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Summary: remains ok
Review: This is one of the few animes that I still get a kick out of (mainly because of the fact that it is an anime that ridicules its own genre). After seeing my fair share of Japanese animation movies and series, I have noticed an unfortunate trend. That is, that anime is utterly plagued with stereotypes. This movie redeems itself in that it (quite intentionally) pokes fun at those rampantly recurring elements that make up Japanese animation. What themes am I referring to? I'm talkin' bout' epic space battles with zillions of missles, about ultra hot women fighting and striking poses left and right, about the stupid sailor outfits, gigantic robots, jealousy among peers in a prestigious school, etc. Just about every sterotype is represented here, and played off as exactly that. So check it out. There's something here for you no matter what. I'm willing to bet that if you love or hate most animes, you'll at least enjoy this somewhat. I also want to point out the fact that the overall QUALITY of the animation here is AMAZING even today. ... This is the one to watch. This movie has provided me with a surprizing amount of entertainment value over the years, and has imparted a strange attraction to redheads on me to boot.
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Summary: A-Ko remastered
Review: The Collector's Series DVD version of Project A-ko is all new version of an anime classic. This version is far better then the old Image version in just about every way. CPM were able to locate the original full screen version of the film (all the old versions had the top and bottom cut off to create a wide screen version for the theater), and the film has been Digialy remastered. The remaster was well done, colour is much better then the old release, black level is back where it should be without being crushed. I don't see any artifacts like I have seen in some other remastered animation. Gone are the badly timed white subtitles of the Image release, this version has very easy to read subtitles in yellow with thin black boarder. Extras? Some of the best I've seen on any anime DVD! All the extras from the old LD are back (missing on the Image DVD), plus new ones from the Japanese SE LD, plus some created just for this release. If you buy the A-ko box set you also get the sound track on a CD (along with two more DVDs). There are lots of good reviews here about the movie, I've just reviewed the technical features of this DVD. If you have ever been interested in this movie, or even already have a Image version THIS is the version to buy! I don't see how it could be any better.
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Summary: Hold it...!!
Review: The following review refers to a previous DVD edition. Somehow this got attached to the new "collector" edition which, judging by at least one other review, looks to be pretty good. Go ahead and get this edition, and pay no mind to what follows:I won't go on about how great this movie is. I leave that to the other reviewers. What I will talk about is the dreadful job that has been done releasing this. The picture is grainy. They didn't clean up the scratches on the film. The sound quality on the Japanese track is okay, but is shockingly poor on the english dub. Trust me, even if you prefer dubs to subs, you won't like this. They also put the subtitles on the picture itself instead of below it like they used to. I advise you to wait for the Project A-ko collection. Rent it first, and see if they don't do a better job. It's a shame. This movie deserves better.
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Summary: Best Japanime film ever
Review: Maybe all the wackiness got to my head, but I think this is the best Japanese animated film, if not the best movie ever. I haven't been watching it much lately, but that could be 'cause I watched it about 5 consecutive times when I first rented it and more than 20 times after I eventually bought it 4 years ago. Hey! How many times have YOU watched a single flick? Seriously though, I have been known to have weird taste so you might not like this film nearly as much as I do. However, if you'd like a movie with the hyper behavior found in Ranma 1/2 and Tenchi Muyo (...) and the blow-everything-up machine clashes of the Gundam series (...), Project A-ko is your ticket. Everything up to this point was written for the VHS version of this movie. Now, the Collector's Series DVD is slightly different. I'm sure Amazon.com tells all the extra features but there is something you might want to know: near the end of the movie (when Miss Ayumi steps out of the classroom onto the balcony), there is a slight pause that shouldn't be there. This is trivial and it's probably just the copy I have, but I thought you should know. One more thing: don't bother using the english subtitles to read words you can't quite make-out. The direct english translation is different from the dubbing. One more thing: It took me a dozen rewinds to figure this out, but what B-Ko says when she dons a had and vest for five seconds is, "We'll call it our own superbowl.
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Summary: Anime satire
Review: A must have for all anime fans, this movie is complete satire. However, it's not for those unfamiliar with japan's contibutions to animation as most of the jokes will be missed and all that will be left is a bad plot, a couple cat-fites and an irritating blond who for some reason is adored by otherwise intellegent young women.
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Summary: A lot of fun
Review: This movie is just fun to watch. The first time I saw it I liked it so much I watched it again. The story is so strange that I couldn't help but like it. My favorite scene is when A-Ko and B-Ko are fighting and they don't notice the war that is going on around them between Earth and the aliens. The fact that the aliens are women who look and sound like men, and that never being explained, just adds to the silliness and makes you laugh. All of the characters are lovable and the animation fits this type of a movie perfectly. It has a suggested lesbian theme but I found it refreshing from all of the "boys fighting for girl's love" themes. I want C-Ko to be my friend too!
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Summary: Excellent Show, but DVD has little flaws
Review: Project A-Ko is an excellent anime for all anime comedy fans. It's really funny. It's about a 17 years old girl called A-Ko with supernatural strength, and her best friend C-Ko. Everything is fine until B-Ko, who's a science genius, wants to finish a battle of 10 years ago with A-Ko, so she can regain C-Ko's friendship again. You'll gain a lot of laughs with this one. I gave 4 stars only because the some of the subs are out of time, and that's tedious. The english audio is terrible (but most of the anime fans like me doesn't care because we can't stand dubbed anime). The DVD has no extras either. Well, not all is bad, it's presented in its 1.815:1 original theatrical aspect ratio. Anyway is worth the money, if you haven't watched the original Project A-ko!!!
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Summary: Classic humorous anime insanity
Review: The original Project A-ko is certainly one of the funniest titles in anime. Released in 1986, the action supposedly takes place in 2003 in Graviton City, Japan, the site where a massive meteor crashed seventeen years previous (after first destroying a Space Shuttle in orbit). The main characters are A-ko, B-ko, and C-ko; A-ko is insanely strong and super-fast, B-ko is tremendously smart and uses her brains to design mecha, and C-ko is intensely stupid and highly impulsive. The relationship between the main characters is a bit fuzzy. On the surface, A-ko and C-ko are friends, and B-ko is jealous of their friendship. However, given that Project A-ko was originally intended to be a hentai (adult, sex-oriented anime) film, the intensity of B-ko's jealously and her many attempts to take C-ko, and the way that C-ko almost literally clings to A-ko all certainly allow for a lesbian-triangle reading of the film... which also adds more hilarity to the dialogue for those who are not offended by (pseudo-)lesbianism. However, the aliens cannot be forgotten... and never will be forgotten. Only an alien would stand in the middle of a road day after day to faithfully conduct research!!! Apparently, sake is available outside our solar system, and is relied upon quite heavily by a particular alien. And the aliens - who come to Earth with a spacecraft seemingly larger than Rhode Island - also have some dirty laundry which needs airing. Further, how did the aliens learn Japanese so well, having apparently never been on Earth before? Project A-ko is an excellent film to watch when in need of mindless fun, combining sexual- and gender-based humor with general slapstick and a high content of fast-paced, often-explosive, sometimes-meaningless chaos and violence. The subtitled VHS version also includes original French and Japanese trailers for the film (I remember seeing Project A-ko on a movie theater marquee when living in Belgium in 1990), providing an unusual learning opportunity for French and Japanese language teachers and teaching assistants to use in class; these additions are unfortunately not included on the Project A-ko DVD. This is one of many anime titles for which normal laws of physics and biology are often neglected, but always in the name of humor; for example, A-ko could never realistically survive sitting on the cockpit of a jet fighter at high altitude, and B-ko's monokini-style hardsuit could never realistically hold that much (read, "unlimited") ammunition!!! Unfortunately, the sequels in the Project A-ko series all pale considerably compared to the original :-( However, a "redeeming" point of Project A-ko 4 is the inclusion of a music video which is very much a throwback to mid-1980s American music videos, but featuring a Japanese all-girl group.
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Summary: Special movie
Review: It's hard for me to write a review of this movie because it has such a special place in my heart. I have fond memories of my best friend's birthday party when she played this movie for all of us to watch. It was startlingly fun story of a unexplainably puissant young girl who can run at supersonic speeds yet wears a cutesy school girl uniform and has a school girl crush on her best friend B-Ko. The movie is hilarious, off-beat and ironic in a very non-threatening way. Its main theme is friendship, the importance of and maintenance of. I think the movie is fantastic.. but be warned, I am probably biased by the roomfull of laughing friends who watched it with me.
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Summary: A-Ko is a knockout!
Review: Project A-Ko is one of the most humorous anime movies ever produced. Made in 1986, it sports classic old-school hand-drawn animation throughout the whole production, which brings a tear to my eye and gives me the sniffles *cries*. But seriously, Project A-Ko is a classic piece of anime history, just as much as some major high-profile series like Neon Genesis Evangelion (a very good series indeed!), and it would behoove anybody even remotely interested in anime to buy it. You don't have to be a hardcore collector to enjoy A-Ko, and casual viewers will find their sides splitting over this movie's humor. There is plenty for everybody: Gunfights, big explosions, space battles, romance (talk about a subject shift!), intrigue, and enough physical humor to permanantly fracture your funny bone. Even the English dub of the movie is good, which is rare with older anime titles like this one. One particular scene in English is incredibly funny and happens to be the greatest KFC joke ever. Not that the English version is a gem, but compared to the dubbing in some series it stands out. Sailor Moon S, for example, has atrocious voice acting that I shun like the ebola virus, but that's beside the point. I enjoyed all of the movie, which sports cool 80s rock tunes and a good plot. The only reason I took off one star is that the audio isn't too great and the video could have been cleaned up some more, but these are mere oxpeckers on the charging rhinocerous that is A-ko. Don't just do something, sit there! And order one of the funniest anime films in existance: Project A-ko! You won't be sorry you did ^_^
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