Golden Axe is Sega's 1989 arcade brawler, now an adult animated comedy on Paramount+. Google Search interest for the keyword golden axe sits at 97 of 100 for the week of September 26 2026. That reading is up 16.87% from 83 on September 19 and up 169.44% from 36 on August 29, per Trends MCP get_growth on google search pulled September 28 2026. The 261-week series opened at 13 on October 2 2021 and now peaks at 97. Same-week 2025 was 20. Same-week 2024 was 17. Wikipedia dates the Paramount+ drop to September 16 2026, with all 10 episodes at once. YouTube for the same keyword is 8 this week, so this page charts the search.
About Golden Axe
Golden Axe began as a Sega side-scrolling arcade beat-em-up released in 1989 by Sega, with Makoto Uchida as primary developer, and Paramount+ dropped a 10-episode adult animated comedy of the same name on September 16 2026, with all episodes at once.
Wikipedia lists Ax Battler, Tyris Flare, and Gilius Thunderhead as the original trio fighting Death Adder in Yuria. Variety on April 17 2024 named Mike McMahan as co-creator of the Comedy Central order, with Matthew Rhys as Gilius, Danny Pudi as newcomer Hampton Squib, Lisa Gilroy as Tyris, Liam McIntyre as Ax Battler, and Carl Tart as Chronos Evil Lait. Wikipedia now records CBS Eye Animation, Sony Pictures Television, Original Film, and Titmouse as producers, with Paramount+ as the home after that Comedy Central shift. A Sega Corporation release dated August 21 2026 confirmed the Wednesday September 16 exclusive. A separate untitled Golden Axe game was teased at The Game Awards in December 2023. Mega Man is the other 1980s game query on this site.
What the time series shows
Google Search interest for golden axe is 97 for the week of September 26 2026, up 16.87 percent from 83 on September 19, on a 261-week series whose all-time high of 97 printed that same week, one Saturday after the Paramount Plus drop.
Last eight weekly prints are 21, 22, 58, 36, 26, 23, 83, and 97. Trailer week printed 58 on August 22, then faded to 36, 26, and 23 before the September 16 drop hit 83 on September 19 and 97 on September 26. Absolute change from August 29 to September 26 is 61 points, against 10 points from 26 on July 25 to 36 on August 29. Same-week 2025 was 20, 2024 was 17, and 2023 was 14, so this 97 is 385.0% above last year. Ninety-day change from 21 on June 27 is +361.9%. A prior high printed 35 on December 9 2023. The chart window starts September 28 2024. Google Search data is the source page for this index.
Why the page charts Google Search
A 1989 arcade name that people type after a streaming premiere should be checked on search first, and Google Search for this keyword is the series that still clears 25 percent over 30 days with a readable two-spike shape that YouTube at 8 does not match.
That source printed 97 on September 26, up 16.87% from 83 over 7 days and up 169.44% from 36 over 30 days, with last-52 week-over-week sample standard deviation 44.07%. YouTube for the same keyword is 8 on September 26, up 33.33% from 6 over 7 days and up 60.0% from 5 over 30 days, a thin clip index that clears the growth bar but sits 89 points below Search. Google Shopping prints 14 the same week with a warning that over 90 percent of the underlying signal is zeros, so the cart series is dropped as noise. Search is the series that matches the premiere story and still has the 385.0% year-over-year lift. Same-day Google Search neighbors: shinobi 51 (+10.87% over 30 days from 46), mega man 64 (-5.88% from 68), nintendo 46 (+2.22% from 45), streets of rage 41 (-18.0% from 50), sega 79 (-5.95% from 84), gta 6 21 (-73.08% from 78). Game context: GTA 6.
get_time_series with source google search and the stored keyword is the call behind the chart: 261 weekly points from 2021-10-02 through 2026-09-26, stored as {date, value} with no smoothing. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D, 30D, and 1Y, is the headline math: 83 to 97 (+16.87%), 36 to 97 (+169.44%), and 20 to 97 (+385.0%). Mixing the Shopping 14 with the Search 97 would invent a story the APIs do not tell.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="google search" keyword="golden axe"
get_growth source="google search" keyword="golden axe" percent_growth=["7D","30D","1Y"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.