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Aa! Megami-sama (Oh My Goddess!)

Faithfully following the art (if not the full story) in the original books by Fujishima Kosuke, the short video series Aa! Megami-sama (translated as both Ah! My Goddess and Oh My Goddess! here in the US), follows the romance and comedy involved when three goddesses become involved with an ordinary mortal and a college motor club -- similar to an animated Bewitched mixed with a bit of Tenchi Muyo!. Fujishima also created two other favorites, both involving fast cars and pretty girls, You're Under Arrest and eX-Driver.

Story Intro

When dialing for take-out food, Keiichi misdialed and got himself a visit from a goddess to grant him any one wish he desired. Thinking this was all a joke put on by his college dorm-mates, he decided to call the goddess's "bluff" and made his wish -- for a girlfriend exactly like her to stay with him forever.

The good news is that it wasn't a bluff, and his wish is granted; "Belldandy", one of the three Norse goddeses of fate known as the Norns ("Verthandi" in the Norse original), is now his girlfriend. But there's bad news, too -- he currently lives in an all-men dorm, and letting a woman in the building just got him thrown out! Not to mention the interference caused by a certain pair of other goddesses, Urd and Skuld, who want their sister to come back to Heaven. . . .
Other Notes

The "Aa!" in the original title can be translated many ways, typically as either "Ah!" or "Oh!". The original OVA episodes used a title logo that included an English couterpart, and they used "Ah!". However, the creators later learned of the obvious play on the English exclamation, "Oh my God!", and preferred to translate it as "Oh!" in later interviews, etc. The result is that you can actually find this under both "A" and "O" in the stores that alphabetize their racks literally.

While the full show didn't get picked up for a regular television series (as Fujishima's You're Under Arrest did), Urd and Skuld, then later Belldandy as well, appeared in mid-afternoon short pieces as cute tiny-deformed versions of themselves with a rat sidekick named Gan-chan. A few regulars of the manga that didn't appear in the OVAs make brief appearandes in these shorts as well.

Distributed by AnimEigo:

Aa! Megami-sama (5-episode OVA) as Oh My Goddess!

Distributed by Pioneer Entertainment:

Aa! Megami-sama (Movie) as Ah! My Goddess: The Movie

Adventures of Mini-Goddess (48-episode TV, 8 minutes each)

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