Adult Swim has shared the official Lazarus trailer for Toonami’s newest sci-fi thriller anime, which hails from Cowboy Bebop anime director Shinichirō Watanabe. The series centers around a group of agents, who must find a vaccine to save humanity from the fatal consequence of a miracle drug.
The anime will feature the voices of David Matranga as Dr. Skinner, Jade Kelly as Hersh, Jack Stansbury as Axel, Luci Christian as Chris, Bryson Baugus as Leland, Jovan Jackson as Dough, Annie Wild as Elaina, and Sean Patrick Judge as Abel. It will include action sequences designed by John Wick director Chad Stahelski, with jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, musician Floating Points and producer Bonobo providing the score.
Check out the Lazarus trailer below (watch more trailers):
When is the Lazarus release date?
Lazarus is scheduled to premiere on Saturday, April 5. It will air on Adult Swim in English, with new episodes available the next day on Max. Meanwhile, episodes in Japanese with English subtitles will debut in the U.S. on Adult Swim and Max after 30 days since their English-language premiere. It is a produced by Sola Entertainment, with Studio MAPPA set as its animation studio.
The official synopsis reads: “The year is 2052. The world seemed to be on the verge of unprecedented peace and stability, and the painkiller drug ‘Hapna’ developed by a lauded neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has had a lot to do with it. Pervasive throughout the world with no known side effects, Hapna is said to have freed humanity from pain. But then, Skinner suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth.
Three years later, he re-emerges as a prophet who brings countless deaths and the end of civilization. Hapna is designed with a fatal, retroactive effect, which manifests three years after ingestion, even by those who have only taken it once. Just thirty days remain until humanity is doomed to extinction. The only way to save the world is to get the cure that only Skinner knows. For that we must first find him.
Lazarus is a team of five agents gathered from various corners of the world to do just that. Can they save humanity? And what is Skinner’s true purpose?”
