Lazarus

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: ラザロ


Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Currently Airing
Aired: Apr 6, 2025 to ?
Premiered: Spring 2025
Broadcast: Sundays at 23:45 (JST)
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: MAPPA
Source: Original
Genre: Sci-FiSci-Fi
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.591 (scored by 1068610,686 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #16492
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1652
Members: 151,078
Favorites: 807

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Synopsis

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 five 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?

(Source: Adult Swim, edited)

Characters & Voice Actors

Skinner

Supporting
Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Lisa

Supporting

Hersch

Supporting
Hayashibara, Megumi
Japanese

Loan Shark A

Supporting
Sugimura, Kenji
Japanese

Loan Shark B

Supporting
Fujii, Hayato
Japanese

Staff

Watanabe, Shinichirou
Director, Script, Storyboard, Original Creator
Tobita, Tsuyoshi
Episode Director


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Opening Theme

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"Vortex" by Kamasi Washington
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Ending Theme

"Lazarus" by The Boo Radleys




Reviews

Apr 20, 2025
Preliminary (3/13 eps)
You ever feel like you're watching an Action flick film from years ago when you watch this, instead of an episodic anime. That's Lazarus for ya.

Art and Sound: 9
This deserves it's a highlight for sure, the way it's stylized can really showcase how good an anime can be. You can have some of the best stories, but if they look like crap, not many are gonna take it seriously. But here with Lazarus, it really shines in so many ways. Which is why I opened with my line of it feeling like a movie then an episodic series. Not saying it's quality is breathtaking movie ...
Apr 20, 2025
Mixed Feelings
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (3/13 eps)
Lazarus is the living proof you can't catch lightning in a bottle twice.

Plot - Dull and uninspired, trying to emulate past successes in vain. Lazarus is devoid of style and energy. The world feels so hollow and lifeless. Regardless of if that's intentional or not, I don't think it works at all.

Character Designs - Boring and forgettable. They feel like cheap knock-off's of better designs.

Art/Animation - It has good choreography, but that's all it has. The parkour sequences feel especially self-indulgent and long in the tooth.

Dialogue - Atrocious, clunky and clichéd. The Dub is not even worth it.

Music - Serviceable, but lacking the impact that ...
Apr 23, 2025
Preliminary (3/13 eps)
Lazarus is another helping of westaboo porn by courtesy of Shinichiro Watanabe, his stable (at the zoo) of writers, and Kidult Swim. Since this will likely be compared to Cowboy Bebop because of the same director, a similarly gritty visual style, and a cover and OP drawing from the older title, it is worth making a quick comparison. The Cowboy Bebop English dub was legendary in anime circles compared to the average dub of the time, but a lot of the lines in Lazarus are delivered without much conviction and often in monotone. This 13 episode series is a Team Avengers plot and a wacky ...

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