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| • | Video Girl Ai (電影少女 Den'ei Shōjo) is a manga series created by Masakazu Katsura and published by Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump. It also has an anime adaptation. The manga is published in English by Viz Communications. It was formerly published in the anthology Animerica Extra by Viz. It was started in 1990 and continued until 1993, and fifteen manga series were produced. The first 13 volumes tell a story about a Video Girl named "Ai Amano". The last two series, which came years later, focus on a Video Girl named "Len", hence the new name for these two volumes- "Video girl Len". In fact, a pun is present here which is lost in translation; with "l" being unused in Japan (the Japanese "r" being a mixture of the two sounds) the actual name "Ren" is lost, which ties in with "ai" to form "Renai"- a Japanese word used to describe the type of romantic comedy that "video girl ai" is. Although they have different characters, the stories between the series are not entirely different; they are all continuous. The Video Girl Ai anime is a six part OVA (Original Video Animation) series which was produced by I.G. Tatsunoko. The series was released in 1992 by Jump Video. It roughly covers most of the material found in Volumes 1 and 3 of the manga (and some of Volume 2). The character designs for the anime remained faithful to the manga style and the overall animation is excellent. Some believe that the author, Masakazu Katsura, used this series as what could be described as a pilot; although he wanted to write a straight romantic comedy, he included sci-fi and action elements, so that the series would guarantee to be a success with both his publishers and (teenage male) audience. This theory is supported by both the fact that sci-fi elements in the series are pushed aside, despite their inherrent oddities, and the fact that Katsura's second series, I"s, was indeed a straight romantic comedy. Source: [wikipedia: video girl ai] |
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