NEW CARTOONS FOR A NEW DECADE: PART I
We now live in the brave new year of 2010. Do the cartoons dropping this year have the bravery to match, though? As of right now, not really! Cobra the Animation: Rokunin no Yuushi Upon learning that this new Cobra series was still in the hands of Magic Bus...
Old franchises in the modern day
Aside from Japanese animation, I really enjoy older American movies. By old, I mean movies ranging from the Marx Brothers in the 1930s up until Indiana Jones in the early 1980s. Specifically, two film series that I’ve enjoyed since childhood are the original Star Wars movies and the aforementioned...
The Fierce War of 2008: The Dead Art of “Original Video Animation”
The OVA is almost a dead art in the fast, 100MB-per-second world of today, but even so there were a few direct-to-video titles that hit shelves this year. Of course, they were either lame eroge adaptations, lackluster fanservice romps or straight up porn. However, despite these odds, an intrepid...
Quick notes about new Cobra
Cobra is one of the most sexist, cheesy and silly shows ever made. Naturally, this also makes it one of the greatest shows ever made. I first watched Cobra a good several months ago, and even after 31 episodes of this stuff, I hungered for more! Thankfully, I happened...
I totally forgot about the summer season
It wasn’t until I saw a sub out for Lucky Tousen*: Great Guardians did I realize that the summer season had already started. So, before anything else starts, I guess I’ll list out my picks like I normally do! You know, since the list of shows playing this season...
COBRA Movie + US Pilot Episode
Cobra- The Movie: Released in July of ’82, covers the first story arc. TV series was released later that year. Cobra US Pilot: Cut together scenes from various episodes plus new animation, dubbed in English. Cobra- The Movie I don’t know much about the history of Cobra in Japan,...
SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA Episodes 22-31
Cobra does some filler, fights a dude named Salamander, then ends his TV show. After the RUG-BALL arc Cobra goes filler for some episodes. I don’t mind, since this is what I was expecting out of the show in the first place– a bunch of standalone stories. I won’t...
“Cobra” by Yoko Maeno
“COBRA” VOCALS: Yoko Maeno COMPOSITION: Yuji Ohno Darkness falls over town (What’s going on?) Midnight Fog (Midnight Fog) If the lonely silhouette moves, It’s definitely him. COBRA, leaving me blue COBRA, missing you true COBRA, only few memories after you On your back, that burden that follows you is...
SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA Episodes 15-21
Today on Cobra: Cobra robs an art museum, coaches a sports team and saves a race of people! Currently 2/3 of the way through Cobra, and it’s still as entertaining as it was when I first clicked open episode 1. The production values have stayed solid, the writing has...
So I watched an episode of Cobra and an episode Kodomo no Jikan back to back the other day…
Anime sure has changed over the past 25 years! Wow, I decided to watch Cobra on the year of its 25th anniversary and totally didn’t realize it. Spooky....