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After something like Little Nemo which was for kids, but plays at being a bit more... epic (or serious? not sure how to word it...), decided to flip it around with something aimed at older fans that is a bit less serious...
Project A-ko!
A bit of nudity, with some milder fanservice and violence thrown in.
The movie can be watched on the following officially:
Subbed on RetroCrush
Dubbed on Amazon Prime
The movie was released by Discotek before I was there (and is DVD only in fact.)
There's more to say about A-ko than I would even try. A satire of many things, it's been a longtime favorite among anime fans (and no doubt created a huge chunk of them with something that was actively shown off as anime when it used to commonly air on Sci-Fi in the 90s, or as it sat in video rental stores.) It's still a long time favorite of mine, to the degree on a few occasions I've considered nabbing the Laserdisc version just to have a nice shelf piece, despite having no player...
It's a relatively basic story, with A-ko and C-ko being best friends, and B-ko more than liking C-ko and wanting to steal her from A-ko, and hijinks and battles ensue. And there are also aliens... The plot, and many references in this one are a bit more fun to discover on your own to be honest (A-ko's parents don't show up much, but eyeball them carefully and you might notice they're a bit familiar...)
Bits of A-ko's production are decently known to fans, with a number of people who would become decently known in later years working on it, to the music actually being recorded in Los Angeles in one of the 'better known' mixtures of more direct US elements in an anime before that became known (and the decently known story that before being changed into a movie, early in it's production it began production as part of the Cream Lemon adult OVA series.)
The movie was popular enough among US fans it even had a US comic for a short period of time, and even had additional sizeable extras produced for US releases (the most notable being a commentary with the director.)
A-ko continued on for a few years with 3 sequels, with a spinoff/reboot following that I admit I don't even fully remember it minus the characters being bounty hunters... and it was mostly just character designs...
And the story and legends of what happened to the film stock for the movie, seemingly stopping a proper HD remaster from ever happening, continue to this day (lost when a studio shut down, burnt up in flames, etc.)
The movie doesn't have any significant cast connections to Digimon, but two people who worked on Digimon much later worked as animators on it...
Koji Ito did key animation for Project A-ko. He was the animation character designer for tri., along with doing key animation.
Kenichi Ohnuki did key animation for Project A-ko. For Appmon he was the character designer.
I've embedded a trailer below as a preview:
Feel free to post as you wish in this thread. You can post as you are watching, episode by episode, when you finish. Whatever you want. Try and give it a couple days for later spoilers so people have time to try and view stuff without spoilers, while still interacting in the thread (especially if you decide to keep watching past the episode listed as the last one for the leadup.) If you watch one episode and it isn't for you, pop in to explain why. Have fun with it!
A new show/movie will go up each Sunday night (or early on Monday), but feel free to keep talking about older shows in their threads, or even watching past the listed episode.
If you want to chat in the Discord you can.
Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to make any suggestions or ask an questions regarding the threads or the shows also.
Week 1- NG Knight Lamune & 40
Week 2- Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie
Week 3- City Hunter
Week 4- Little Nemo
Prior Leadups
Second Leadup, To Kizuna (and Adventure:)
First Leadup, To tri.
Project A-ko!

A bit of nudity, with some milder fanservice and violence thrown in.
The movie can be watched on the following officially:
Subbed on RetroCrush
Dubbed on Amazon Prime
The movie was released by Discotek before I was there (and is DVD only in fact.)
There's more to say about A-ko than I would even try. A satire of many things, it's been a longtime favorite among anime fans (and no doubt created a huge chunk of them with something that was actively shown off as anime when it used to commonly air on Sci-Fi in the 90s, or as it sat in video rental stores.) It's still a long time favorite of mine, to the degree on a few occasions I've considered nabbing the Laserdisc version just to have a nice shelf piece, despite having no player...
It's a relatively basic story, with A-ko and C-ko being best friends, and B-ko more than liking C-ko and wanting to steal her from A-ko, and hijinks and battles ensue. And there are also aliens... The plot, and many references in this one are a bit more fun to discover on your own to be honest (A-ko's parents don't show up much, but eyeball them carefully and you might notice they're a bit familiar...)
Bits of A-ko's production are decently known to fans, with a number of people who would become decently known in later years working on it, to the music actually being recorded in Los Angeles in one of the 'better known' mixtures of more direct US elements in an anime before that became known (and the decently known story that before being changed into a movie, early in it's production it began production as part of the Cream Lemon adult OVA series.)
The movie was popular enough among US fans it even had a US comic for a short period of time, and even had additional sizeable extras produced for US releases (the most notable being a commentary with the director.)
A-ko continued on for a few years with 3 sequels, with a spinoff/reboot following that I admit I don't even fully remember it minus the characters being bounty hunters... and it was mostly just character designs...
And the story and legends of what happened to the film stock for the movie, seemingly stopping a proper HD remaster from ever happening, continue to this day (lost when a studio shut down, burnt up in flames, etc.)
The movie doesn't have any significant cast connections to Digimon, but two people who worked on Digimon much later worked as animators on it...
Koji Ito did key animation for Project A-ko. He was the animation character designer for tri., along with doing key animation.
Kenichi Ohnuki did key animation for Project A-ko. For Appmon he was the character designer.
I've embedded a trailer below as a preview:
Feel free to post as you wish in this thread. You can post as you are watching, episode by episode, when you finish. Whatever you want. Try and give it a couple days for later spoilers so people have time to try and view stuff without spoilers, while still interacting in the thread (especially if you decide to keep watching past the episode listed as the last one for the leadup.) If you watch one episode and it isn't for you, pop in to explain why. Have fun with it!
A new show/movie will go up each Sunday night (or early on Monday), but feel free to keep talking about older shows in their threads, or even watching past the listed episode.
If you want to chat in the Discord you can.
Hopefully you enjoy. Feel free to make any suggestions or ask an questions regarding the threads or the shows also.
Week 1- NG Knight Lamune & 40
Week 2- Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie
Week 3- City Hunter
Week 4- Little Nemo
Prior Leadups
Second Leadup, To Kizuna (and Adventure:)
Week 1- Gundam Build Fighters
Week 2- Kimagure Orange Road
Week 3 (and 4)- Lupin the 3rd Part 4
Week 4 Movie- Redline
Week 5- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Week 6- Voltron
Week 7 (Devkyu Guest Slot!)- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Week 8- Laid-Back Camp
Week 9- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Week 10- Yowamushi Pedal
Week 11- Demon King Daimao
Week 12 (onkei Guest Slot!)- Aggretsuko
Week 13- Kill la Kill
Week 14- Super Gals
Week 15 (and 16)- Yu Yu Hakusho
Week 16 Short Series- Please Tell Me! Galko-chan
Week 17 (Classic Leadup)- Tenchi Muyo
Week 18 (Devkyu Guest Slot 2!)- Dragon Pilot: Hisone & Masotan
Week 19- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Week 20 (Logan Guest Slot)- The Legend of Black Heaven
Week 21 (Classic Leadup)- Haganai
Week 22- Ultraman
Week 23- SSSS.Gridman
Week 24- Haruka Nogizaka's Secret
Week 25 (Classic Leadup)- Tenchi Universe
Week 26- Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors
Week 27- Gundam NT
Week 28- Interviews with Monster Girls
Week 29- Dragon Quest: Your Story & Ni no Kuni
Week 30 (Classic Leadup)- Soul Eater
Week 31- Kamen no Maid Guy
Week 32- Gundam Thunderbolt
Week 33- Heroman
Week 34 (Classic Leadup)- Toradora
Week 35 (Final)- Konosuba
First Leadup, To tri.
Week 1- Haganai
Weeks 2 and 3- A Certain Magical Index
Weekend Movie- Lupin The Third: Green Vs Red
Week 3(ish)- High School DxD
Week 4- Buso Renkin
Week 5- Tenchi Muyo!
Week 6- Ben-To
Week 7- Maken-Ki!
Week 8- Full Metal Panic!
Week 9- Engaged to the Unidentified
Week 10- Hellsing Ultimate
Week 11- Date A Live
Week 12- Ranma 1/2
Week 13- Please Teacher
Week 14- Please Twins
Week 15- Waiting in the Summer
Week 16- Infinite Stratos
Week 17- Dragon Ball
Week 18- D-Frag!
Week 19- Baka and Test
Week 20- Soul Eater
Week 21- Yuru Yuri
Week 22- Go-Lion
Week 23- Ah! My Goddess
Week 24- Afro Samurai
Week 25- Shin Chan
Week 26- Trigun
Week 27- Tenchi Universe
Week 28- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Week 29- Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
Week 30- Nyan Koi!
Week 31- The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan
Week 32- Ai Yori Aoshi
Week 33- Tokyo Ravens
Week 34- Reboot
Week 35- Star Driver
Week 36- FLCL
Week 37- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Week 38- Serial Experiments Lain
Week 39- Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki
Week 40- Food Wars!
Week 41- Himouto! Umaru-chan
Week 42- Gundam Reconguista in G
Week 43- Naruto
Week 44- Tenchi in Tokyo
Week 45- Toradora
Week 46- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
Week 47- Fullmetal Alchemist
Week 48- A-Channel
Week 49 (Final)- Gundam Unicorn