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Crunchyroll Adds Space Adventure Cobra, Cat's Eye to Catalog

Media distribution service Cat's Eye television anime series to its catalog. Both anime are available for and free s in the United States and Canada, and Crunchyroll is streaming both anime with English subtitles.

The additions are the first of a six-part Library Expansion Project by Crunchyroll.

The 1982 Space Adventure Cobra series is based on Space Adventure Cobra - The Movie anime film opened alongside the series in the same year.

Crunchyroll describes the series:

Seeking reprieve from a painfully ordinary 9-to-5 existence, mild-mannered office worker Johnson visits the TM Corporation, a company that sells virtual dreams. In Johnson's dream adventure, he's the notorious space pirate Cobra! Accompanied by his android partner Lady Armaroid, Cobra fights the lowlife scum of the Pirate Guild by day and saves sultry sirens of space by night. After the journey is over, events unfold that bring reality into focus. His experience wasn't a dream at all – it was a reawakening of his buried past!

released the series on two DVD sets in 2014.

Crunchyroll previously Cobra The Animation television anime series.

The Cat's Eye television anime series is based on Tokyo Movie Shinsha animated the series.

Crunchyroll describes the series:

Cat's Eye is the most notorious group of art thieves in Japan. No one knows their identities, but for most of Tokyo, the mystery only heightens their allure. To bumbling detective Utsumi Toshio, Cat's Eye is a colossal pain in the neck. They outwit him and the rest of the police at every turn, making them look ridiculous. He would never dream of being in love with someone in Cat's Eye. Except he already is.

re-released the series on two DVDs in July and November 2014.