Hmmm, it was an okay if slightly draggy and meandering romance story, but Nanase Nishino simply dazzled as the adorable Ai, the Video Girl who exists to make your dreams come true!
Shuhei Nomura stars as Sho, a shy and introverted guy who secretly loves his classmate Nanami (Marie Iitoyo) who in turn secretly likes their colleague Tomoaki (Hiroya Shimizu)
The three work together on video projects while at the same time keeping their feelings in check.
One night fretting over his love of Nanami, Sho hears a bump coming from the closet of his Uncle's house where he's been staying. Upon inspection, he finds an old VHS Idol tape and, intrigued, puts it in the vintage player.
The three work together on video projects while at the same time keeping their feelings in check.
He's taken by the impishly adorable girl in the screen who tells him she's there to make his dreams come true. But what he cannot imagine is when the girl extends her hand out...and EMERGES FROM THE SCREEN!
Once there, she makes it clear that she is there to make his dreams come true- but how will the shy Sho deal with trying to woo Nanami with a wild and rambunctious magical girl LIVING with him?
Yes, if it sounds like a twisted soap opera, that’s exactly what it was. the first few episodes were fun and zany as Sho dealt with having a secret video girl living with him...
...but somehow once it got past the 4th or 5th episode, it became a rather dreary affair of love triangles, unrequited love and deception.
Man, what is it with these kind of shows. They take a fantastic situation and always manage to turn them into the most cliched and mundane teen romance fluff. It almost doesn't even matter that Ai came from a VHS tape, she could just have easily been a girl from out of town who has to move to the United Staes in a few months.
Truth be told, I had the same problem with the Risa Naka movie “The Girl Who leapt thru Time”, a fantastic sci-fi set-up with a girl appearing from the future to a budding sci-fi writer, which you would have thought would lead to some amazing stories but ends up being just your usual “I love her but I cannot confess” tropes….
Truth be told, I had the same problem with the Risa Naka movie “The Girl Who leapt thru Time”, a fantastic sci-fi set-up with a girl appearing from the future to a budding sci-fi writer, which you would have thought would lead to some amazing stories but ends up being just your usual “I love her but I cannot confess” tropes….
Here’s hoping the 2019 Mai series is more bright!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
