Video Girl Ai
Video Girl Ai
is a sad tale of love. There are four main characters: Amano Ai,
Moteuchi Youta, Niimai Takahashi, and Moemi Hayakawa. There is an
OAV series that is essentially honest to the manga until the final episode.
It wasn't officially released to the United States public, however that
doesn't stop fan-subbers. I recommend it to anyone. I also have included
a zip file to help translate the manga 1-13. I found this Ranma/Video Girl Ai Crossover
on the web, this was around the time that I was thinking of doing the same thing.
I have to say that Video Girl Ai is my all-time favorite anime series.
E-mail me on how you
like this format.
Central Characters
Moemi Hayakawa, is the girl that Youta loved before he met Amano Ai. She loved Takahashi, but refused to compete with the crowd of girls. If it wasn't for the support she had from Youta, she would have given up on him. In the manga chapter 1, we see how Youta is forced by her to make a confession. Youta, too shy to confess to Moemi, turned it so he could find out who she liked. And it was her confession that she loked Takashi that started the story.
Niimai Takashi is Youta's best friend. The two appear to be inseperable. Niimai's role in the story was to help Youta get Moemi in the end. He originally helps Youta by asking Moemi-chan and Youta if perhaps the girl Youta liked was Moemi. This was planned ahead of time, except Youta after finding out Takashi was the guy that Moemi was after, Youta couldn't bring himself to confirming it. Takashi isn't interested in girls. He eventually agreed to go steady with Moemi. Then he tried to use this, along with his knowledge of Youta's feelings to force Youta into taking Moemi back from him.
This poor soul
is Moteuchi Youta. (as a joke his "friends" call him "Motenai
Youda" which means unpopular with girls) His sole wish was to
have Moemi love him. This proved to be difficult because he was too
shy to confess. He sacraficed his wish to support Moemi in her
chase for Takashi. By making this sacrafice, Gokuraku(meaning heaven
or extreme pleasure) video rental appeared to Youta. He saw
Amano Ai's casset and wanted to rent her. When he played her on his
broken VCR Amano Ai came through the television. Little does Youta
realize his kindness towards others is what hurts those that would be close
to him.
Amano Ai is the Video Girl
that came out of the television. No thanks to Youta's busted VCR,
she loses the size of her breasts, and became more of a tomboy. The
VCR is also the cause for Ai-chan's problems with fevers. She is
programmed to be a love goddess, and to comfort the person she is with.
She, despite her programming, falls in love with Youta. In
both cases she is recalled, however in the manga Ai's wish to become human
keeps the story going for about 100 more chapters.
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