Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe’s new anime, Lazarus, has shared a new trailer alongside more details.
The new original anime is being produced by MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, etc) with Watanabe directing every episode, John Wick creator Chad Sthaleski designing the action sequences, and a soundtrack by jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington and DJ/musicians Floating Points and Bonobo. Here’s the new visual for the anime:
The new trailer reveals the new anime’s premiere date in Japan – April 6th – where it will air on TV Tokyo and other platforms with a run planned for thirteen episodes.
A western premiere is set for Adult Swim’s Toonami block on April 5th at 12 Midnight (to coincide with the Japanese premiere). The new episodes will stream the following day on HBO’s Max streaming platform.
The cast for the new Lazarus anime includes:
- Axel – voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (Japanese); Jack Stansbury (English)
- Doug – voiced by: Makoto Furukawa (Japanese); Jovan Jackson (English)
- Christine – voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese); Luci Christian (English)
- Leland – voiced by: Yuma Uchida (Japanese); Bryson Baugus (English)
- Eleina – voiced by: Manaka Iwami (Japanese); Annie Wild (English)
- Hersch – voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese); Jade Kelly (English)
- Abel – voiced by: Akio Otsuka (Japanese); Sean Patrick Judge (English)
- Dr. Skinner – voiced by: Koichi Yamadera (Japanese); David Matranga (English)
Lazarus is a new science fiction anime series set in the near future of 2052, where a doctor invents a new miracle drug only to later reveal everyone that took the drug will soon die. A task force codenamed “Lazarus” of five special agents is assembled to attempt in locating the doctor and create a vaccine for the drug.
Here’s the official synopsis from the series, and the new trailer:
The year is 2052.
The world seemed to be on the verge of unprecedented peace and stability, and the painkiller drug “Hapna” developed by a lauded neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has had a lot to do with it. Pervasive throughout the world with no known side effects, Hapna is said to have freed humanity from pain.
But then, Skinner suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth.
Three years later, he re-emerges as a prophet who brings countless deaths and the end of civilization. Hapna is designed with a fatal, retroactive effect, which manifests three years after ingestion, even by those who have only taken it once. Just thirty days remain until humanity is doomed to extinction. The only way to save the world is to get the cure that only Skinner knows. For that we must first find him.
“Lazarus” is a team of five agents gathered from various corners of the world to do just that. Can they save humanity? And what is Skinner’s true purpose?
English Trailer
Japanese Trailer
