Friendly Pretty Cure/Development

Friendly Pretty Cure was started in March 2016 when SingMeloetta had just been through a depressive episode and had wanted to journal about her experience in a creative way, using people, ideas and events from her life as inspiration. The original name for the series was Friendship Pretty Cure, but that was already taken and as such could not be used.

Friendly Pretty Cure was originally intended to be a side project as opposed to her main project at the time Love♥PreCure, but soon overtook as the main project of her collection.

The names of the Cures were chosen based off of the names of SingMeloetta's closest friends, changed to the closest Japanese names in romanji alphabetically. Other than that, the names have no particular meaning. The theme colors were already predetermined by an inside joke about the 2003 children's television series, Boohbah, with each of the girls representing a different color.

Bobble, the mascot of the series, was also named around this time, from finding a similar and fitting word that was close to Boohbah, the television show that Bobble's character was based off of.

The name of the main town, which is based on SingMeloetta's hometown, was also altered slightly, due to making more sense as a Japanese town/city name.

A few days later, the villain team was established as The Negative, with Douleur's original name being Griever. Madoka was also going to be corrupted over time as opposed to being a member of the Negative from the beginning of the story. Dark Desire was also Madoka's "shadow" created to intimidate her, instead of the two being one and the same. A month later, Enemie was created as the leader of the Negative.

About a year after the series was first created, on March 18, 2017, SingMeloetta took the fan series beyond the concept stage, and published the first written episode of the series on Archive of Our Own.