Video Girl Ai
Viz · 1999–2004 · 7 issues
About the series
In the late 1990s, Viz brought Masakazu Katsura's beloved manga Video Girl Ai to English-speaking readers as a seven-issue comic series. This sci-fi romance follows a lonely high school student who, after a broken heart, rents a video girl from a mysterious shop—only to have her step out of the screen and into his life. Katsura's warm, expressive art and the story's blend of humor, heartache, and a touch of the fantastic make it a standout in the era's translated manga offerings.