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“Three WWII anime shorts: German pilot's atomic bomb dilemma, Japanese suicide pilot, and soldiers' desperate promise amid war.”
The Cockpit
ザ・コクピット
7.18
3,773 rank · 16,706 viewers · 73 favorites
Adult Cast
Historical
Military
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Synopsis
Three WWII anime shorts: German pilot's atomic bomb dilemma, Japanese suicide pilot, and soldiers' desperate promise amid war.
1. Slipstream About a Luftwaffe pilot who must choose between his duty to his country: to guard a bomber loaded with Germany's final hope of victory... the world's first atomic bomb... or his duty to the world: to let it fall in flames to enemy Spitfires and be a footnote in history. Of course, things are complicated by the plane's other cargo... the woman he loves. 2. Sonic Boom Squadron Near the end of the war, Japan has implemented a new weapon -- a human-piloted rocket-propelled flying bomb. Aboard a bomber carrying one of these, young Ensign Nogami awaits his chance to die as a "cherry blossom", a suicide pilot. In a few hours, he will die. The date of his death is set: August 6, 1945. 3. Knight of the Iron Dragon Two soldiers attempt to reach an air base in order to fulfill a promise despite the fact that it might have been rendered moot in the reality of war. (Source: ANN)
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Derived from 9 sampled reviews
6.4
/10
What 9 viewers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.42
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.42 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.3 pts
Recommenders 7.3 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 0.56
Running avg · Jan 2009 → Nov 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Three simple, nicely written, individual short stories from WW2. They communicate the stories of ordinary soldiers, ordinary men caught up in the madness of that war, and the decisions they have to...”
- 7 “The Cockpit is an OVA series that consists of three different stories that are all interconnected by an anti-war theme. Because of this, the narratives of each episode are rather weak, as there is...”
- 8 “The Cockpit Review There are no spoilers in this review I just completed the three part OVA The Cockpit. An anime about three different theoretically possible World War 2 scenarios. Story The story...”
Verbosity
Short · 22%
Medium · 33%
Long · 44%
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A Ova Production
Madhouse.- Format 3 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 12m all episodes
- Aired Oct 1993 – Jan 1994
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-2292 catalog
Licensed by
- Urban Vision Licensor