Video Lady Ai Assessment
Den’ei Shōjo
Cyber Lady Ai
電影少女 VIDEO GIRL AI
Because the Neighborhood Anime Evaluations web site is all however useless, I’m republishing a few of my OG opinions from there. I’ve corrected apparent spelling errors although and added some formatting. I’ll add new notes in parenthesis, labeled “ANB be aware.” 😅 I gained’t depend these as a part of the “Again to the Vaults” sequence as I’ve not rewatched them.
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Neighborhood Anime Assessment of Video Lady Ai
(ANB be aware: This sequence was initially reviewed on 09-Mar-2003.)
Intro
I’ve been on a romantic-comedy kick in my anime viewing of late, so a 1991-1992 sequence floated to the highest as one I ought to try. As may be anticipated, Video Lady Ai is predicated off the manga of the identical title. At six OAV episodes, little or no of the manga might be crammed into this sequence and as such, the anime suffers a tad (although not as dangerous as Oh My Goddess did).
The Story Begin (SPOILERS)
Video Lady Ai (Ai is Japanese for “love”) is one other anime sequence coping with that painful and joyful factor referred to as love. Our essential character is Yota (or Youta). He’s in highschool and in love along with his greatest feminine pal Moemi. Moemi solely sees Yota as a pal (the curse of the good man) and is in love with Yota’s pal Takashi — a man who’s adored by ALL the women. Moemi confesses to Yota her love for Takashi with out figuring out that he’s standing behind her. He tells her he’s flat out not and she or he’s not his kind. She tries to play it off prefer it doesn’t matter, and fails to get Yota to inform confess whom he loves.
As a result of Yota is a terminal good man, he sacrifices his personal emotions for Moemi with a purpose to assist her and encourage her in her makes an attempt to win the center of Takashi. Depressed by this flip of occasions in his life, Yota stumbles on a video retailer he’d by no means seen. Solely these with “pure” hearts can see this retailer. Within the porn part, he finds a video with a lady on the duvet named Ai.
He takes the VHS tape dwelling (and fortuitously for him, he has no mother and father at dwelling for your entire sequence). Placing the tape into the participant, the woman Ai reveals up on display screen and talks (typically phrases) to her single-male viewers about unrequited love and the way she’s handle him and make him really feel higher. She then emerges from the TV, and shortly reveals that offering nothing occurs to the tape, she will likely be there for him for the following 30 days.
The Tales Development
Thus begins Yota’s and Ai’s life collectively. At first, she aggressively comes onto him, typically teasing him with sexual discuss and saying she’s joking, then later eradicating ALL of her garments and attempting to take away his so she can assist him bathe and wash his again. That tends to be the character of their relationship all through the sequence.
She’s nude (descriptive topless largely) in three of the episodes as a result of she’s there to be the right girl for Yota — careing just for his pleasure. This doesn’t appear to imply simply intercourse as a result of she and Yota by no means get it on (and never simply because he solely has eyes for Moemi) although as I said, she will get bare for him twice (the third time she had no alternative) for the needs of sexually thrilling him and taking his thoughts off his troubles.
Because the sequence progresses, Ai immediately finds herself liking Yota an increasing number of, however as a video woman, she will not fall in love with him as that might violate her programming directive. Round Yota’s pals, she poses as his sister (huh? I assume his pals are fairly silly since he didn’t used to have a sister) and in personal, she makes an attempt to be a pal and extra. Will Ai fall for Yota? Will Moemi notice that Takashi won’t ever love her and go for Yota? Additionally, will Takashi and Yota stay pals?
Ideas/Assessment
As a result of age of this anime, the art work isn’t as visually interesting to me (when you’ve seen Yu Yu Hakusho, you already know what I imply). Ai wasn’t that cute to me however that’s OK. I didn’t just like the nudity or different extreme fan-service on this OAV, however then what did I count on? OAV’s are virtually all the time filled with fan-service. These of you who’re good guys will likely be painfully reminded of all the women you had been “in love” with however who solely noticed you as a pal and assured. I feel no less than some good women will likely be reminded of these guys they fell for however who handled them poorly. That’s the place this sequence works — characters. The difficult relationships between all 4 of the primary characters strike a powerful chord of realism.
The failure of this sequence is within the last episode. I doubt many will discover the ending satisfying. Make sure that to observe the top credit although. I suppose you may then resolve for your self as to what occurred.
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