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No, Space Adventurer Cobra was not quite my first exposure to anime but it is, indirectly, what got me interested.
The first anime I ever saw, though I didn't know it at the time, was Battle of the Planets. This was when I was probably only around 6 years old and to me it just happened to be my favorite cartoon. I had no concept of what anime or Japanese animation was.
Fast forward a decade or so and I'm sitting on the couch flipping through channels on the TV. I'm passing by MTV when some interesting animation catches my eye. It turned out to be scenes from Space Adventurer Cobra (though I didn't know that at the time) and it was in a music video for 'Girlfriend' by Matthew Sweet. It was quite the serendipitous moment in that I can trace my love of both anime and of the music of Matthew Sweet to that moment.
Read more: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-introduction-to-anime.html
