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Video Girl Ai (1992)

Yota Moteuchi (which can also be read as Motenai—meaning “Dateless”) is a shy, socially awkward high school boy with a kind heart. So kind that, when his crush Moemi’s inadvertent love confession is casually rejected by his best friend Takashi, Yota sheds tears for her pain rather than his own. This selflessness allows him entry into the mysterious video rental shop Gokuraku, visible to only the purest of souls. He rents a VHS tape with a pretty young woman on the cover… not expecting her to physically emerge from the TV screen after pressing play! Her name is Ai and she’s a literal video girl who, despite Yota’s broken VCR rendering her a little screwy, is on a mission to better his life before her month’s worth of run time is up.

Video Girl Ai is a six-episode OVA based on Masakazu Katsura’s (DNA², Zetman) sci-fi rom-com manga, animated by Production I.G. and directed with a winsome touch by Mizuho Nishikubo (California Crisis, Radio City Fantasy). Alongside Tenchi Muyo! and Oh My Goddess!, it was an early popularizer of the magical girlfriend genre which would surge in popularity throughout the 90s. What makes Video Girl Ai unique is the vein of somberness that offsets the cheeky humor and fan service, depicting the acute pain of adolescence that even a dream babe can’t completely distract from; the anime’s original ending goes a step further, putting a poignant spin on the usual escapist elements of the formula.

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Anonymous asked:

the Goddess you cannot name has taken a personal interest in me, apparently--in helping me to be reshaped, reformed, recreated in the most eldritch and terrifying kintsugi of the soul--and i cannot decide whether i should rejoice or remain terrified of what is to come. i offer a wooden plank ripped from a weathered dock, a root transformed into a wind chime, and the taste of orange that refuses to leave the back of one's tongue.

normal-horoscopes answered:

WELL THE SHITS HAPPENED MIGHT AS WELL EMBRACE IT

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Plant of the Day

Saturday 29 June 2019

These glorious yellow flowers belong to Paeonia 'Bartzella' (peony) an intersectional hybrid between a tree peony and an herbaceous peony resulting in a plant about 80cm high with a woody base. This hybrid was created in 1948, after thousands of failed attempts, by Japanese horticulturist, Dr. Toichi Itoh. The plants thrive in a sunny location with fertile, well-drained soil, with space from woody plants that will compete for soil moisture and nutrients. This plant was blooming in a private garden in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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