Cobra

This I tell you, is something for kids in the beginning of their teens, of how the future is about. Yes, it's SciFi, but it's oh sooo cool. atleast when you're a kid..

I still remembered when I was a little dorky little kid, I adore this movies.. Hey, at the age of 10yrs of age, DO NOT FEEL ASHAME!!!! It's friggen natural! I know I didn't feel any realness at that age, and I was set aside, a little under developed when compared to other kidz, when it came to anim cartoons. DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHAT ANY DUDE SAYS! You need this if you're anything like me, a fututristic designer, a dreamer, someone who has a feeling for design in a futuristic maner.. This thing is for your own development! Believe me... I'm one of you guys...

This 1982 anime based on the comic books by Buichi Terasawa centres around the adventures of the infamous Space Pirate Cobra. After Cobra falls for the sultry bounty hunter Jane, he finds himself embroiled in an intergalactic power struggle. This film is best known for its attempt to re-create the 3D movie experience without the need for cardboard glasses. While this process makes for a few amazing and interesting shots, you can hardly tell the difference. The 3D effect may be limited, but the attempt makes for interesting cinematography. Director Osamu Dezaki can be applauded for combining the involving story and the stunning visuals, without letting one element drown out the other. If a few of the shots look familiar, it's because the film was showcased in Matthew Sweet's video for his song "Girlfriend." You can also look for quite a few references to 'Star Wars,' 'Star Trek,' '2001,' and a rip off of the 'Superman' theme during a heated battle scene. 'Space Adventure Cobra' is best recommended for those already familiar with this genre, as it provides an excellent example of the beginnings of modern Anime.

On a scale of 1 to 11, 11 being an example of "taking it up a notch," 'Cobra' gets a 7.

This anime classic adapts one of the first stories in the series in which a rogue and brave adventurer called Cobra is the absolute starring. In the 24th Century, space pirate Cobra, a former space pirate presumed dead two years ago and who has modified his face and voice to flee from his space enemies. He is an adventurous and two-fisted outlaw who travels across different planets in space, evading the Space Mafia Guild and their leader, his fearsome arch nemesis Crystal Boy. Along the way, Cobra joins forces with bounty huntress Jane Flower, whom he falls in love with, and her sisters to save the planet Milos. Jane turns out to be one of the last three of the Miras Star People, and she enlists Cobra to help her get back to her planet and find her two identical sisters. But the leader of the Galactic Guild, a powerful criminal organization, is following their track with the same goal. The first sister turns out to be mind controlled by Crystal Boy and she transfers her love for Cobra to her other sister, who is on a snow planet. Cobra then takes this new sister to the Miras planet, which is actually a giant planet-shaped spaceship, to keep Crystal Boy from taking control of the planet and using it to destroy an entire galaxy . Cobra has to join three sisters: Jane, Dominique, Catherine, they all look the same and are really beautiful. Aided by his jealous android Andromeda, Cobra will have to face the evil plans of the Galactic Gold. In the farthest reaches of space... You can never go too far. Hyper-dimensional Multiplane Animation. Experience 3D depth With your naked eyes!. The most wanted man in the entire universe !.

A trip to the golden age of science fiction anime with this film, based on the 'Shonen' (manga aimed at teenage male audiences) by the legendary Mangaka, Buichi Terasawa. Starring Cobra, he's a famed space pirate with a "psychogun" for a left arm joins a bounty huntress on a quest to save her world, only to find himself battling an old enemy. "Cobra", like many animes before and after it, began off as a manga, this one by the artist Buichi Terasawa. Having at first Alain Delon in mind, later modifying his hero's physique to resemble Delon's commercial rival, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and adding a special aura as a kind of rogue Harrison Ford's Han Solo, Terasawa created a role that was valiant, cynical, prone to risk-taking but confident enough to know he will win, always with a cigaret in his mouth à la "Le magnifique" and here confronting a bizarre and wonderful villain nicknamed Golden Galactic. The film is quite good with full of adventure, action, fantasy and with many gadgets and action scenes in the style of James Bond. Supposedly this film was apparented to have been animated in a 'revolutionary process' which makes it look like it was 3-D without the glasses, but it was a flop. Not having known that beforehand, I didn't catch it at all. I'm pretty sure if I watched it again now that I do know that, it wouldn't seem any more 3-D than it did before. In fact, I don't even have the slightest idea what the revolutionary process could possibly be.

¨Space Adventure Cobra¨ (1982) belongs to the successful Japanese series titled ¨Space Cobra¨ (1982-1983) made up of 31 episodes, concerning Space Pirate Cobra, a womanizing vagabond with a mysterious past and a powerful "psychogun" for a hand, fights the galaxy spanning crime syndicate, The Pirate Guild. The motion picture was well directed by Osamu Dezaki(1943-2011). He was a good craftsman and notable cartoonist who participated in several TV series, videos and animes, such as: ¨The Heroic Elegy of Confucius¨, ¨Black Jack¨, ¨Genji¨ , ¨Air¨, ¨Yuki no Jo-Oh¨, ¨Clannad¨, ¨Gorugo 13: Queen Bee¨, among others . ¨Space Adventure Cobra¨(1982) rating: 6.5/10. Well worth watching.

Potentially this was a great anime. Some interesting themes were up for exploration: a hero must do battle with death incarnate to save the woman (women?) he loves. The individual vs. the corrupt state.

But it's a bit of a let-down. The hero is just too indestructible and and in the English language version at least, seems emotionally disengaged from what's going on around him. The soft-porn card gets overplayed, too. Sexy girls with sexy guns? Yup. Some great visuals, as you would expect from Japanese anime, but not a great example of the genre.

"Space Adventure Cobra" isn't as entertaining as I remembered. It's too good-natured to dislike openly, and I appreciated the fact that the hero is actually very unusual for an adventuresome protagonist. But I also found it impossible to follow or care about.

The movie begins with a pre-credits sequence showing Cobra performing some heroic action. The credits come on with music and slow visuals that are straight out of any James Bond movie. So I thought, oh, I get it, Cobra is like a spacefaring James Bond. When the Bond-girl stand in, a female bounty hunter was introduced, that seemed a safe bet.

But then the duo were attacked by a flying alien head, and Cobra's efforts to stop it were a failure - the bounty hunter lady saved the day. And she wasn't interested in Cobra, although he was interested in her. But when she realised who he was, she seduced him, rather than the other way around.

Cobra is actually a pretty hapless character, not suave at all, though he is charismatic. The movie is probably more about the lady and her sisters, who are imprisoned on a planet somewhere, and she wants Cobra to help her save them - although she hardly seems to need his help.

I wasn't able to interest myself in any of this, and nor could I focus on it for long. It's pretty boring and confusing, and just seems like style over anything else - and the style isn't even that great.