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This Week in Anime - Project A-Ko

RetroCrush doesn't exactly have the accessibility that would appeal to me- no desktop or console app is a no go. Though, the classic anime is nice, but I feel like the selection is fairly limited. Has anyone used RetroCrush? How is the quality and anime selection?

Project A-Ko definitely brings back memories, though it leaves a lot to speculate about. Where does her strength come from? How did C-Kospoiler[ come to live on Earth?] Which anime/show was the transforming robot a reference to, where they couldn't reach the controls? I originally watched it on VHS nearly 20-25 years ago by renting it at Blockbuster.

I don't think I checked out Retro Crush yet, I wounder what the quality of the video is because I have these movies on DVD some of these anime look like shit compared to old DVDs I feel I a seen Project A-Ko streaming some where else though.

The second-generation DVD's of the A-Ko movies were MUCH better than the original Image DVD release of the first Project A-Ko movie.
They spent some money and restored the film (from the remaining master materials) as much as they could for the second DVD release and the follow-up OVA's looked better, too, from all I've read.

I've only seen the films on a CRT set -- I still haven't seen them on HDTV/upscaled.
The second DVD release of the first A-Ko and the Discotek DVD release on based on a remastered tape that was used for the Japanese laserdisc release of the first Project A-Ko feature film.

The company that owns the movie unfortunately lost the original film masters for Project A-Ko and no one knows where they are to this day; this is why Project A-Ko hasn't been released on Blu ray -- at this point, (snip)
It would be much better if they could at least locate a theatrical release print of the film to work from. The film was released in France in the 1980s as well so we know there were theatrical release prints made. IF these weren't returned to Japan after the theatrical run in France, they were likely destroyed or ended up in private collections.
The reason I know that French exhibition happened was because the French trailers for the movie were included on the CPM VHS, laserdisc, and DVD releases for the Project A-ko (first) feature film.

ReifuTD wrote:

I don't think I checked out Retro Crush yet, I wounder what the quality of the video is because I have these movies on DVD some of these anime look like shit compared to old DVDs I feel I a seen Project A-Ko streaming some where else though.

The second-generation DVD's of the A-Ko movies were MUCH better than the original Image DVD release of the first Project A-Ko movie.
They spent some money and restored the film (from the remaining master materials) as much as they could for the second DVD release and the follow-up OVA's looked better, too, from all I've read.
I've only seen the films on a CRT set -- I still haven't seen them on HDTV/upscaled.
The second DVD release of the first A-Ko and the Discotek DVD release on based on a remastered tape that was used for the Japanese laserdisc release of the first Project A-Ko feature film.
The company that owns the movie unfortunately lost the original film masters for Project A-Ko and no one knows where they are to this day; this is why Project A-Ko hasn't been released on Blu ray -- at this point, they'd have to upscale from the remaining videotape and it would probably like sad like most upscales from old source tapes are. It would be much better if they could at least locate a theatrical release print of the film to work from. The film was released in France in the 1980s as well so we know there were theatrical release prints made. IF these weren't returned to Japan after the theatrical run in France, they were likely destroyed or ended up in private collections.
The reason I know that French exhibition happened was because the French trailers for the movie were included on the CPM VHS, laserdisc, and DVD releases for the Project A-ko (first) feature film.

On top of all that, the film also has a great 80's soundtrack.

Timeless classic.

I always found it odd that the songs were in English and the film crew went out of their way to have the entire soundtrack recorded in Los Angeles. Did it have something to do with the main character being a red-headed gaijin and Japan being invaded by outside forces?