From: rang@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Suezou)
Subject: Re: Video Girl Ai on video : vol.1... a dissapointed P-chan !
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Suezou)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:28:30 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.054835.22066@v785.stanley.co.jp> janin@v785.stanley.co.jp () writes:
>Lucckkkky (or "ure-ppii" :-) ) !
>Now Video Girl Ai is on air in rental shops (at least in Japan !).

THey'll get here soon enough (he).

>Why ?  ---> :

>1> Ai's hair : in the manga, she was drawn with a light hair that suits
>   her very well ; now she has about the same hair colour as Megumi-chan !
>   so that for a few minutes I was even mislead...

That did bother me a bit with I first saw the colored version of the
characters for the Ai video; but I believe it was a light brown compared to
Moemi-chan's dark brown hair. (It makes a little sense considering a few
picts of Ai have her with light purple hair; and of course, the blonde
hair, but if she truly is Japanese, I can't imagine her with TRUE blonde
hair; Are there Japanese girls with natural blonde hair? Never seen that..)
It was a compromise color; not bad.

I'm just glad that the character designs are quite faithful (as anime
can be) to that vey distinctive drawing style of the manga..Of course,
I'd better see as the video.

>2> "H" side is emphasized too much ! In the manga, there are some "H"
>   crazy scenes but not so much. Of course it's really funny, and I like
>   that "H" for the fun it gives, but I expected something different...

This I would have to agree, but then again it's only the first OVA; basically
a lot of silly things will happen and a possible few "touching" scenes to
get the ball rolling for one hell of a love relationship (Having tried to
keep up with the manga, if it keeps faithful to the story, the loving
scenes WILL come out soon..)

>3> Megumi-chan is not "present" that much in the anime. In the manga,
>   she IS the center of the story at almost any time, especially
>   in the 1st story where Moteuchi-kun wants to invite her while
>   she's at work... They cut too many things about Megumi-chan !

I don't know about this either (I'm just being a devil's advocate..)
Though the story evolves around Ai, I don't find the story center
around her unless it's the "man in the trenchcoat/Creator of Ai"
comes out..AT the beginning of the Ai saga, we just see Yota trying to
make friends with Moemi-chan and Ai, due to programming helps; The story
usually deals with Yota at first, but then Ai falls in love (silly pun);
But this is all speculation. I'm bias 'cause I'm an Ai fan.


>The manga was not MAINLY funny.
>Much more relationships and feelings involved.

Well if it followed the manga too closely, the story would get boring.
As an anime "OVA series" it has to rush a bit to get to the point in
less than 30 minutes at a time..

>And what about Nori-pi's opening theme ? I don't like it very much.
>I found the ending theme pretty good, better than the op.

But it's Nori-P!

Also, is the animation good? Or is the animation jerky?; the art looks
wonderful from what I've seen, but then again, this is still all speculation.

>The BGM CD is good. Not so good, but good, too.
>I may give it to you for a try next Friday if you want !
>I think that you may be interested in it, because it has 6 vocal (songs)
>tracks and only 4 BGM tracks.

But who does the music (Well, if it's Kenji Kawai, I know I'll love it, but
considering all the vocals, chances are not..)? Is it a bit hard rock or
j-pop or dpressing? Is it slow or is it upbeat? I hope Megumi doesn't sing,
(A great voice acting talent but she isn't the greatest singer..Nori-P, yey)

>Ai with bright hair is printed on the jacket.
>And also on the CD itself.
>I like her that way !

However if she was animated with hair color, it would start to perturb me,
(Fiber optic B-ko hair color is a bit much for me after 1/2 an hour of
wondering how she died her hair color that way..)

Well, one thing I can say, the animated series looks a lot better than
the live action version if Video Girl Ai (another Toho production)..

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