I have to admit, it’s been a while since I watched a series that I considered a guilty pleasure and actually enjoyed. With series like these, I just have one thing I’m looking for. It’s obvious that the characters in this show are just shallow stereotypes, and there’s no way for the story to make sense, so instead I’m just looking for one thing: creativity. And that’s where this show delivers. I have no idea how faithful this series is to the Cobra manga, and despite the flawed storytelling I’m at least glad that they’re not shying away from strange ideas, and don’t try to play this series as safe as possible, just because of the financial crisis.
The villainness in this episode was just hilariously incompetent. At first it seemed like a nice idea for her to pretend to be nice to Cobra later, but then she actually tried to kill him. By pushing him over the edge of a boat. Despite knowing fully well that Cobra can breathe under water. She never even stops to think, and instead just keeps going on with her imaginary evil laugh, for Cobra to take plenty of time to shoot him. I also loved her reasoning: men are nothing but egoistic pigs. Overgeneralization FTW!
There are so many scientific holes into that story of the frozen women in the underwater current, but I have to admit: it’s a pretty neat idea. It was neatly built up, overall an exciting episode and while the visual direction wasn’t exactly up to Osamu Dezaki’s standards it still was fresh and imaginative, so I’m not complaining.
Rating: (Enjoyable)
Yes,it’s very faithful to the manga version. And I repeat again, Osamu Dezaki not part of the staff.
Osamu Dezaki led the first serie space adventure cobra (1982) which has a very good achievement and an excellent soundtrack (better than Yoshihiro Ike) by Kentaro Haneda.
Yeah, that’s what I tried to say: if Osamu Dezaki was part of this series’ staff then he could have made it look even better.
Yes, even if Osamu Dezaki not part of the project, it’s still a good serie with charismatic hero, good idea and creativity .
Otherwise, it is explained in the first serie ( 1982 ) why he can breathe underwater . In fact, as James Bond, he has gadgets and breathe underwater through his cigar that he calls ” oxcygar ” beacause thera are oxygen inside .
According to ANN Dezaki is involved as a writer and storyboard artist (hence the return of the dramatic freeze frames).
Blair: that’s the thing; apparently that’s a mistake of ANN.
There’s a need for incompetent antagonists.