Is The Cockpit good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. The Cockpit (Knight of the Iron Dragon) is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 1993 by Jacom, Madhouse: 3 episodes, about 1.2 hours in total, finished, 7.13/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 3
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 1.2 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Fall 1993
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Jacom, Madhouse, Visual '80, Visual 80
- Score
- 7.13/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, drama, episodic, historical, military, psychological, seinen, tragedy, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Kamikaze Stories.
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · drama · historical · military · psychological · seinen · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of The Cockpit?
- About 1.2 hours for all 3 episodes at 24 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 2 evenings.
- How many episodes does The Cockpit have?
- 3 episodes of 24 min.
- Is The Cockpit finished?
- Yes, The Cockpit is finished (3 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is The Cockpit good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. The Cockpit is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is The Cockpit listed?
- The Cockpit is on AniList (id 2500) and MyAnimeList (id 2500); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists