Space Adventure Cobra coming to DVD

Based on the comic books by Buichi Terasawa, the classic anime feature from the creators of Astro Boy, Lupin The Third and Golgo 13, the swashbuckling intergalactic fantasy Space Adventure Cobra blasts onto DVD for the first time ever on 4th August 2008 courtesy of Manga Entertainment.

A distant galaxy in a distant future…

Three identical triplets, Jane, Dominique and Catherine, are the only survivors of a dead civilization they were born to rule. To revive their planet, the three sisters must find and unite with the one man they all love and return home. In the meantime, Jane has taken up employment as a bounty hunter and is seeking the most notorious space pirate in the known universe, Cobra, the only person ever to have escaped the wrath of the Mafia Guild and its powerful leader, Crystal Boy.

When Cobra and Jane accidentally bump into each other in a bar, romantic sparks immediately begin to fly and Jane quickly forgets about the price on Cobra's head, choosing instead to enlist him in rescuing her sister, Dominique, who has been kidnapped by Crystal Boy. Unknown to the pair, however, Dominique isn't quite ready to be rescued. In fact, she's become quite taken by her captor in more ways than one.

Never a guy to turn an attractive woman (or three!) down, and with his own score to settle with Crystal Boy, Cobra is more than happy to lend a helping hand - it just so happens to be a hand armed with an awesome mental-energy blaster called a Psycho-gun. As Cobra learns more about Crystal Boy's nefarious plans to rule the universe, not to mention the truth about his new squeeze and her sisters, he quickly realises that the future of the galaxy lies in his more than capable hands.

‘Star Wars' meets ‘Barbarella' in SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA, a mind-blowing and hugely entertaining animated space opera packed with unfeasibly pneumatic heroines, psychedelic drug-inspired imagery, cracking cosmic combat sequences, a Darth Vader-like villain and a retro-styled, wise-cracking hero for whom saving the universe is about as taxing as a walk in the park.