Heads up, Space Cowboys! Another anime collaboration is happening in Blizzard Entertainment’s first-person shooter game, Overwatch 2. The company teamed up with anime studio Sunrise to create fun character designs reimagining the five heroes of Overwatch as characters from the anime.
Previously, the game collaborated with the popular anime One Punch Man. This month, they are teaming up with the classic anime hit Cowboy Bebop, giving players exclusive highlight intros, emotes, and, of course, Cowboy Bebop-inspired skins beginning March 12.
Blizzard went so far as to create a promotional trailer that mirrors the iconic Cowboy Bebop opening sequence, “Tank.” The song is composed and arranged by Yoko Kanno.
Blizzard Entertainment recently uploaded a new gameplay trailer highlighting those skins and voice lines. The most notable one is from the character Ashe saying the iconic Cowboy Bebop line, “See you, Space Cowboy.”
Here are the following characters getting the Cowboy Bebop-inspired skins:
- Ashe as Faye Valentine (with a Red Tail-inspired skin for her robot BOB)
- Mauga as Jet Black
- Sombra as Ed
- Wrecking Ball as Ein
- Cassidy as Spike Spiegel
From Overwatch 2 Associate Director Aimee Dennett:
“We’re honored to be collaborating with one of the most respected anime series of all time in Cowboy Bebop,” Overwatch 2 associate director Aimee Dennett said in a statement. “This collaboration is a wonderful way to pay homage to the legendary stories, art, animation, and music of the Cowboy Bebop series. We hope its fans and our players have as much fun with what we’re bringing to Overwatch 2 as we did in creating it.”
Overwatch 2 is free-to-play (with optional money transactions for items and skins) and is currently available for Windows PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X. If you miss watching the Cowboy Bebop anime, it’s currently streaming on Crunchyroll and Netflix. Cowboy Bebop is a renowned Japanese anime series created by Shinichiro Watanabe and first aired in Japan from April 3 to June 26, 1998, consisting of 26 episodes.
Source: Polygon
Does this collab make you want to play Overwatch 2 again? As Spike? Or Faye Valentine? Let us know in the comments below!
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