The first installment in my series, looking at the Heartcatch Precure transformations.

Tsubomi is the first Cure in Heartcatch. As a 1st Cure, and a Pink one at that, you’d expect she’d be outgoing and enthusiastic- an ideal team leader. Instead she’s pathologically shy, somewhat clumsy, and fixated on flowers and the language of flowers (Hanakotoba).

See how her experiences are illustrated by the storyboarder and animator’s art: