The respectable X/Twitter fable for Lazarus (Lazaro in Eastern), the novel normal anime for Toonami with Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Apartment Dandy) and animation studio MAPPA (Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan The Closing Season), printed a novel visual and the squawk’s theme song files on Friday.
Kamasi Washington is performing the opening theme song “Vortex,” and The Boo Radleys is performing the ending theme song “Lazarus.”

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The anime will principal particular person:
- Mamoru Miyano as Axel
- Makoto Furukawa as Doug
- Maaya Uchida as Christine
- Yūma Uchida as Leland
- Manaka Iwami as Eleina
- Megumi Hayashibara as Hersch
- Akio Ōtsuka as Abel
- Kōichi Yamadera as Skinner
The anime is scheduled for 2025.
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 characteristic a acquire by jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, and producers, DJs, and musicians Floating Aspects and Bonobo. Sola Leisure is producing.
Akemi Hayashi is the character clothier, Stanislas Brunet is the notion that clothier, and Miho Sugiura is the artwork director. Numerous workers people contain:
- Colour Dressmaker: Kana Tanabe
- Cinematographer: Takuma Sakamoto
- Compositing Director: Mitsuhiro Sato
- Sound Effects Supervisor: Lauren Stephens (Formosa Neighborhood)
- Animation Producer: Masato Matsunaga
Adult Swim describes the fable:
The Twelve months is 2052 – an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and wretchedness. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle medication-all drug with out a apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna quickly turns into ubiquitous… and valuable. Nonetheless, quickly after Hapuna is formally equipped, Dr. Skinner vanishes.
Three years later, the enviornment has moved on. However Dr. Skinner has returned – this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner pronounces that Hapuna has a short half of-life. Everybody who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this execrable world – and coming quickly.
As a response to this threat, a special project power of 5 agents is gathered from across the enviornment to set apart humanity from Skinner’s thought. This neighborhood is named “Lazarus.” Can they collect Skinner and construct a vaccine sooner than time runs out?
Watanabe directed such well-known anime productions as Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Samurai Champloo, Apartment Dandy, Carole & Tuesday, and Apprehension in Resonance. He also directed the “Blade Runner: Black Out 2022” anime short. Watanabe’s short movie “A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot” screened at the 26th Fantasia Global Film Pageant in Montreal, Canada in July 2022.
Sources: Lazarus anime’s X/Twitter fable, Comic Natalie