Video Girl Ai
| Video Girl Ai | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ai Amano | |
| 電影少女 (Den'ei Shōjo) | |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Masakazu Katsura |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Jump Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
| English magazine | |
| Original run | December 4, 1989 – April 20, 1992 |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Manga | |
| Video Girl Len | |
| Written by | Masakazu Katsura |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher |
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| Imprint | Jump Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
| Original run | April 27, 1992 – July 20, 1992 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Ryū Kaneda |
| Studio | Toho |
| Released | June 29, 1991 |
| Runtime | 95 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Mizuho Nishikubo |
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| Written by |
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| Music by | Tōru Okada |
| Studio | I.G. Tatsunoko |
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| Released | March 27, 1992 – August 28, 1992 |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Sukehiro Tomita |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Imprint | Jump J-Books |
| Published | 1993 |
| Television drama | |
| Den'ei Shōjo: Video Girl Ai 2018 | |
| Directed by | Kazuaki Seki |
| Written by | Kōhei Kiyasu |
| Music by | tofubeats |
| Studio | |
| Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
| Original run | January 14, 2018 – April 1, 2018 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Television drama | |
| Den'ei Shōjo: Video Girl Mai 2019 | |
| Directed by | Kazuaki Seki |
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| Music by | KERENMI |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 12, 2019 – June 28, 2019 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Video Girl Ai, known in Japan as simply Video Girl (電影少女, Den'ei Shōjo), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Katsura. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 1989 to April 1992. It was followed by a short sequel entitled Video Girl Len, published between April and July 1992. The chapters were collected in 15 tankōbon volumes.
A live-action film of Video Girl Ai was released in 1991. The series was also adapted into a six-episode original video animation (OVA) series produced by IG Tatsunoko, released in 1992 by Jump Video. In 2018, a television drama adaptation, Den'ei Shōjo: Video Girl Ai 2018, was broadcast on TV Tokyo. Another series, Den'ei Shōjo: Video Girl Mai 2019, was broadcast the following year.
In North America, the manga and the OVA have been licensed for English-language release by Viz Media. It was formerly published in the anthology Animerica Extra by Viz.
By 2018, the manga had over 14 million copies in print.