Space Adventure Cobra: The Animated Movie UHD [Blu-ray]

Ok so unlike the two reviews on this page, I actually bought the product. These types of one sided reviews do not help Amazon at all. Also they weird. Anyways, Space Adventure Cobra has finally arrived on blu ray. The series has been lovingly restored in 1080p. Excellent quality, no artificial sharpening or DNR. Looks stunning I may say. The set is 3 discs with 31 eps and a few special features. Those features are ep 1-2 that were dubbed along with an interview with the shows creator Sound is just..oh my lord. We get three sublime tracks. A remastered 5.1 DTS, 2.0 and something I rarely see on releases, the original mono track, wow! Cobra is non stop fun featuring the titular cocky character blasting his way through space pirates accompanied by his bad a** robot Lady Armaroid. A mostly episodic series with some story arcs spread throughout the 31 episodes. It’s never boring I can’t suggest this enough. If you want a cool and classy show, back when anime had more of an edge, Cobra is the one for you. Don’t forget the feature film to accompany it. Now see folks; that’s how you write a review, not vague statements that don’t match the product.

Can't go wrong with Cobra.

I was soooo happy when I saw this series was on blu ray. Instantly ordered it. This is actually the first time I’m able to watch every episode in order from start to finish. I’ve been a Cobra fan since the Matthew Sweet video “Girlfriend”. More specifically, I fell in love with Jane Royal in that video. I actually knew nothing about the anime and in the early 90s there was no way of easily finding out. I didn’t find out its name until I saw the Space Adventure Cobra movie (vhs) at a blockbusters in late 90s. Couldn’t wait to watch it. And was sorely disappointed. Disappointed to discover the goofy looking blond dude was the main character instead of Jane. That she dies halfway through the movie. And it just wasn’t that good a movie. It didn’t help that the dub, especially for Corbra himself, was just horrible. Now I did love the art style and the animation was really good, even by today’s standards. Plus the Matthew Sweet video was a bonus feature after the movie. After that the movie did fade from memory rather quickly. (Spoilers for series ahead) About ten years later after I had internet access for a few years and recently got broadband that I would rediscover Cobra. The manga and the tv series. I was able to watch the entire Royal sisters arc which made me love Jane even more, even though she still dies fairly early in the show. But I was never able to see the whole series until now. It was a much better experience. We’re actually able to meet Cobra and get to know him rather quickly before the story really takes off. He’s still a doofus, even after he gets his memories back and a bit of a womanizer, though not as bad as Sean Connery’s Bond. And I really love Lady (his partner) who I actually forgot was in the movie. I wish she was in more episodes but she does feature prominently in quite a few (unlike Cobra The Animation series where she barely gets five minutes of screen time in 12 episodes!). Being a fan of 80s anime, I really like the art style and animation itself is really good and holds up well today. It doesn’t really lean on heavy scifi stuff but more that Buck Rogers / Flash Gordon type adventure fun. Cobra does see himself as a ladies man and can be lewd at times, again, not as bad as Bond has ever been. And it would be fair to criticize the show for the fact that every woman in this universe is either wearing a bikini or thong leotard. But surprisingly this is treated like normal attire and never comes off as blatantly ecchi as 90 percent of anime today filled with under age teenage girls. As a fan of Gatchaman, He-Man and She Ra, and the more recent Starblazers (Battleship Yamato), Cobra has almost everything I want in an animated show. I highly recommend it, especially for fans of sci-fi adventure. You will have a good time.

This classic movie is a must see in 4K with HDR. I personally found the movie a little overpriced but HDR is totally worthy, the clarity of the colors make this movie looks awesome. I hope to see more anime in 4K with HDR. By the way, to see this movie you need the 4K movie, a 4K bluray player and a 4K or 8K TV. Thanks.

This might be the best anime series of all time. The main character, Cobra is like a combination of James Bond, Mega Man, and Rutger Hauer. Traveling through an 80s dream of futuristic outer space, hooking up with hot babes and incinerating evil doers. It’ll put hair on your chest and good thoughts in your mind

I am not a fan of Anime. That needed to be said, sure I liked Akira and Samurai Champloo is amazing, but I'm not a fan of the genre. I cherry pick the classics that are up my alley, like Ninja Scroll and Cowboy Bebop. This movie though... this is a work of art. I'm a huge fan of 70s/80s scifi, especially Moebius. This is like watching a French Scifi graphic novel from the early 80s unfold on screen. The music and artwork are so unique that I cannot recommend this enough to scifi/fantasy fans of the era

Excelente series, just hope they can translate in English and I'll buy it again and this time I'll give it five starts.

Awesome 4k looked really nice if u like this sort of animation than this is a must watch 👍

UNA OBRA MAESTRA DEL ANIME. LLENA DE ACCION.

Nice image quality

This movie is a force of nature. It's hard to describe how exquisitely weird it is, without being nonsense. So many strong 80's sci-fi motifs, varieties of ray guns and space ships and such, weird costumes, and actually quite excellent animation. I'd never go so far as to say that it's "good", but it is absolutely incredible.

テレビシリーズコンプの輸入版を購入 いつでも好きな時に野沢那智コブラを見ることが出来るという誘惑に抗えなかった 昭和のテレビアニメなのに期待以上に高画質 せいぜい25〜29インチもあれば大画面と言われた時代の作品が77インチの大画面でも十分鑑賞に耐えうる。 線が潰れてた4K逆襲のシャアよりよほど綺麗に見える （もちろん作画そのものは映画として作成されたあちらの方が金も手間暇もかかってるのは一目でわかるけど） 輸入版なので当然英語字幕が付いてくる 戸田奈◯子氏のように超翻訳をせず素直な訳なの英語の勉強にもなるぞ テキストが膨大なのでとても目が追いつかないけどな！ 素晴らしい原作と素晴らしい映像化を世に遺してくれた寺沢武一氏と出崎統氏のお二方に心からの敬意を。

寺沢分一の名作のアニメ輸入盤でしたが普通に見れました。 オープニングの歌も完璧に覚えていてとても懐かしいと思いました。コブラは自分の幼い頃のヒーローですサラマンダー編の最終プログラムのコギトエルゴスムの言葉も直に頭に出てきてアニメを見ながらコブラの事を色々と思い出しました。 自分の想い出ばかりレビューしましたが購入して良かったです😊