YMMV / Video Girl Ai

• Gateway Series: A classic one for the early 90s American anime/manga fandom.
• Misblamed: Certain scenes with nudity in several volumes of the manga were edited to add panties or Scenery Censor to cover up Ai's lower body. Since VIZ Media 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.
• Unintentional Period Piece: 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.