Space Adventure Cobra

Cobra (stylized as COBRA) is a manga and anime franchise by Buichi Terasawa.

Franchise History
It was first a manga that ran '74-'84 amassing 18 volumes. A sequel called Cobra: Seinaru Kishi Densetsu ran from '86-'88.

It entered the anime realm in 1982 with a 99 minute film called Cobra: Space Adventure in July '82. This spawned a 31 episode anime series called Space Cobra from October '82 to May '83.

The manga was relaunched as Space Adventure Cobra which built 11 volumes from 1995 to 2002. A spinoff called Space Adventure Cobra: Magic Doll started/ended later with some concurrent publishing, building 2 volumes from 2000 to 2006. During this time a video game was made in 2003.

After a long hiatus, it was relaunched with 2 OVA series. The 4-OVA series Cobra the Animation: The Psychogun released August 2008 to February 2009. The 2-OVA series Cobra the Space Pirate: Time Drive released from April to June 2009. Finally a 13-part TV series called Cobra the Animation was released in 2010.

Some other countries translated the TV series as Super Agent Cobra.