Video Girl Ai, Vol. 12: Close Up [Paperback]

Masakazu Katsura (Author, Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 1 edition (July 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591163072
• ISBN-13: 978-1591163077
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,517,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars MOEMI OFFERS HER BODY....AGAIN, December 29, 2006

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Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Video Girl Ai, Vol. 12: Close Up (Paperback)

Moemi is prepared to lay it all on the line as she offers her body up to Yota but he keeps on seeing this vision of a faceless short haired girl telling him that he had finally made his "choice". He believes that this girl he is seeing is Ai and that no matter what his feelings or desires, he musn't go any further with Moemi and that he has to break up with her. He decides to focus exclusively on Ai, even though he can't tell her that he overheard her creator say that if a man could fall in love with Ai, he would make her human. He thinks if he tells her, then the deal would be off. Even as Yota breaks up with her, Moemi decides once again that she's not going down without a fight. Ai, meanwhile, doesn't believe Yota's statements that he doesn't want to be with Moemi. All the time this is going on, Ai's tape continues to run, and her time on Earth continues to run out. As you can see, things are in a mess, but with only a few volumes left in the series, Katsura's gonna have to bring things to an end.

Video Girl Ai is a manga that has gone on about 10 too many volumes. We've been pretty much stuck in stasis now for about five or six volumes with Yota going out with Moemi but still finding his mind drifting to Ai and telling himself it's only because he doesn't want her to disappear. Speaking of memory loss, has Yota completely forgotten how much he loved Ai in the first couple of volumes, and how he went to Hell to rescue her, quite literally? His feelings for Moemi have always seemed a bit more like desire or lust instead of true love, but he's been kidding himself for hundreds or even thousands of pages now that she's the one he loves. The characters are all stuck in emotional limbo, not because of their personalities, but because the writer wants to drag on the story longer than neccesary and make a few bucks more from the concept. It's a real shame because in the volumes that didn't have a lot fluff (which was about 5 out of 12 so far), the story really shined and was very compelling.