| Cosmo Warrior Zero | |
Cover of the first Cosmo Warrior Zero DVD volume.
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| コスモウォーリアー零 (Kosumo Wōriā Zero) | |
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| Genre | Adventure Science fiction Space opera |
| Created by | Leiji Matsumoto |
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| Publisher | Taito |
| Directed by | Katsushi Murakami |
| Produced by | Doctor Serial Nishioka |
| Designed by | Katsumi Itabashi (mechanical) |
| Genre | Third-person shooter |
| Platform | PlayStation, PC |
| Released | May 18, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-05-18) (PlayStation), May 17, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-05-17) (PC) |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kazuyoshi Yokota |
| Produced by | Shunji Namiki |
| Written by | Dr. Serial Nishioka |
| Music by | Germiniart High Quality |
| Studio | Vega Entertainment |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo (TX Network) |
| Original run | 26 July 2001 – 28 September 2001 |
| Episodes | 15 |
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Cosmo Warrior Zero (コスモウォーリアー零, Kosumo Wōriā Zero) is a science fiction third-person shooter video game released by Taito. It was adapted into an anime television series in 2001.
The long war between the planet Earth and the machine men is finally over, resulting in a peace that is more a victory for the machine men than the Earth. Warius Zero lost his family in the war to the machinemen but despite this he still is a member of the Earth fleet that is now working in concert with the machine men. His ship, made up of both humans and machine men, has been given a near impossible task: capture the space pirate Captain Harlock. While Zero struggles to accomplish this task, evidence begins to surface that the peace between machine men and Earth may not be as it seems.
After having his wife and child disappear in the battle between the humans and Machine men, Zero has no choice but to serve Earth's government as a Captain of second rate ships. After a run-in with the legendary Captain Harlock, Zero is given the new task of hunting down the space pirate. With his new controversial crew of machine men and humans and his old ship, the Karyū (Fire Dragon), Zero sets out to complete his mission and to keep his crew from fighting. After meeting Harlock, Zero has more of an appreciation towards him and stills believes in him even after he sees him attack civilians. Later on in the series, Zero and his first officer Marina Oki grow feelings for each other and end up falling in love.
Leiji Matsumoto's other older works were referenced in this series:
Helen McCarthyin500 Essential Anime Movies praised the screenplay and commented that "very few writers handle doomed heroism as well as Matsumoto".[1]
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