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Synergy Pretty Cure is an idea I had since, I wanna say 2021. It is based on Jidosha Zei o Osame-tai (自動車税をおさめ隊), three local heroes (ローカル戦隊) created by Kagoshima Prefecture.
History
Osame-tai is a pun on "osametai" (納めたい), meaning "I want to pay" in Japanese, and "tai" (隊), which literally means "team" or "squad". As the popular series Fresh Pretty Cure! was airing at the time in May 2009, the Kagoshima Prefecture Tax Division decided to take advantage of this pun to create a tax-paying magical girl group. The characters were used for posters in mid-May 2009 and later a Flash/TV commercial in late May. The commercial and posters are to remind local car owners to pay their car taxes either by a financial institution, a convenience store, or the internet. But they had to do it by June 1st.
The magical girl characters are designed after the Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Cures, particularly Cure Dream, Cure Mint, and Cure Rouge, but they share the colors of the Fresh Pretty Cure!. The outfits are adorned with car mirrors on the shoulders, a steering wheel on the bow, and a seat belt as their actual belt. The pink character also wears a shoshinsha mark as a barrette. Their mascots are based on cars, one a gold-orange color, and one a yellow-green color. The characters were made to have an all-ages appeal.
A parody song also plays in the commercial:
♪ 自動車税を 自動車税を お・さ・め・隊~
ろ・く・が・つ ついたちは~ 自動車税の納付期限 ♪
During the season of 2009, the parody has been a hot topic. So much so that even the Precure westerners are aware of it, and I want to expand it to an actual story.
Plot
Okay, so I'm gonna blurt these scattered thoughts out there. Not all of them will make it through:
- The Cures are An (Cure Apricot), Mion (Cure Light), and Raiha (Cure Wing). Of the three, An is the youngest, and is currently a beginner driver.
- Instead of working for a magical kingdom, the Cures work for the Kagoshima government, who have car fairies in their disposal to help the Cures transform.
- I have no ideas for the monsters, but I did see a funny thing on Pixiv that said the monsters could be people who failed to pay their car taxes.
- This series will be a comic series (in-universe, not in real life), similar to the Sonic Archie comics. They start out providing what they have promised - a magical girl series about girls forcing people to pay their taxes, but the story will go beyond that.
- There will be a rival team: Nagi (Cure Lull?), Hajime (Cure Quantum), and Sagiri (Cure Mist?). They will represent the other Yes! 5 colors; green, purple, and red respectively.
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