Anime Detail

This is a database of older and less well known anime and manga \| Menu \|
		Anime Detail -Help-

Back | Anime titles | anime in romaji order | Shoujo | W.M.T | Old Anime | Manga titles | Blog Home

Information

Title (English) Video Girl Ai

Title (Japanese) Den'ei Shoujo

Advertising
Fantasy Novel

Notes 6 x30 mins, IG, Tatsunoko, 1992

Classification -

Synopsis Average loser boy Moteuchi Youta rents a "video girl" video which magically generates a three-dimensional video girl, (Ai) slightly damaged by Youta's duff VCR, but programmed to help Youta with his love-life until her timer expires. Youta loves schoolmate Moemi, who unhelpfully has fallen for Youta's more personable school friend Takashi. Alternately helped and hindered by Ai, Youta, Moemi, Ai and friends engage in a tortuous dance of teenage emotion and sexual longing.

Review I'm not sure how well this has weathered since its release, but it's still as good as any of the "magical girlfriend/ loser boy" anime. It's heart is in the right place, with more teenage desperation than farce, though there are also plenty of fan service and panty shots.
The anime is not as good as the manga, which is one of the best-ever books on teenage love angst (and also astonishingly erotic without containing anything explicit enough to get it busted).
Characterisation is rather erratic, with Moemi being sometimes drippy little girl and sometime teenage sexpot,and Ai's role veering from one extreme to another.

Credits Dir: Mizuho Nishikubo
Screenplay: Satoru Akahori

Episodes 6

Release US:VHS, US:DVD

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 1992

Production

Broadcaster

Animation

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

Back

Skin design by DivxDB

Information
Title (English)	Video Girl Ai
Title (Japanese)	Den'ei Shoujo
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	6 x30 mins, IG, Tatsunoko, 1992
Classification	-
Synopsis	Average loser boy Moteuchi Youta rents a "video girl" video which magically generates a three-dimensional video girl, (Ai) slightly damaged by Youta's duff VCR, but programmed to help Youta with his love-life until her timer expires. Youta loves schoolmate Moemi, who unhelpfully has fallen for Youta's more personable school friend Takashi. Alternately helped and hindered by Ai, Youta, Moemi, Ai and friends engage in a tortuous dance of teenage emotion and sexual longing.
Review	I'm not sure how well this has weathered since its release, but it's still as good as any of the "magical girlfriend/ loser boy" anime. It's heart is in the right place, with more teenage desperation than farce, though there are also plenty of fan service and panty shots. The anime is not as good as the manga, which is one of the best-ever books on teenage love angst (and also astonishingly erotic without containing anything explicit enough to get it busted). Characterisation is rather erratic, with Moemi being sometimes drippy little girl and sometime teenage sexpot,and Ai's role veering from one extreme to another.
Credits	Dir: Mizuho Nishikubo Screenplay: Satoru Akahori
Episodes	6
Release	US:VHS, US:DVD
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1992
Production
Broadcaster
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.