![]() I really don’t think the 5 volumes of the italian edition contains all the 18 volumes of the original edition… I ask myself why but well… the italian edition is from Edizioni Playpress edited 22 years ago (1992) and well i just thank them to have the possibility to know this manga. The fresh spirit of a young japanese male full of testosterone and kaiju monsters in his head! If you want manbeasts, if you want sexy and deadly ladies wearing spandex, if you want laser shootings and space ridings, then you need to read this. The drawing and the story are immature and the storyline is a bit messy, but THIS is the thing i mostly appreciated in this manga. : COBRA: The Psychogun Vol.1 eBook : Terasawa, Buichi: Kindle Store. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading COBRA: The Psychogun Vol.1. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. I suppose the author Terasawa Buichi was a young boy who watched all these movies and then decided to make a crazy and violent story of what he has seen. COBRA: The Psychogun Vol.1 - Kindle edition by Terasawa, Buichi. ![]() Well this is a cyberpunk style manga (something between sci-fi and pulp) i may say between Star Wars, Escape from New York and Blade Runner, all mixed in a blender with more violence. ![]() I didn’t expected to find this great manga, coming to me from the late ’70s, unfortunatly not really famous in Italy, i think italian people could barely remember (as me) the anime OAV version on Yamato Video in VHS. ![]() I luckily discovered this “Space Adventure Cobra” during my constant research of horror/grotesque/cyberpunk/violent stories represented in manga format. ![]()
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