France's Mangouste Anim Acquires Rights to Produce Animated Work for Space Adventure Cobra
Anime journalist Tadashi Sudo reported on Friday that the French production and distribution company Mangouste Anim has acquired the rights to produce an animated work based on Buichi Terasawa's Space Adventure Cobra manga and anime franchise. The news was originally announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market on Friday.Mangouste Anim was founded in 2020 in Paris. The company distributed the July 2024 anime Grendizer U in France.Terasawa published the Cobra manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1978 to 1984. The manga followed the titular Cobra, a man who can turn his left arm into a gun, and who is on the run from authorities and nefarious forces due to his mysterious past. The manga was adapted into a 31-episode television anime and film in 1982. The Space Adventure Cobra - The Movie anime opened in July 1982, three months before the television series premiered. Terasawa launched the sequel manga Cobra: Over the Rainbow on Kadokawa's Comic Walker and Nico Nico Manga websites in November 2019. Terasawa died in September 2023.Nozomi Entertainment released the TV anime on DVD, and the anime previously streamed on the company's YouTube channel and on Crunchyroll until Nozomi Entertainment's license expired. Discotek Media released the television anime on Blu-ray Disc. Discotek also released the Space Adventure Cobra anime film on DVD in 2012, on Blu-ray Disc in 2015, and on Ultra-High Definition (UHD) 4K Blu-ray Disc in 2019. Digital Media Rights' RetroCrush streaming service added the television anime in 2023.French game studio Microids will release Magic Pockets' Space Adventure Cobra - The Awakening side-scrolling game for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG.com on August 26.Source: Animation Business Journal (Tadashi Sudo)
