helpopf.blogg.se - COBRA by Buichi Terasawa

All Planets Are Earth-Like: Most of the planets in the story are livable and thriving with strange creatures.

In the movie, however, she's now one of Cobra's allies and almost none of her villainy from the TV series is shown.

Adaptational Heroism: Sandra, in the original series, was the Arc Villain of the Ultimate Weapon arc and a greedy woman with delusions of grandeur who would have her own female members killed for the slightest defiance.

Action Girl: Lady and many secondary characters.

But they also stand out rather sharply with the original 2D-art. Those updated elements are still the work of Buichi Terasawa, and are certainly gorgeous - going easily into Scenery Porn.

2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The late 1990s' full-color re-edition of the manga makes heavy use of CG imagery for backgrounds, vehicles and monsters.

Space Adventures Cobra provides examples of: Not to be confused with The Cobra Trilogy, which also involves space adventures. The latter one saw a Western release on the Sega CD. Earlier there had also been Cobra - Kokuryo's Legend and The Space Adventure, two menu-driven adventure games that saw release on the PC Engine. It is a Time Crisis spinoff and features a card system that allows the player to save their records and earn unlocks. It also spawned a Seinen Web Comic sequel named Cobra: Over the Rainbow, which is also serialized in Comic Hu magazine and is penned by the same Buichi Terasawa himself.Ī Rail Shooter video game adaptation, Cobra: The Arcade, was developed and released by Namco in 2005 exclusively for arcades. Preserving the character design helped a lot too. What is even more awesome, in the recent sequel titled Cobra the Animation they even recruited the same voice actors in Japan for both Cobra (Nachi Nozawa) and Lady Armaroid ( Yoshiko Sakakibara). An anime sequel and an OVA were released in 2009-2010.īoth adaptations were closely watched by author of the original manga, Buichi Terasawa, and preserved both the plot and style of the original. A Space Opera / Science Fantasy manga by Buichi Terasawa published between 19, and later adapted to a feature-length anime film and then an anime TV series. Here you have it - Space Adventure Cobra.

Give it an awesome, very Eighties female vocal opening and ending.

Make it all into manga and anime adaptation. Make the overall tone a bit Darker and Edgier, slightly increase the amount of naked female body, keep the funny level the same and give the main character an Arm Cannon. Imagine a book about space adventures from The '80s.