While attempting to rob a diamond on Earth, Cobra accidentally gets caught up in a massive brawl for an ancient snail fossil. His ultimate weapon is a super-high-tech concealed laser weapon, the psychogun, in his left hand. He seeks his cash by robbing treasure, bounty hunting, or an array of other things. Cobra was a wanted man, and so to escape it he has changed his face, and erased part of his memory. The designs of both characters and the world feel very Aeon Flux for those who need a reference (however the Space Adventure Cobra comic started in 1978 and so pre-date Aeon Flux by a massive chunk of years). Joe, Jem, etc Well it’s like that, you can’t even tell. Remember in the 80s when the Japanese animated a slew of our shows, including Transformers, G.I. Buichi Terasawa’s style is very western and so the characters look like they are out of Marvel or Heavy Metal Magazine. For those of you who dislike the big-eyes of Japanese animation, great news: there are none here. Well if the answer is yes to one or more of the following, you will love it: 1) Do you miss the machismo action heroes of 80s action films who toted guns, womanized, and smoked a lot? 2) Do you like epic space opera tales? 3) Do you like the style and art of many stories from Heavy Metal magazine? 4) Maybe you just enjoy animation or lastly, 5) You were a fan of the Space Adventure Cobra comic.īoth the animation and story are great.

So how will you know you’ll even like Cobra The Animation: The Psychogun. Well Space Adventure Cobra, which is huge both in its homeland of Japan and France, kept going strong, and recently a direct-to-DVD animated series titled Cobra The Animation: The Psychogun (based off a manga mini-series of the same name which ran in comic magazine Super Jump) was released in Japan, and now finally here stateside, which we can see for absolutely FREE, streaming at !

We got releases of other Terasawa comics like Midnight Eye Goku and Kabuto, but that’s all folks. Shortly after this little boom not much was heard about Buichi Terasawa’s space opera here stateside. The early days of the 90s also gave us the animated film adaptation being released direct-to-video, during the anime boom in Blockbusters across the country. In 1990 Viz Communications released two collected versions of the comic with the amazing American master Marv Wolfman writing the English dialogue. Cobra (or Space Adventure Cobra) may not be a household name to many anymore, but briefly once upon a time it was. Sometimes good things come to those who wait. COBRA!!!!!!!! – Cobra The Animation: The Psychogun

COBRA by Buichi Terasawa