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Cobra The Animation: Time Drive (OAV)

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Alternative title:
COBRA THE ANIMATION タイム・ドライブ (Japanese)
コブラ タイム・ドライブ (Japanese)
Plot Summary: When Armaroid Lady's body starts to disappear, Cobra must dive 20 years into the past to discover how to save his partner.
User Ratings: 62 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Excellent: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Very good: 13 votes (sub:12, raw:1)
 Good: 20 votes (sub:19, raw:1)
 Decent: 10 votes (sub:10)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 108 users, rank: #5055 (of 9585)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.097 (Good), std. dev.: 1.7844, rank: #3313 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 7.141 (Good), rank: #2961 (of 9708) (seen all: 7.22 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.203 (Good+), rank: #2515 (of 7289)
Number of episodes: 2
Vintage: 2009-04-24
Release dates: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Time Drive" by Sasja Antheunis
Ending Theme:
"Kimi ga Warau nara" (君が微笑うなら) by Shigeru Matsuzaki
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Cobra The Animation - Complete Collection (Sub.Blu-ray) 2016-10-18 (from $88.00)
DVD (Region 1)
    Cobra The Animation - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2016-10-18 (from $23.33)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Script: Mitsuyo Suenaga
Storyboard: Kenichi Maejima (OP/ED+Eps. 1, 2)
Episode Director: Kenichi Maejima (eps 1-2)
Music: Yoshihiro Ike
Original creator: Buichi Terasawa
Character Design:
Ippei Masui (assistance)
Keizō Shimizu
Chief Animation Director: Keizō Shimizu
Animation Director: Keizō Shimizu (OP/ED+Eps. 1, 2)
Mechanical design: Shinichi Suzuki
Sound Director: Keiichirō Miyoshi
Director of Photography: Hideo Okazaki
2nd Key Animation:
Akihiro Fukui (ep 2)
Asumi Yoshikura (ep 1)
Shohei Hosotani (ep 2)
Yoshihide Fukushima (ep 2)
Yui Kaneda (ep 1)
3D Animation:
An Fukube
Kunio Mogi
Animation producer: Satoshi Dezaki
Art Setting: Akio Shimada (Kobayashi Production)
Assistant Animation Director: Keiko Yamamoto (ep 1)
Assistant producer: Shō Tanaka
CG Special Effects: Masanori Kisoi
Color design: Mieko Seki
Editing: Toshio Henmi
Finish Check:
Senichi Sugiura (eps 1-2)
Yukiko Kiyokawa (eps 1-2)
In-Between Check:
Aimi Ishida (ep 2)
Nozomu Kuwashima (eps 1-2)
Yasuhiko Uetake (ep 1)
Key Animation:
Akane Sakai (OP/ED)
Ayumi Tsukamoto
Chiharu Kataoka (OP/ED)
Dong Sik Ok (YABES; ep 2)
Hae-Sook Kim (HANIL Animation; ep 2)
Heung Guk Kim (YABES; ep 1)
Heung Ik Jun (HANIL Animation; eps 1-2)
Hiroki Kusuda (ep 1)
Hiroyuki Okuno (ep 1)
Ippei Masui (OP/ED)
Ju Seok Kim (YABES; eps 1-2)
Jun-Oh Kim (HANIL Animation; ep 2)
Kanami Nakao (OP/ED)
Kazuyuki Ikai
Keiko Yamamoto
Kōji Kataoka (ep 1)
Makoto Itō (ep 1)
Norihiro Sasaki (ep 1)
Satoshi Sakai (ep 2)
Seong Min Shin (YABES; ep 1)
Sin Hyeong Kim (YABES; eps 1-2)
Sung Jong Seo (YABES; eps 1-2)
Tadashi Fukuda
Yong Ju Kim (YABES; eps 1-2)
Yoshiki Mizuno (ep 1)
Young-Hoon Kim (YABES; eps 1-2)
Yukihiro Kobayashi (ep 1)
Yūzō Tomizawa (ep 1)
Planning: Michio Suzuki
Production Advancement: Ryō Yamada (eps 1-2)
Production Business: Shinobu Tsunaki
Production Coordination:
Akio Naemura (A-girl Rights)
Manabu Kose (A-girl Rights)
Rinko Itō (A-girl Rights)
Production producer:
Kazumi Koide
Tetsuo Mikami
Setting Production:
Rumi Ueno
Suguru Ichikawa
Supervision: Buichi Terasawa
Theme Song Arrangement:
Junjirou Seki (ED)
Yoshihiro Ike (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Takeo Miratsu (ED)
Yoshihiro Ike (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Miyu Yuzuki (ED)
Sasja Antheunis (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Sasja Antheunis (OP)
Shigeru Matsuzaki (ED)
Nachi Nozawa as Cobra
Naoya Uchida as Cobra (past)

Chifuyu as Scheherazade
Hiroko Ushida as Paloma
Jūrōta Kosugi as Manidō
Kanako Tōjō as Layla
Minami Takayama as Emeralda Sanborn
Naomi Kusumi as Giros
Yoshiko Sakakibara as Armaroid Lady

Hiroomi Sugino as Bora (ep 1)
Ryūsaku Chijiwa as Paloma's brother
Takeshi Maruyama as
Mizuna (ep 2)
Rome (ep 1)
Yukihiro Misono as Soldier
Japanese companies
3D Graphics: AMGA
Animation Production: Magic Bus
Art Setting: Kobayashi Production
Background Art: Studio Tulip
Editing: Jay Film
Key Animation:
Hanil Animation
YABES
Music Production: Columbia Music Entertainment
Sound Production: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
English staff
English cast
Translation: Sam Pinansky
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford
Producer: John Ledford

Disc Authoring: Joel McCray
Menu Design: Keiwing Chong
Packaging Design: Keiwing Chong
Production Coordination: Janice Williams
Production manager: Luke Patterson
Song Translation: Ryoko Saito
Subtitle Timing: Sam Pinansky
Subtitling: Jordan Hemann (Sentai Filmworks)
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
(none)
English companies
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (expired)
HIDIVE (Subtitled)
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production: Sentai Studios
French cast
French staff
ADR Director: Jacques Albaret

Gabrielle Jeru as Armanoïde

Gabrielle Jeru as Emeralda
Marie Diot as Sherazade

Jacques Albaret as Magellan
Loïc Houdré as Bola
Marie Diot as Bouncer

French companies
Distributor: KAZÉ

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