Ai Kuruma
| This article is about the Binaltech Asterisk policewoman. For the Robots in Disguise computer, see T-AI. |
- Ai Kuruma is a human from the Binaltech Asterisk series.
Ai Kuruma has aspirations of being a highly-decorated policewoman. However, her natural bumbling, over-eager (albeit good-natured and helpful) nature seems to constantly get in the way. She's a decent athelete and dedicated to helping others.
She is partnered with the Autobot Red Alert, even though Red's by-the-books nature grates against Ai's ambition. Despite all this, the two work together surprisingly well, though Red is typically having to save Ai from some situation she's gotten herself into without thinking.
Ai keeps her lunchbox hidden in a teddy bear. Really.
Fiction
Binaltech Asterisk online manga
After shooing the kitty-cat Cha off of Red Alert's hood, Ai recieved a call about a little boy who got lost on his way to the market. Ai (dreaming of a commendation for finding the boy) followed the sound of crying, only to find it was Cha again, up in a tree. She climbed up the tree to rescue it, but fell from the high branches... but Red Alert caught her and the cat in time.
The cat scampered off, and the pair followed him... and ran across the lost little boy. But then, Cha stole a fish from the boy's grocery bag. Alert set is detector from "little boy" to "fish" and the two gave chase....
Toys
Binaltech Asterisk
- Alert meets Ai (Binaltech Asterisk, 2005)
- Japanese ID number: BTA-01
- Ai is a soft-plastic PVC figurine of a human woman in a Japanese policewoman uniform. She has an extra set of arms and a "seated" lower body so she can be placed in the drivers' seat of her partner Red Alert's vehcile mold. It is unknown how well she fits into the drivers' seats of other Alternators. She was only available as part of the first Binaltech Asterisk set.
Trivia/Notes
- Like all of the Asterisk girls, Ai is modeled after a character from a previous series; in this instance, Ai's inspiration is the Robots in Disguise character T-AI.
- Her last name means "car" in Japanese. My, isn't that clever?
