Air Dates: April 11th to June 27, 2019 on TV Tokyo, Thursday's at 1:00 am
Subs by Skeweds
Main Cast:
Mizuki Yamashita as Mai Kamio.... video girl from the 1980's who became 'unlocked' from her VHS and has to serve the person who set her free
Riku Hagiwara as Taketo Kano.... he freed Mai and is now her master though doesn't want to be, lives by himself as his parents are overseas
Rena Takeda as Yuna Asakawa... new girl at the high school and a very popular model who Taketo is head over heels for
Reiya Masaki as Tomonori Yanagi.... first person to free Mai from the VHS tape but she soon returned to it
Hikari Kuroki as Anna Kawashima....
Nashiko Momotsuki as Sayaka Kato.... student and Tomonori's ex-girlfriend
Yoshinori Okada as Naoto Matsui.... teacher
Shigeyuki Totsugi as Yota Moteuchi... only returning character from season one and the original creator of Video Girl Ai
Will be updating the above as the recaps go on, some characters we haven't met yet and a few that we have met are still a bit unknown.
For the 'Janus' series was able to keep the recaps at 4-5 paragraphs which is my goal for this drama. An episode is 23 minutes in length so seems I should be able to keep these posts shorter than regular dramas without leaving any details out. Plus as usual will have an overabundance of screenshots which will help you follow the story better.
First recaps are always a bit longer as the characters need to be introduced and the story explained a bit. But if you saw the first season you should be able to predict a bit of what will take place but through four episodes this is a much darker drama. While Ai in the first season was usually such a bubbly young woman Mai seems the opposite as she has harmed many men so far, at least one a show. But like Ai she came out of an old VHS tape and her duty is to serve the person that freed her. On to the recap and we didn't meet her until the five minute mark.
The setting is a high school but not in Tokyo, as a matter of fact the location nor the school's name has been mentioned. The main male character is a seventeen(?) year old lad named Taketo who kept trying to form school clubs but keeps getting turned down by his teacher Matsui, that teacher is the one we'll see the most of and he's in the middle above. Taketo isn't disliked by his classmates but is certainly not a popular boy, actually quite a confused young man. We don't see much of her until the third show but Rena will be playing a key part in this series, she's a new transfer student at the school. Taketo had gone to school with her eight years prior but her character Yuna doesn't remember him.
The male student we first met well was Yanagi who is in Taketo's class. One day he snuck into the school's broadcasting room for lunch where he discovered an old VHS tape, that screenshot is near the top. Out of curiosity he played the tape, a few seconds later who should be in the room but the Video Girl Mai! She told Yanagi her main purpose in 'living' is to serve her male master, wonder if a female has ever played the tape and if so what happened? Yanagi was telling Mai how he just broke up with his girlfriend Sayaka, he didn't give the reason why but Yanagi has such a hatred for the girl but Mai said not to worry as she can help him overcome his heartbreak. Will have to say am shocked Mizuki would be playing such a sexy and revealing gal which is so unlike an Idol.
If you've seen the 'Tomie' films or read the mangas that's the kind of female Mai is. Once a male gets under her spell they'll do anything to please her, eventually she drives them to the brink of death or to have a nervous breakdown. That's what happened to Yanagi as after one 'hot session' with Mai he's under her control, to please her he soon attacked his ex-girlfriend Sayaka. The teachers broke it up but Yanagi is a broken man and quickly disappeared as he didn't attend school for four days. But he was still around as Yanagi had been hiding out in the broadcasting room with Mai where the pair had a few more rounds of scorching sex, amazed a Nogi member would take such a role.
We won't know the outcome of Yanagi's fate until the next recap, remember an episode is just 23 minutes long. What wasn't explained at the end was how Mai returned to the VHS tape, was it because Yanagi had lost his marbles and she couldn't serve him? We're near the end when Taketo discovered the tape, he didn't play it then but instead brought it home. As you can see above he played the tape and as the show came to it's conclusion coming out of his TV set was Mai and that scene continues on into the next episode. Recap for that is the next post which was a better show though so much darker than this one.
