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Live-Action Video Girl Ai Series Gets Spinoff Special on January 18
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Video Girl Ai (Den'ei Shōjo) manga, is getting a new spinoff special that will air on January 18. The Den'ei Shōjo ~Video Girl Ai 2018~ Tokubetsu-hen special will air late at night (effectively January 19) from 12:52 a.m. to 1:23 a.m.
The live-action series premiered on TV Tokyo and its s on January 13, but episodes streamed one week earlier on Amazon Prime Video in Japan.
The live-action television series resets the original manga's timeframe to modern-day 2018, and it centers around Yōta's nephew, high school student Shō Moteuchi. Shō harbors a secret crush on his beautiful classmate Nanami. One day, he discovers an old broken videocassette recorder at his uncle Yota's home. He fixes the recorder, and a mysterious girl named "Video Girl Ai" springs out.
Katsura published the manga in Viz Media released the manga and its 1992 original video anime adaptation in North America.
Sources: TV Tokyo, Comic Natalie
