Ringo Ando (Puyo Puyo)

Note: Not to be confused with Ringo Starr from The Beatles

Ringo Ando (安藤りんご Andō Ringo) is a main character of the Puyo Puyo series. She is a lead character in Puyo Puyo 7 and Puyo Puyo Tetris who exists in yet another different universe to Arle and Amitie, and is taught how to play Puyo when her school is flooded with Puyo.

Why She Rocks

 * 1) Ringo is one the most logical minded characters in the franchise she comes from. She tries to think of solutions to problems and feels curious about learning and experimenting.
 * 2) Being an intellectual, Ringo can have a cheery disposition otherwise, even occasionally singing blissfully.
 * 3) She has a running gag that consists of being in shock. Every time something particularly baffling or horrifying happens, Ringo will make that face. It often been seen a hilarious.
 * 4) Most of the time in Puyo Puyo 7, she's a normal girl that comes across all this weirdness of the Puyo universe. In later games, she started to have time to get used to all the weirdness and shows off some of her own quirks.
 * 5) Every time Ringo looses, she would rather regret doing some wrong things like what she says in the Puyo Puyo battles when she looses. She said "I need to study more..." So basically, this can meaningful and relatable to those who are working on schoolwork.
 * 6) She's got an adorable design and face. What else is there to say since she's cute.
 * 7) If Arle didn't teach her how to play Puyo Puyo, Ringo would've never been the girl she is right now when it comes to Puyo itself. You it goes to show you that this is another type of character development that does feel like she's gone from a nobody to an overcomer.
 * 8) Ringo does have some good friendship as you could guess. Arle and Amitie are prime examples since she alongside the former two are like a trio. She also considers Maguro as a childhood friend.

Bad Quality

 * 1) Because she's the one that normally points out the holes in logic, she tends to get angry or terrified when she quickly realizes things aren't right, or don't have a scientific explanation.

Trivia

 * 1) Ringo's name is also the Japanese word for "apple", which is referenced heavily in various cut-ins and illustrations of her often carrying an apple.
 * 2) Although being a purported Physics aficionado, Ringo's spells use mathematical terms that do not necessarily apply to Physics (Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Integral, Permutation).
 * 3) In many of her spell cut-in (Sine, Cosine, Tangent in 7 and PuyoTet, Sine in 20th), she uses Fleming's right-hand rule for generators, which closely relates to the electricity-based effects these spells create.
 * 4) Ringo's family owns and runs Ando Family Fresh Produce in the Suzuran shopping district, seen on battle background in Puyo Puyo 7 and Puyo Puyo Tetris.
 * 5) In Puyo Puyo 7, Ringo reveals her eye vision as 20/4, and she could see the Andromeda Galaxy even in daylight.
 * 6) An early concept of Ringo depicts her as a magical girl, with blue and yellow-colored companions making up a trio of magical girls. One can infer that the concept art is the basis of 7's Great Transformation mode.