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| Video Girl Ai | |
 Cover of the first tankōbon volume | |
| 電影少女 (Den'ei Shōjo) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Masakazu Katsura |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Jump Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
| English magazine | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| 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 |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| 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 |
| Produced by |
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| Written by |
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| Music by | Tōru Okada |
| Studio | I.G. Tatsunoko |
| Licensed by |
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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 |
| Demographic | Male |
| Published | 1993 |
| Television drama | |
| Den'ei Shōjo ~Video Girl Ai 2018~ | |
| Directed by | Kazuaki Seki |
| Written by | Kōhei Kiyasu |
| Music by | tofubeats |
| Original network | 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 |
| Written by |
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| Music by | KERENMI |
| 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 manga was compiled into fifteen tankōbon volumes by Shueisha and published between July 1990 and March 1993.
A live-action film of Video Girl Ai was released in 1991. The series was also adapted into a six-episode OVA produced by IG Tatsunoko (now known as Production I.G.). The series was released in 1992 by Jump Video. It roughly covers most of the material found in the first three volumes of the manga. In 2018 a live-action television drama called Den'ei Shōjo ~Video Girl Ai 2018~ ran on TV Tokyo. Another series, Den'ei Shōjo ~Video Girl Mai 2019~, was released 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.
As of 2018, the manga has over 14 million copies in print.
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