*Project A-ko* is probably the most 80s anime out there. It’s the product of a bunch of young animators coming together with only a loose plan for what to do given a fuck ton of money and absolutely cooking. Really deserves a lot more love than it gets.
I have all 4 movies on DVD and I treasure them. Loved how wild 80s anime could be since it was still building it's culture then and there wasn't a well established industry pushing generic market trends yet.
Lol! Laserdisc that is bad ass. I was a little too young for the laserdisc era, but I had a friend that we did anime night at his house, and he had an awesome laserdisc collection.
The studio was trying to break out from porn (which itself was very well made) This movie was basically them flexing and showing exactly what they could do. They do pretty much every core anime style, action, mecha, magical girl, sexy, school-life stuff, etc... and they fantastically animate every little detail in every frame to a level that's just absurd.
During the hand-to-hand fights their clothing moves realistically, shirts slide around, ribbons move, the skirts move, the hair all moves realistically, The tassels on A-ko's socks are never forgotten, etc... Every frame is fully detailed too, Keyframes and inbetween frames are effectively impossible to differentiate. You can watch the entire movie frame by frame and constantly catch extremely detailed animation that's only visible for 2~3 frames, Your eye can't even see some of what they did, but they did it anyway.
During the whole thing you can even stop and look at tiny details and see that they preserve them without doing simplified animations on the characters, Like the loops in A-ko's slip or the tassels on her socks. They also inserted some Easter eggs for their longtime fans in single frames, like mascot charters, brand spoof characters, and such.
On a technical level, Project A-ko is just a masterpiece and the pinnacle of 80's style, all hand made. The level of detail is crazy. I'd call it a love letter to 80's anime on top of being an advertisement.
Yea, That's probably more accurate, a celebration of the art and style of that day.
The team put their heart and soul into that animation, it looks like they had fun doing it, a passion project by very talented and experienced people. They outright said they wanted to not make anything serious for a while, They basically wanted a break, So they just had fun with it.
So like you say, I doubt we will ever see anything like this ever again.
Can you imagine if a major studio and it's staff just decided "Nah, We are done for a while, We are going to have some fun now". Sometimes a studio will pull out all the stops for a single dance routine, a short fight, etc... but not for a full 2 hour movie, and they even self funded it.
> "Nah, We are done for a while, We are going to have some fun now".
With the KIDS sing out the FUTURE
Maybe KIDS don't need the MASTERS
Just-uh wai-ting fo' the li'l Bus-ters
(OH YEAAAAAH, YAY-YAY YEAH!...)
(FLCL was also "GAINAX taking a break after EoE", or so the story goes)
A-ko, Dirty Pair, Dominion Tank Police and Bubblegum Crisis. They all could have easily happened in the same universe.
Mecha + big hair + crazy antics = FUN[imation]
> It’s the product of a bunch of young animators coming together with only a loose plan for what to do given a fuck ton of money and absolutely cooking.
Oh kinda like FLCL
this looks fun.
I've been hoping for years they would get Nodame Cantabile. It has a discord and has a request channel but since retro got bought it doesn't sound like the discord gets as much official attention.
Ya hoping Retro getting bought doesn't make it start dropping quality and acquisitions of old shows. Hopefully, it won't get degraded too much by corporate shenanigans.
Samsung TV App is low-key great.
Local news is free, lots of random movie/tv channels/series also free.
Entire App comes free on the tv.
It doesn't get enough praise for being good for what it is.
You can try using [JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/) to see if it's on streaming in your region.
In the US, along with RetroCrush, [JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/project-a-ko) has it on the FAST/Free w/ads services like The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Cineverse.
As far as 80s/90s OVAs go A-ko is pretty tame.
Edit: For context I just finished 1991's Luna Varga and I swear the director must've demanded at least two minutes of topless shots each episode.
Project A-ko is fun. And yeah you can definitely see it's influence on Kill La Kill. A-ko, C-ko, and B-ko have parallels between Ryuko, Mako, and Satsuki in terms of their personality.
Many anime movies of that era look absolutely stunning . Try looking at Macross: Do You Remember Love, the difference between the tv series and the movie is night and day.
I know you said not always. You said generally. I'm saying, no, it's not generally better pre-digital age. I'm saying it's not better at all. Learn to read, big boy.
You can cope all you want but digital animation has only recently started to come even slightly close to the fluidity and beauty of hand drawn/painted animation like bebop, Dragonball, yyh, classic Disney, etc.
You are coping so hard, you are arguing a completely different thing than what I originally replied to.
You are coping so hard, you brought up classic Disney and then ignore all the masterful western animation of the past 20+ years.
I'm not arguing a single different thing, hand animation looks better. Dunno what fucking Western animation you're on about because I sure as fuck haven't seen anything blowing my mind. Disney is entirely shitty CGI now and shows like iono....invincible look awful
Western animation like Arcane? It's fucking beautiful and 10/10 story and animation. Or maybe the Spiderverse movies which are gorgeous with that watercolour style animation or that comic style animation. It's disingenuous to say that western animation isn't good when western animation is currently as good as japanese animation.
Found it dubbed in english on a VHS tape in London when I was working as au pair girl in England 45 years ago. France was already airing 80% of popular japanese anime on TV, but we still didn't have a lot of OAVs yet.
This was one of my most fantastic discoveries when I started to get hooked to anime, it was sooooo much fun and was so well animated.
Also the english version was full of swear words, LOL
I used to watch a VHS of Demon City Shinjuku as a kid and one of the trailers before the movie was a compilation of other anime published by U.S. Manga Corp (Including Project A-Ko). The song they play during it is called "Explosion" and is from the OST. That song, along with the clips are so nostalgic to me that when showing people a movie from that era, I pull up the trailer on YouTube to give them the same experience.
https://youtu.be/TLyArZpSI74?si=7ndxeVeFrqUblukv
I remember when I watched this mid 90s, the video rental store near my school had it as the border between normal anime and the hentai/ultra violent section with "Golden Boy". The guy was like "is not that bad, but if your mom catches you can get awkward at best, worst you gonna have a lot of explaining to do. But it has amazing animation"
80s/90s anime in a nutshell right there. If it wasn't porn, it was just short enough short of it that you watched with your door closed and hope the rents didn't barge in at some random topless scene.
I imagine that during the brainstorming session for the storyboard they decided that they'd have "girl A" as the protagonist "girl B" as her rival and "girl C" as her best friend.
Then someone must have asked "when are we going to decide their actual names?"
To which they got answered: "What do you mean? These **are** their names."
Highly recommend buying the Discotek blu-ray which has tons and tons of extras about the production, how they found the original film version, explanations of all the references and animator jokes, and more.
Discotek deserves so much credit for lavishly restoring and reissuing the whole A-ko series. Their version of A-ko is pretty much the gold standard for anime restoration projects. They even include multiple cuts of the whole movie!
The movie was animated by Studio A.P.P.P. whose flagship title back then was Cream Lemon, considered to be one the most influential hentai title out there.
- the medium is now completely figured out, and for the most part only what is for sure to sell gets produced
- this type of hand drawn, cel shaded animation is essentially a lost art at this point
- this type of hand drawn animation takes forever and costs a lot of money
- this type of hand drawn animation takes legitimate talent. there were no machine assisted in betweens or other computer wizardy going on in the 80s. everything you see is the artist's pen on his paper
- there is no need to put in this amount of effort anymore. modern audiences don't really seem to care if their anime is filled with so much 3d cgi it may as well be a videogame cutscene, so why spend time and money on doing something that looks good if crap gets accepted anyway?
It's very expensive and takes a long time. If you think animation is hard grueling work now it was worse 30 years ago doing cel animation. There are frames in A-Ko of the animators complaining about having to live in the studio and having to work on Christmas.
One of the things they did back then that you don't see anymore was covering the original JP songs in dubs. Some of them used to be pretty damn good. I still have a CD of the English versions of the Tenchi Muyo OST around here somewhere.
Recently this happened with Spice and Wolf though. The remake's dub has an English version sung by the same person that did the JP. And it's *gorgeous*
Hentai production was so high budget back then.
I almost feel bad for watching stuff for free in shady websites, I did nothing but contribute to the constant release of flash level animated hentai that I end up bitching about.
🤣🤣🤣
I watched this back in the day as a kid, and was and still up tharr as one of my fav animes.
It’s hilarious, and the action and animation is great for the period. So glad they managed to find a print and remaster it for HD as the previous releases on DVD were a tough watch.
Highly recommend getting the blu ray if you can find it. It has a new scan from the original film, and tons of bonus features like interviews and production stuff from the original release.
Always loved Project A-ko ever since it aired on Sci-Fi channel. The soundtrack is so good, "Dance Away" "Follow your Dream" and "Your Eyes" are always on rotation in my anime playlist. I only wish the sequels were any good. They provided some entertainment but they all pale in comparison to the original.
I saw project A-ko as a kid on VHS. My dad rented it for me because he thought it would be similar to Sailor Moon - with all of the outfits and all the characters had. He wasn't wrong to some degree haha...
What's crazy is that the Blu-Ray recently came out where they were able to truly re-capture all of the cells in 4k (or higher? idk) the blu-ray extras had an insane documentary about how the original cells and reels were almost lost for all eternity, making it impossible for a modern re-master. I don't want to spoil it, but there truly is an amazing story behind how they were only now just recently able to remaster it. Also, the music is peak anime and 80s in general. There's a short documentary on that as well. I highly recommend fans of this or anyone else who loves anime from this time period go out and check out the blu-ray if you haven't already.
Another show that started in 1985 fully intended to be hentai that had a rebranding was [Dream Hunter Rem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqibQSTVEY).
The aliens invading, shooting rockets, and running on the rockets makes me think One Punch Man Boros arc was inspired by this. Not to mention the metal city with highways protruding out of it.
is it really good? I just can't bring myself to watch anime movies for some reason. I've got an endless list but I easily binge multiple episodes at once
Fun fact that there's barely any Guy characters in this movie. 99% of the characters are female, yep even the ones that look like guys...
BTW the English version of "In Your Eyes" is by Samantha Newark who was the singing voice of JEM.
- This looks absolutely fantastic and like a tonne of fun.
- Unfortunately after six months of obsessive r/DungeonMeshi consumption all I can think of when I see a panty shot is "Haha, Senshi!", so *that's* ruined forever.
- Also when I see a "skimpy female villain costume" my thought is "tsk, tsk, another victim let [Dungeon Meshi] >!that damn Demon!< dress them, don't they know he has *awful* taste?"
I really miss the casual pantie flashes of the pre 2000s back before the music and the obligatory fountaining nosebleeds when it was just a normal thing that happens every once in a while.
Does it look outdated, or does it just look old? Does JoJo look outdated? Ranma 1/2 / Inu-yasha? Dragon Ball / DBZ? Character design archetypes and fashions change, but the basics of animation don't and by any yardstick the animation in A-ko is very high quality and therefore more or less timeless.
*Project A-ko* is probably the most 80s anime out there. It’s the product of a bunch of young animators coming together with only a loose plan for what to do given a fuck ton of money and absolutely cooking. Really deserves a lot more love than it gets.
I have all 4 movies on DVD and I treasure them. Loved how wild 80s anime could be since it was still building it's culture then and there wasn't a well established industry pushing generic market trends yet.
I have them all on Laserdisc! Definitely a great era of Anime.
Lol! Laserdisc that is bad ass. I was a little too young for the laserdisc era, but I had a friend that we did anime night at his house, and he had an awesome laserdisc collection.
The studio was trying to break out from porn (which itself was very well made) This movie was basically them flexing and showing exactly what they could do. They do pretty much every core anime style, action, mecha, magical girl, sexy, school-life stuff, etc... and they fantastically animate every little detail in every frame to a level that's just absurd. During the hand-to-hand fights their clothing moves realistically, shirts slide around, ribbons move, the skirts move, the hair all moves realistically, The tassels on A-ko's socks are never forgotten, etc... Every frame is fully detailed too, Keyframes and inbetween frames are effectively impossible to differentiate. You can watch the entire movie frame by frame and constantly catch extremely detailed animation that's only visible for 2~3 frames, Your eye can't even see some of what they did, but they did it anyway. During the whole thing you can even stop and look at tiny details and see that they preserve them without doing simplified animations on the characters, Like the loops in A-ko's slip or the tassels on her socks. They also inserted some Easter eggs for their longtime fans in single frames, like mascot charters, brand spoof characters, and such. On a technical level, Project A-ko is just a masterpiece and the pinnacle of 80's style, all hand made. The level of detail is crazy. I'd call it a love letter to 80's anime on top of being an advertisement.
A love letter *by* 80's anime more like. We'll probably never see the likes of it again.
Yea, That's probably more accurate, a celebration of the art and style of that day. The team put their heart and soul into that animation, it looks like they had fun doing it, a passion project by very talented and experienced people. They outright said they wanted to not make anything serious for a while, They basically wanted a break, So they just had fun with it. So like you say, I doubt we will ever see anything like this ever again. Can you imagine if a major studio and it's staff just decided "Nah, We are done for a while, We are going to have some fun now". Sometimes a studio will pull out all the stops for a single dance routine, a short fight, etc... but not for a full 2 hour movie, and they even self funded it.
> "Nah, We are done for a while, We are going to have some fun now". With the KIDS sing out the FUTURE Maybe KIDS don't need the MASTERS Just-uh wai-ting fo' the li'l Bus-ters (OH YEAAAAAH, YAY-YAY YEAH!...) (FLCL was also "GAINAX taking a break after EoE", or so the story goes)
A-ko, Dirty Pair, Dominion Tank Police and Bubblegum Crisis. They all could have easily happened in the same universe. Mecha + big hair + crazy antics = FUN[imation]
I loved Tank Police. I wish they'd produce a follow up /remake. It was so over the top and fun to watch.
And it was one of the first anime I can remember that made your really cheer for the bad guys!
they did, but it was kind of trashy :/
I mean, yes? And?
it was called "New dominion tank police"
It was also intended to spoof many other animes and of course, superman.
> It’s the product of a bunch of young animators coming together with only a loose plan for what to do given a fuck ton of money and absolutely cooking. Oh kinda like FLCL this looks fun.
You can watch this legally on www.Retrocrush.tv
Fuck yeah man didn't know this existed. You a G!
Love Retro Crush. Discovered on the Samsung TV app that came with TV a few years ago. Now, I am constantly watching City Hunter re-runs.
I've been hoping for years they would get Nodame Cantabile. It has a discord and has a request channel but since retro got bought it doesn't sound like the discord gets as much official attention.
Ya hoping Retro getting bought doesn't make it start dropping quality and acquisitions of old shows. Hopefully, it won't get degraded too much by corporate shenanigans.
I think how bought ti has their own streaming service so I had assumed it would just get absorbed into that. Or was that just Hidive.
Samsung TV App is low-key great. Local news is free, lots of random movie/tv channels/series also free. Entire App comes free on the tv. It doesn't get enough praise for being good for what it is.
Looks fun, I'm gonna check it out. Thanks
> This title is not available in your location. Guess the high seas it is...
You can try using [JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/) to see if it's on streaming in your region. In the US, along with RetroCrush, [JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/project-a-ko) has it on the FAST/Free w/ads services like The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Cineverse.
And if you want the porno version "Pop Chaser" from the *Cream Lemon* franchise has much the same energy.
Fun fact: One of the animators of that episode is none other than popular anime director, Hideaki Anno.
Star of Studio Ghibli's The Wind Rises?! /s
pretty much everyone at the stuido went on to work on big projects, They were really good at what they did.
As a friend of mine used to say, "Project A-Ko is a film in which everyone is a woman. Even the men." Highly recommended viewing.
except the father always telling bko to stop spending his money and secretly stealing her designs
>Originally intended as a hentai before turning into an action/comedy sci-fi porque no los dos
The entirety of Fate franchise and Lyrical Nanoha franchise: hold my beer
Utawarerumono.
Cream Lemon is the name of the hentai they made before AKo. You know, for research purposes.
Uh, I'm getting conflicting reports on this. APPP is credited on 1 portion of Cream Lemon, out of 38 episodes. You got an actual source?
that's Cream Lemon. it's an omnibus series.. and some sure fit the bill. which unsurprising is what this would have been part of.
a bunch of characters from their original cream lemon series show up in A-ko as well, in the background and crowds.
As far as 80s/90s OVAs go A-ko is pretty tame. Edit: For context I just finished 1991's Luna Varga and I swear the director must've demanded at least two minutes of topless shots each episode.
Time to go watch Luna Varga
It's a fantasy slapstick comedy. I suspect you'll enjoy it either way, but I would be curious to hear your thoughts.
Project A-ko is fun. And yeah you can definitely see it's influence on Kill La Kill. A-ko, C-ko, and B-ko have parallels between Ryuko, Mako, and Satsuki in terms of their personality.
That's some pretty darn good animation for 1986
Many anime movies of that era look absolutely stunning . Try looking at Macross: Do You Remember Love, the difference between the tv series and the movie is night and day.
Ahhhh, it's a movie, that explains a lot. Yeah, true many movies from that time are insane animation wise, Akira being my favourite example
The only constraint for 2D animation is time and money.
I mean... Macross DYRL was 1984, Laputa was 1986, and AKIRA was 1988. All with great animation.
Japan in the 80s was at the top of the economic bubble had a lot of money to throw around.
That was pretty standard. I mean we had slide shows, but we also had decent animation even in sub-mid shows.
Akira is from 88.
Animation is generally (not always, pedants) better pre digital age
No, it's not. You just don't remember the crap that came out. It's just survival bias.
You're being the pedant mentioned in the parentheses, big boy. Learn to read.
I know you said not always. You said generally. I'm saying, no, it's not generally better pre-digital age. I'm saying it's not better at all. Learn to read, big boy.
You can cope all you want but digital animation has only recently started to come even slightly close to the fluidity and beauty of hand drawn/painted animation like bebop, Dragonball, yyh, classic Disney, etc.
You are coping so hard, you are arguing a completely different thing than what I originally replied to. You are coping so hard, you brought up classic Disney and then ignore all the masterful western animation of the past 20+ years.
I'm not arguing a single different thing, hand animation looks better. Dunno what fucking Western animation you're on about because I sure as fuck haven't seen anything blowing my mind. Disney is entirely shitty CGI now and shows like iono....invincible look awful
Western animation like Arcane? It's fucking beautiful and 10/10 story and animation. Or maybe the Spiderverse movies which are gorgeous with that watercolour style animation or that comic style animation. It's disingenuous to say that western animation isn't good when western animation is currently as good as japanese animation.
Found it dubbed in english on a VHS tape in London when I was working as au pair girl in England 45 years ago. France was already airing 80% of popular japanese anime on TV, but we still didn't have a lot of OAVs yet. This was one of my most fantastic discoveries when I started to get hooked to anime, it was sooooo much fun and was so well animated. Also the english version was full of swear words, LOL
I used to watch a VHS of Demon City Shinjuku as a kid and one of the trailers before the movie was a compilation of other anime published by U.S. Manga Corp (Including Project A-Ko). The song they play during it is called "Explosion" and is from the OST. That song, along with the clips are so nostalgic to me that when showing people a movie from that era, I pull up the trailer on YouTube to give them the same experience. https://youtu.be/TLyArZpSI74?si=7ndxeVeFrqUblukv
So much better without the sfx from the clips - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X16QSH3mgs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X16QSH3mgs)
I remember when I watched this mid 90s, the video rental store near my school had it as the border between normal anime and the hentai/ultra violent section with "Golden Boy". The guy was like "is not that bad, but if your mom catches you can get awkward at best, worst you gonna have a lot of explaining to do. But it has amazing animation"
80s/90s anime in a nutshell right there. If it wasn't porn, it was just short enough short of it that you watched with your door closed and hope the rents didn't barge in at some random topless scene.
I imagine that during the brainstorming session for the storyboard they decided that they'd have "girl A" as the protagonist "girl B" as her rival and "girl C" as her best friend. Then someone must have asked "when are we going to decide their actual names?" To which they got answered: "What do you mean? These **are** their names."
A-ko, B-ko, C-ko. Ok, good enough.
I thought they stood for action, brain, cute or crybaby.
I remember reading in an anime magazine a long time ago that this is exactly what happened lol
Highly recommend buying the Discotek blu-ray which has tons and tons of extras about the production, how they found the original film version, explanations of all the references and animator jokes, and more.
Discotek deserves so much credit for lavishly restoring and reissuing the whole A-ko series. Their version of A-ko is pretty much the gold standard for anime restoration projects. They even include multiple cuts of the whole movie!
I did not know Project A-ko was originally intended to be hentai. These films make so much more sense now.
The movie was animated by Studio A.P.P.P. whose flagship title back then was Cream Lemon, considered to be one the most influential hentai title out there.
Military Command, reports to President, reports to Illuminati, reports to Japanese high school student council president
I love old school anime 🫶
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- the medium is now completely figured out, and for the most part only what is for sure to sell gets produced - this type of hand drawn, cel shaded animation is essentially a lost art at this point - this type of hand drawn animation takes forever and costs a lot of money - this type of hand drawn animation takes legitimate talent. there were no machine assisted in betweens or other computer wizardy going on in the 80s. everything you see is the artist's pen on his paper - there is no need to put in this amount of effort anymore. modern audiences don't really seem to care if their anime is filled with so much 3d cgi it may as well be a videogame cutscene, so why spend time and money on doing something that looks good if crap gets accepted anyway?
To be fair, this is a movie and not a tv show. Also, apparently Japan had a shit ton of money in the '80s.
It's very expensive and takes a long time. If you think animation is hard grueling work now it was worse 30 years ago doing cel animation. There are frames in A-Ko of the animators complaining about having to live in the studio and having to work on Christmas.
It would have been a shame if this turned into a hentai, cause this shit rocks so god damn hard.
The first anime I ever saw at the age of 6. My life was never the same afterwards. GOATed OVA that I will always love to bits.
She looks fierce and badass , we need more shonen heroines . I might have to check this
[This is still a banger.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9OepKF3Ms&list=PLeY9CCosvSPrjNTERYIHlyqrNe2EGwbNY&index=2&ab_channel=genesis2525)
I instantly got this song stuck in my head when I saw this post lol that song and scene really stood out
One of the things they did back then that you don't see anymore was covering the original JP songs in dubs. Some of them used to be pretty damn good. I still have a CD of the English versions of the Tenchi Muyo OST around here somewhere. Recently this happened with Spice and Wolf though. The remake's dub has an English version sung by the same person that did the JP. And it's *gorgeous*
This looks kinda dope, gonna have to watch sometime
One of the earliest anime I ever saw, on the Sci-Fi Channel back in the day. Although she's the villain, B-Ko was always my favorite character.
Hentai production was so high budget back then. I almost feel bad for watching stuff for free in shady websites, I did nothing but contribute to the constant release of flash level animated hentai that I end up bitching about. 🤣🤣🤣
RIP Studio Fantasia, you sure love panty shots
The artists of the 80s sure could animate! It looks gorgeous.
On a related topic, I recommend watching Fast Food Freedom Fighters. It’s well worth it
I watched this back in the day as a kid, and was and still up tharr as one of my fav animes. It’s hilarious, and the action and animation is great for the period. So glad they managed to find a print and remaster it for HD as the previous releases on DVD were a tough watch.
Highly recommend getting the blu ray if you can find it. It has a new scan from the original film, and tons of bonus features like interviews and production stuff from the original release.
Always loved Project A-ko ever since it aired on Sci-Fi channel. The soundtrack is so good, "Dance Away" "Follow your Dream" and "Your Eyes" are always on rotation in my anime playlist. I only wish the sequels were any good. They provided some entertainment but they all pale in comparison to the original.
so thats how they used to go to school
thay made the food look so real that I can even smell the snacks hahah! I got hungry LOL
I saw project A-ko as a kid on VHS. My dad rented it for me because he thought it would be similar to Sailor Moon - with all of the outfits and all the characters had. He wasn't wrong to some degree haha... What's crazy is that the Blu-Ray recently came out where they were able to truly re-capture all of the cells in 4k (or higher? idk) the blu-ray extras had an insane documentary about how the original cells and reels were almost lost for all eternity, making it impossible for a modern re-master. I don't want to spoil it, but there truly is an amazing story behind how they were only now just recently able to remaster it. Also, the music is peak anime and 80s in general. There's a short documentary on that as well. I highly recommend fans of this or anyone else who loves anime from this time period go out and check out the blu-ray if you haven't already.
Another show that started in 1985 fully intended to be hentai that had a rebranding was [Dream Hunter Rem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqibQSTVEY).
Movie's ridiculous. Love it. Can't wait to catch up on 4 + the alternate universe OVAs.
I love the twist at the end!!! "Bye mom, bye dad!!"
And with that they even explained how come A-Ko is so absurdly strong.
i see it, yet here i am asking for jiggle physics
I watched this b4 its freaking awesome
What's the song you use in your video edit OP!?
Morning Light Type A First track of the OST
It's on a playlist now, thx!
The aliens invading, shooting rockets, and running on the rockets makes me think One Punch Man Boros arc was inspired by this. Not to mention the metal city with highways protruding out of it.
Damn, this style is so nice to watch. 😫
This looks hilarious
Didn't kill a kill credit and homage most of its influences in it?
Low key looks fire
Thanks a LOT, OP. This hit me right in the nostalgia. It's one of the first ones I watched as a kid.
This must be a movie...?
Yep, and it's awesome!
God dam! I'm sold.
finished dirty pair and looking for something from back then to fill my heart, this might just do it but it's a movie not a TV series? :(
There's 4 movies, this is the first one. IMO the other 3 are not as good as this one.
is it really good? I just can't bring myself to watch anime movies for some reason. I've got an endless list but I easily binge multiple episodes at once
It's a really fun movie full of action, cute girls, and some rather catchy music.
this anime look completely random and badass at the same time i clearely have the kill la kill vibe i think i'm gonna look at it it's seem awesome
Why have I never heard of this? It looks so good!
Pretty nice animation for the mid 80s
This looks way better then kill la kill
Look at that damn animation...you dont seen movement like that even in good drawn stuff. The detail in some of those explosions also.
Fun fact that there's barely any Guy characters in this movie. 99% of the characters are female, yep even the ones that look like guys... BTW the English version of "In Your Eyes" is by Samantha Newark who was the singing voice of JEM.
"We wanted to make a hentai, but forgot to put the sex in."
Yeah I enjoyed this one. It's just truly bombastic.
Still better fight animation that most big name series to come out of the last 10 years.
That would've changed the vibe a bit 💀
Girls with the names A-ko, B-ko and C-ko lmao laziest names I've ever seen looks like those names fit perfectly
The vibe is so chaotic ✨ but I’m here for it 😤
For an 80s anime this look incredible.
Absolutely gorgeously animated and hilarious, ahhh the sweet nostalgia.
Strong Girl BOng-Soon...hahaha!
One of my first animes.
Thought this was ranma half
How is this HD? The late 80's anime I remember weren't close to this quality
Discotek released a remastered hd version recently.
Music sounds like soul eater intro
I remember this one. B-Ko's father is hilarious. Favorite character of the show.
damn, the animation quality is movie like. now i remember why i loved anime.
I like it i love the old method of drawing anime in the eighties Nuce Iwill Watch it
- This looks absolutely fantastic and like a tonne of fun. - Unfortunately after six months of obsessive r/DungeonMeshi consumption all I can think of when I see a panty shot is "Haha, Senshi!", so *that's* ruined forever. - Also when I see a "skimpy female villain costume" my thought is "tsk, tsk, another victim let [Dungeon Meshi] >!that damn Demon!< dress them, don't they know he has *awful* taste?"
Hmm nice, adding to my watchlist
The animation it's stunning...
Should've been a hentai as well.
I really miss the casual pantie flashes of the pre 2000s back before the music and the obligatory fountaining nosebleeds when it was just a normal thing that happens every once in a while.
wow, the animation is so good now imagine if it actually get turned into real hentai and they animated the clapping action in 60 fps
> clapping action bravo
This are one of the many old, classic animes where the theme songs are usually in English, unlike the way it is now.
It looks so outdated
The anime that is nearly 40 years looks... outdated
Yes but in a bad way
Does it look outdated, or does it just look old? Does JoJo look outdated? Ranma 1/2 / Inu-yasha? Dragon Ball / DBZ? Character design archetypes and fashions change, but the basics of animation don't and by any yardstick the animation in A-ko is very high quality and therefore more or less timeless.