Agent Aika (OVA)

Aika Sumeragi is a freelancer who lifts artifacts and data from the submerged ruins of Tokyo in the year 2036. She is a friend and business partner to the father-daughter team of Gozo and Rion Aida and has a love-hate relationship with Gust Turbulence, her spiky-haired male rival. Hired to go after the Ragu, an energy source reputed to be the cause of the global catastrophe, Aika must compete against evil superbitch Neena Hagen, Neena's incestuous brother, Rudolf, and their army of women inexplicably dressed as French maids. Her only advantages: high-tech vehicles and transforming underwear that is really a weapon.

Envisaged by director Nishijima as a replay of Project A-Ko, with Aika, Neena, and Rion as A-Ko, B-Ko, and C-Ko, Agent Aika fast becomes the ultimate in peekaboo anime, as almost every camera angle conspires to get an eyeful of cleavage or panties. Worm's-eye views and gratuitous nudity soon drag the plot far off course, though exactly where Kanemaki's story of a treasure-huntress with a sentient bodice was originally headed is anyone's guess. Compare to the same team's later Najica. Seven years later, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue would do it all again.