The 2025 launch date for Shinichiro Watanabe's Lazarus was disclosed at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. The 13-episode series is being produced by Sola Entertainment, with animation by MAPPA. Adult Swim will host the series.
Director Watanabe will oversee the action sequences, with assistance from famous stuntman and John Wick series director Chad Stahelski. Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, producer, DJ, and musician Floating Points, and producer, DJ, and musician Bonobo are among the Lazarus original anime crew.
The Lazarus narrative is described by Adult Swim as:
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?
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