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Series Information
Creator: Masakazu Katsura Director(s): Hirotsuge Kawasaki, Hisashi Eguchi, Akiko Saito Staff(s): Kuniaki Haishima, Yota Tsuruoka Production Company: I.G. Tatsunoko Publish date: 08-26-1991 Number Episodes: 1-6	Rating Story 5 Graphic 4 Music & SFX 3 Character 5 Humor 4

MiniReview

Video Girl Ai is a pretty old but good anime, although it's been almost 10 years since this anime came out, i can still see many VGAi related files and data hanging around on the net here and there. Hundreds of websites are dedicated to VGAi all over the web. So there must be something special about this anime that can keep its place until today.

One thing that impressed me the most was the storyline (a hidden message from the story.) It is very similar to Evangelion, which is giving you a hidden message, and you have to decode it, understand it, and think it over. It might give some young folks a positive impact (or even change their way of thinking forever, don't underestimate anime!)

Anyhow, the theme of the anime was quite blurring at the beginning, you don't actually know what's going on, since the author was constantly using flashback to unfold the story. I also saw quite a lot of "sex-temptation" scenes in the first few episodes, i though it was a Hentai! But i guess not... ;) In addition, what makes VGAi different from the others was the use of science fiction. Most of the love stories related anime would use the traditional fantasy in order to unfold the story. But... using the TV and the VCR to make a sci-fi + comedy + love story out of it? It is the first time i saw something like this!

Although this anime was made few years back, the artworks on the anime are quite good. The characters are slightly different than those we see nowadays, the looks, the eyes, the height... etc. If you got used to see the new animes, you will find the characters in Ai look kind a weird at first, but you will eventually get use to it and found the drawings are quite good towards the end of the anime.

If you watched too much ninja killing and robot fighting animation, and want to make a change or something new (well old maybe ehhe...) This might be the choice for you~! The ending of VGAi is open (meaning undecided ending, author didn't close the story), so if you want it to be a happy ending or sadly ending, it is all up to you. I THINK it should be a sad ending story.

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Story

One day, Yohta is walking home. He's just been told that the girl he likes (Moemi) likes someone else. Trying to cheer up, he rents an 'explicit' video tape from a weird rental shop, and when he plays it, Video Girl Ai pops out of his screen to comfort him. Unfortunately, Yohta's VCR is on the blink, and Ai appears minus a large part of her bosum, and with a new and dangerous mischievous personality...