The Cockpit
Details
- Also known as: ザ・コクピット, The Cockpit: Kamikaze Stories, Seisouken Kiryuu, Slipstream, Onsoku Raigekitai
- Type: OVA
- Status: Finished Airing
- Score: 6.8
- Episodes: 3
- Genres: Action, Drama
- Studio: MADHOUSE, Jacom, Visual 80
- Aired: 1993-10-22 to 1994-01-21
- Season: Fall 1993
Synopsis
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: Anime News Network)
Episodes
- Episode 1: Slipstream (1993-10-22)
- Episode 2: Sonic Boom Squadron (1994-01-21)
- Episode 3: Knight of the Iron Dragon (1994-01-21)
Characters and voice actors
- Lt. Rheindars (main character) · Japanese voice: Kenyuu Horiuchi · English voice: Richard Cansino
- Ensign Nogami (main character) · Japanese voice: Hikaru Midorikawa · English voice: Kirk Thornton
- Soldier Godal (main character) · Japanese voice: Ichirou Nagai
- Melhenna (main character) · Japanese voice: Emi Shinohara · English voice: Mona Marshall
- Soldier Utsunomiya (main character) · Japanese voice: Kappei Yamaguchi
Opening and ending songs
- Ending 1: Kanashii Toki wa Itsumo · Hiroyuki Matsuda