Adult Swim offers a first look at Shiniro Watanabe’s “Lazarus” at NYCC

Adult Swim surprised fans at New York Comic Con today by screening the entire premiere episode of Lazarusthe new global anime thriller from Shinichirō Watanabe (Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy). Currently in production, a first look at Toonami’s highly anticipated original anime series has also been released.

Celebrated for his enduringly influential series Cowboy BebopWatanabe returns to the science fiction action genre with the new series, in which secret agents search for a vaccine to save humanity after an apparent miracle cure turns out to be fatal. The Japanese voice cast was also revealed today and includes: Cowboy Bebop Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara star in the lead roles.

Summary: The year is 2052.

The world appeared to be on the verge of an unprecedented era of peace and stability, according to renowned neuroscientist Dr. Skinner developed painkiller “Hapna” had a lot to do with it.

Hapna spread around the world as a “miracle cure” with no side effects and freed humanity from pain.

Until Skinner suddenly disappears from the face of the earth.

When he reappears after three years, it is as a devil who brings with him countless deaths and the end of civilization. It turns out that Hapna is a drug with fatal repercussions that occur three years after the first dose; It was a death trap for anyone who took it, even once. In 30 days humanity will become extinct. The only way to save the world is to get the cure that only Skinner has. To do this, we first have to find him.

“Lazarus” is a team of five agents who have come together from different parts of the world to do just that.

Can they save humanity? And what is Skinner’s true goal?

Japanese voice cast:

• Skinner – Koichi Yamadera
• Hersh – Megumi Hayashibara
• Axel – Mamoru Miyano
• Chris – Maaya Uchida
• Leland – Yuma Uchida
• Doug – Makoto Furukawa
• Eleina – Manaka Iwami
• Abel – Akio Otsuka