Ruby

**Ruby** (ルビー *Rubī*?) is one of the three mascot characters of the *Jewelpet* franchise. She's a Japanese hare who symbolizes Courage or Lucky. She is the main protagonist among all of the Jewelpet characters. She is the 1st Jewelpet in the franchise.

## Appearance

Ruby is a female Japanese hare with white fur and pink inner ears. Her Jewel Eyes are red rubies and she wears a pink cherry blossom on her ear with a red star in the center. She also wears a pink pearl necklace with a pair of red cherries attached.

### Charm Form

Ruby's Jewel Charm is oval-shaped. It is colored red and has an embedded heart-shaped ruby with four ruby crystals surrounding it. It is also decorated with white gold lines. The white gold changes to pure gold when it's powered up in the final episode of the first series.

### Human Form (Jewelpet Magical Change)

In Ruby's human form, she takes on the appearance of a young adolescent girl. She has white skin and red eyes. She has red medium length hair, wears a thin pink headband with her signature sakura flower ornament and a white large kerchief attached to it. She wears a light pink unbuttoned seifuku-like jacket with side pockets and a white shirt with a pink folded collar. She wears a pleated pink skirt, white long socks, and pink ankle shoes. Her shoe laces resemble Ruby's signature cherry necklace.

## Personality

Ruby is described as a cheerful and troublemaker, character, who loves to watch cherry blossoms bloom.

In the first series, Ruby is very air headed, joyful, brash, happy and is a big troublemaker, who sometimes wants to go her own way, despite being told to stop at one place. She also acts like a little sister to her partner Rinko, but sometimes has a hard time handling her antics. Despite all of this, she and Rinko always settle their differences and help each other out.

In *Jewelpet Twinkle*, Ruby is a supportive type for the series' protagonist: Akari Sakura. She is a curious and cheerful character who thinks positively. She also acts as Labra's older sister. Would give anything to Akari and will not leave never alone. Has a character really kind and sweet unlike the later series.

In *Jewelpet Sunshine,*she has a more similar personality as she did in the first series, but with a bit of an edge to her because of her difficult relationship with Kanon.

In Jewelpet Kira Deco, Ruby owns the Kira-Kira Shop where she keeps all her prized jewels, and also where she lets Pink stay while acquiring the Deco Stones. She loves sparkly things, such as Saury, a type of fish, and jewelstones. Ruby represents lucky in this series, and her magic isn't very good.

In Jewelpet Happiness, she is a member of the Jewelpet Café, where she helps Chiari out on managing it.

In *Lady Jewelpet*, Ruby is very air headed, and doesn't really know how to teach Momona the right things. She can't tell when someone is insulting her and takes it as a compliment instead. When in a panic, she does things on impulse and often hurries off to do what she has to do. However, Ruby still manages to be very optimistic.

In *Jewelpet Attack Chance!?*, Ruby has a lazy attitude who doesn't like to get things done. She also has a huge appetite for food than she was in the original anime.

## Skills

In *Jewelpet (anime)*, Ruby is ranked Acrylic Class due to her magic, which has a 1% success rate and can cause bad luck and explosions if it fails. However, its reliability is varied (even after Ruby had been upgraded to Super Crystal Class by learning a new lesson of courage and had been trained with Labra to temporarily upgrade her magic in order to summon Opal, her magic still causes explosions). Ruby can also use the Jewel Pocketbook alongside Rinko to awaken Jewelpets from their jewel forms.

### Spells:

* ***Puri Puri Pururin Prism! Open! Jewel Heart!** (プリプリ・プルリン・プリズム・オープン・ジュエル・ハート*Puri Puri Pururin Puririzumu Ōpun Jueru Hāto*?)* - Used alongside Rinko to awaken Jewelpets. Requires the use of her Jewel Charm, Jewel Pocketbook or Jewel Stick.
* **Puri Puri Prism Jewerhythm! Ruby Jewel Flash** (プルプル・プリズム・ジュエリズム・ルビー・ジュエル・フラッシュ *Puri Puri Purizumu Juerizumu Rubī Jueru Furasshu*?) - Ruby's magical incantation which is used to cast her spells, though this always fails when casted.
* **Puripuru Puropuru Puriphony! -Who- Jewel Return!** (プリプル・プロプル・プリフォニー・○○ジュエルリターン *Puripuru Puropuru Purifonī ￮￮ Jueru Ritān*?) - A group incantation used to summon a Jewelpet using the Mini-Jewel Stick. This requires Garnet and Sapphie's assistance.

## TMNT X Pokemon

As a Jewelpet, she and her friends will help out the player depending on the situation. As the Jewelpet of Courage and Lucky, she can make someone either have courage or have good luck. But it fails most of the time

## Trivia

* Ruby's jewel motif is the ruby *(pictured)*, which is one of the four precious stones, together with the sapphire, emerald, and diamond.
	+ Her secondary motif revolves around cherries and their blossoms.
* She has her birthday in July, the month correspondent to her jewel.
* In the series' early pitching, Ruby is meant to be a polite and tidy character likewise. Sanrio and Sega decided to alter her personality into a scatterbrained but naughty character, which is reflected by the jewel she was based on.
* In early promotional materials, Ruby was named Kohaku until Sanrio decided to change her name due to how it didn't relate to her jewel motif.
* In Ruby's official setting in the franchise, she represents Lucky, but it was altered to Courage when the anime aired. This was changed back starting from *Jewelpet Sunshine*.
* Ayaka Saito, who voices Ruby in the anime series, is known for voicing many little kids characters in anime. She's famous for voicing Momji Sohma from Fruits Basket and Chiyo Mihama from Azumanga Daioh.
	+ Also, Saito's vocal tic in the series is shared with Sachiko Kiyono's character Nontan. Ayaka Saito also voiced the character itself in the 2002 series *Genki Genki Nontan* and has the same vocal tic as Ruby. Fans sometimes call Ruby a female version of Nontan due to the voice.
	+ Saito was also the voice of Mofurun in *Maho Girls PreCure!*.
	+ Maria Camões, who voices Ruby, Alma Jinnai, Jill Konia and Kaede Kikuchu in the European Portuguese dub, also voices Lucy Heartfilia from *Fairy Tail*.
* Ruby is the only Jewelpet who has had constant love interests (Tour and Granite, in various seasons).
* Ruby shares the same voice actor as Mitsukuni "Honey" Haninozuka from the Ouran Highschool Host Club.