We’ve now gotten our first look at Golden Axe’s animated television debut with the reveal trailer of the series.
The new Golden Axe animated series, originally announced for Comedy Central, is debuting exclusively on the Paramount+ video streaming service on September 16th, 2026. The show was officially announced two years ago as a ten episode series written by Mike McMahan (Star Trek: The Lower Decks, Solar Opposites) and Joe Chandler (American Dad!), who also serve as executive producers alongside SegaSammy’s CEO Haruki Satomi, Sega’s president and COO Shuji Utsumi, and Sega’s own Toru Nakahara. Animation is being done at Titmouse. (Dang!, The Legend of Vox Machina)
The show will, indeed, be an action comedy featuring the original game’s trio of heroes, Ax Battler (Voiced by Liam McIntyre), Tyris Flare (Lisa Gilroy), and Guilius Thunderhead (Matthew Rhys), as they’re joined by a new character who is delightfully underpowered and underprepared and has no business being on an epic quest but the actual heroes let him tag along anyway cause reasons: Hampton Squib (Danny Pudi). The foursome are also, surprisingly, joined by Chronos “Evil” Lait (Carl Tart) (You know. From Golden Axe III (1996))
You can see the actual trailer below past the break. (That’s what we like to call this blue, highly clickable text down here that says “Continue Reading”, cause that’s what we do around here. And then you just read all of it, cause I worked really hard researching and writing. OH! But also, watch the trailer, please.)
Here is the written synopsis on the show from the video description:
In an homage to SEGA’s iconic 1989 video game, Golden Axe follows legendary warriors Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead as they reunite to save Yuria from the evil giant Death Adder, who just won’t seem to stay dead. Their quest is complicated by Hampton Squib, an inexperienced and wildly underprepared adventurer whose dream of heroism far exceeds his abilities. Forced to work together despite their flaws, they must find a way to stop Death Adder once and for all.
Whoa. Just what I love to see in an animated adaptation of a classic video game: the heroes joined by a comedic cannon fodder fanboy and getting along in spite of their differences as they fight… stuff, I dunno, I hate video games, but mark your calendars to September 16th and get ready to watch this hot new series anyway!
So tell us what you think about the trailer. Are you sold on this direction the show is going in? Do you think Death Adder can be killed once and for all? Like, REALLY dead? Dead dead? Let us know in the comments below.
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why not?
That trailer definitely has the look and feel of the shows by the listed creators. Which is to say, it doesn’t look or feel anything like SEGA’s Golden Axe. It looks bad. Why does it have to be “funny?”
I don’t have and have no intention of getting Paramount+, and this definitely will not convince me.
That’s fair. I think the whole “Ultra casual, self aware, goofballs” shtick is played out too, and it’s a surprising angle for something like Golden Axe. I did still have fun matching the humor while writing the article, though.
I can understand some of peoples’ worries about this, but the amount of people willing to crap on this from the jump is a bit surprising to me. A dead-serious Golden Axe adaptation would be laughable; the game was never laugh-out-loud funny, but it’s a corny arcade game. “The village was on the back of a giant turtle,” and all the other terrible text-crawls, I mean come on.
What I DO think is valid concern/criticism would be “good lord I hope this isn’t just a slideshow of millennial humor and nothing else.” Hard to say from the trailer alone — guess we’ll see. Fingers crossed…
Please please please don’t be woke. Let us have something not destroyed by woke Americanism culture that we still have fond pre-woke 80s/90s memories of. I don’t want to see this end up becoming critiqued to pieces by the ‘CriticalDrinker’ on his YouTube channel.
Wouldn’t worry much, it’s Comedy Central, the folks behind South Park, yes their edge has dulled somewhat since the 90s and early 2000s, but not like most others, plus it has the backing of Paramount which also supports South Park and has a history with SEGA even if SEGA doesn’t itself identify much with American Yank Doodle culture like wokery. Doesn’t look too bad so far, but time will tell.
That CriticalDrinker guy from Scotland takes no prisoners lol
Slow your roll, MAGA cry baby. This doesn’t look “woke,” it just doesn’t look good in general.
it looks OK… though I will admit Tyrus yelling out SEGA as a battle cry did give me a good chuckle. But other than that I really don’t know how to feel about this. To qoute Mell Brooks: “Hope for the best but expect the worst!”.
That was one of my favourite bits, important for the SEGA characters to acknowledge their native heritage identity from SEGA, and it can lead to more fan service.