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| Around 5 minutes stating the show's premise and the rest of the episode was simply MC doing parkour... and despite that, I still felt bored to death. And seriously, what in hell did Axel do to receive such absurd amount of years in prison??? So-so start overall. OST is nice tho. |
| It has a Cowboy Bebop vibe all over it, but the characters remind me more of Samurai Champloo, which makes sense considering it shares a director. The animation, the soundtrack... everything drew me in right away. I'm still not 100% sure if literally everyone has consumed Hapuna or just the majority, but either way, it's a fascinating setup. A really gripping first episode. |
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| boring parkour episode with flat voice acting and sloppy jazz bgm. i hope it will be improved in the next episode. |
| Looks very promising, but I have plenty of pet peeves. I dig a lot the cyberpunk aesthetics, ironically the city landscape looks more similar to the Cyberpunk videogame than the actual anime adaptation of it. Really snazzy and cool jazz tunes and upbeat ones. Really clean animation and pretty good use of 3D animation to make animated backgrounds look like they are 3D. Writting wise, I have to suspend my disbelief on plenty of points... to an extent. Feels weird that multiple countries that should had tested on infinite trials for Skinner's drug didn't find long term side effects that now have become a death sentence to all mankind. Given our modern times that are probably more chaotic than fictional settings with a clown like RFK jr claiming that cod liver can keep you safe from measles. So I could believe if Skinner had plenty of goons like RFK Jr had wave plenty of safety protocols to allow the drug to be used world wide. My other big pet peeve was that, if Hersch team were trying to catch Axel in order to make make him part of the Lazarus squad, why did they hunt him like a prisoner? Axel just wanted to be out of prison and Hersch had already given him an offer, I don't see why he would play hard to get. Last, I'm not too hot about Megumi Hayashibara voicing an elder character while doing exactly the same pitch and tone of Faye Valentine. Even though Watanabe's last work Carole & Tuesday was a flop after the second part, I still have some faith in him, and hope this show can vindicate his name. |
| Ewww... Having to listen to the dub. Anyway, I liked it, but I'm kind of skeptical it will be good in the long run just because I really disliked the world it takes place in. Felt kind of drab in that first episode. Liked what we got from the characters though. Feels like a fun group. I also disliked how inconsistent Axel was in being cautious while running. One moment he's measuring distances with his hands and pausing to determine if he can complete a jump safely, and at other moments he's sprinting through windows and holes on the sides of buildings at full speed not knowing if there's a massive drop on the other side or if there's something he can safely land on. |
| An all right first episode. The music and animation are obviously the best part so far. There was a small bit of jank on some of the wider shots, but that's only if I'm being nit-picky. Fine enough premise. Catch the guy to save the world. It works even if they don't end up doing anything crazy with it. The dialogue felt weird to me. The voice actors were all very flat and unnatural in their deliveries. The conversation with the street officer, Hersch's converasation with Abel in the office, and Eleina's line at around 16:20, "Ok. I'm working on it now," all stick out as the worst offenders. Opening is ight. |
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| this show fucks. Axel is jumping around like he's on low gravity. The animation is so kinetic. I love how theres so many POV shots of him running all over the place. I like how the parkour allows you to also get a better sense of the atmosphere of what the setting is like in this city. I like the premise we have ticking clocks lots of good mysteries and some good stakes at play so now we need to see why this is happening and what it all means. I was sorta wondering what the premise actually was going to be about from a glance but this makes it more interesting. I enjoyed this opening episode and am really looking forward to where this goes next. |
| Although I found the character designs and personalities to be somewhat lacking, I have to admit I'm a huge fan of the high octane action this episode, complete with parkour, exciting/smooth sakuga, and fun combat to boot, presented with a solid mystery introduced. How is Axel involved with the mystery guy? Not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's all a bluff. All that aside, solid first episode and that soundtrack? Killer |
bboy_OatsnRiceApr 6, 9:08 PM
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| i got to say this brings me a lot of cowboy beebob nostalgia , from the music to the environment of the anime, i am assuming that lazarus is also in the Beebop universe but much earlier, and it would make sense . Also the part where axel jumps of the building to catch the drone is an easter egg to spike when he falls to the ground and you see all the birds flying , and glowing. |
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| Great first episode, set up the premise, broadly and added in the sakuga action with a ton of parkour to cool Saxaphone Jazz music. Very Watanabe, with the doves being a nod to John Woo. Style points 10/10. Will wait to see if there's character development since we don't know what MC ended up in jail for ... or how the team was assembled. Everything else is cool though, especially the bike! |
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| This show is already off to such a great start, the animation was so good and they are setting up a stylized world with a fun story. Can't wait for more Shinichiro Watanabe cooked, as usual. |
| I wasn't expecting to see Adult Swim on this, especially since I didn't dive into anything other than the synopsis but I hope it doesn't end up like Ninja Kamui. Don't get me wrong, Ninja Kamui was awesome... at the beginning and then it fell off completely. I pray that Lazarus is a success, and as first impressions go, I like it a lot. |
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| Well, I expected more. I don't know why, but it felt strange to watch it. The theme of the anime is great, but the English dub is killing me. Good points go to music, fights and style. Additional comment: I am watching now on Japanese and it might be better. My quick judgment might be wrong |
AjanokoynaApr 15, 9:40 AM
| A good setup episode for the show. Great animation. Amazing OST. The cast is already here and Axel has been forcefully recruited into Lazarus. Looking forward to the story. Watched it with JP voice acting, amazing cast. |
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| Lazarus is famous for coming back from the dead. I'm interested how they will (or not) use this premise in the show beyond just given the task force a cool and edgy name. |
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| So let's see, another shaggy-haired MC who is good at fighting and joins a quirky group, yeah, checks out for Shinichirou Watanabe. Dr. Skinner's motivations are your usual "humanity bad." As I'm a fan of the mad scientist character trope, I will probably like him, but I do hope he will get some more depth. For now, I'll keep my expectations low, treating this a shallow action anime with good animation. P.S. Nice to see the Uchida siblings voice what I assume are sibling characters. I can definitely imagine the fun they had voicing them. |
CielordApr 7, 6:14 AM
| That was a bland, kinda bad first episode. Putting aside the Cowboy Bebop-nostalgia (the hero almost looks like Spike, too, sigh), his jumping ability is so comically over-the-top that it felt out of place with how grounded the rest of the show was depicted. I was hoping for a reveal like "he's a robot" or "he's a cyborg" or "he's a mutant", but nothing. Jumping from more than 10m height, no stamina loss, just almost flying around everyone. It makes his escape less impressive when the laws of physics simply don't count for this guy, as if you're watching One Punch Man, except this isn't supposed to be a parody anime. I'll keep watching, but this is massively overhyped so far. |
| If you haven't watched "Fantastic Children", don't talk about "best anime". Thank you. |
petvma said: I hope I'm wrong about this, but I really thought they dropped the ball on this episode. For some reason I just wasn't impressed with he animation (probably because I saw MAPPA was animating it). I felt like it was super basic and even the sakuga/action scenes didn't compare to Cowboy Bebop, which came out decades ago. Also, the English dub was terrible so I'll probably be watching in Spanish (unless they release the Japanese audio). The story was very intriguing though, and I'm very curious to know where they will go with this concept. I want to love this anime so bad and I hope it grows on me because I love Watanabe, so I'm hoping for the best. if you want the Japanese audio. you'll have to sail the seas. Only the Dub version is out even on those places but that Will change . Soon Japanese audio with English Subs will be there. |
| Ever since this was announced, I was waiting to watch it This was a GREAT introduction to the show. A drug taking over the world and the creator of it coming back to announce mankind's end due to it. The characters all look like they'll be a lot of fun to learn more about in future episodes. Animation (as per MAPPA usual) is stellar. A lot of potential here. |
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| So they have jailed a guy who likes to elop, or at least he claims has tried or successfully escaped in the past, but have zero countermeasures do it doesn't happen again? Other than that, cool episode. |
| No tomo malas decisiones, solo me gusta apoyar causas perdidas. Disfruté Mayoiga, Ou-sama Game, Evil or Live, Mirai Nikki, Big Order, Arifureta, Ex-Arm, Tesla Note, Shuumatsu no Harem y Platinum End nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites. Así de jodido es mi gusto en anime, ¡Y estoy pinche orgulloso de ello!  |
Reply to VKDOOM
Honestly pretty cringe to see people hating on this
Great animation, fantastic music, interesting premise
awesome first episode
Great animation, fantastic music, interesting premise
awesome first episode
| @VKDOOM Pretty cringe to insult people for criticizing a bland, generic first episode. |
| If you haven't watched "Fantastic Children", don't talk about "best anime". Thank you. |
Reply to cvillano
Couple nods to Bebop, the white doves, the sympathy for the devil sign
| @cvillano "couple of nods", LOL. This anime lacks any own identity, it just feels like a "remember Cowboy Bebop?" |
| If you haven't watched "Fantastic Children", don't talk about "best anime". Thank you. |
Reply to Vysarine
Looks fun so far. MC Axel really feels like Spike from Bebop except he's on the other side of the law.
| @Vysarine Honestly he reminds me more of Mugen from Champloo than Spike! But the soundtrack is definitely giving more of those Bebop vibes. |
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| We are one episode in and the hate this is receiving is nuts. It's 22 minutes or so where they have to introduce to us the plot of the series and the main characters. There are 13 episodes in total, what did you expect from them in one episode? Who didn't expect them to showcase a long action sequence in a sci-fi action thriller? And people saying the story is mid only knowing what the overarching plot is do not know what they are even talking about. We haven't even seen the story yet. Of course the animation is fantastic but I was super bummed out to see that there was no Japanese dub available. The English dub is not great. |
| The animation of the action scenes was absolutely thrilling! |
Reply to kuroneko99
boring parkour episode with flat voice acting and sloppy jazz bgm. i hope it will be improved in the next episode.
| @kuroneko99 it wont improve this shit sucks ass |
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