Video Girl Ai, Vol. 3

by Masakazu Katsura

Book Overview

High-school student Yota Moteuchi is so unpopular that his classmates have given him the nickname "Dateless." So it's no surprise when the love of his life, Moemi, is not interested in Yota but instead is in love with Yota's best friend, Takashi. Yota turns to a video rental shop for comfort, but little did he suspect that the shop was magical and that the cute girl on his rented tape would pop out of the television and try to fix his ruined love...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591161037
• ISBN13: 9781591161035
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

RESCUING AI FROM LIMBO

Ai has been dragged back to the surreal limbo that she originated from because her creator is angry because she fell in love with Yota. She's supposed to make him happy, not become involved in a hopeless relationship! It's up to Yota to prove how much he loves her by journeying to her dimension and going through a gauntlet of pain. He has a gauntlet of another kind waiting for him back at school too. A new student has enrolled in the new year named Nobuko Nizaki, who was tutored back in middle school by Yota. The reason why she enrolled at his school? She has a crush on Yota! Moemi, the original object of his affections is still sending mixed signals, but is distracted since she is the girlfriend of Yota's best friend. And when Ai shows back up, suffering from amnesia, things get even more complicated. This is a good series, but Volume 3 dwelled a little too much on the shojo elements of love triangles and quadrilaterals. The comedy kinda gets lost in all the drama. Yota is rapidly changing from "dateless" to "playa" and is becoming a little harder to like. He's dangling three girls on his line (well, actually Ai has forgotten him), and seems to change his mind on who he really likes from page to page. Maybe we should call him "Clueless" instead of his former nickname. The art is great with a tad of fan service.

amazing

Katsura pulls off a great turning point in the story in vol3. We are introduced to a new love interest, Ai is eventually returned but has amnesia, and more angst and suffering is experience. the art work is fantastic and by the end you'll be jumping to get vol 4.

Gone Again, Here Again

Volume 3 of the serialized story of the relationship between Yota and Ai is *not* the place to start. Go to the beginning, Preproduction, it'll be well worth the money. People who *have* read the first two volumes should need little encouragement to pick up this one, as it starts right with the cliffhanger that ended the second volume.Without spoiling the second volume, the resolution of the cliffhanger takes up the first quarter of the book, and is the confrontation that provides the climax to the anime OAV series. The rest of the volume is brand-new ground. Ai is rescued from her creator, or perhaps not, as she soon disappears. Yota has the barest of evidence that she existed at all, as he carries on through the rest of winter.A new school year starts (in spring in Japan), and Yota is held back a year. Neither of his friends, Takashi and Moemi, know what to make of the changes in Yota. A girl named Nobuko met Yota a couple years back and has gotten transferred to his school in hopes of meeting him again, and then there is Ai. Ai shows up as a fellow student in his class, but she has no memory of Yota.Yota is torn, he still loves Moemi, whose relationship with Takashi is still not working out, Nobuko reminds him a bit of Ai, and she definitely likes him, and Ai is still Ai, even if she is disturbed by how much Yota seems to know about her. Yota's nobility gets the best of him again as he tries to keep from hurting Nobuko even as he tries to figure out what is going on with Ai.

Romance story that won't make you vomit

In this volume of Video Girl Ai, Ai has been recalled by her creator, leaving Yota heartbroken since it happened just as they realized their feelings for each other. Now a few months have passed and Yota is in a new year of school. He soon meets Nobuko, a girl who has a big crush on him. He begins to warm up to her, but then Ai reappears! However, Ai can't remember Yota or anything about the time they spent together. As Yota tries to come to terms with his feelings for an amnesiac Ai and build a new relationship with Nobuko, you get sucked into a manga world of fabulous art, good dialogue, and great pacing. This is considered a boys romance manga in Japan, which sounded like an oxymoron to me at first, but I quickly gave up. This is no chickflick, with a sappy loser chasing a stupid girl. This is dramatic manga at it's best.

One of the best mangas out there !!!

video girl ai is an excellent manga ! it`s about a boy , yota who is inlove with moemi one day he rents a video and a girl pops out of the TV her name is ai she is sent out to help yota get closer to moemi ,but what if he changes his mind ? this manga is a must get ! Masakazu Katsura is one of the finest artists his art is great ! A MUST GET!