Video Girl Ai, Vol. 8: Flashback [Paperback]

Masakazu Katsura (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 7, 2004 | Series: Video Girl AI (Book 8)

Moemi has real emotional scars from the near rape she suffered; can she trust again? And Ai has arranged with her creator to make a man fall in love with her or she'll be permanently erased. With Yota focused on Moemi, Ai's days are numbered.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (July 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159116303X
• ISBN-13: 978-1591163039
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #562,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars DO DREAMS COME TRUE?, July 6, 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. 8: Flashback (Paperback)

Volume 8 of Video Girl Ai is called Flashback because Yota plans to replay a scene from his life that he didn't get right the first time. Early on in this series, Yota was alone with his crush Moemi and was going to declare his love for her, but instead he found out that she was in love with his best friend Takashi! Now he's taking her back to the same place, with the same plan to declare his love for her, but this time he's going to get it right! The problem is that nothing has changed. Moemi still cares for Takashi, and even thinks he saved her from getting raped, when it was actually Yota that saved her. There is even some implication that Takashi was actually the one that put her in that situation but the author is not exactly clear since Takashi still hasn't come clean about that night. But most of the girls at school are spreading the rumor it was him that set her up. When Moemi finds out the truth, what will she do? And Ai's life is still ticking away. If she doesn't get a man to fall in love with her, she will be erased. But with Yota's attention fully on Moemi, how is she supposed to make any headway?

To me, Video Girl Ai is a manga that is in a temporary, but hopefully not permanent, holding pattern. The character of Yota has become less interesting the closer he has come to his dream of being in a relationship with Moemi. The fact that he is no longer a nerd called "Dateless", but instead has become a more normal highschooler has decreased the conflict in his character. Now he has to deal with the REALITY of being "normal" and all the boring characteristics that come with that. For braving the depths of Hell a couple of volumes back to save Ai's life, he seems to have made Ai into a third class citizen pretty fast. There's JUST enough story here to keep me interested a little longer, but if Katsura doesn't get the plot moving again and bring some comedy back in, I'll be erasing this series from my reading time.

5.0 out of 5 stars I just love this manga!, September 15, 2011

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Johan Zepeda "Johan" (Miami, Fl) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Video Girl Ai, Vol. 8: Flashback (Paperback)

I think that starting from this vol. is when the story comes to its finally.... Youta confess his love for Moemi and she also fall in love with him. At this point there are to many feelings between them. Ai finally has recovery her memory and trying to forget Youta...... To many emotions!