Cobra the Animation: Rokunin no Yuushi Episode 1 Discussion

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Jan 4, 2010 12:39 PM

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kashim

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Quarkboy said:

JadeMatrix said:
So apparently not only does Cobra heal unusually quickly, but so do his shirts.

llamaben said:
It may be cheesy, but its GOOD CHEESE!

This.

Not only that, he can change outfits from a white suit to his red spandex while fall over drunk AND skydiving w/o a parachute... instantly. (did anyone else notice this?)

Considering that airing of this anime has been postponed many times... lazy people work in this studio, very lazy.

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Jan 4, 2010 1:49 PM

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hirahira

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lol @ anyone who is taking this show seriously

I like it. It's a lot of fun. It will probably be one of the best shows of this season.

Jan 4, 2010 11:28 PM

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conbini

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hirahira said:
It will probably be one of the best shows of this season.

lawl.

Jan 5, 2010 2:27 AM

#24

ddrcrono

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It amazes me how few people catch on to something that is self-satirizing.

If you take this thing seriously and criticize it on that basis, it's like getting offended from watching the Colbert Report because you think he's serious. (Interestingly enough, a lot of people DID take the Colbert Report seriously when it first aired). It's fine if you don't like satire, but don't dislike it because you think it's trying to run a serious plot of ANY kind.

Jan 5, 2010 2:33 AM

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kashim said:

Quarkboy said:

JadeMatrix said:
So apparently not only does Cobra heal unusually quickly, but so do his shirts.

llamaben said:
It may be cheesy, but its GOOD CHEESE!

This.

Not only that, he can change outfits from a white suit to his red spandex while fall over drunk AND skydiving w/o a parachute... instantly. (did anyone else notice this?)

Considering that airing of this anime has been postponed many times... lazy people work in this studio, very lazy.

Actually, not to defend the studio or anything, but the delay had to do with broadcast scheduling and funding, not production.
In fact episodes 1-7 are all basically finished which is unheard of for TV anime... i.e. they had finished a lot of them and then the broadcast got postponed.
The delays weren't because the animators were lazy (although that might still be true :) )

Jan 5, 2010 3:11 AM

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Hello Quarkboy, i want to ask you some questions .
how many episodes will this series ? ( 12 or 13 )
Osamu Dezaki no longer part of the project. He would make cobra rokunin yushi for the month of July 2009 but it was postponed.
I wonder why Osamu Dezaki no longer part of the staff . (though his big brother satoshi is president of the studio magic bus )
Otherwise, you say they have episodes in advance. It's funny because the cobra series rokunin no yushi scheduled for summer 2009 has nothing to do with this series. In fact, in cobra rokunin Yushi ( six heroes ) , it tells a different story which was spread over 13 episodes. While the cobra the animation tv series offers 6 different stories. ( golden gate, galaxy nights...)
I thought they abandoned the project cobra rokunin no yushi towards the end of
May 2009 and they immediately started working on this new project.

Jan 5, 2010 5:49 AM

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Quarkboy said:

Considering that airing of this anime has been postponed many times... lazy people work in this studio, very lazy.

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Jan 5, 2010 6:25 AM

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guwange said:
Hello Quarkboy, i want to ask you some questions .
how many episodes will this series ? ( 12 or 13 )
Osamu Dezaki no longer part of the project. He would make cobra rokunin yushi for the month of July 2009 but it was postponed.
I wonder why Osamu Dezaki no longer part of the staff . (though his big brother satoshi is president of the studio magic bus )
Otherwise, you say they have episodes in advance. It's funny because the cobra series rokunin no yushi scheduled for summer 2009 has nothing to do with this series. In fact, in cobra rokunin Yushi ( six heroes ) , it tells a different story which was spread over 13 episodes. While the cobra the animation tv series offers 6 different stories. ( golden gate, galaxy nights...)
I thought they abandoned the project cobra rokunin no yushi towards the end of
May 2009 and they immediately started working on this new project.

I don't really know. All I know is that they actually have materials ahead of time which is rare.

If I may hazard a guess, I suspect that these might have been planned as more OVAs originally (when the scripts were written), and rokunin yushi was planned as the TV series, but then they didn't get enough funding so decided to rework the future ovas they had already started working on into the TV series and scrapped rokunin no yushi.
Otherwise it would be pretty incredible for them to completely start from scratch only 6 months ago and finish so quickly.

Jan 5, 2010 8:09 AM

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OVA psychogun and time drive came from the manga color as galaxy nights. So it is possible that they had already worked on it to make other oav and then, they transfer this work to introduce it in tv serie .
A second hyppothèse is to say that if in 6 months, they are in advance, it may be because all the work on ova has been beneficial. Thus, the staff is already familiar with the universe of cobra and this is beneficial for the progress of work.
Otherwise, can you confirm number of episodes planned ? ( 12 or 13 )

Thank you for your availability .

Jan 5, 2010 9:53 AM

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Quarkboy

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guwange said:
OVA psychogun and time drive came from the manga color as galaxy nights. So it is possible that they had already worked on it to make other oav and then, they transfer this work to introduce it in tv serie .
A second hyppothèse is to say that if in 6 months, they are in advance, it may be because all the work on ova has been beneficial. Thus, the staff is already familiar with the universe of cobra and this is beneficial for the progress of work.
Otherwise, can you confirm number of episodes planned ? ( 12 or 13 )

Thank you for your availability .

I don't have any hard data for whether it's going to be 12 or 13. Rumors say 12.

Jan 5, 2010 2:14 PM

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Loved the original show, not sure what to think of this. The animation was a big part of the original's appeal, this one doesn't look as good and has really bad cg.

Jan 7, 2010 1:54 PM

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It reminded me of G.I. Joe a bit.

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Jan 8, 2010 5:56 AM

#33

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Never seen the old stuff before but I am quite familiar with the manga.
So I have notice that this show would not get the younger audience attention but I am not bothered by that much.

It was an okay first episode to me, good pace, and not so flashy action scene..

kashim said:

Not only that, he can change outfits from a white suit to his red spandex while fall over drunk AND skydiving w/o a parachute... instantly. (did anyone else notice this?)

it was very obvious..

Jan 11, 2010 12:11 AM

#34

VEE

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such a classic drawing. I wonder how many ppl will actually watch it. Not me.....

Jan 11, 2010 12:51 PM

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This is soooo bad, and still, for some reason, I really laughed at those incredibly stupid scenes...

Oh damn, guess it's kinda fun to watch this kind of crap every now and then (If I had the strength to finish akikan, this shouldn't be a problem).

Jan 11, 2010 3:47 PM

#36

Archos

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I thought it was a decent first episode. It wasn't anything terribly special, and the dialog was somewhat, but it wasn't trying to be serious. It was enjoyable and entertaining, just like a James Bond film.

4/5

May 22, 2010 10:00 AM

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Hahah that opening song. This might be fun.

Jan 18, 2017 3:15 PM

#38

Ulquiorra

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He really sucks at singing.
We are getting back to the origins, another planet is going to collide with the sun like in the movie.

Aug 31, 2018 1:50 PM

#39

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I have to get used to the new Cobra voice.

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Aug 17, 2021 5:10 AM

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Typical Cobra episode but they changed Cobra original VA and he was still alive when this anime was airing. Maybe he was too old.

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