Video Girl Ai, Vol. 3: Recall [Paperback]

Masakazu Katsura (Author, Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (October 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591161037
• ISBN-13: 978-1591161035
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,243,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Romance story that won't make you vomit, September 4, 2001

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"themancalledsam" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Video Girl Ai, Vol. 3: Recall (Paperback)

In this volume of Video Girl Ai, Ai has been recalled by her creator, leaving Yota heartbroken since it happened just as they realized their feelings for each other. Now a few months have passed and Yota is in a new year of school. He soon meets Nobuko, a girl who has a big crush on him. He begins to warm up to her, but then Ai reappears! However, Ai can't remember Yota or anything about the time they spent together. As Yota tries to come to terms with his feelings for an amnesiac Ai and build a new relationship with Nobuko, you get sucked into a manga world of fabulous art, good dialogue, and great pacing. This is considered a boys romance manga in Japan, which sounded like an oxymoron to me at first, but I quickly gave up. This is no chickflick, with a sappy loser chasing a stupid girl. This is dramatic manga at it's best.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gone Again, Here Again, September 7, 2001

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James Lowry (Sunnyvale, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Video Girl Ai, Vol. 3: Recall (Paperback)

Volume 3 of the serialized story of the relationship between Yota and Ai is *not* the place to start. Go to the beginning, Preproduction, it'll be well worth the money. People who *have* read the first two volumes should need little encouragement to pick up this one, as it starts right with the cliffhanger that ended the second volume.

Without spoiling the second volume, the resolution of the cliffhanger takes up the first quarter of the book, and is the confrontation that provides the climax to the anime OAV series. The rest of the volume is brand-new ground. Ai is rescued from her creator, or perhaps not, as she soon disappears. Yota has the barest of evidence that she existed at all, as he carries on through the rest of winter.

A new school year starts (in spring in Japan), and Yota is held back a year. Neither of his friends, Takashi and Moemi, know what to make of the changes in Yota. A girl named Nobuko met Yota a couple years back and has gotten transferred to his school in hopes of meeting him again, and then there is Ai. Ai shows up as a fellow student in his class, but she has no memory of Yota.

Yota is torn, he still loves Moemi, whose relationship with Takashi is still not working out, Nobuko reminds him a bit of Ai, and she definitely likes him, and Ai is still Ai, even if she is disturbed by how much Yota seems to know about her. Yota's nobility gets the best of him again as he tries to keep from hurting Nobuko even as he tries to figure out what is going on with Ai.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing, February 19, 2002

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"mrdisco33" (Thornhill, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Video Girl Ai, Vol. 3: Recall (Paperback)

Katsura pulls off a great turning point in the story in vol3. We are introduced to a new love interest, Ai is eventually returned but has amnesia, and more angst and suffering is experience. the art work is fantastic and by the end you'll be jumping to get vol 4.