Takeuchi Ayano is a girl and fellow student attending the same school as Saki and Mai. She is a second year student who is in class A and in the Art Club. She appears in episode episode 4 of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star. Meeting Saki and Mai one day when Mai is busy drawing and she happens to overhear them. She approaches and studies Mai's picture, stating that it looks as if it is ready to come alive. She believes that Mai should take up Art as her career.