The Cockpit
Also known as: ザ・コクピット
The Cockpit is an OVA by MADHOUSE that premiered in Fall 1993. It is finished airing with 3 episodes of about 23 minutes each. Genres: Action, Drama. Average AniList score: 6.8/10.
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)
The Cockpit episodes
- Episode 1: Slipstream — aired October 22, 1993
- Episode 2: Sonic Boom Squadron
- Episode 3: Knight of the Iron Dragon — aired January 21, 1994
Main characters
- Lt. Rheindars (Main) — voiced by Kenyuu Horiuchi
- Melhenna (Main) — voiced by Emi Shinohara
- Ensign Nogami (Main) — voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa
- Soldier Utsunomiya (Main) — voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi
- Soldier Godal (Main) — voiced by Ichirou Nagai
- Narrator (Background) — voiced by Masaaki Okabe
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