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Ore no Sora

Ore no Sora:Keiji Hen ( My Skies: Detective Chapter ) is a two-episode OVA from 1991-1992. It's based on a best-selling manga by Mitomiya H...

Collectr's Blog

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Labyrinth of Flames | KYOTO VIDEO

Fifteen years after Project A-ko, creator Katsuhiko Nishijima wishes to get back to his gag-driven roots by turning a pitch for a samurai drama into something more his…

KaiserBeamz

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Project A-Ko: Full Circle

A journey that began on a Saturday morning continues to this day. Join me as I make my first attempt at explaining Project A-ko, my first anime experience,…

SATURDAY ANIME

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Cosmos Pink Shock: A Colorful Dive into Sci Fi Anime Fantasy!

The OVA Cosmos Pink Shock was weird.. Weirdly satisfying. You might wonder how.. Well for starters.. The first third of the half hour anime changes your perspective on what the anime’a focus…

animebackwhen

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Twilight: The Dawn and Sunset of Saturday Anime (Part One)

Now seemingly only mentioned in comment sections around the Internet, Saturday Anime was the Toonami of its day. Join us for part one of exploration on Sci-Fi Channel,…

SATURDAY ANIME

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Project A-Ko: Exploring the Entire Franchise

As of November 21st 2023, I’ve seen all there is to consume of the project a ko franchise. This is the first movie, and the OVAs. Today we’ll be…

animebackwhen

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The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 121: ReView: Project A-ko Versus

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This month’s episode is another sh...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

Exclusive! A-ko 4 production materials!

I've managed to get my hands on some of the rarely-seen art used in the making of Project A-ko 3 and 4! While production art from the first…

ProjectA-ko.com

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 111: ReView: Hyper Doll

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This month’s episode is another sh...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

Arisa Good Luck

Here's a true bluebird: the 1999 one-shot OVA Arisa Good Luck . Last month, Tennouji, translator and proprietor of SakuraCircle, contacted m...

Collectr's Blog

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Project A-ko **Perfect Edition** Blu-ray, Guest Review by Matt Marcus

Welcome back to another Okazu Guest Review Wednesday! Today we welcome back Matt Marcus once again. Matt is a cohost of various projects on the Pitch Drop Podcast…

Okazu

Adorable A-ko Sticker!

Just bought this super-cute A-ko sticker on eBay! This was exciting to run across, as it's not often you see fan works for Project A-ko like this for…

ProjectA-ko.com

Sotsugyou: Graduation

There are lots of OVAs with Graduation in the title. This one is the two episode OVA from 1995. It is based on a dating sim game and…

Collectr's Blog

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Project A-ko: Perfect Edition Blu-ray

The seminal anime film is back and it looks better than ever before! Find out whether this 1986 classic deserves a spot on your shelf.

Anime News Network - Views

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A Festival of our Own: The Urusei Yatsura/Project A-Ko Connection

Project A-Ko’s origins in the adult anime series Cream Lemon are well documented, less so the influence and shared staff between the iconic OVA and the legendary TV…

ZIMMERIT – Anime | Manga | Garage Kits | Doujin

January1991 Pt. 2 Anime Hasshin.

   Anime Hasshin  “The Rose” ( 4TH. ANNIVERSARY ISSUE)  the Newsletter of Anime Hasshin number 25 (January 1991, 22 pages). Editor Lorraine ...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

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Project A-ko: A Historical Anime Retrospective | KYOTO VIDEO

Happy 100th episode of KYOTO VIDEO! To celebrate, we will be taking a look at a very loony anime concept done by complete industry rookies that nevertheless was given…

KaiserBeamz

The A-ko Blu-Ray is here!

The new Discotek Blu-Ray of Project A-ko has finally begun to make its way into everyone's hands! I was eagerly awaiting this and hoped to have it for…

ProjectA-ko.com

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[Otakon 2021] The Kitchen Sink Too: Project A-ko (Remastered)

Project A-ko is an indelible part of my anime fandom. As a young nerd in the 1990s eager for more information about this newfangled “Japanese animation,” I ran…

OGIUE MANIAX

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Memories Collector's Edition

Discotek has performed some sort of wizardry for its Memories Collector's Edition release. The team has created the definitive edition and earned no shortage of fan accolades as…

Anime News Network - Views

Project A-ko Remaster hopefully to come during 2021

Although it isn't the freshest of news anymore, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the biggest A-ko revelation in recent memory, the story behind the upcoming…

ProjectA-ko.com

Project A-ko Official Artbook in English

It's my pleasure to share the Official Artbook that expands on the first movie. This book is a real treasure, full of character and mecha designs, rejected concepts,…

ProjectA-ko.com

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Artist spotlight: Shôichi Masuo

With this third artist spotlight dedicated to Shôichi Masuo, I’ll start analyzing the works of some animators who are not prominently affiliated with the Kanada school or style.…

Animétudes

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Graviton, Gainax, and the Itano school

Among all the artists influenced by Yoshinori Kanada, Ichirô Itano is probably one of the most important. And yet, he is never considered a Kanada-style animator, most likely…

Animétudes

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B.B. Fish

There just aren't enough anime about scuba diving. Yes, there was Grand Blue , but it was primarily a gross-out comedy. And there was Amanch...

Collectr's Blog

Follow your Dreams!

Welcome to Project A-ko.com, a celebration of the classic anime! Conceived originally as part of the Cream Lemon series, Project A-ko diverged and evolved into a full-length theatrical…

ProjectA-ko.com

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Artist spotlight: Kôji Itô

I’ve mentioned that the sudden wave of Kanada-style animators in the first half of the 80s is as much due to Kanada as to one of his most…

Animétudes

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TheOASG Podcast Episode 119: That Manga’s Not as Niche as You Thought

Justin and Helen talk about the wild Project A-Ko story and Kodansha's restructuring in Episode 119 of TheOASG Podcast.

TheOASG

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Yamatarou Comes Back v2

One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books: 1 The Green Cat 1983 2 Rain Boy 1983 3…

Collectr's Blog

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The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 96: ReView: Prefectural Earth Defense Force

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This month’s episode is another Re...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

Project A-Ko: An Animator’s Play Box

So yes, let’s into the realms of anime history once again. Something that continues to happen This time, let’s look at a pretty cool 80’s film which is…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Choosing Sources

Orphan does many of its show from analog sources - laserdisc by preference, VHS if need be. This reflects the team's interest in the "anime that time forgot"…

Collectr's Blog

VTubias: MomoConline 2020

I want to give a quick shout-out to MomoCon for asking me to present panel content for their virtual convention this weekend. I know life is weird for…

Third Impact Anime

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Community Profile: Rose

Community Profile Rose @ lilithmachine , Fansubber, Blogger, Anime Fan * * * * * Hello, Arcadia Dragnet readers and everyone…

Arcadia Dragnet

Studio Graviton

I have been researching Studio Graviton for a while, a small studio notable for its activities during the ‘80s, and I’ll articulate what I found in this post…

Alex

Old-school Valentines are back!

It’s the return of the old-school anime Valentine cards! Yes, I’m back again this year with more cheesy puns for your Valentine needs. ...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

Redshift #33

Here we are again! This post covers attention to older anime between the previous post and 1 August. We’ll aim (aim!) to get a post covering activity in August…

Anime Redshift Chronicle

PROJECT A-KO (1986)

Take me down to parody city......

Animehead's Retroworld

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Forgotten Anime: “Blue Sonnet”

Distributor: US Manga Corps (Central Park Media, USA) Original Year of Release: 1989 - 1990 English Video Release: 1994 - 1995, NTSC ...

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

Manga Mania Mondays – September 1995

NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got a news feature in bold) Anime Projects – Oh My Goddess 4, Bubblegum Crisis 5 (dub) East2West – Kekkou Kamen 2 Manga…

AWESOME ENGINE

Manga Mania Mondays – July 1995

Cover this month was by Metin Salih NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got news feature in bold) Manga Video – Project A-Ko 2, Patlabor the Movie, Wings of…

AWESOME ENGINE

Cut It Open And See If It Swallowed Any Gems Part 29 – Ani-Mayhem

Again, it’s been a while so let’s bring you up to date with what this is. I’m listing as best I can from memory, in the general sort…

AWESOME ENGINE

Texas Invades the Fifth Radish! Old Fans Find Funny Clothes!

"A scanner. A scanner.  My kingdom for a scanner."Sometime in late 1984 or early '85, the Daicon III&IV anime shorts started making the American fannish rounds and the result…

Hokuto no Fogie

Beware! The Bones of Pharaoh will Take Your Life! Embrace The Power of the Pasties!

T'was doing some surfing recently and came across the wiki entry for Project A-Kon in Dallas and I tried hard to remember if I was at the first or…

Hokuto no Fogie