AniWorthSpace Adventure Cobra: The Movie
Introduction
While enjoying a drink at a bar, a beautiful yet intimidating woman catches the eye of Cobra, an infamous outlaw with a powerful gun fused to his left arm. This woman, Jane Royal, has also caught the eye of the Pirate Guild, a dangerous organization led by the enigmatic Crystal Bowie. As Cobra helps Jane escape the Pirate Guild and find her missing sisters, he discovers that she might just hold the fate of the galaxy in her hands.
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 7.12/10 · 5561
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Audience reviews
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TheVistrian
Space Cobra is my favorite type of film. Authentic Revolutionary early anime sci-fi. Space Cobra’s primary strengths are its breathtaking visuals. You can really tell how much artistic thought is put into every frame. Dynamic, Innovative, colorful, experimental, psychedelic, and stunning all the way through, universally engaging excessive detail and artistry infused into each and every scene. You can tell that they weren’t just trying to make a movie for a tv show, they were creating a sci-fi classic; and I believe they succeeded. My affinity for older anime is known but I don’t know any modern anime that looks like this. Unlike the visuals the story isn’t especially mind blowing, but it is effective. I enjoyed many of the ideas particularly relating to Myrus and the slightly realistic rea…
Read at the sourceTHEAnimeHERO
Serves best as an introduction to the Space Cobra series. A 1982 movie with great visuals that holds up today. Note this movie is a retelling of episodes 1-12 & there are two English dubs to this film: Manga UK & Streamline Pictures. The UK version has a soundtrack done by Yello & various changes in its script. This review covers the Discotek release which should be the Streamline dub.
Premiering a few months before its television anime, Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie delivers what you expect in anything Cobra related being; sexy women, stylish visuals, great soundtrack, science fiction & manly action. That being said, the movie's plot is an alternative form of Cobra's 1st manga story arc which was adapted in the anime version of that same year.
To quickly summarize the story, Cobra is…
Read at the sourceFlawfinder
Well it finally happened. After years of searching, I finally found an Osamu Dezaki anime I liked more than the one with the angsty boy who never does anything and the sweet girl who sings about dangos and ended up dying in the last third because it’s not a touching drama until someone is dead. Now I admit to never seeing any of Dezaki’s non-Key films, let alone finishing any one of his f*cking long series that drag so much that they make me want to throw my hands in the air, turn off the screen, and go hang around on Twitter like an anti-social nerd. I did notice that almost all of them are franchise films though. Golgo 13? Hamtaro? Black Jack? The only two films he directed that are attached to series he also did are Aim for the Ace and Space Adventure Cobra.
The latter is what I’m look…
Read at the sourceShura-shurato
This is not your everyday anime movie to watch these days, especially one thats oldskool and special as this one, andhonestly i was inpressed that the traditional anime was left out and a more mature animation was given througout the movie.The story is quite nice and because it was 1982 it was´nt influenced by the macross big spacefights that later anime woud get, but then again it is some sort of space opera, and one worth seeing again, good music there as well.
Read at the sourceMr_Panda
~Mr. Panda's VCR of Doom: #5~
The movie version of Space Adventure Cobra comes right out of the center of anime's intrepid Space Age. The same year publishing began for the manga versions of Akira and Naussicaa of the Valley of the wind, Buichi Terasawa's name-making series had been serialized for several years, and founded the basis for its continuing popularity with the release of this movie (which was shortly followed by the more manga-accurate version of the TV series.
The plot is something of a conundrum, mostly due to confusion as to whether the movie represented a separate part or a "retelling" of the events of the series. In brief, Cobra and his android partner Lady must assist bounty hunter Jane Flower in preventing the Pirate Guild from controlling an artificial, wandering pla…
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