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Anybody could figure out the rest: Giant mechanical spiders invade Earth so that C-ko can be tied up and taken to a distant space station, bawling all the way. But A-ko sneaks into the space station, fights a she-male samurai and makes her way to the bridge where an alcoholic enemy command-er is screaming, "Booze! I need booze!" Nine thousand explosions later, the girls go giggling down the street again, hand in hand, on their way to high school English class. And we wonder why the Japanese are winning the economic battle. Besides this one, I recommend a series called Dominion: Tank Police (violent cat sisters in bikinis, who escape from the cops by doing a strip-tease and attempt to infect the whole world with AIDS); The Hu-manoid (a buxom android named Antoinette falls in love and saves the world from the madman who unlocks the secrets of the ancient be a Mayan pyramids); and GunBuster (two girls join the Imperial Earth Space Force, sail into space, activate something called a "black hole bomb" that destroys billions of enemy ships and return to Earth 12,000 years after they left, having missed all their high school reunions). For Project A-ko, those drive-in totals are: Twenty-one dead bodies.

Two breasts. Space explosion. Giant robots turned into scrap metal with a pubescent girl's bare hands. Giant robot dragster driven by a fat girl. Five monsters the size of office buildings turned into fireballs.

Leather bikini martial arts. Wrist missiles. Sky spiders. Kung Fu. Robot Fu.

She-Male Samurai Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nomination for Katu-hiko Nishijima, the director, for making absolutely no sense. My kind of cartoon. Four stars. Joe Bob says check it out.

Joe Bob Briggs' drive-in movie column is distributed by Creators Syndicate. I'm not sure what's going on here, but have you watched any of these Japaheeno guns-and-hooters cartoon movies? "Annie Maes," they call 'em, and they used to be in the children's section of video stores until children started taking 'em home and Mom would come into the room and see nekkid women flying through space with rockets strapped to their back, lasering enemy aliens so they can travel through time to save their lesbo lovers, and she goes "What the heck are you watching! Turn that thing off." And the kids would whine, "Oh, Mom, it's just cartoons from Japan." And pretty soon after that all the Annie Maes got taken off the children's shelves, and now they have big ole stickers that say "Contains Nudity" and "Adult Subject Matter." I just finished watching about eight hours of these babies, and I have to say I can understand why every 15-year-old boy has bought 30 of these in the last year. All of these flicks not just most of 'em but every single one of 'em are about beautiful teenage girls who wear French-cut bikinis and leather while they're blowing stuff up to save the world. In fact, there's basically one plot for every Annie Mae flick: The story takes place in the future where a new city has been built on the ashes of a city that was blown to smithereens by evil men. Two girls with superhuman powers like to giggle a lot, go to school and soak in the hot tub together.

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It's a Japaheeno thing. Mostly, though, it's a whole lot of women with poofy blonde hair flexing their thighs a lot. Sure, it's cartoons, but male hormones will respond to anything, right? The latest hooters-and-twist-ed-metal cartoon from Yokohama is Project A-ko, the story of a bubblehead 17-year-old at an all-girl high school who is so cute and giggly that two girls start fighting over her. One girl's name is A-ko, another B-ko and another C-ko. A-ko is friends with C-ko.

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