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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