Six years after the excellent Carole & Tuesday On Netflix, the legend of Japanese animation Shinichirō Watanabe goes on the side of the Max platform with a promising new series. Unveiled for the first time in July 2023, Lazarus is ready to point the tip of his nose on Adult Swim. The Warner Bros Discovery group channel has just confirmed the launch of the program As of April 5, with a publication on maximum quirky max. The conditions of diffuse, however, remain a little vague. Indeed, American spectators will have to settle for the English version of dubbing at first and wait a month for the VO. While in Japan, the series will be broadcast in the local language from Sunday, April 6. What about France? Max unfortunately has not yet confirmed the details of the anime broadcast on our territory.
And Lazarus Has talk about him since his announcement, it is also because Watanabe has teamed up with an emblematic figure of action cinema to give life to his project. The creator of the franchise John Wick, Chad Stahelski, is credited with the supervision of the action in the enimea credits. Suffice to say that in synergy with the artists of Map Studiosome scenes may well mark a turning point in the animation industry. In 2023, Shinichirō Watanabe declared that Lazarus was going to become “the culmination”Of his career and we want to believe it.
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The trailer resumes exactly the first synopsis shared almost two years ago. When a revolutionary drug against pain turns out to be a delaying chemical bomb that will destroy all its consumers, the whole earth stirs heaven and earth to find the scientist before it is too late. Humanity has 30 days to avoid this disaster and therefore develops an elite unit called Lazarus.
The theme of the series particularly resonates with the opioid crisis from which the American continent seriously suffered, a link that Watanabe only confessed. Questioned by The Verge Last year, the director then declared: “All my thoughts about the future are reflected quite strongly in this series, and I want people to be able to discover this for themselves.”
With Carole & TuesdayWatanabe had already managed to imagine the impact of artificial intelligence on the production of artistic works, and more particularly music. Lazarus will therefore not fail to strike in more or less topical sensitive themes. Will this anime take place in the same universe as the previous ones? Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy et Carole & Tuesday are officially linked and the new series already presents some resemblances … Case to follow.
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