Joseph Luster
February 27, 2025 
A premiere date is in for the Adult Swim airing of Lazarus, the upcoming original anime project from Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe and anime production house MAPPA. According to the English-dubbed preview, the series is set to kick off on Adult Swim’s Toonami block starting on April 5 at midnight Eastern Time.
Those who subscribe to MAX will be able to stream the episodes a day after they air.
Lazarus Trailer
Shinichiro Watanabe is known as the director of iconic titles Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, while MAPPA is the studio behind big names like Attack on Titan The Final Season, Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen.
Looking toward the cast, Mamoru Miyano plays Axel, Makoto Furukawa plays Doug, Maaya Uchida plays Christine, Yūma Uchida plays Leland, Manaka Iwami plays Eleina, Megumi Hayashibara plays Hersch, Akio Ōtsuka plays Abel, and Kōichi Yamadera plays Skinner.
Adult Swim gave this description for it:
Lazarus Plot
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?
Source: Adult Swim
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