fought Catherine again, and Aida Mana broke out of her cocoon in Parthenon Mode, destroying the spider giant and the Tragedy Energy around Catherine.
• Aida Mana embraced Ash and shared her feelings, then joined him in facing Catherine as he admitted that he hated her but could not treat her only as an enemy.
• Catherine gathered her remaining power for a final attack, but Ash shattered her Grim Reaper with a flaming strike meant to defeat her and break her resentment.

Ash and Mana reunited with Homi after defeating Catherine, and the family embraced their future together. Ash then woke from a long dream to find himself in a peaceful home surrounded by family memories, though he could not understand how he had arrived in this life.

• Ash watched Catherine vanish and said he wanted to preserve the love he had shared with his family.
• Mana kissed and embraced Ash, asking him never to leave her, and Homi joined them as they promised to stay together.
• Ashu confronted Kalle atop Clover Tower, and Kalle explained that he had been assigned to help Ash before both were engulfed in light.
• Ash woke at a desk when Homi called him, and he jokingly panicked at the thought that she might be interested in someone.
• Homi left to prepare for a celebration, telling Ash to clean up before Mana and the other mothers returned.
• Ash found photos chronicling his life with Mana, Homi, and their friends, then wandered back into his room, confused about his surroundings.

Ash awoke in a seemingly real, peaceful future, where he was married to Mana and raising Homi, and discovered he had forgotten their fifteenth wedding anniversary. As he prepared a surprise for Mana, Primum appeared at the door and knocked him to the floor with a headbutt.

• Ash found a family photo with Ai and Homi and realized his loving life with Arisu, Rikka, and Aguri was real.
• Homi told Ash it was his and Mana's fifteenth wedding anniversary and assigned him to prepare decorations and a gift while she cooked.
• Ash finished the anniversary preparations, watched Kamen Rider Enki, and examined the Burning Driver while wondering where it came from.
• Ash went to greet the person at the door, expecting Mana, but found Primum instead.
• Primum headbutted Ash in the chest, knocking him to the floor.

Ash learned that the happy future with Aida Mana was a dream created by their daughter, Homi, and fled rather than accept it. After Puca, Ayumi, and Ashu helped break the dream’s hold, Ash found Homi in the gap between worlds.

• Ash recognized that the armored girl was Puca, who had transformed into a Pretty Cure, and followed her through a door into the gap between worlds.
• A future version of Aida Mana revealed that the apparent future was Homi’s dream and asked Ash to help their daughter accept the truth before she vanished.
• Ash rejected the dream version of his future with Mana and ran away with Puca.
• Ayumi arrived and reported seeing Ashu and Kalle fighting, while Puca explained that Homi had also been deceived.
• Puca and Ayumi joined Ashu in battling Kalle to buy Ash time to find Homi.
• Kalle pointed Ash toward Homi, and Ash reunited with his daughter.

Ash tried to stop Homi from trapping the Pretty Cure in perfect dream worlds, but was pulled into her dream of an endless happy family life. He recognized that Homi was refusing to face the future and prepared to confront her about it.

• Homi rejected Ash’s attempt to take her away, insisting that the world Kaler created and its people were real, then used her power to pull Ash into a dream.
• Ash broke through his own dream world’s barrier and saw the other Pretty Cure enclosed in dreams before the orb of light crushed him and drew him inside.
• Ash woke beside Homi in a dream where they were preparing for their mother’s wedding anniversary, and Homi treated his warnings as a strange joke.
• Ash questioned whether Homi would be happy living the same perfect day forever, but she avoided discussing what she wanted to become in the future.
• When someone knocked at the door, Ash told Homi that she understood this was her world but was refusing to face the truth.

Ash rejected Homi’s fabricated family and destroyed the gifts and memories she had created, while revealing that he was a Rider Killer rather than a Pretty Cure Killer. Homi confronted him over her nonexistent origins and tried to gather the remains of the home she had hoped to make real.

• Ash crushed the anniversary gift Homi had prepared and told her that Aida Ai was not her mother, but Cure Heart, and had not lived the future Homi imagined.
• Ash tore down Homi’s decorations and burned the wedding photograph while restraining her, forcing her to watch the fantasy disappear.
• Ash admitted that he was a Rider Killer and explained that Homi had been brought from a possible future by Him, without memories or a true origin.
• Kaler explained that Homi’s parents existed only in an uncertain possibility because Ash was a singularity, leaving her desperate to create the family she had never actually had.
• Homi transformed, rejected Ash as her father, and accused him of destroying her home before kneeling to gather the broken gift and ashes, insisting she could rebuild everything.

Ash confronted Homi over her plan to choose a mother and build a family by rewriting the world, then comforted her as she regretted the harm she had caused and resolved to act alone. Meanwhile, Kaller overwhelmed Ashu and Puka Angel, and Puka heard a familiar voice offer to take over and save the person she loved.

• Homi tried to keep pursuing her goal by choosing another possible mother, but Ash stopped her and slapped her for insulting her mother.
• Ash told Homi that she could not pursue freedom by obstructing others, admitted his own past mistakes, and embraced her as she questioned whether her existence was a mistake.
• Homi accepted Ash's reassurance, then said there was something she had to do alone and used her power to make the frozen, reversing world begin to crack open.
• Kaller used Phantom Beast Fist to break Ashu's wings, countered Cure Echo's attack, and caught Puka Angel when she attempted a sneak attack.
• As Kaller aimed his gun at Puka Angel, a familiar voice inside her asked her to move aside and offered to take over so it could save the person she loved.

Puka surrendered control to Primum, who fought Kalle and discovered that Ash’s dream was cracking as the Pretty Cure began to awaken. Ash encouraged Homi to choose her own future, and she joined him before Ashu and Primum reunited to battle Kalle together.

• Puka let Primum take control, and Primum blocked Kalle’s attacks before declaring she would not forgive anyone who hurt Ash.
• Primum noticed a crack spreading across Ash’s dream, and Hanasaki Rei awoke from it and joined Cure Heart, Miss Mana.
• Ash reassured Homi that she could create meaning for herself and encouraged her to pursue a future with a complete family.
• Homi transformed into a white battle suit and followed Ash toward the next world.
• Ashu arrived to protect Primum, and the former friends joined forces against Kalle’s attack.
• Ashu asked whether Kalle was like Dust, and Primum confirmed that he was.

Ash and the Pretty Cure broke free of Homi’s dream and confronted Kalle, who revealed that he could divide into five World Kaisers and wield the combined power of every Super Sentai. The heroes struggled against his overwhelming strength, and Ash, Ashu, and Primum focused their attack on the original Kalle as he drew on his vast accumulated resentment.

• Ash emerged from the cracking dream with Homi, and Primum chose to fight beside him.
• Ash caught the Pretty Cure as they fell from above, and the awakened heroines gathered to face Kalle.
• Kalle opened a dimensional rift and summoned four World Kaiser versions of himself, revealing that he could fight as a coordinated Super Sentai team.
• Kalle’s five World Kaisers overwhelmed the Pretty Cure teams, even after Regina joined the battle as Cure Joker.
• Ash led Ashu and Primum against the red World Kaiser, and Kalle grew stronger by drawing on the resentment and hatred he had accumulated.

Ash took Kalle’s shot while protecting Homi, and Ayumi and Puka gave their power and lives to keep him alive. As the Pretty Cure fought the World Kaisers, Homi prepared to do whatever was needed to save her father.

• Ash and the Pretty Cure shattered Kalle’s gear belt, but Kalle revealed that the Gears were installed inside his body and overwhelmed his opponents.
• Kalle destroyed Ash’s Burning Driver and shot at Homi, but Ash moved in front of her and took the bullet.
• Homi held the dying Ash as he explained that he had saved her because she was suffering and in danger.
• Ayumi tried to give Ash her miracle, but Puka took his hand first and transferred her life and power to him.
• Ayumi and Ashu helped close Ash’s wound while Homi resolved that saving him alone was not enough.
• The Pretty Cure charged the World Kaisers to protect Ash, while Homi canceled her transformation and confronted her father’s disregard for his own life.

Homi sacrificed the sun within her to restore Ash, who awakened as Kamen Rider Ash and gained power that grew without limit. He overwhelmed the World Kaisers while Kaler struggled to understand the new Rider form, and Ash recognized the windmill belt as his original Ash Driver.

• Homi told Ash that her family and friends had filled her once-empty heart, then gave up her future and drove the sun from her chest into Ash's shattered belt core.
• Aida Mana used her last strength to punch Kaler before collapsing, while Ash rose again and transformed into Kamen Rider Ash.
• Ash's first punch shattered the pink World Kaiser's arm guard and sent him flying with both arms broken; Ash said his power felt like a miracle shared with the Pretty Cure.
• Ash declared that he would defeat the World Kaisers completely, and Kaler's confidence collapsed as Ash deflected his whale cannon's attack.
• Ash recognized the windmill belt as the original Ash Driver that he and the system had created together.

Ash used the power of Dark Echo to fight Kaller and learned that Homi had returned to the future she belonged to. Determined to carve out a future for her himself, Ash faced Kaller’s strongest fused form as the battle continued.

• Ash read the apology left by Histrum and understood that Histrum had promised to give Kaller half of the Dark Echo’s power.
• Ashu told Ash that Homi had returned to her own future, and Ash vowed to carve out a future where she could exist.
• Ash fought off the four World Kaisers, broke through their time-freezing power, and accused Kaller of being a puppet bound to his creator’s commands.
• Kaller fused the four World Kaisers into his ultimate form and attacked Ash with overwhelming power.
• Ash met Kaller’s giant fists in combat as Kaller raged against Ash’s protected, happy ending.

Ash defeated Kaler and World Kaiser, then used the Sentai Gear buried in Kaler to open possibilities from sealed parallel worlds. Kaler warned that someone Ash trusted served New Hundred Worlds, but Ash focused on the coming battle and offered him a quick death.

• Ash lured World Kaiser onto fractured ground, pinned him, and battered him until Kaler’s stolen Sentai power began to fade.
• Kaler tried to escape through a spacetime gate, but Scarlet and the Great God Dragon drove him back, and Ash destroyed the gate.
• Ash landed a Rider Kick that shattered World Kaiser’s armor and pierced the Sentai Gear inside Kaler, opening visions of parallel versions of himself and a possible future with his family.
• Ash finished the attack and found Kaler’s mechanical body near destruction; Kaler warned that someone Ash trusted stood with New Hundred Worlds.
• Ash dismissed Kaler’s warning, said he would deal with New Hundred Worlds, and offered Kaler a quick death.

Ash and his allies defeated Cal, but Dust appeared, stole the Sentai Gear, and escaped after Primum intervened. Back at the Black Night Kingdom, the group regrouped as Primum’s temporary revival began to fade, leaving her and Ash to face their final moments together.

• Ash discovered Dust had pierced Cal and stolen the Sentai Gear, then watched Dust flee after Primum severed his wrist and tried to recover the Gear.
• Primum explained that she had merged her life and power with Ash, which had temporarily brought her back, and forced Cal awake to question him about Dust.
• Cal hinted that an earlier Metal Hero version of Ash might still be alive, then died after asking Ash what he fought for.
• Ash declared that he would fight to end everything caused by the existence of Ash, while Nanase Yui prayed for the group’s safe return at the Black Night Kingdom.
• The battered heroes returned to the castle, where Nanase Yui organized their care and Ashu went to find the other Pretty Cure.
• Ashu and Ash recognized that Primum was nearing the end of her temporary existence, and Ash went to speak with her about their strange history as spouses and enemies.

Primum broke down as she faced disappearing after reconciling with Ash, but Ash’s will and the bond between them kept her alive. Meanwhile, the heroes fought New Hundred Worlds’ forces, and Taiga fell to a dark copy of himself as the battle reached its next stage.

• Primum clung to Ash, confessed her love and apologized for her past actions, and Ash told her he had not discarded their shared memories.
• Primum kissed Ash as light enveloped them, and she survived when Ash refused to let her disappear.
• Puka worked out how Ash and Primum had stayed together, then left to tell Yui while Ash and Primum awkwardly faced each other.
• The gathered heroes attacked New Hundred Worlds, whose forces stalled them, and Taiga charged ahead in Tri Strium Form.
• Den-O fought among the normal-sized heroes while Onitaijin joined the giant battlefield.
• Taiga fell back to the battlefield after losing to a dark duplicate, as shadow-covered Ultraman battled the Land of Light’s forces.

Taiga and other heroes fought the Chaos forces until the Pretty Cure restored their strength, while Ashu gathered the Pretty Cure and brought them to Ash’s base for a crucial task. Ash reunited with the exhausted girls and Aida Mana, who insisted on joining him in the coming battle, but Ashu redirected them to the laboratory as the multiverse’s fate rested on their work.

• The Pretty Cure hurled Red King away and used Star Twinkle Imagination to restore Taiga and Meteor Superman so they could return to battle.
• Ashu told the Pretty Cure that the missing girls had returned and asked them to lend their power for a task only they could handle.
• Hoshizora Miyuki found Ash at the hospital and mistook his exhausted slump for death, while Puka explained that he had supposedly worked himself to death.
• Aida Mana embraced Ash and insisted that she and the other Pretty Cure would join the fight, promising to protect him.
• Ashu interrupted Ash and Mana, then brought the Pretty Cure and injured heroes to Ash’s castle to use his remaining scientific laboratory.

Ash hosted a barbecue for the exhausted Pretty Cure, then helped Ashu with his laboratory before dreaming about Catherine pairing him with Primum. Primum apologized to the Pretty Cure and sought Ash’s forgiveness, while Puka helped her win him over; the chapter ended with the heroes learning that the Precure group had left the battlefield.

• Ash filled the castle with barbecue grills and food, giving the exhausted Pretty Cure and others time to eat and celebrate.
• After the guests went to sleep, Ash showed Ashu and the others how to use his scientific facilities beneath his home.
• Ash dreamed that Catherine praised Primum as his ideal partner, then woke to find Primum under his blanket.
• Primum told Ash she still cared for him and showed him the signatures of the people she had apologized to, who had forgiven her.
• Puka encouraged Primum to get closer to Ash, and the two joined him despite his protests.
• The heroes learned that the Precure group had left the battlefield, leaving them both regretful and relieved.

Ash returned to the battlefield and wiped out the surrounding enemies with a single punch, revealing power created through the contributions of those who had fought alongside him. He then opened a passage to the Pretty Cures, whose battle against the Shadow Line showed that they were still fighting.

• Ashu gathered tokusatsu scientists and Ultraman Hikari in an abandoned laboratory and asked them to mass-produce ordinary heart-shaped flashlights for her plan.
• Ash rejoined the Riders and Rangers, returned a stolen treasure, and faced enemies who wanted revenge or to capture him.
• Ash refused his friends’ offer to shield him and said he had been targeting the monsters all along.
• Aruto Hiden warned everyone to get off the ground as Ash’s punch sent a shockwave that reduced the surrounding enemies to particles.
• Ash told his friends that the punch carried their contributions and opened a passage showing Blossom and Happy Angel fighting the Shadow Line.

Ash and the Pretty Cure joined the battle against Hisutimu’s forces, while Supreme Angel and Puka protected him from hidden attackers. After Ash fed his old allies and offered to take over the fighting, he learned that Light was battling Noa, Saga, Legend, and Ultraman King, and began wondering what his own Ultraman form was like.

• Mana and Haruno Haruka fought alongside the other Pretty Cure, impressing Ash’s visiting allies with their strength.
• Supreme Angel struck down villains who tried to attack Ash from the shadows while Puka helped shield them.
• Ash embraced Mana, introduced his Pretty Cure to his old friends, and joked with them about his relationships and his immunity to Earth’s laws.
• Ash handed out grilled-meat lunches and told his exhausted allies to rest while he took over, then coaxed them into sharing battlefield intelligence.
• Igasaki Tenka explained that Light had defeated Gekiretsu Daioh and two Crystal Decoration Ultramen before Noa, Saga, Legend, and Ultraman King intervened.
• Ash connected Light and Kaller to the traits of their respective series and wondered whether Light showed what he was like as an Ultraman.

On Valentine’s Day, Ash spent the day cleaning Nasta Café and gaming with his male friends while the Pretty Cure girls secretly prepared chocolates for him. When the girls arrived and found the café trashed after an all-night gaming session, they surrounded Ash, leaving him and his friends facing their anger.

• Ash returned to Nasta Café and attempted to clean it with Marvelous, Zero, and Tsukasa, but their bickering caused a human pyramid to collapse and spill the cleaning supplies.
• Ash teased his friends about their romantic lives, defended his relationships with the Pretty Cure girls, and learned that his friends had received no Valentine’s chocolates.
• Ash joined the others for an all-night gaming session with games they had brought from other worlds, abandoning the café cleanup.
• The Pretty Cure girls prepared different chocolates for Ash, each hoping to win his affection with a special gift.
• The girls arrived at Nasta Café and found Ash and his friends surrounded by snack litter and gaming equipment after their all-night session.
• Marvelous panicked after a call, and the girls gathered around Ash as Tsukasa and Zero woke to the threatening atmosphere.

Ash was confronted by the Pretty Cure over a suspected affair, fled with their Valentine’s chocolate, and was thoroughly punished before collapsing. After recovering, he learned the Sentai battle had turned around when the enemy commander vanished, then discovered the Kamen Riders were fighting among themselves.

• The Pretty Cure confronted Ash about seeing someone, while Belial and Narutaki fled; Ash grabbed all their chocolate and ran before they attacked him with their finishing moves.
• After Ash explained himself and soothed the girls, they let him go, but he collapsed from his injuries and anger after reading messages about other people receiving chocolate.
• Ash asked AkaNinger about the Sentai battle, and AkaNinger said the enemy commander had disappeared, allowing Gokaiger and Zenkaiger to reclaim the Great Powers and Sentai Light.
• Ash realized the missing Kamen Riders had encountered a different problem, then found two groups of Kamen Riders arguing and fighting each other.
• Miyuki and Yayoi asked Ash whether they should intervene as the Pretty Cure watched the Riders fight.

Ash and the Pretty Cure stopped the Riders’ internal battle and learned that Histrum had divided them by exploiting their ties to resurrected friends. Ash used a photograph and the Riders’ memories to summon Kadoya Tsukasa, whose return brought his former companions rushing to greet him.

• Ash told the Pretty Cure to use their purification attack to stop the fighting Riders, and their Precure All Stars Finish knocked most of them down and cleared their confusion.
• Tenkuji Takeru explained that Histrum had tempted resurrected Riders with a promise of a peaceful world, causing them to turn against their former allies.
• Kaguya revealed that New Hundred Worlds had sealed the battlefield and that the enemy leader was beyond a field that only a special means of travel could cross.
• Ash raised a photograph of Tsukasa and used the gathered Riders’ feelings and memories to open a curtain through the dimensional barrier.
• Kadoya Tsukasa stepped through the curtain, and his former companions ran to welcome him back.