Project A-ko - Dance Away & Follow your Dream

[ValisHD]

0:18 what a hot peice of ass.

[LoveAwsomeThings]

Such a great love song ^.^ <3

[pokefanduo]

I loved this animie so i got the coolecters edition.It came with the soundtract

[jensbuhler]

For some reason this reminds me of gunbuster?

[lonewolfsinger2k]

@jensbuhler yeah that was a good anime as well.  haha

[returnoffumanchu]

classic red,white and blue school uniform.

[pipefox19]

whose the artist?

[ivaan177]

@pipefox19 valerie stevenson

[predigestedArt]

@pipefox19 ivaan177 was correct with the valerie stevenson part, but she only did the vocals for "follow your dream." the vocals for "dance away," were performed by annie livingston.

[battletoads22]

4:30 B-ko's boobs.

[skyredtomo]

懐かしい！(^○^)

[stoogefest16]

Somebody...anybody...PLEASE direct me to some place or someone who has a copy of these two songs on CD or MP3. I'd be super grateful!

[bscar]

@stoogefest16

I know I had the CD soundtrack at one time. will hafta look to see if i still have it somewhere

[Ciellemi]

I watched this when I was about 9.. I fell in love, I watched this once per day, maybe even more. :D

[SiriusShaun]

Sweetness.

[Darthmencken]

Just imagine if Superman & Lex Luthor were teenage girls! That's A-ko & B-ko! Period!

[bscar]

@Darthmencken

Technically, A-ko is the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman

[ghosttrain2066]

@bscar For real or are you joking?

[bscar]

@ghosttrain2066

# 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.

If you watch the end of the first movie, you'll see what appears to be his S shirt being displayed by A-ko's mother

[ghosttrain2066]

@bscar Thats right I recall seeing her father with Clark Kent style glasses on when they where having dinner. When she ate the lobbster all of it lol and he whanted some lol.

[mbabist01]

@bscar Yeah, I recall seeing that shirt!

[mackieebby2010]

B-Ko is HOT :O

[misswhirledpeas]

This is my aunt singing :) She is amazing!

[Retro8bit]

I miss 80's anime, they had a charm all their own!

[WebVMan]

Why this song ws stuck in my head, I just don't know

[CaptainGoofysstash]

GOD how I miss the 80s...

[Riako]

Am I the only guy who cried tears of nostalgia hearing these songs? 

[DarkPonzu]

@Riako >_> <_< ...no

[WebVMan]

The first movie is like the best example of anime ever in my opinion and it has the best music ever.

[ragemanchoo82]

I love this! 

[belly8900]

I dont know why, but i LOVE A-ko's hair! Its so thick and red!!!!

[jinnai702]

5 people missed the "like" button.

[keyboardkungfu]

first anime i've ever seen and the greatest

[SteelFireBall]

高校の時、このサントラのCD貸してまだ返ってこない・・・２５­年前。

[killerbee2k]

thanks for upload, great music vid and love the soundtrack. Too bad Annie Livingstone only wrote a few more songs like this.

[Anarki471]

Project A-Ko was the second anime i saw after Akira and it was then and still is one of my favourites after shirow masamunes dominion tank police.

Does anyone know where i can get C-Ko's theme "Follow Your Dreams" in mp3 format?

[NateXXXX]

@Anarki471 hhaha those are all the same ones i saw when this stuff was just getting big 30 bucks for a vhs tape tough to find the good ones and the crap. Fist of the north star was an early one too

[barbm001]

the song is cute as its singer ^^

[kokoden6]

there is japanese covered 'dance away'.

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it not use in this animation japanese version.

original singer is very good. higher voice technic, and beautyful.

[fullmetalgod]

@kokoden6

!! Actually, I think I had the mp3 of this a LONG time ago. As soon as I heard it, I recognized it.

Thank you for the link!

[augendschroedinge]

u got that right.. mp3ify is the the best online service to rip this jam. do a search engine lookup for mp3ify.

[TheHelghast1138]

This is my Favorite Anime EVER!! =)

[kokoden6]

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[MonoAzul]

Just found out that a new DVD (Blu-Ray also?) of Project A-Ko is coming out from Discotek! Yay!

[kokoden6]

Song: Dance Away

Artist: Annie Livingstone

[ArmorForBedTime]

;_; I used to watch AKO alllllllll the time as a little girl. I love these songs, no matter how gay they are.

[fullmetalgod]

@ArmorForBedTime

lmao. "...no matter how gay they are." Epic statement. Love these songs, too.

[sithlordkevin13]

@fullmetalgod I'm with you man. I won't admit this in public but I love these songs too.

[fullmetalgod]

@sithlordkevin13

Ha ha, yeah man. I used to listen to the entire soundtrack on my first MP3 player back in high school. (When they only held 32-64 megs)

[alleycatttl]

I don't why sci-fi channel take it off . sci-fi channel need to bring back anime on saturday !

[DatFatPat]

@alleycatttl

I know. Saturday Anime on SciFi was awesome, it used to have all the old school shows. I have mnost of them on DVD/VHS.

[kokoden6]

 in japanese anime version. it construct same english song.

no japanese song version.

[SleazenTeaze]

i still fucking love this song :D

[vaccy]

Talk about a flashback. Middle school, renting every anime VHS I could get my hands on, 2 episodes to a tape, only getting subbed or dubbed (and liking it because it's not like I could be picky), giving everything a chance because anime was anime. Recording the OP and ED songs of my favorite anime to a little handheld cassette recorder, trying to explain to people that it's not just "porn cartoons"...

I miss those days :( See you all at Otakon 2010!

[fullmetalgod]

@vaccy

Right? I still remembering going to specialty shops to special order entire series like Ranma 1/2 and OVA series like Hades Project Zeorhymer.

If I can make it, I'll see you there!

[truearea53]

Project A-ko is da winner and also the soundtracks, I just love anime girls with awsome powers.

[lonewolfsinger2k]

@truearea53 did anyone besides me notice that the less clothing the girls has on the more powerful the weaponry? I think that is an Anime Law of Physics. Like Bugs Bunny said once but then he never studied law. rim-shot

[MLPsakusakusakura]

I got this on VHS but I don't have a VCR anymore.

[yevonator88]

I thought it was female Ranma at first lol...I've never seen this movie, I guess I'll go check it out.

[Boltfiger]

hmm, i can't find the japanese version of this song. It's the version I grew up with. The singing was nicer -_-

[fullmetalgod]

@Boltfiger

....There is no Japanese version. D: In the 80's, the Japanese heavily outsourced music. (Back then, the Japanese economy was ROCKING. They had a ton of cash. You'll notice lots of jokes about that in 80's American movies. Lots of Japanese take-overs of American companies and such.)

Like the Ninja Scroll ending was also in English from the start. Same with a few other anime I can't remember offhand.

[Boltfiger]

@fullmetalgod NOooo, there IS a japanese version. I remember the song vividly and the lyrics. 'Dance away, ima wa dance away, ai wo shin ji, . . . . ' My Bro had the cassette tape and the laser disk to the original japanese version. But because this movie also made it out in the states, it seems all the postings on youtube are of the English version only. Which, no offense, doesn't compare to the original, singers voice.

[fullmetalgod]

@Boltfiger

Hmmm...I only know of Joey Carbone being the one who made a majority of the music. I don't think I've ever heard a Japanese version of the voiced songs. I can't find anything online about it, either.

If you find a copy, hook me up or post it! I'm curious to hear what the japanese lyrics would sound like.

[macross25]

One of the 1st true Anime films I ever saw, kicked Ass back in the day and still fun to watch over & over!!

[arlikid]

now this is one of those real animes! old school! Theres dat anime feel to it.

[hallowgurl55]

OMFG!!! i miss this fuckin movie!!! me and my friends were always playing the parts of A-KO, B-KO, C-KO....lol...i was of course A-ko and my two other friend she was the pretty and smart one so she was the obvious chick, the hot and tempting B-ko and then my other friend was C-ko.....she actually acted kinda like C-Ko too....lol....she cried alot..... soo many good memories too!.....

[thesnake383]

I wonder what instruments they used. The LM-1 Linndrum? The Linn 9000? The Fairlight CMI? The DX7?

[ragemanchoo82]

ManiacBear - You should put Annie Livingston, Samantha Newark and Valerie Stevenson in the keywords. That's them singing :D

[neostrider81]

Project Ako was great back in the day. There was a problem with those classic anime. After watching them, real girls were so damn disappointing. Anime girls like Ako were so perfect (even without the powers) that it was hard not to be disappointed. Especially since the girls in my school were all party sluts/hip hop hood rats (not a decent girl among them). Thankfully I got over it and met a pretty girl with a good heart in college. I'm married now, but that's how I felt in school 8 yrs ago.

[mistergeneration]

LOLOLOL,... try all boys school,..that was my teenage years. I see whacha mean, tho!

[neostrider81]

Ouch. All boys school? Guess I didn't have it the worst :P.

[lonewolfsinger2k]

@neostrider81 yea i guess the song is true then, You gotta follow your dream neh?

[SleazenTeaze]

whos knows the artist of this song?

[SleazenTeaze]

i love the song!

[NateXXXX]

Wow this and Akira were the first to moives my video store had to rent and gunbuster....hahhaa classsic I didnt know what it was but i liked it

[tadakatsu14]

and i love music like this x] the happy songs that inspire you

[tadakatsu14]

project a-ko was a great anime =D

[Scathach80]

1:16 can anyone identify the people in live action?

[unclesporkums]

Those are Annie Livingston (middle), Samantha Newark (left), and Valerie Stevenson (right), the girls who sang the song's vocals.

[DBMONK1]

@Scathach80

its a girl band called:

"Da Ugly Bitches"

they were big in the 70's and 80's

O__o

[kogaxinuyasha]

reminds me of kurama :p)

[sw0rd0fadvers1ty]

Classic movie...

[genesis2525]

dance away & fellow your dreams i love these songs i even got them on my ipod i listen to them everday 24/7

[MovieRatIan]

How did you get it on your iPod. D8 I can't find it online or anything...would I just have to buy the whole soundtrack?

[SleazenTeaze]

@genesis2525 who is the artist of this song? or band name? i love her voice n i rly want to get theri cd!! :D

[fullmetalgod]

@genesis2525

Same. I was happy to find the entire soundtrack again in the last couple years.

[chestveeg]

I own the sound track for this .awesom 80's sound.

[Malisyn]

I need this shit on Blu-Ray right now. NOW DAMMIT!

[JustyHakubi]

one the best animes ever!

[redmustang03]

As much as I like this movie, this an obvious parody of mostly Rumiko Takahashi's works of Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku but there are a lot of other parodies i.e. Superman, Gundam,etc. The reason I say its mostly a parody Rumiko Takahashi work is just look at the character designs and who it copies mostly from. A-Ko is pretty much Akemi Roppengi from Maison Ikkoku and Ran from Urusei Yatsura. Heck most of the aliens plot line is from UY but more adult oriented.

[lordfinbar]

It is a purposeful parody of the popular anime of the time. The DVD has additional commentary from the creator of the series who explains why it is a parody.

[redmustang03]

Of course its a parody but the creator did use most of her references and hell A-Ko is taken from Rumiko Takhashi's works Maison Ikkoku and Urusei Yatsura mainly but obviously there are parodies like A-Ko's parents Superman and Wonder Woman.

[TVrawks301]

Woot! I love this anime!

[Anarki471]

Project A-Ko was one of the first animes i ever saw and it still holds a special place in my heart...... i'm gonna go watch it again

[ManillaHeep]

What a great series man. This is what I watched when I was a kid. This is what anime is all about!

[okami138]

can anyone find this song on japanese

[okami138]

what a classic, I love this anime!

[TheouAegis]

I listened to Dance Away god knows how  many times when I walked to work. One of my all-time favorite songs.

[unclesporkums]

Mine too!

[meh302]

Project A-ko really is one of the best... this is so nostalgic

[genesis2525]

@meh302

[JustyHakubi]

Well this was my youth. I hope that you enjoyed it!

[MascotRepz]

first time i ever watched this i was 8, and i always wished i was AKO hahahaha

[burlz]

B-ko was a pain in the arse!

[raydn23]

i use to love this cartoon as a youth

[kogaxinuyasha]

good theme, although i've never watched A-ko it looks fun

[Machojef16]

A-ko Magami I so loved her. I loved both movies. The space one is just funny as was the school one too.

[genesis2525]

i remember my first time i saw Project

A-KO, it came on the Saturday Anime on the sci-fi Channel i was 11 years old. the frist time i saw it i love it got the dvd and watch it everyday

[NeverwaY]

They didnt have DVDs the first time i saw it... so i bought it on VHS and wished i could buy it on LD. This is the movie that got me into Anime.

[okami138]

Holy Shit! ME TOO! ME TOO! Every part of it!

[viruzjr]

i thought i seen it all, then i saw the ako dvd case and decided to give it a chance. in the first 5 min project ako was my new fave anime!!!!

[Jadasan]

Man, this was back when anime was really good. I rented this from a video store when I was about 12. I love the song too. A-ko(Eiko) is an amazing girl!

[44atx44]

how old are you now o.o

[jajaid]

at first i thought it IS ranma...

[NickyVendetta]

I swear, Ako looks just like female Ranma.

[norfolk316]

I loved this movie and to this day A-ko remains one of my favorite anime heroines. Her optimism is infectious and she is beautiul and sexy without being sleazy.The artwork is amazing and proves you don't need computers to make a great animation. Plus the A-ko vs b-ko fight is one of the best in all of anime.

[WvulfPlatoon8541]

Holy shit, I haven't seen this anime since I was 6 or 7 years old.

[Dinodocus]

この2曲は何度も繰り返し

聴いちゃいます!

[lukestarr451]

Hey, do you also have the third theme song, the one for B-ko? These two are for A-ko and C-ko, respectively, and in that order. Ii you do have B-ko's, could you post it as well, please? I would really like to hear that one, also.

[yohannbiimu]

3:18 - When A-ko throws this robot, it reminds me of the Diacon IV girl who does the same thing to a transformer robot--which was about four years before Project A-ko. Yuji Moriyama (animation director) also worked for GAINAX on Wings of Honneamis and Gunbuster, so he certainly would have see the Daicon IV film. I'm sure the Daicon IV girl was a pretty big inspiration for A-ko.

[yohannbiimu]

This is the first Japanese language anime I EVER saw (it must have been at least 17 or 18 years ago). When I first saw it I couldn't believe what I had just seen. I must have watched, rewound, and re-watched that VHS tape three or four times that day, and watched it a few dozen times that week. I've been an anime fan ever since, although I am far more into the "old school" stuff (like Project A-ko) than the stuff they do today (anything by Hayao Miyazaki being perhaps the lone exception).

[okami138]

I'm Sooo with you on that. It's hard to find a really good anime these days.

[yohannbiimu]

Actually, since I posted here last (six months ago), I've sort of become a fan of Lucky Star. It has virtually NO action or storyline, but I love the characterizations and humor. It also has the tongue-in-cheek parodies that made me love Project A-ko (the scene of one of the characters kicking Guile's ass (in the form of a Street Fighter video game) as she's describing "saving" her friend from a "foreigner" is utterly priceless).

[SuperSexyCommando]

wow, so nostalgic...

who is the singer/group? anyone knows?

thanks.

[dbgtdob]

Dance Away by Annie Livingston, and Follow your Dream by Valerie Stevenson, if you are want the instrumental songs in this movie they are done by Joey Carbone, Richie Zito, and Toji Akasaka.

I still have this movie on vhs and the ost cd lol.

[AgentDoubleZero7]

I love the Project A-ko series, like what others have said, this brings back so many memories.

This is really interesting, I've always wondered what the singers on the soundtrack look like, now I know...cool.

[r3setdotcom]

A-ko was my introduction to anime some 17 years ago, aside rom Robotech etc in the 80s. It will always have a place in my heart. And these songs always seem to cheer me up.

[tadakatsu14]

i love project aiko!! i couldn't stop watching it!!

[grimwallace]

Is it weird that I read your comment in C-ko's voice?

[tadakatsu14]

um thats strange then o .o i guess so lol

[kouhosei13]

I love these two songs but I can't seem to find them anywhere. Does anyone know where I can download them?

[desertwonder]

I was wondering the same thing!

[lordfinbar]

The soundtrack was released with DVD release a few years back. Not something you are likely to download from a torrent. You could probably pick it up pretty cheap from Ebay.

[therosesword007]

Awesome, this was one of my first animes, and I love the A-ko soundtracks.

[TypicalJoe1900]

The songs in this movie are so awesome! I bet if those songs were released in the USA as singles back in 1986, they would've been hits! Maybe they wouldn't make the Top 40 pop, but they'd probably make it in one area or another, like maybe the Adult Contemporary chart.

[mobius2684]

These bring back so many memories.....I loved watching these as a kid and I remember wanting to dress up as B-ko for halloween. Good times.

[Fike2308]

Love this movie.

[Pochako]

One of my many first non-miyzaki animes.

This was pretty interesting. I watched all of them...but they are all in vhs..want to get the dvd format of it.

[GothikOrk]

watching this anime was one of my fondest memories, they don't make 'em like this anymore ;_; '80s anime FTW

[unclesporkums]

Yeah! I love this movie and these songs!

[Kenro199x]

Nostalgic as hell (especially Follow your dreams). What Iconic images I've gotten out of those movies.

[tehkao]

Boobies!!! 4:35

[otakon17]

God, my first REAL anime. Brings back such memories, such nostalgia. Love that movie.

[biantai888]

I love this! I own it on CD. Pure awesomeness.

[iheartsupernatural]

ya i have the soundtrack to this movie. heart it. i can listen to it a remember what part of the movie it is!

a-kooo san!!!! loves it :)

[kitachan1376]

Holy crap, I have this on CD somewhere. Like an actual commercial CD.

[gundamredframe]

Lucky.

[bemaniak]

OMG i sat up writing the lyrics for follow your dream when i was like 14 haha...

I love this series (apart form the last 2 ova's which were just wierd)

I own them now all on dvd and still manage to have a normal social life :D ha ha

[biantai888]

Authoring the lyrics or copying them?

[bemaniak]

Just copying them... it was the days before the internet and i sat up writing them with my little sister. and we played the VHS back again and again and had a mini karaoke session. :D .... How cool were we :D

[biantai888]

Very cool. The CD has a couple of tracks with the singing removed.

[gbarba5]

Where were girls like you back then? =)

[gbarba5]

I respectfully retract my statement.

[dekadis]

do anyone know the name of the school a ko went to?

[cindi1992]

A-Ko went to "Graviton High School" in Graviton City.

[bstdlife]

I swear A-ko popularized the whole "school girl sailor uniform"...lol

[ShoUrite28]

This was the shit back then. Me and my friend loved these movies, Project A-Ko, Dominion Tank Police, Akira, it was all good, not like this Naruto crap, although there are some good ones today.

[wartarot]

No argument here. Bubblegum Crisis, Iczer 1, Gunbuster, Nuku Nuku...a lot of titles.

Though I wonder if these shows were so good because of some nostalgic nonsense or that they were done pre CG? Maybe it's because at that time Japanese animators had a little more freedom to do what they wanted with the OVA format. The anime audience is getting younger and more female so we're seeing more shows that cater to that demographic.

[mymymaichun]

lol well rumiko takahashi was pretty popular during the 80's and early 90's...though imho only thing that remotely resembles ranma would be a-ko's hair color and how it's styled in the front.

this is one of the anime i actually love watching in eng. great soundtrack and the eng voice over for c-ko was pretty good imho.

[BassX0]

yeah, i fell in love with the series and its songs as soon as i watched them all those years ago (long time anime fans in england will remember when they used to show anime movies on Paramount).

[RedMoonAi]

looks a bit off ranma 1/2 style

[wf1golden]

I bought this movie a long time ago on VHS. That movie was very comical, especially in the Japanese version.

I always liked the song "Follow Your Dreams", which played at the end of the movie. I think that was C-Ko's theme song.

[sandpelt3]

i love the songs and the movies

[RayofJustice]

Fuucc...Fucking great song man!

[BradBurnsRival]

Oh man, the nostalgia, wonderful memories this anime brings.

[MonoAzul]

I think "Follow Your Dream" was actually Japan's national anthem for a while in the 80s. :)

[kingoffists]

whats the name of the artist who sang follow ur dream in english and japanese

[stellarballet]

This 2 songs is my favor when I was young :-)

[raven198200]

They are a wonderful cure to depresion. Worked for me.

[Heartborne7thSeeker]

This is one of the most AWESOME anime's I have ever seen,and belive me I have seen a lot of

anime.

I have seen this so many times that my vhs version has almost stopped working.

This film is everything that makes anime great!

[dan020350]

I wonder does anyone have any other project A-ko sountracks , remixes

[wesgriff]

Get the dvd it comes with it.

[dan020350]

I did, but there are special albums that I wish to listen. I think there are 6 soundtracks created for Project-Ako

[Only1Rodriguez]

Thank you for posting brought back wonderful memories!

[cootmaster]

i seen Ako 1 -4 on Funimation

231 MY TV AND they SHOW the nudity

its ONLY anime i seen on fun or ANY station

[lethallady]

yes there are sequels

in part 2 u get a chance to see B-ko's dad

in part 3 ako and bko fall in love with K

in part 4 c-ko's mom comes to take her bak to her alien world and in battles grey and blue

ako and bko have to save c-ko from an amazon, an outlaw, and a space pirate

i got all of them when i was in highschool back in the 90's

if ur lucky u might find them on e-bay or something

[jesuisbadfish]

I got given it on video, and it was the first one I ever watched. I read somewhere it is a spoof anime?

[roseacoco]

i luv a-ko io think there r sequals to this movie AND I REALLY WANT 'EM!!!!!