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After making said promise and feeling like crap about it, Youta finds himself in front of [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday|a video rental store he has not seen before]]. The man in charge of the store says that, since Youta truly meant what he told Moemi, he deserves a prize... like borrowing one of the videos of the store. Its name is "I'll comfort you!" and has a beautiful girl on the cover.
Youta plays the video in his VCR... and then the girl pops out from the TV! Her name is Ai Amano, and she's come to help him with his woes. Unfortunately, Youta's VCR was broken, therefore Ai-chan's programming is seriously messed up. She [[Pettanko|lost a few cup sizes]], [[Lethal Chef|she can't cook]], she's [[Dojikko|clumsy]], [[
''Video Girl Ai'' (電影少女,Den'ei Shojo?, lit. "Video Girl") 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 Media]]. It was formerly published in the anthology Animerica Extra by Viz. It was started in 1990 and continued until 1993, and fifteen manga volumes were produced. The first 13 volumes tell Ai Amano's story. The last two volumes, which came years later, focus on a new video girl named Len, hence the new name for these two volumes ''Video Girl Len''.
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{{tropelist}}
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Yota does this to relieve himself after spending a long and tense (*snerk*) night sharing the bed with Moemi, who was completely naked except for a long jersey. To explain things out: {{spoiler|An emotionally broken Moemi was deliberately trying to excite and then reject Yota to make him forget about Ai, but Yota was desperately resisting and controling himself because Moemi's [[Near-Rape Experience]] was still fresh on her memory. (Moemi was also counting on this to manipulate Yota, no matter how much she disliked the idea of playing dirty against Ai.) The next morning, when Moemi prepared herself to return to her home, Yota asked his penis to "Withstand just until Moemi were out of sight and then he would give him his reward"}}
* [[A God Am I]] - Rolex. He is a "Creator"! He has many traits in common with the Deniurge of [[
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]] - Pretty much everyone.
* [[Anime Theme Song]] - Noriko Sakai's "Ureshii Namida"
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* [[Ill Girl]] - {{spoiler|Natsumi, who has a weak heart [[Tear Jerker|and later dies]]. And for worse, according to her doctors, her fragile heart was the lesser of her problems.}}
* [[Important Haircut]]: {{spoiler|Nobuko and later Moemi cut their hair short to imitate Ai, as a last desperate effort to keep Yota with them- Moemi goes so far as dressing like a tomboy and using a rude language, which counts as a 180º for her. Unfortunately, not even this worked. }}
* [[Japanese Pronouns]] - Ai [[Bokukko|uses "ore" to refer to herself]]
* [[Jerkass]] - Ayumi's handsome yet rotten ex-boyfriend in ''Video Girl Len''.
** Takashi purposely [[Jerkass Facade|tries to look like one]], so Moemi would stop liking him and start paying attention to Yota. Unfortunately, this idea went horribly wrong.
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* [[Matchmaker Crush]] - Youta, for Moemi and Takashi. Ai, for Youta and Moemi.
* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]] - In ''Video Girl Len'', Ayumi's bad rep comes from ''nasty'' rumors about her sexual experience. {{spoiler|She's so distraught over it that at some point she even gives in and tells Hiromu to do whatever he wants with her. He panicks and runs off, and Ayumi collapses in tears.}}
* [[Names to Know
** CD drama: [[Minami Takayama]] (Ai), [[Nozomu Sasaki]] (Yota), [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] (Takashi), [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] (Moemi).
** OAV: [[Megumi Hayashibara]] (Ai), [[Takeshi Kusao]] (Yota), [[Kouji Tsujitani]] (Takashi), [[Yuri Amano]] (Moemi), [[Hirotaka Suzuoki]] (Rolex), [[Kenichi Ogata]] (the Gokuraku old man).
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* [[Off-Model]] - ''Especially'' in the second episode of the anime.
* [[Parental Abandonment]] - Youta's father is never seen and his mother is dead. Natsumi ran away from home at some point.
* [[Pettanko]] -
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: All. The. Time.
* [[Purity Personified]]: Played as a problem for Hiromu on Video Girl Len: his concept of women was so overly idealized that he refused to believe that girls of his age would do things like burping, smelling, stuffing themselves or even going to the bathroom, so Len's first task was trampling over these twisted concepts and making Hiromu see women as what they really were: just plain, normal human beings.
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* [[Takeshi Kusao]] - Youta, in the anime. One of his first more or less well-known roles.
* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]] - In fact, you can't even ''see'' the Gokuraku store if you're not a genuinely good person. Youta saw it for his selflesness regarding Moemi; the [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] Toshiki found the Neo Gokuraku along with Hiromu because he truly cared for his best friend, despite his lecherousness.
** Of course,
* '''[[
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] - Nobuko, Natsumi
* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]] - Ai twists this trope, in that {{spoiler|she wasn't supposed to be the girlfriend, but fell for the lovable loser she was trying to improve}}.
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[[Category:Viz Media]]
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[[Category:Anime of the 1990s]]
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[[Category:Manga of the 1980s]]
[[Category:Light Novels]]
[[Category:TV Tokyo]]
[[Category:Twelve-Episode Anime]]
[[Category:Science Fiction Anime and Manga]]
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