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Title (English) Project A-Ko (movie)

Title (Japanese) Project A-Ko

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Fantasy Novel

Notes Movie, 86 mins.

Classification -

Synopsis

Review PROJECT A-KO, (Manga Video), 86 min, cert 15,
｣12.99
This anime movie was reputedly made by its creators
'just for fun' and proved very popular. Several sequels
have been made. The story is set in the near future. A-ko,
B-ko and C- ko are three 17 year old Japanese
schoolgirls. However, A-Ko is the strongest girl in the
world, B-ko the brainiest, and C-ko the cutest. An alien
invasion is imminent, and Spy D lurks in the shrubbery.
Meanwhile the girls go to school, and A-Ko and B-Ko
fight over who is going to be C-Ko's best chum.
Later the fighting becomes wilder and wilder, involving
giant robots, spaceships etc. As you will have deduced,
this is not serious SF, but the characterisation is excellent
(it turns out that almost everybody in the movie is
female), the girls are all cute, the mecha are great and it's
exciting and very, very funny.
The video is presented in the original widescreen format
(with black bands at the top and bottom of the TV
picture). The songs, as in the Japanese and U.S subtitled
versions, are in English. This was a Japanese film about
Japanese schoolgirls, and the dialogue, though
competently dubbed, robs the movie of much of its
inimitably Japanese character. American voices don't
sound right. The translation used is necessarily equivalent
rather than exact: in Japanese, names are given a suffix
denoting the status and relationship of the speakers, so
that when C-ko addresses A- ko as A-ko-chan, we know
that they are close friends from kindergarten. Likewise,
Miss Ayumi is really Ayumi-Sensei, or 'honoured teacher
Ayumi'. The booze that the space-captain drinks is, of
course, sake. And so on. Of course, you won't have seen
the original and you may wonder why I quibble. A
worthwhile buy in
any version.

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Episodes

Release US:VHS, UK:VHS

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 1986

Production

Broadcaster

Animation

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Project A-Ko (movie)
Title (Japanese)	Project A-Ko
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	Movie, 86 mins.
Classification	-
Synopsis
Review	PROJECT A-KO, (Manga Video), 86 min, cert 15, ｣12.99 This anime movie was reputedly made by its creators 'just for fun' and proved very popular. Several sequels have been made. The story is set in the near future. A-ko, B-ko and C- ko are three 17 year old Japanese schoolgirls. However, A-Ko is the strongest girl in the world, B-ko the brainiest, and C-ko the cutest. An alien invasion is imminent, and Spy D lurks in the shrubbery. Meanwhile the girls go to school, and A-Ko and B-Ko fight over who is going to be C-Ko's best chum. Later the fighting becomes wilder and wilder, involving giant robots, spaceships etc. As you will have deduced, this is not serious SF, but the characterisation is excellent (it turns out that almost everybody in the movie is female), the girls are all cute, the mecha are great and it's exciting and very, very funny. The video is presented in the original widescreen format (with black bands at the top and bottom of the TV picture). The songs, as in the Japanese and U.S subtitled versions, are in English. This was a Japanese film about Japanese schoolgirls, and the dialogue, though competently dubbed, robs the movie of much of its inimitably Japanese character. American voices don't sound right. The translation used is necessarily equivalent rather than exact: in Japanese, names are given a suffix denoting the status and relationship of the speakers, so that when C-ko addresses A- ko as A-ko-chan, we know that they are close friends from kindergarten. Likewise, Miss Ayumi is really Ayumi-Sensei, or 'honoured teacher Ayumi'. The booze that the space-captain drinks is, of course, sake. And so on. Of course, you won't have seen the original and you may wonder why I quibble. A worthwhile buy in any version.
Credits
Episodes
Release	US:VHS, UK:VHS
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1986
Production
Broadcaster
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.