![]() ![]() The first batch of major stories were adapted into the 1983 anime TV series Space Cobra, also directed by Dezaki. Popularity resulted in Cobra being adapted into a stand-alone feature film in 1982 entitled Space Adventure Cobra directed by the legendary Osamu Dezaki ( Golgo 13: The Professional, Rose of Versailles). That’s just the first few volumes, by the way. ![]() He winds up smack dab in the crosshairs of the treacherous Pirate Guild as he stumbles into a plot to capture one of the deadliest treasures in the universe, restores a kingdom of sentient swords, seduces triplets, and races to find The Ultimate Weapon. Together with Lady Amaroid, and his re-awakened “Psychogun” arm cannon, he recovers his old ship and picks up right where he left off. ![]() The series begins with our hero awakening after a self-induced amnesiac exile. Running from 1979 to 1984, Cobra was a different kind of sci-fi action manga. And honestly, I can’t help but describe the Cobra anime franchise as Terasawa’s own Trip Movie: Where all the women are scantily clad variations of Jane Fonda in Barbarella, he himself is a romantic wandering space samurai, and the galaxy is a wild sci-fi Spaghetti Western. ![]() Whether its money and fame, beautiful women, or a life of gun-slinging adventure, the Trip Movie will play it all out for your amusement. In it, a user gets a tailored dream-like fantasy that brings out their inner heart’s desire. In the first chapter of Buichi Terasawa’s manga, Cobra, there’s a thing known as Trip Movie. ![]()
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