Mangouste Anim has announced that it has acquired the rights to a new animated work based on the Space Adventure Cobra franchise. The news comes courtesy of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market.
Caroline Cornot founded Mangouste Anim in France in 2020. In the past, it has distributed series such as Grendizer U throughout the country. Mangouste Anim will now make a new series based on Space Adventure Cobra. The series started in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1978-1984. It became a 31-episode anime, which you can watch now on YouTube.
Recently, Discotek Media released the anime on Blu-ray DVD. A game based on the series will also release on August 26. It will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store. The Steam page describes Space Adventure Cobra – The Awakening as follows:
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN A THRILLING ACTION-PLATFORM GAME AND HARNESS THE UNIQUE ABILITIES OF AN ICONIC ADVENTURER
Play as Cobra, the space pirate, in an action platformer. Along with Lady Armaroid, your loyal partner, and equipped with your iconic Psychogun, you must solve a mystery that could threaten the entire universe.
Travel from planet to planet to save three enigmatic sisters, whose fate is tied up with a fabulous treasure sought by the dreaded Space Pirate Guild.
You will need to shrewdly use Cobra’s weapons and gadgets to defeat your enemies and complete the levels filled with obstacles and traps, which won’t be an easy feat for our space rogue.
