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Adult Swim surprised many fans today at New York Comic Con this year by screening the full premiere episode of Lazarus, the new globe-trotting thriller from Shinichirō Watanabe. When we first got glimpses of the new series last year from San Diego Comic-Con, I was locked in seeing only a taste of a series that I knew that I wanted to watch.

Featuring a character being chased throughout that first short preview trailer from last year, one could see that the animation was smooth, sleek even, and worth re-watching for its short one minute and thirty-one second run time. There was enough Mirror’s Edge-like parkour to make me dizzy and a variety of characters on screen to keep me interested and speculating until we get more.

And we got more this week with a slightly longer clip of English-subtitled first look video of Lazarus this time around with Axel voiced by Mamoru Miyano–running and being parkour God once again.

Adult Swim describes the story:

The year is 2052 – an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna soon becomes ubiquitous… and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes.

Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned – this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner announces that Hapuna has a short half-life. Everyone who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this sinful world – and coming soon.

As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner’s plan. This group is called “Lazarus.” Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out?

I have really always loved the science fiction worlds in the anime projects that Watanabe has been involved in. He’s also had a great hand in collabs with musicians and artists that I love listening to. Last time around, I took a look at the cats involved and admitted that I was a little star-struck with some big names attached including Kamasi Washington, which made me know that the music was going to be on point.

According to Anime News Network: Senior vice president and head of anime and action series at Adult Swim Jason DeMarco confirmed that Watanabe is directing every episode. Chad Stahelski (John Wick stuntman and director) is designing the action sequences for the science-fiction action anime. The anime will feature a score by jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, and producers, DJs, and musicians Floating Points and Bonobo. Sola Entertainment is producing.

As reported by Gizmodo, here’s a run through of its Japanese voice cast and where you might’ve heard them before:

• Koichi Yamadera (Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop) as Dr. Skinner
• Megumi Hayashibara (Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop) as Hersch
• Mamoru Miyano (Chrollo Lucilfer from Hunter x Hunter) as Axel
• Maaya Uchida (Alluka Zoldyck from Hunter x Hunter) as Chris
• Yuma Uchida (Megumi Fushiguro from Jujutsu Kaisen) as Leland
• Makoto Furukawa (Saitama from One Punch Man) as Doug
• Manaka Iwami (Akane Kurokawa from Oshi no Ko) as Eleina
• Akio Otsuka (Yujiro Hanma from Baki Hanma) as Abel

I am very much looking forward to Lazarus and this hella jazzy (electronic, house and perhaps all the genre mashing) soundtrack it will serve with it. I love sci-fiction, especially in the realms of anime and from the house that Shinichirō Watanabe builds. I love that we’re getting more and more glimpses of the series, even little by little to make us all anticipate this come 2025. I don’t know for certain what Axel’s backstory is or what he’ll bring to Team Lazarus but I enjoy seeing him evade cops, flip and parkour around and just be fun to watch run around on screen. I love how the collective of fans are feeling early 2000’s anime vibes (in a good, not great way) with this newer series which means most of all will be eagerly awaiting Adult Swim’s latest.

Lazarus is slated to premiere on Adult Swim in 2025.

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