Project A-KO – Retardation vs. Fun: Limit Breaks on Common Sense!

SEQUELS!

The recent gig of Sunday three weeks past had a hilarious twist for the demented, random, and funny. Out of sheer curiosity, usagijen extended her offers for a little event they’re having, and I readily accepted. I expected it would be fun. What I didn’t expect was IT WAS GOING TO BE TOO MUCH FUN.

ghostlightning’s place. Noon after lunch at the mall. I was totally unaware of the couch potato menu that’s going to be served, but it seems that jen and the others ordered Project A-KO before we can even say no. Of course, having no clue, I played along. And so it started: 90 minutes of memes, memes, more memes, MOAR FUCKING MEMES, random stupidity and retardation, Kentucky Fried Colonel Sanders, jets, mechas, more mechas, MOAR FUCKING MECHAS, superhumans, sentai, and an intergalactic amount of missiles and used panties. Spartans, prepare to dine in MAJOR WTFHELL.

D: I’m a man.

Enter A-KO. A-Ko goes to school with C-KO. See C-KO. she fetches A-KO and goes to school only to make A-KO eat terrible boxed lunches and cry all day while CHARLOCK finds her in intergalactic space. Check B-KO. She challenges A-KO every single day to win C-KO as her prize, only to reveal herself as a BDSM mecha musume prototype equipped with gamesharked missile launchers that can destroy gigantic battleships. Hear CHARLOCK, the captain of ARCADIYAMATOCROSS and superior of D, who attacks Neo-Earth a la Independence Day, abducts C-KO, and fails miserably in using a heavy machine gun. Smell D, stalker to A-KO, who has a very dirty secret that would make you go nuts. See a birdplaneSuperman. Check Wonder Woman. Dodge Akagiyama Missiles. Confused? It’s just the beginning.

For an 80’s anime, to go this far as to have an extensive budget and high-quality animation for a piece of utter nonsense is like buying a Sega Genesis unit and then throwing it out of your 16-story apartment window after 90 minutes of playing Super Shinobi, regardless of who you’re going to hit down below. Everything was downright hilarious and pointless that you wouldn’t care about the story and just focus on farting your laughs out. The main plots are overshadowed by the various different events happening here and there, and even if these events clash and clump together to form what seems to be the main plot that is going to play for the final minutes, you still won’t be able to get it because everything is just so fragmented and screwed.

Mmmmm… The smell of menstruation…

Tributes to different popular icons of the old appear and make themselves manifest even for just a few seconds. And they didn’t just do good, THEY DID BETTER. “Love in your Sigma Zeta”? Colonel “Chikkin’ Killa’” Sanders? Powered sentai armor suits equipped with a gamesharked infinite missile code? TransFOO-mers? ARCADIYAMATOCROSS? CHARLOCK? BOKU TO NO KEN? Okay, that’s enough, Jesus Christ. Have you made your sacrifice yet, people?

CROTCH… LOCK-ON!!!

I think I’ll also have to take ghostlightning’s account here. Seriously, this one’s good, if we are to disregard the random and funny aspects of the title. How it outdid other classic titles would surely spawn unerring hatred, because the quality you’re expecting on your typical anime would be in a title that offers nothing but crappy plots and fucked up punchlines delivered in awesome slapstick. I mean, look at that: an oldschool, antique piece of animation, with dogfights that can beat the olden Macross and Gundam titles. It’s even better than Gundam Wing, for fuck’s sake. Sure, there were upsizings of EPIC PROPORTIONS on mass, quantity and firepower, but it’s not as fucked up as Dragonball. There’s also the fact that CHARLOCK was voiced by Char Aznable’s seiyuu, Suichi Ikeda. How screwed is that? And the fight scenes, OH THE FIGHTSCENES! It’s so golden to the point of absurdity and womanliness, IT.JUST.BLOWS. You’ll find yourself trying to mix a laughing face and a facepalm at the same time. Now, if only ZA WARUDO made it to the cut…

All in all, it was an enjoyable experience. Maybe the reason why it’s got the budget is because it gives homage to the foundations of Japanese visual media, let alone the fact that it was downright random and utterly stupid. As long as it gave tribute, it was fine, and all was well in the Moonland. Meanwhile, the rest of the world will have to figure out how to gouge their eyes and soak it in bleach, or FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUKKEN RAEG themselves, which can ultimately end to the much-anticipated /wrist. Nice boat.

D: OSHITWTFGODITSATRAP!!!

I’d like to thank usagijen for inviting me on the party, ghostlightning for being the host for the enjoyable experience, meganeshounen for being someone who I can relate to (as well as being someone who I can rely on spoiling someone’s appetite just by talking about eroge), Zeroblade for being just a fellow Touhoufag fan, KaeBoo, bluemist, biankita, hazy and the other people I forgot to mention who attended the event. Even though I was such a narcissistic, frank, rude, annoying little prick, you’re still there to listen to my satirical antics. Cheers!