#lightofwisdom

The “seconds” as I am calling them are most often the 2nd cure that is made in the show or was made at the same time as the leader but some exceptions do apply. The relationship between the leader and the seconds changes from series to series but is often started with the leader and second being close friends. The most interesting part about all the seconds is that they are all unique and interesting.

In DokiDoki Diamond and Heart are long standing friends and Rikka has always been behind Mana as her little sparrow and continues to do so throughout the entire show.

In Suite Rhythm and Melody are able to rekindle their lost friendship because of Siren. The entire first 10 episodes or so are devoted to them remembering why they used to be friends and getting over what happened to them in the past.

Black and White were never friends up until they were told they had to be friends to save the world this posed the interesting challenge that they do not know each other that well at the start of the show.

In Smile the second position is played down a lot compared to other series but it is defiantly given to Sunny. The scene after their first fight with Joker and they are all defeated and Sunny walks over to Happy and grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her crying telling her she can’t give up was just so well done. I find it unfortunate that Sunny’s position as second is played down as sunny is my favorite character from Smile.

In Heartcatch Marine befriends Blossom and wants to help her anyway she can and this conflicts with blossom because of their drastically different personalities.

Lovely and Princess’s relationship is really unique as it always seemed that Lovely and Honey had a strong relationship pre-cureing and princess shows traits of 3rd or 4th cures like moonlight and sword such as being a cure before the show started and losing her parents.

               With each premonition the formula is tweaked and changed but there is always a second to the leader. Fresh Precure and Max heart are a particularly interesting cases as they have a group of three cures. With three cures assigning a leader is not that big of a deal as it becomes one person leading two other people but assigning a second after the leader leads to the issue of one person becomes the bottom of the group. This dynamic only shows up with three people. If you have two then you have a leader and a second that is perfectly fine. With four people you can have two people at the bottom.

Now the way fresh precure handled this is that did not introduce the second until they had a fourth cure. What the deal with Max heart was that Shiny Luminous was fundamentally different from Black and White her not being a leader or a second was not an issue as she was unique and interesting in other ways.

These seconds are always a different thing. no two relationships are the same. I for one enjoy the relations between the cures as a theme for the show.

All of this is defiantly up for debate. I can see arguments that Cure Ace is the second for DokiDoki or that in Futari Wa Black and White are equals as well as many others. I am very interested if anyone has any other opinions on this or if you have anything you would like to add let me know.