Summary: Youta is in love with his childhood friend, Moemi, but she is in love with someone else. Detirmined to be a good friend, Youta supresses his feelings and decides to help Moemi pursue her love. On his way home, Youta, feeling very lonely, stops at a strange video stores and rents a tape called "Video Girl Ai." He plays the tape and a lovely young girl tells him that it will be alright, she will be with him as long as he needs her. At which point she comes out of the television and into Youta's living room. Her purpose is to solve Youta's love problems. However, his VCR is malfunctioning and so Ai too malfunctions. She develops an attachment no video girl has ever gotten and learns all to well the pain of unrequited love.

Review Video Girl Ai is very similar to Ah! My Goddess. Both series have a not-quite-human girl who miraculously appears to improve the life of a lonely guy. Ah! My Goddess is better, however Video Girl Ai is amusing enough to be worth watching. There are six episodes, the first five of which follow a pretty standard plot line. The sixth episode however enters a surreal world and breaks with the mundanity of the rest of the series. This episode, though perhaps a bit random, makes the series worth watching. The characters are not well developed--Youta is the typical high school boy who can't get a date, Moemi is the typical cute high school girl. Ai is a bit more interesting, mostly because it is hard to come up with a "typical" girl who come out of the television to give you relationship advice. The plot is simple and cute, but not all that creative. The animation is unexceptional.

Ratings: Characterization: 5 Plot: 6 Animation: 6

Things to note:Video Girl Ai contains nudity, sexual situations, and some violence. There is, however, nothing pornographic about it--despite the fact that Ai is a "video girl."

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