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LAZARUS

ラザロ

Lazarus

Binge-ready

Finished airing — 13 episodes, ready to binge.

Format: TV
Season: Spring 2025
Studio: MAPPA
Based on: Original
Episode length: 24 min
Started: 6 Apr 2025
Ended: 29 Jun 2025
Score: 70/100

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LAZARUS is a TV anime series from 2025, produced by MAPPA, created as an original story. The team includes direction by Shinichirō Watanabe, character design by Akemi Hayashi and music by Kamasi Washington, Floating Points and Bonobo. The Japanese voice cast includes Megumi Hayashibara as Hersch Lindemann, Akio Ōtsuka as Abel Anderson and Kōichi Yamadera as Dr. Deniz Skinner. The opening theme is “Vortex” by Kamasi Washington. The ending theme is “Lazarus” by The Boo Radleys. It streams on Max, Adult Swim and Hulu. It ran for 13 episodes from April 2025 to June 2025.

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)