Season 1

Space Cobra (1982), Season 1 is a 31-episode sci-fi action anime you can watch online on iFILM — the full run of the galaxy's cockiest pirate, cigar clenched in his teeth, a Psycho Gun hidden inside his arm.

It opens on a man who erased his own past. Johnson, a dull office worker, walks into a dream theater and remembers he is the legendary Cobra, long thought dead. From there the season sends him back out with his android partner Lady Armaroid and the ship Tortuga: prison breaks on Cido, sand planets, snow gorillas, and the cold-shining nemesis Crystal Boy who keeps turning up across the run. The Pirate Guild wants him dead, the Milky Way Patrol wants him caught, and the back stretch builds toward a reckoning with the tyrant Salamander.

Made by TMS from Buichi Terasawa's manga, this is eighties space-opera pulp at its most carefree — brash, funny, never weighed down by drama. If you want retro adventure over heavy plot, this season fits. Stream Space Cobra Season 1 online on iFILM.