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''Cosmic Fantasy'' was the flagship RolePlayingGame franchise from Creator/TelenetJapan's Laser Soft division, created exclusively for the Platform/PCEngine's CD attachment, with one CompilationRerelease for the Platform/SegaCD and masterminded by manga artist Creator/KazuhiroOchi.

Like Sega's own RPG franchise ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar'', ''Cosmic Fantasy'' combined anime presentation with a [[ScienceFantasy mixture of fantasy and sci-fi]]. However, by utilizing the CD format, ''CF'' was among the first such games to rely on fully animated and voice-acted cutscenes not unlike Nihon Falcom's popular ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' games or Game Arts' ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' games.

It's also fairly notorious for being one strong case of NoExportForYou -- only [[SequelFirst the second game]] ever saw a release outside Japan, thanks to Working Designs. In 2024, publisher Edia, who have also been porting other items from Telenet's catalog, released a localized port of the first Switch collection in the west.

Games in this series include:

# ''Cosmic Fantasy: Bōken Shōnen Yū'' (1990)
# ''Cosmic Fantasy 2'' (1991)
# ''Cosmic Fantasy 3: Bōken Shōnen Rei'' (1992)
# ''Cosmic Fantasy Stories'' (1992) (The only non-Turbo release; remake of the first two games for the Platform/SegaCD)
# ''Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Totsunyū-hen'' (1994)
# ''Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Gekitō-hen'' (1994)
# ''Cosmic Fantasy Collection'' (2022) (An UpdatedRerelease of the first two games for the Platform/NintendoSwitch)
# ''Cosmic Fantasy Collection 2'' (2023) (An UpdatedRerelease of the last five games, also for Switch)
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AllInARow: Your party dutifully follows behind you in the overworld.
* AnimalMecha: Marley, a robotic cat.
* TheAnimeOfTheGame
* CatFolk: Very common through the franchise
* CoolMask: Galam.
* OneGameForThePriceOfTwo: The fourth game splits the adventure between the protagonists of 1 and 2.
* RescueThePrincess: Van for Laura.
* ScienceFantasy
* SpacePirates: Or '''Cosmic''' Pirates, rather.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Galam's plan.
* UpdatedRerelease: ''Stories'' is such for the first two games. The first two games were later rereleased for the Nintendo Switch in 2022, but only in Japan.