Lazarus: Everything we know about Cowboy Bebop director\u2019s new anime Adult SwimCowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe\u2019s new anime, Lazarus, is about to debut soon \u2013 here\u2019s everything we know about the upcoming show. One of the best anime ever, Cowboy Bebop hardly needs any introduction. Viewers have been enthralled by Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein\u2019s hijinks for years. And a big portion of the credit goes to Watanabe. But, Cowboy Bebop isn\u2019t the only significant anime show in the famed director\u2019s resume. Throughout the years, he\u2019s also delivered masterpieces like Samurai Champloo, Terror in Resonance, and Carol and Tuesday. So, it\u2019s no surprise anime fans are eagerly waiting for Watanabe\u2019s next venture, especially since Lazarus has some action movie royalty attached to it. Is there a release window? Lazarus will release sometime in 2025. This was revealed at SDCC 2024, as part of Adult Swim\u2019s Rick and Morty: The Anime panel. The anime series was first announced in July 2023 by Adult Swim. The announcement also included some of the major crew members on the project, including the director. Since then, at the teaser launch of the anime, the team shared news that Lazarus should complete production in 2024. So far, it seems like everything is going to schedule. We\u2019ll share more when we can. Lazarus trailer Lazarus released its first teaser trailer two days after the anime\u2019s official announcement: July 22, 2023, at SDCC. You can watch the trailer here, which features the major characters of the anime. The trailer starts in a prison and follows a dark-haired young man, seemingly the protagonist, as he goes about his mission, demonstrating some sleek action sequences. We also get a glimpse at the nationwide announcement that sparks the events of the story. Some other major characters make their appearance, too, hinting at their role in the show. What\u2019s Lazarus about? Lazarus is an original anime by Adult Swim, meaning it\u2019s not based on any manga or light novel. The anime is set in the year 2059 when the world has become a utopia of sorts. It\u2019s all thanks to Hapuna, a miraculous drug that can cure all ailments with no apparent side effects. The plot thickens when Dr. Skinner, the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of Hapuna, suddenly vanishes on the day of the drug\u2019s official launch. He reappears three years later, claiming anyone who\u2019s taken Hapuna will die three years after the fact. However, after making such an explosive announcement, he vanishes into thin air again. But this time the stakes are too high to let the scientist off so easily. Thus, the government creates a special group to take care of this problem. The team, comprised of five top agents, is called Lazarus. Their goal is not only to find the elusive scientist but to also create a vaccine to save the world from the impending doom. Who\u2019s making it? Lazarus is being animated by the famous anime studio MAPPA, with Solo Entertainment in charge of the production. As mentioned before, Shinichiro Watanabe will oversee the project as the director. Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick movies, is the man behind the action sequences. Akemi Hayashi, who\u2019s previously designed characters for Banana Fish, Fruits Basket (2011), and the LGBTQ+ anime movie Doukyuusei, is doing the same for Lazarus. Music is provided by many prominent names in the industry, including Kamisi Washington, Floating Points, and Bonobo. How many episodes will there be? Lazarus is listed for 13 episodes. This is the standard for most seasonal anime. The episodes will be broadcast on Adult Swim\u2019s Toonami channel. As of yet, we don\u2019t know if it\u2019ll arrive on other popular anime streaming services like Crunchyroll and Netflix. For more upcoming anime, check out our guides on Dandadan, One-Punch Man Season 3, Dragon Ball Daima, Solo Leveling Season 2, and Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lazarus: Everything we know about Cowboy Bebop director\u2019s new anime Adult SwimCowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe\u2019s new anime, Lazarus, is about to debut soon \u2013 here\u2019s everything we know about the upcoming show. One of the best anime ever, Cowboy Bebop hardly needs any introduction. Viewers have been enthralled by Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}