The Cockpit (ザ・コクピット, Za Kokupitto) is a Japanese original video animation series, based on Leiji Matsumoto's World War II manga Battlefield.
The bomber is to carry his childhood sweetheart, her scientist father and a fearsome secret cargo - a Nazi atomic bomb - and for the mission, he is given a prototype Ta 152H1, following complaints about the high altitude performance of his Fw 190.
The night before the mission, Rheindars's sweetheart begs him to let enemy planes destroy the bomber before "humanity sells its soul to the Devil forever", even though she and her father will die with it.
However, to ensure the nuclear bomb cannot be used in the future, he allows the final Spitfire to destroy the bomber before downing it, then flies off, declaring himself as "the man who did not sell his soul to the Devil."
On August 5, 1945, a Japanese squadron of G4M "Betty" bombers, each carrying an Ohka and escorted by A6M2 Reisen fighters, attempts a raid on an American aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific Ocean.
A Hellcat pursues Nogami's bomber, and inflicts serious damage, but the latter is saved by the intervention of one of the Reisen pilots, who crashes his aircraft into it, destroying both planes.
Having survived the collision, the battle group's commander finds the photograph of Nogami's girlfriend that he had been carrying, which was launched into the carrier's bridge when the Ohka crashed into its superstructure.
However, it's not clear whether the niche appeal of the content in general, its controversial "positive" portrayal of Axis soldiers, loss of the license, or all of the above, are the reasons behind its lack of a bilingual release on DVD.