Forum - View topicThis Week in Anime - The Legacy of Buichi Terasawa
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Lord Geo
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I was going to say "Wait, the reboot is still on Hidive!", but upon a quick check I see that it got removed. It had still been on there not long ago, so it must have been a relatively recent removal. That's sad, because while I haven't seen the TV series yet, those initial two OVAs (The Psychogun & Time Drive) were really good, and Time Drive had some fun by acting as the in-universe way of transitioning Cobra's voice over from his original actor to the one that'd voice him in the later TV series, due to time travel shenanigans.
We did get the later 1992 OVA version of Kabuto via LA Hero & Dark Image Entertainment on VHS & ComicsOne did release the entire manga original across two books in the early 00s. I definitely have the manga release, and once I'm done with the big series I'm currently in the middle of reading I know that I'll definitely be reading Kabuto to honor Terasawa's memory. |
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residentgrigo
 Posts: 2421 Location: Germany |
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You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like:
The 2 Goku: The Midnight Eye OVAs are based directly on the first 2 cases of that manga and the real insanity is found in his Seinen works, outside of Cobra. Goku also shows a sex-addicted stripper shooting heroin, very adult indeed. Cannon Films - The manga. Oh, the 80s... The bicycle girl design was transplanted directly into Gun Dragon. 2 CG softcore porn mixed media volumes. Terasawa photographed the often naked lead in front of a green screen and the process is documented in Gun Dragon II. The author´s barely disguised fetish.meme Both are is fan-translated. All but the final volume of Cobra can also be found in English and the 15-vol sequel has an official digital release so only the Gaiden volume "Legend of the Holy Knight" and the 2010s sequel are left in Japan. (Outside of France.) Cobra is a Shounen Jump hero, Sean Connery in space, so even his CG-AF Seinen sequels are fairly tame. Barbarella with more boobs. Some nudity, severed arms, (mostly) off-screen sex, etc. The 00s OVAs adapted 3 volumes of them, basically page by page. Buichi Terasawa and Alejandro Jodorowsky have a lot in common with how off-the-wall their science fantasy worlds are. Look for his comics if you want more like this with much better writing. The 18 + 1 black and white Cobra volumes have insane art by Jump standards, so flip through a few of them, and the 80s and 2010 anime adapted from it. Cobra and the later FotNS hit that magazine like a bomb, to put it mildly. |
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Dumas1
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My first encounter with Cobra was at Anime Weekend Atlanta many years ago, probably somewhere in the late 00s. They played one of the time travel OVAs with the flying sword people and it hooked me enough to watch the new series when it came out a few years later. Then some friends and I tracked down the old series and watched that together and had a blast. I suppose I should make time to grab a drink and sit down with Retrocrush some time for a revisit
A few years before the pandemic, I ran across the first volume of Goku Midnight Eye at a local comic shop that has since closed. It was put out by an outfit called Comics One, which I suppose was one of those short-lived companies that tried to get in on the first American manga boom but just couldn't last. |
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residentgrigo
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The Cobra film (and that weird 1981 pilot) have original plots. So does the Kabuto OVA but it´s TV show is a greatly expanded adaptation of that manga. There, all anime covered, and the Cobra 1982 OP belongs on the Mount Rushmore of anime if you ask me.
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Triltaison
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I'm still shocked that my order of Viz's Cobra comics happened to arrive on the day they announced his death.
Cobra is a series that is my perfect flavor of pulp. I even preordered Nozomi's DVD release ages ago so I could get the chipboard box. Although Goku was probably my first exposure and I love it also, I just adore the ridiculous combo of Cobra and Lady plus sexy ladies versus Glass Man. |
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mdo7
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I just started to watch Space Adventure Cobra on Retrocrush in light of Terasawa's death (well that and I've been wanting to watch the show).
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