Cobra The Animation: Time Drive

Introduction

Lady has disappeared so Cobra must dive into her past to save her. This is the story of who Lady used to be and how she got that metal body.

Audience ratings

MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.84/10 · 2246

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Audience reviews

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Jet_Suzuyaki

Frankly, it's much better than the previous OAV! This time the story is interesting, discovering the beginnings of the Cobra/Armanoid relationship is a great idea, and it's nice to finally see Cobra involved in what's going on and not just disinterested and self-serving as always, it's really nice to finally humanize the character and feel him really attached to his companion. The problem with this OAV remains its flat, idea-less direction, as well as the execution of the script, which dispatches its good ideas and dwells on the not-so-good ones. Seriously, they've bungled the story of what drove Armanoid to become a robot in 5 minutes on the clock....fortunately, even so, the emotional impact is still there. But the pace is an overall problem with these OVAs, because in this case, it c…

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THEAnimeHERO

Cobra The Animation: Time Drive is the 2009 installment to the Cobra series, where Cobra time travels to the time where he met Lady or as real name being Princess Emeralda. In short, there's isn't much to say about this OVA as I'm uncertain whether it's based on manga material or if its just an original story. Regardless, Time Drive goes into more detail between the relationship of Lady & Cobra as every other material relating to Cobra displays their partnership as platonic or professional coworkers. However, Time Drive shows Cobra & Lady as romantic in their past life as her operation to becoming an Armaroid is also featured into the story. The rest of the OVA focuses on this revolt towards this king named Giros in which Lady or Emeralda wishes to overthrow. Time Drive is a nice additi…