Project A-ko/Trivia

Trivia about Project A-ko includes:

• Bleached Underpants: The series began life as part of the Cream Lemon series of Hentai before becoming a full-fledged feature film; the hentai short that appears in Cinderella Rhapsody is actually recycled from the show's own initial storyboards. Which can be found on the web if you care to look.
• DVD Commentary: Central Park Media's rerelease of the film included one by character designer and animation director Yuji Moriyama.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Including some very close Panty Shots and some fired missiles actually being soda pop cans (as a Shout-Out to the Super Dimension Fortress Macross film).
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Lots of them.
  • A-ko is Android-18, Asa, and Eva.
  • C-ko is Sailor Mars and Sumire.
  • B-ko is Sailor Jupiter and Ophelia
  • Captain Napolipolita is Char Aznable.
• Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: A-Ko's parents, who aren't seen in their entirety when they appear, but when they do, enough clues are dropped to suggest that they're Superman and Wonder Woman.
• Megumi Hayashibara: B-Ko's flunkie Ume.
• The Other Darrin: In the North American dub, A-ko was originally voiced by Stacey Gregg. Teryl Rothery voiced her from the second movie onwards.
• Shout-Out: More than can easily be counted...
  • A-Ko's parents are apparently Superman and Wonder Woman.
  • B-Ko's father when he appears bears some resemblance to Tony Stark.
  • Captain Napolipolita is pretty obviously supposed to be a parody of Captain Harlock, in the same way that the bow of the Lepton mothership looks like the Arcadia.
  • The title itself is a reference to the Jackie Chan movie Project A.
  • The design of teacher Ms. Ayumi is a Shout Out/Homage to magical girl series Creamy Mami.
  • Mari, B-Ko's underling, looks like Kenshiro with pigtails.
  • The plot of the first movie is a rough re-hash of Super Dimension Fortress Macross
• Shown Their Work: Alpha Cygni, more commonly known as Deneb, is a real star. Estimated distance from Earth is 1,550 light years, with a 10% margin of error.
• Whole Costume Reference: B-ko's father dresses like Elvis when he pilots a mecha.