ANI-MOVIES, *Johnny Destiny: Space Ninja

Often sighted as being the very first anime knockoff movie, Space Black Knight was a Korean production released during the same year that the original Mobile Suit Gundam. Despite some of the character designs being blatant Xeroxes of various Gundam characters, the only connection to existing other anime might be some similar starship designs to various Leiji Matsumoto anime. The film was released on dubbed VHS titled Johnny Destiny, Space Ranger, but labeled Johnny Destiny, Space Ninja for retail, then years later redubbed and relabeled Captain Of Cosmos. The later dub is currently available online titled Ronin Mecha 1, which is weird considering there's no real giant robots involved, especially since its a Gundam ripoff.

Set in the distant year of 2021, the film follows your standard cheesy Silver Age comic book about a space "ranger" who has to stop an evil space queen and her army of blue centaurs from taking over the galaxy. The opposing force has little in the way of armaments, even though everyone here seems to have the ability to breath in space. Aside from a lazy spaceship battle near the end, the title character's chasing the queen into the bowels of her exploding planet takes up a good portion of rest of the film.

The original Johnny Destiny dub is slightly more tolerable than the Captain Of Cosmos take, althought it sounds like George C. Scott is doing a few voice overs in the first take. Johnny Destiny himself is a simplistic rip on Amuro dressed as Char from Mobile Suit Gundam, which might be a novel idea for old school otaku to seek it out, your better off at least probably watching the second dub which is available free online.