Project A-Ko Review

Now we review an anime the same age as me give or take a few months, in fact the timing of this review is perfect seeing as today is this Anime's 29th Anniversary, this is Project A-Ko

A-Ko is a normal high school student with freakish strength who starts life at a new school with her annoying friend C-Ko, although normal doesn't seem to exist when B-Ko wants to take C-Ko away from A-Ko so the two end up fighting each other in fight scenes that get sillier and bigger as the film goes on, meanwhile an alien race are chasing after C-Ko as well because C-Ko is a princess from their world so A-Ko and B-Ko go and save her.
This anime is the earliest example of a parody series, many years before Excel Saga made it popular, if you're feeling like digging up on old anime then I'll help you by naming some of the references in this movie.
The initial setting of the show being a site of a former colony drop style massacre, a common tactic used in Gundam.
The Antagonist leading the alien race looks like Captain Harlock.
The Sci-Fi space battles resemble scenes as well as the aircraft from Macross.
Miss Ayumi the teacher looks exactly like Magical Girl Creamy Mami.
Mari the Muscular School Girl is a direct parody of Fist of the North Star.
And finally there are hints from the movie's ending that A-Ko is the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, and remember this is before the internet and before the term shipping was invented.
The show is quite well made despite having origins in hentai, the music soundtrack is pretty damn good for the time period and while I agree that a number of characters are annoying and the plot makes very little sense, it still has a charm to it and could probably still be significant in this day and age should it ever receive a remake.
But I must address the elephant in the room and that's of course it's age and what it's actually parodying. Unless you're from my Generation or older the references would be lost on you. I'm not saying a younger person wouldn't understand it, I'm saying that the stuff it parodies doesn't really exist anymore; you could argue that many of the anime of today still owe some thanks to a lot of the shows parodied in this movie, heck Project A-Ko could be thanked for inspiring Excel Saga, but you know when something has passed it's time when you have to explain to someone what the references are and you don't get the same enjoyment from it because of that.
Dub is fairly basic but not too bad and a remastered movie is not difficult to find.
Final Verdict: A fun little film from a bygone age that's unfortunately lost on today's anime fans.

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