According to io9, Project A-Ko remains one of anime's most gloriously unserious achievements. This OVA-era time capsule embraced the anything-goes spirit of nineteen-eighties anime, prioritizing pure fun over traditional storytelling. Critic Isaiah Colbert notes that few anime capture the joy of creating art simply for its own sake quite like Project A-Ko does.

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