The legendary arcade game "Golden Axe" will be adapted into an anime, which is not expected! Produced by CBS Studios, USA

Sega announced that the game "Golden Axe" will be animated by Comedy Central and produced by CBS Studios in the United States. (Image: Mega Drive arcade version of "Golden Axe")

Golden Axe" was first released as an arcade title in 1989, and has become a world-famous game series with eight installments released in Japan and abroad. The game is a fantasy action game set in a world of swords and sorcery, where the protagonists, who have lost the lives of their relatives to demons who possess the "Golden Axe," set out on a journey to defeat them.

製作はCBSスタジオのアニメーション部門であるCBSEyeAnimationProductions、ソニー・ピクチャーズテレビジョンおよびオリジナル・フィルムが共同で行い、「ジ・アメリカンズ」でエミー賞ドラマシリーズ部門主演男優賞を受賞するマシュー・リスを The film is directed by Danny Pudi ("Comic Carre! ), Lisa Gilroy ("Jury Duty: 17 Days in Jury Duty," "InteriorChinatown"), Liam McIntyre ("Spartacus" series, "The Flash"), Carl Tartt ("GrandCrew," "Star Trek: Lower Deck") and more.

Mike McMahan ("Star Trek: Lower Deck") and Joe Chandler ("American Dad") will co-write and executive produce the first episode, with Chandler serving as showrunner.

From SEGA, Harunori Satomi, President and Group CEO of SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS CORPORATION; Shuji Utsumi, President and COO of SEGA Corporation; producer of the "Sonic the Movie" film series and "Bare Knuckle," and TV series "Knuckles. Toru Nakahara, executive producer, and Neal H. Moritz, Pavan Shetty and Toby Usher from the original films will serve as executive producers. The animation studio is Titmouse, the company behind "Big Mouth" and other films, with Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Antonio Canovio, and Ben Kalina as executive producers.