Friend showed a couple of random things for us last night:
Wanna-Be’s (1986, rewatch)
There’s not a lot to it, but I still kind of like this one, it’s very much ‘we wanted a film about ladies wrestling, but we got John Carpenter to write it’. Does make me wonder why we’ve never (to my knowledge) had a full series about ladies’ wrestling, it feels tailor made for anime.
Project A-Ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody (1988, rewatch)
Much as I wouldn’t disagree with the general feeling that Project A-Ko tails off as it goes on, this third instalment, where the good-hearted A-Ko tries to impress handsome-but-vacant motorcyclist Kei, while B-Ko schemes to steal him from her, is still very entertaining, even if you can’t pick up all the myriad in-jokes. Was surprised to see that Yasuomi Umetsu wasn’t credited on this one, there’s a standout bit of animation in a pool hall at the start which looks very much like his handiwork.