This was a hard one to read. After Yota finally saves Ai in the video world, she disappears. When he sees her again, she has been reset. She does not remember him or anything they shared together. Yota is torn apart inside from having to see Ai but she does not even know him. A [...]
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6 Aug
Video Girl Ai vol 2: Mix Down
Well, I read that quickly. Could not put it down. That is Moemi on the cover. “Dateless” Moteuchi and the video girl. High school student Yota Moteuchi is nicknamed “Dateless”. When the love of his life confesses she is in love with his best friend, Yota rents a video for comfort, but the shop is [...]
5 Aug
Video Girl Ai vol 1: Preproduction
Just started to reread some of my favorite manga. What better place to start then with Video Girl Ai, one of my favorite stories. Yota Moteuchi rents a video tape from a mysterious store and when his VCR malfunctions Ai Amano comes out of the television and into his life. She promises to cheer him [...]
15 Jul
Sshhhh! by Jason
I just read another great comic, Sshhhh! by Jason, which is available from Fantagraphics. Below is a description from the website: “From the Harvey Award-winning author of Hey, Wait… comes this sharp suite of short tales, ranging from the funny to the terrifying to the surreal to the touching, all told entirely in pantomime. Jason’s [...]
5 Jul
Monkey vs. Robot
I am just now reading Monkey vs. Robot and the Crystal of Power. This is one of the best comics I’ve read in a long time. Here is the description from the Top Shelf Productions website: A factory of self-replicating robots is stripping the jungle of its natural resources, threatening the territory of a colony [...]
