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Back in 2022, for Mother's Day, the character designer for "Fresh Pretty Cure!," Hisashi Kagawa, posted a drawing on his Twitter to celebrate the day.

It appears to be a drawing of the Momozono family: Love, her parents, and Setsuna, the adoptive daughter, plus two children cut off at the bottom.

Here's the comment that Kagawa wrote for the drawing:

#MothersDay A doodle (of a wild idea)💕...a little early 😅

It's quite the interesting drawing for a number of reasons. To start off, the characters appeared to be aged up compared to how they looked like in the actual anime. Love's parents have a few wrinkles on their faces, and the two Pretty Cure appear to be drawn as adults, the designs based off a previous drawing that Kagawa did back in 2016.

Here was the comment Kagawa wrote for this drawing:

An illustration celebrating the sale of the second FreshPre Blu-Ray BOX! A drawing (of a wild idea) imagining the four girls that grew up within that timeframe [Note: 2016 marked 7 years since 2009, when FreshPre started, meaning the women are 21]. I made it up, so it's not official. If you want to enjoy the continuity of the All Stars films, please forget it. Sorry to those of you who say it's not what you expected! [Note: Because in the All Stars canon, no matter how many years have passed, the Cures don't seem to age despite the number of Pretty Cure growing with each year.]

Going back to the more recent Mother's Day drawing, Kagawa quote retweeted it last year with this comment, in celebration of the recent "Otona Pretty Cure":

An unlikely drawing I drew for Mother's Day last year! The multiverse of adult Pretty Cure!...or rather, the Momozono family of the multiverse.

So with all that set up, just who are those two kids cut off at the bottom? One could say that they're Love's siblings, i.e. her parents decided to have two more kids. But another interpretation is that they're the kids of Love and some other partner, is it Daisuke, or Setsuna?

Whichever one, Kagawa appears to be silent on it, as per this reply.

But it's interesting that he acts all modest about the sketches. He calls them "wild ideas" since, at least until "OtonaPre," or even a few years back, the idea of the Pretty Cure growing up was a wild concept to many. But for him to also stay silent on the identity of those two kids in the drawing, when he could easily say they're Love and Daisuke's kids (note that he isn't apart of the Momozono family sketch)...is this his way slyly saying he believes Love and Setsuna end up together and have kids, without the Toei ninjas getting on him?

“Keep at it, and things will turn out okay.” — Kaoru

Yamabuki Inori, aka “Bukki” aka “Cure Pine” 

She’s not Pine like a Christmas tree, she’s Pine like pineapples. 

Peach. Berry. Pine(apple). Passion (fruit). 

I’m sure almost all of you figured it out, but just in case there were, like, stragglers.