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What episode? That must be beyond this set. |
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GATSU
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Key: I saw it on the second collection.
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Great Rumbler
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Sure, but that doesn't change that Buichi Terasawa was probably thinking about Dick's story when he started writing Cobra [along with the Star Wars and James Bond movies]. Which is fine, I wish more anime/manga writers would swipe liberally from Dick's stories. |
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uguu
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"Art and animation: B, even though I had absolutely nothing bad to say about them beyond the extremely vague comment that 'it's not a masterpiece', and even pointed out that that Cobra's animation is particularly expressive, and that the action animation takes less shortcuts than a lot of modern shows."
The last part is particularly noteworthy given this is a traditionally-animated, long running TV anime. No mention of Dezaki being the director and the stylistic elements that come with it either even though he's probably the most influential anime director of all time.
"Guilty pleasure" is mostly a silly term. Unless you actually enjoy it FOR the more douchy elements as opposed to in SPITE of them, I dunno why it's remotely relevant here. I do think it's a flaw that the female characters can come across as so empty even when a good chunk of a story arc focuses on one of them (when Crystal Boy killed whatshername and there was an entire flashback of all the 'good times' she and Cobra had, I pretty much felt nothing) and that the manga writer thought making them hot was enough characterization, but I don't enjoy that flaw - I enjoy the show because it's extremely well-directed, very appealingly drawn and well-animated and has a great sense of fun. This is a show directed by Osamu Dezaki; the execution alone should make the 'guilty pleasure' tag obsolete. |
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Kadmos1
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For Transformers fan (The original 1980s US version), Michael Bell (voice of characters like Sideswipe and Prowl) was the dub voice of this Cobra while Dan "Byakuya Kuchiki" Woren was Cobra in the US dub of the Cobra movie.
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Cptn_Taylor
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Space Pirate Cobra is a manly show in the truest sense of the word, hence a show that is not suited for today's anime fans.
Cobra is s show where men were real men, and women were real women (and looked like women not pedo-girls). None of this emo crap that infests 99.99% of modern anime. In other terms it's an anime of a bygone era, the same era that Fist of the North Star belongs to. |
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Gilles Poitras
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I remember an interview with him in which he notes the influence of 8-Man. |
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Gilles Poitras
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Most likely so. The earliest Japanese translation of Dick's story that I have been able to verify came out years after the Cobra manga was done. Likely Terasawa head about the story somehow and went with the idea, or there was a Japanese translation in a magazine have not been able to verify. |
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Kadmos1
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Should I ever watch this Cobra series, the thing that would stand out for me is that his voice actor for the Winter 2010 Cobra show also does Madara Uchiha. With that, I shouldn't picture Cobra without picturing Madara at least once because I consider Madara to be among the scummiest anime/manga villains I've ever encountered.
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GATSU
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Gilles: Terasawa seems like a guy who's done a lot of traveling. So if 'Wholesale wasn't in Japanese at the time, I could buy him being fluent in English and reading the story.
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Great Rumbler
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Naoya Uchida only did the voice of Cobra in the 2010 series, before that it was Nachi Nozawa who voiced Cobra [except for the '82 movie]. |
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Kenshiroh
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And for the GoBots fan, the Super Gobot Psycho turns into Cobra's car. There's even a little Cobra in the driver's seat, with his android partner next to him. |
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GATSU
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Also, I can't believe how many video games ripped off Cobra, with Mega Man being the most obvious. Also, that dickhead Matthew Sweet should be paying Terasawa, Shueisha, and TMS back, since that music video with footage from the movie is one of the only reasons behind his 15 minutes of fame. [Well, that and his Lum vid.]
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