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DVD : Project A-Ko (Collector's Series)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Denica Fairman, Hirofumi Banba, Toni Barry, Jay Benedict, Julia Braams directed by: Katsuhiko Nishijima  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 9781586641818 Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 1586641816 Label: Us Manga Corps Video Manufacturer: Us Manga Corps Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Us Manga Corps Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 13, 2002 Running Time: 86 minutes Studio: Us Manga Corps Video Sales Rank: 63621 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: A-ko enjoys the life of an ordinary schoolgirl...along with incredible superhuman strength! But her high school rival B-ko is not content to livei n the shadows any longer. A-ko's superpowers and good fashion sense may not a match for B-ko's mega-powered fighting robots of doom! Amazon.com: Originally released in 1983, the fast-paced, cheerfully inane Project A-Ko OAV spawned numerous sequels and won a devoted fan base. The story, which spoofs many early anime properties, focuses on the efforts of rich, mecha-building B-Ko to win the affections of the infantile C-Ko from A-Ko, who possesses super-powers. The result is a drawn-out duel. Although she turns out to be a long-lost alien princess, viewers may wonder why anyone would fall for a whiny case of arrested development like C-Ko. (The character names play off the Japanese equivalent of "Girl A, B, C" to designate an extra in a script.) In Japan, the rivalry between A-Ko and B-Ko plays as a satire on the intense, platonic friendships among high school students, rather than lesbian attraction, but a weird sexuality pervades the film. Rated 13 Up: Nudity, profanity, violence, alcohol and tobacco use. --Charles Solomon Average Rating:
 Rating: - Project A-ko rulesLoads of fun with this 'oldie' from the anime front. I knew the VHS from years ago and I can only say it is still a delight to watch it. If you like the typical Japanese humor with screaming girls & lots of slapstick comedy this is the one to buy. The pop/rock soundtrack cd wich comes as an extra is a bit outdated but enjoyably campy if you're in the right mood. Rating:  - An anime classicThis movie was my first introduction to "anime" when I knew to call certain cartoons anime. I originally saw it on the Science Fiction channel in 1992. Though I didn't get all the references to other anime, and I still don't in some cases, it is a very fun movie. Even though now it's several years later, and the animation style's age shows through, I enjoy re-watching it. This may sound weird coming from a man's keyboard, but Project A-ko is my "feel good" movie. Rating: - This is the best anime movie ever made.Yeah, you heard that right. The best EVER. Unfortunately, Central Park Media has never been the top-of-the-line in terms of packaging, voice acting, mastering (etc., etc., etc...), but that's the reality. Unless you have a Region 2 DVD player and can dig up a Japanese version, this is the best you're going to get. If you have to ask what Project A-ko is, you may wish to go back to watching Cartoon Network, because you'll probably hate it. Otherwise, this is the brainchild of Yuji Moriyama, ... Read More Rating: - If your sick of school girls and giant robotsProject A-Ko is a total send-up of the genre, which is no doubt why I enjoyed it (and its sequel) so much. It has the usual giant mechanical paraphernalia, teenage school girls, and crossdressing alcoholic aliens. Err... where did they come from? Never mind: far more than most of the famous and iconic animes it parodies, Project A-Ko is entertaining, intriguing, and often just fall-down laughing funny. It's sort of like Japanese anime directed by an English eccentric. It's still sutiable bewildering in ... Read More Rating: - A classic and an exercise of freeform Japanese animationAll that is to be said about A-ko has probably been said already by the 50+ reviews so I just want to chirp in and say if you are an old school anime fan or just a plain or regular anime buff you will appreciate the included Director's notes in the DVD collector's edition. In the director's notes, Shigeru Morikawa, gives tons of interesting facts and trivia about the creation and dynamics of Project A-ko. What was first planned to be a soft porn cartoon turned a science fiction anime slug fest ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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