History YMMV / ProjectAKo

* CrazyIsCool: ''Project A-ko'' is an over-the-top parody of Japanese pop culture from TheEighties that features manly alien ladies, gigantic spaceships, a high-tech armor bikini, a millionaire yandere, and the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman. Fans of the Japanese animation scene may have grown accustomed to this sort of craziness, but for the time of ''Project A-ko'', if the latter was not CrazyEnoughToWork, then it deserved to be.

** B-Ko's father is a white haired variation of 80s [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]].

* PortingDisaster: The original film's negatives were believed lost at some point in the 1990s, which meant that every DVD release of the film afterward was based on degraded masters or a laserdisc release. Central Park Media's original DVD release of ''Project A-ko'' looked horrible; the master had degenerated to a point where the film was nearly unwatchable. (The earlier UsefulNotes/LaserDisc and VHS releases looked better in comparison.) CPM eventually released a ''Special Edition'' with a remastered version of the film, based on a full-frame Laserdisc source. Creator/DiscotekMedia later released their own ''Special Edition'' of the film that improved upon the previous transfer significantly and ported over most of the special features (minus the soundtrack CD). Discotek later announced a high definition restoration for Blu-ray, originally slated for 2021 and using a new AI-assisted technology called [=AstroRes=] to upscale the Laserdisc... only for the release to be "canceled" because out of the blue, the original film negatives were ''finally'' located, in pristine condition. Discotek proceeded to announce, for the first time, a high-definition home release of the original film using the original masters, also to be released in 2021.
* RetroactiveRecognition: B-ko was Creator/EmiShinohara's debut role, 6 years later, she would land the role that she's most famous for: Makoto Kino[=/=]Sailor Jupiter from ''Anime/SailorMoon''.

** Mari is a GenderFlipped version of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]].

** Captain Neopolita is an alcoholic GenderFlip of Anime/CaptainHarlock.

** Miss Ayumi was deliberately designed to be a grown up copy of [[Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami Creamy Mami]] with a slightly different hair color.

* GatewaySeries: arguably, '''THE''' gateway series in the late 80s/early 90s, a the one existing fans would show to friends to make new fans.

* RetroactiveRecognition: B-ko was Creator/EmiShinohara's debut role although nowadays she's better known for voicing Makoto Kino[=/=]Sailor Jupiter in ''Anime/SailorMoon''.

* FoeYay: By the fourth film (''Final''), C-ko begins to worry that A-ko's enjoying her rivalry with B-ko a little ''too much''.