A bored salaryman gets one perfect life as a space pirate, then wakes up to find out it was real. The show doesn't waste time on melancholy, it runs straight into the next adventure, dragging Johnson between two worlds that both feel like they're slipping away. Lady Armaroid is his anchor in the chaos, a partner who grounds every ridiculous heist and bar fight and narrow escape with genuine presence. The 1982 animation moves with confidence most modern shows fake. What gets you is the quiet moment after you realize: he's not going back to being Johnson, and the show knows he'd rather die in space than sit at that desk ever again.

A bored office worker named Johnson turns to a company selling virtual dreams to escape his dull routine, only to discover the adventure was no fantasy but a buried memory: he is Cobra, a legendary space pirate feared by the authorities and hated by the Pirate Guild. After a run-in with Guild boss Vaiken at a casino awakens the Psycho Gun hidden in his left arm, Cobra reunites with his android partner Lady Armaroid. Armed with the most feared weapon in the universe, he leaves hiding to take on the Guild's interstellar mafia, helping those its members have wronged while chasing love, fortune and fame across the galaxy. The result is a sci-fi action adventure of space pirates, gunplay and a hero reclaiming his true identity.