Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Video Girl Ai, Vol. 3: Recall by Masakazu Katsura ISBN: 1-56931-632-5 Publisher: Viz Comics Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: still good, but....
Comment: It would be a good idea to have read the other two volumes before reading this one. However, there is a "the story thus far" section at the beginning, plus a few brief character summaries, so if you do end up starting with this one, at least you get a little help. When this volume starts, Yota is trying to keep Ai from disappearing forever. Things go wrong, of course, but Ai isn't destroyed (did you really think she would be, what with the title and all?). She doesn't seem to remember Yota, though, and there are some more complications. Although he loves Ai, Yota still cares for Moemi, and now there's someone else who likes him.
The story was interesting, and the art was still lovely. That's why this book still gets such a high rating. However, all the further romantic complications kind of got on my nerves. Aren't two women enough?! With Ai's amnesia to drive him crazy, I don't think it was really necessary to add another girl (Nobuko) to the list of people Yota loves/likes too much to want to hurt. I suppose I'm just glad that Masakazu Katsura changed Nobuko's hairstyle so that it wasn't so much like Moemi's - they looked so alike that I kept confusing them. Anyway, it's still a good series, but I hope that there aren't too many more characters added to the mix.
Rating: 5
Summary: amazing
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Gone Again, Here Again
Comment: 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.
 |
Title: Video Girl Ai, Vol. 1: Preproduction by Masakazu Katsura, Yuji Oniki ISBN: 1569314314 Publisher: Viz Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
 |
Title: Video Girl Ai: Retake by Masakazu Katsura ISBN: 1591162033 Publisher: Viz Comics Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Love Hina (Book 14) by Ken Akamatsu, Akamatsu Ken, Nan Rymer ISBN: 1591821207 Publisher: TokyoPop Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
 |
Title: Oh My Goddess!: Ninja Master by Kosuke Fujishima, Dana Lewis, Toren Smith ISBN: 1569714746 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 11 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
 |
Title: Oh My Goddess!: Mara Strikes Back by Kosuke Fujishima ISBN: 1569714495 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
