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* {{Misblamed}}: Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent runs,) which sports these edits, long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent runs,) which sports these edits, long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series.series.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The very fact that Ai comes from a VHS tape already dates the series. "Video girlfriends" on VHS went away in the nineties, and VHS tapes themselves would die out in the mid 2000s (and while movie rental stores do still exist, many of them have closed down as demand for them has greatly reduced). Nowadays, their likeliest substitute would be online streaming (such as the many ASMR videos on Youtube). When the sequel series was made in 2018, it had to start with the VHS tape being found abandoned and its player in need of repair.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The very fact that Ai comes from a VHS tape already dates the series. "Video girlfriends" on VHS went away in the nineties, and VHS tapes themselves would die out in the mid 2000s (and while movie rental stores do still exist, many of them have closed down as demand for them has greatly reduced). Nowadays, their likeliest substitute would be online streaming (such as the many ASMR videos on Youtube). When the sequel series was made in 2018, it had to start with the VHS tape being found abandoned and its player in need of repair.
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This is a trivia trope, so moving this to the trivia page.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent runs,) which sports these edits, long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series.
* SequelGap: A whopping 26 years between the manga, which ended in 1992, and the sequel TV series ''Denei Shoujo ~VIDEO GIRL AI 2018~'', which airs in 2018 and is set in that year.
* SequelGap: A whopping 26 years between the manga, which ended in 1992, and the sequel TV series ''Denei Shoujo ~VIDEO GIRL AI 2018~'', which airs in 2018 and is set in that year.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent runs,) which sports these edits, long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series.
* SequelGap: A whopping 26 years between the manga, which ended in 1992, and the sequel TV series ''Denei Shoujo ~VIDEO GIRL AI 2018~'', which airs in 2018 and is set in that year.series.
* SequelGap: A whopping 26 years between the manga, which ended in 1992, and the sequel TV series ''Denei Shoujo ~VIDEO GIRL AI 2018~'', which airs in 2018 and is set in that year.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent runs,) which sports these edits, long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series.series.
* SequelGap: A whopping 26 years between the manga, which ended in 1992, and the sequel TV series ''Denei Shoujo ~VIDEO GIRL AI 2018~'', which airs in 2018 and is set in that year.
* SequelGap: A whopping 26 years between the manga, which ended in 1992, and the sequel TV series ''Denei Shoujo ~VIDEO GIRL AI 2018~'', which airs in 2018 and is set in that year.
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* GatewaySeries: A classic one for the early 90s American anime/manga fandom.
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Tear Jerker
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* TearJerker - Packed full of them: the epilogue will hit you like a ''train.''
* TearJerker - Packed full of them: the epilogue will hit you like a ''train.''
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* {{Misblamed}} - {{Misblamed}}: Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent runs,) which sports these edits, long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series.
* TearJerker - Packed full of them: the epilogue will hit you like a ''train.''series.
* TearJerker - Packed full of them: the epilogue will hit you like a ''train.''
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Crowning Moment of Heartwarming
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - The last few pages of the epilogue.
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Crowning Moment of Awesome
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - [[spoiler: Youta smashing his VCR and freeing Ai from the BigBad's control. Not to mention when he makes himself remember Ai just before that, forcibly overriding the erasure of his memories about her.]]
** Also Youta climbing the glass staircase, even though he's slicing the hell out of himself doing so.
** Don't forget a dying [[spoiler: Ai using her last bit of magnetic energy to anihilate Mai on a single attack.]]
** Also Youta climbing the glass staircase, even though he's slicing the hell out of himself doing so.
** Don't forget a dying [[spoiler: Ai using her last bit of magnetic energy to anihilate Mai on a single attack.]]
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* {{Misblamed}} - Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or SceneryCensor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since Creator/VIZMedia was in the middle of a minor censorship controversy elsewhere, fans tend to blame the company for these edits as well. In reality, it was ''Shueisha'', the ''original'' Japanese publisher, which requested ''Video Girl Ai'''s creator, Masakazu Katsura, to redraw his own art. This is plainly visible in the second Japanese run of the tankoubon (and all subsequent runs,) which sports these edits, long before Viz even acquired the rights to the series.
