Wonderful Beginnings
Animal Town. The name says it all. A town where people and animals live side by side, as a loving family. One of these families is the Inukai family. They run Friendly Animal Hospital and Salon. They take care of animals and help them, and have a dog of their own. The adorable and high-energy Papillon, Komugi.
One day, Iroha Inukai, the daughter, found Komugi in the rain, in a bush all beaten up, and seemingly untrusting of humans, but Iroha decided to try and help bring her into the hospital, and since then, Komugi was raised as their own, and Iroha gained a new little fluff sister in Komugi, becoming practically inseparable, despite Komugi’s previous untrustworthy behaviour.
One day, Iroha and Komugi were walking. On their way, they saw a new family moving into a house. Animal Town was the recent city to have the fashion and makeup store Pretty Holic open up, after Aozora City, Oshiina Town, and Sorashido City. Iroha noticed that there was a girl with brown hair in the window, and a little white cat. The girl seems to be shy, and hides away. The cat is less than amused, but Iroha stays hopeful that one day, she can talk to the girl, and become friends with both her and her cat.
She later meets up with her childhood friend Satoru Toyama and his Holland Lop, Daifuku. She learns about the mirror stone, and makes a wish; a wish to be friends with all animals. And to hope she and Satoru are in the same class when school starts.
Suddenly though, one day, at the park, Iroha and Komugi are almost attacked by a Garugaru. Iroha tries to run away, but it seems she’s about to be hurt, or worse, killed. But just as she’s about to be struck, Komugi jumps in to save her, suddenly talks, and becomes…human?!
Komugi transforms into Cure Wonderful, and is able to heal the Garugaru, learning that it was actually possessed, the Garugaru actually being a small sheep, whom they learn is called Mey Mey, a butler from Niko Garden. Mey Mey explains that his home has been shrouded into darkness, and the Niko Animals have been turned into Garugarus as well, and that their ruler, Niko has gone missing. He says that Komugi can be able to save and heal them back to normal as Cure Wonderful.
Iroha is completely stunned by this turn in events, but eventually, comes to learn that she wants to help, and soon enough, she is able to become a Precure as well, Cure Friendy. She and Komugi work together as Wonderful Precure, in an effort to rescue the animals of Niko Garden. Things go a bot haywire when Satoru eventually learns of their secret, but he is more than willing to help them, giving them facts about animals that can help purify it.
Soon enough, Iroha’s hopes of the past come true as eventually, she is actually able to meet and talk to the girl in the window from before, the meek but well-meaning Mayu Nekoyashiki, and her cat, the sassy Turkish Angora, Yuki, whom turns out, was also taken in by Mayu after a vacation with her father, where she found Yuki, dirty and alone under the house in the snow, which earned Yuki her eventual name.
Eventually, Yuki is somehow able to become a Precure, Cure Nyammy, and Komugi and Iroha have to teach her to stop attacking the Garugarus, but Yuki would rather shake her braincells around like a maraca and refuse to listen. Mayu eventually finds out tells Yuki off, and after a small fall out, Mayu decides to join the Precure, turning from just an ally to Cure Lillian. The two eventually become their own duo, the rather punny Nyanderful Precure. And though it takes a while, Yuki eventually ends up liking and trusting Iroha and Komugi, and the group come to enjoy each other’s company through multiple days spent together.
Things however, start getting a bit tricky with the arrival of Zakuro and Torame. Garugarus became Gaogaons, much stronger than the girls are able to handle, not even their healing items are able to stop them. Thankfully, with the help of Niko, the Diamond Unicorn, who had just newly found and reborn from an egg prior to the encounter with Zakuro and Torame, was able to help them via the Diamond Ribbon Castle. And it is that moment that solidified Cure Wonderful, Cure Friendy, Cure Nyammy and Cure Lillian as Wonderful Precure.
However, one still feels like they haven’t done anything to help. No matter how much research he puts into animal knowledge….all Satoru Toyama ever does it watch. He wants to help them in other ways, but he doesn’t know how. And he doesn’t think he’s got what it takes to join the Precure…especially given how ever since childhood, Satoru has major crush on Iroha…but one day, a strange, new face appears near the mirror stone.
And that…is where our story begins.