When Oh! Great draws Ringo Noyamano from Airgear, she beats other glasses-girls with an S-class combo of cuteness and hotness. If we were playing create-a-harem, Ringo would be my meganekko, no question. It’s funny how every fandom has a fantasy draft-mode nowadays. No longer is it just for contemplating which sweaty man can best handle your fantasy football.

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My baseline for Airgear are the comics. I have the first six Japanese trade paperbacks, but I don’t read or speak Japanese, so my impression of character personalities or how they talk are shaped entirely by the Oh Great! artwork. Ringo seems a little goofy to me, which she is here, a bikini clad waitress squat on her bum. Lucky for her I lined the floor and wall with bubble wrap, so she’s safe. The glare off the bubble wrap is a little distracting, sorry about that.

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Ringo comes with red rimmed eyeglasses and a set of clear rimmed glasses. The red ones look better on her as the clear set look like safety glasses and safety glasses aren’t cute or at least she’s not wearing a toolbelt or something to make them cute. Besides with a burger tray, she’s a waitress on wheels, not a shop babe. The burger tray just rests on top of her fingers, so she can be carrying any number of things, like a 1/8 scale blowtorch (not supplied) to go with the safety glasses if you really want the shop babe look.

Ringo needs to sit on the little pink stand in order to stay up. By using a contoured stand, the sculptor was able to leave her posterior rounded instead of smushing and flattening it. At first I didn’t like the idea of needing this stand; however, the benefit justifies it in the end. The figure also comes with a pink circular base, which isn’t needed, I don’t think. I haven’t taken the base out of the box yet.

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I’m still not quite sure what is typical quality for a MegaHouse figure, but compared with the other figures I have, the build quality of Ringo is below average and is worse than both Anemone and Reina, the other two MegaHouse figures I own. Every limb has an obvious mold line, and the seams on her chest aren’t very attractive. Surfaces that should be smooth have bumps, gulleys, dips or whatever making it not smooth or just don’t have a shape that is as refined as they should be, like they were going to get back to it, but forgot to. The paint for her bikini is also on the sloppy side.

Other than my fondness for Ringo, it’s the overall pose that I like about the figure, even if the pose doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. She doesn’t look like she took a spill, so I don’t quite get why a rollerblading waitress would be on her bum while carrying a food tray. Still, I like it. It’s better not to overanalyze these things anyway. Just be glad that Ringo’s personality comes through in the sculpt, which is always a plus. Her face and body language definitely convey an energy and a mood.

And from diffrent angles, that mood can change.

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I was definitely looking forward to the two Airgear figures from MegaHouse (Simca’s pictorial will follow sometime soon). Maybe I had set my expectations too high, but it took me a little bit to decide whether I liked this rendition of Ringo. In the end I do, even if her expression here is a little odd.

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I’ve noticed my photosets getting a little more ecchi lately.