Ringo Andou (EntityTopic, 15)

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Andou Ringo was the first character announced to be in Puyo Puyo 7, and is the only character to debut in said game that isn't sloppy (Her UTAU Hair and sexy curls contribute to her lack of sloppiness, among other things). Apparently, she lives in yet another parallel universe, other than both Arle Nadja's and Amitie's. She is the leader of her school's whatever club, and apparently has the power to manipulate her age, affecting the size of her Puyo accordingly. She seems to possess the ability to tackle even the largest tasks with a "get it done" kind of attitude, and is generally optimistic. She's also a Math genius and she stole Sho Minamimoto's quotes, both in the original and the translation.

Appearance in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary

Appearance in Subete PuyoPuyo

Ringo made her first Subete appearance in episode 8, where she appeared seemingly out of nowhere not long after Ekoro's mysterious speech and Mikki's magical hut-rebuilding. Confused, she joined the ADMA, then going by the moniker of Anti-Accord Association, and told them an interesting tale: Ringo, before ending up on the beach, had come across Accord, who was apparently sobbing her eyes out, pleading for Ringo to kill her (which she did not). Ringo also learned she had magical abilities, including being able to manipulate age, and demonstrated this on the others.

Later, in episode 9, Draco finally had come back. Accord, possibly following Ringo, had also appeared however. Accord though, only wanted to explain herself, and then die. So Draco set her on fire and the ADMA watched her sizzle as she explained that Popoi, supposedly a puppet, was using Accord as a puppet herself. Even Ringo, whom had only met Accord once prior to this moment, shed a tear for the poor magic school teacher. Ringo then took part in the discussion to rename the group, and was sucked into the portal Ekoro made. Now she has set of on a mission to rescue Klug from a mysterious castle, even though she does not know him at all.

In episode 10, she eliminated the threat of Rulue by tying her to a tree. She also helped organize the main game plan to rescue Klug. Later that same episode, she introduced her "friend" Maguro and took on the evil Ekoro at the Floating Island. While she didn't stand out like her more experienced peers, she pitched in enough to avoid being left out entirely. Episodes 11 and 12 put Ringo into the spotlight a little as she contributed her logical reasoning skills to help the gang plan their counterattack to Ekoro and his clones. In this manner, Ringo became a leader like figure by the time of episode 14, being second only to Draco in her efforts. Ringo soon discovered Ekoro had cloned her and amplified her latent power astronomically. Luckily, she was able to neutralize her clone and turn the tables against the evil blob, ultimately defeating him for a long time to come.

In episode 17, Ringo became the primary focus after a Meteor crash landed into the ADMA headquarters and sent everyone flying. She survived the resulting explosion, but found herself stranded in the desert with only Arle. Ringo and Arle came across a Detective investigating the meteor crash, and they discovered a piece of the ADMA helicopter. After hitching a ride back to the city, the two girls found themselves confronting Nohoho at the ADMA ground zero, but Ringo noticed he wasn't himself. Later, his employer, ??? appeared and revealed "Nohoho" was actually one of Ekoro's missing clones; Epsilon. Ringo confronted the enigmatic dark mage about the meteor, only to be accused of racism. After arguing, a curse was cast upon Ringo that caused her to become physically attracted to Draco, much to her confusion, and later annoyance.

In episode 18, the two hapless girls found Draco, frantically trying to explain their situation and bring her to ???. Unfortunately, Draco was too distracted by Ringo's apparent inability to let go of her to notice. After dragging Draco through the chance dimension into a dark world implicitly full of dark mages, Ringo confronted ??? yet again, this time, he was flanked by his incompetent Nondescript Minion, who was enjoying watching Ringo suffer and taking over 9000 photographs of her unintentional hugging spree. Over the course of this next argument, Ringo's curse would be changed twice to accommodate Arle and Nondescript Minion into the hugging sensation. By this time, Ringo was pissed, but there was nil she could do in the presence of ???'s insistence that the ADMA must be punished for their "misdeeds". In the end, a more Sympathetic Minion made Ringo's curse more tolerable by attracting her to a doll.

Later on, Ringo chased away Strange Klug and found Sig out by Draco's Hut.

Episode 19 featured Ringo as Sig and Arle's chauffeurs to various locals around Primp, in search of various scattered ex-ADMA members, using her new found levitation abilities. After leaving Witch, (presumably) Schezo, and a blueberry muffin on the floating island, Ringo accidentally helps the gang discover the Temple of the Wastelands, Strange Klug's hiding spot. However, Strange Klug was nowhere to be found; instead a dehydrated and rather infuriated Seriri lay near, ranting and raving as semi-usual. Ringo was then thrusted into one of the most awkward positions in the entire RP as she is caught in the middle of Draco non-nonchalantly blowing Seriri off (and admiring Ringo's UTAU hair simultaneously), and Seriri returning fire by accusing Draco of having the hots for her. Once the dust settled, the mathlete carried Seriri to the lake, forced to abandon her. Flying back to the hut, Ringo soon discovers that her doll can talk. Ringo tries to awaken the doll, who reveals that it is Eltia, a dark mage in her own right. However, Ringo is not powerful enough yet, and Draco responds by throwing a hissy fit and running outside.

Episode 20 makes Ringo's life even more confusing and miserable as she returns to the Abyss for a confrontation with the mystery villain that cursed her. Unfortunately, they instead run into a librarian, whom is verbally abused by Draco, and then end up in a fight, the climax of which results in the gang accidentally murdering the librarian in order to extinguish his Shadow Cannon™. Ringo dragged the injured parties back to Draco's Hut, where she breathed wind into Draco by giving her a taste of Seriri's Tears, which were, oddly enough, in Draco's refrigerator.

Ringo once again hogged the spotlight in the 21st episode of Subete, where she took a small party to hunt down Lord Marcus and set his record straight. Lagnus, Theta, and Mikki towed along, not knowing what lay in store. After examining the damage they previously did at the library, they found an underground workshop, where a man named Steve was building more weaponry in near darkness. It was the last peace they had though, as Marcus appeared. Rather than listening to reason though, Marcus demanded his cannon back, aware that they burned down his library and murdered the librarian. Ringo tried to make peaceful negotiations, being the smart, competent heroine she is, but when Lagnus tried to defend himself for slaying the Librarian, he nearly got killed by Marcus in a single blow, prompting the drill-haired girl and her followers to take action. At first, Ringo and Theta seemed to do some damage to Marcus, but he quickly turned the battle against the heroes as he engulfed the Ringo twins in a weird black space (which was, mind you, white on the inside).

In the space, Theta exploded thanks to a bizarre reaction thought to be caused by being one of Ekoro's clones, leaving Ringo to deal with her remains: a bunch of odd looking spiders. Eltia finally awakened in response to Ringo's growing distress and proved power, eliminating the spider creatures, and eventually, saving Ringo, Mikki and Lagnus from almost certain doom. When Ringo returned to Primp, she was greeted by Satan and his Bus of Love nearly plowing over Draco's Hut. Ringo was broken the news of Draco rage quitting being a hero, causing Ringo some short lived dismay. However, being the leader-like figure, she took charge, swearing over a plate of curry that she would take over and provide a more self-reliant and honorable band of protagonists. After her noble move, she split the gang up, taking residence in Eltia's home.

Episode 22 saw Ringo heading out on yet another quest, this time to fulfill her side of Strange Klug's deal. Taking Eltia, Arle, and Mikki along, she discovers Fos Canyon, a secluded area in the mountains undisturbed by the vast amounts of evil lairs that once surrounded it. Witch catches up to the gang, revealing Marcus destroyed Beta as well, with Witch carrying her hand as a token. However, Ringo had little time to weep, as Witch was temporarily chased away by her blueberry muffin and a tent happened to be nearby. Within the tent were two discs. Watching the badly recorded AVI play out on the first, it is revealed the second disc is a back up of Phi, a clone Ekoro developed secretly as Project Perfect Light. Phi also revealed various other details about himself. Just behind the tent, trapped in a cage by Ekoro, was Sho (and not Sho Minamimoto, hectopascals), a teen genius kidnapped by Ekoro to help him build the Mountain Base and several of the clones, most notably Phi. Ringo let Sho loose after interrogating him about his experiences with Ekoro. Ringo then delivered the AVI disc to Strange Klug in order to protect Eta and Ekoro's Orb, but she secretly kept the data back up to herself in order to have Sho revive Phi from it.

It wasn't long after Ringo secured Eta that she was sent on a third goose chase; this time for Zeta, who had betrayed the heroes on the premise of some deep programming within her. After what seemed like a fairly balanced fight between Zeta and the others, Zeta finally stopped screwing around and used a much more powerful attack. Luckily, Eltia somehow managed to block it from harming the party, leading Zeta to fall into some inferiority complex. Witch and Ringo reconciled with Zeta, and all was happy again as they returned to their homes, awaiting Sho to finish reconstructing Phi, and maybe the other dead clones, too.

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