Season 1 – Lazarus

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Lazarus B @LazarusBlous May 27 Lazarus: A Total Waste of Potential Shinichiro Watanabe returns with an original sci-fi series and somehow delivers one of the most disappointing anime of the year. The premise — a drug that grants immortality and the chaos that follows — had real promise. Instead, we get a generic team of forgettable characters (brooding leader, sexy assassin, hacker kid, etc.) spouting weak dialogue in a bland cyberpunk world we've seen a hundred times before. The action is inconsistent, the story is shallow, the "deep" themes are barely explored, and the ending is a pathetic cop-out. What should’ve been a stylish, philosophical thriller is just pretentious, mid-tier slop that wastes its talented director and interesting concept. Avoid this one. It’s style over substance with almost no style and zero substance. See more Jesse M @RT26416843 May 24 Really great and unique idea for a show. I was intrigued and guessing the whole time and the action scenes were fun. See more Steve M @RT35666377 May 23 Peak "Please Notice Me, Western Audiences" Cinema Oh bravo, Shinichirō Watanabe. Nothing screams "I’ve evolved as an artist" quite like frantically checking every Western box like a nervous intern at a Netflix pitch meeting. "International cast? Check. John Wick-style gun choreography? Check. Edgy anti-establishment vibes with zero actual edge? Double check." He’s out here serving glossy, overproduced slop that screams "I want that sweet Western validation and those sweet streaming numbers" while pretending it’s still anime. The characters don’t talk — they quip. The story doesn’t breathe — it poses for the trailer. Everything feels carefully sanitized and spiked with just enough "mature" flavor so the American audience can pat themselves on the back for watching something "deep" Congratulations, sir. You didn’t make anime for the world. You made a desperate, try-hard love letter to people who think Cowboy Bebop is "that one cool anime." How brave. How original. How utterly pathetic. See more Miriam G @RT05978207 May 23 Lazarus is what happens when a legendary Japanese director fully occidentalizes his brain. Shinichirō Watanabe, once the poet of smoky jazz and stylish melancholy in Cowboy Bebop, has apparently spent too many years marinating in Hollywood pitch meetings. The result? A grotesque Frankenstein of Western cool: Chad Stahelski bullet-time fights, Marvel-quip personalities, and an "edgy" international conspiracy plot that screams "American streaming bait" instead of anime soul. Gone is any sense of Japanese rhythm, subtlety, or emotional weight. Instead we get hollow, posturing characters in a visually expensive but culturally rootless void. Watanabe didn't just make an anime for the West — he surrendered his mind to it. Flashy, soulless, and embarrassingly derivative. A creative surrender wearing expensive sunglasses. See more Don G @Trunker May 23 Lazarus is a soul-crushing disappointment. Shinichirō Watanabe returns with all the hype of a Cowboy Bebop successor—MAPPA animation, Chad Stahelski fight choreography, a banging soundtrack—and delivers... a glossy, empty vibe reel. The characters strut around like they're too cool to care about the apocalyptic drug plot, which somehow manages to be both overstuffed and paper-thin. For a show about erasing pain, it succeeds brilliantly: you'll feel nothing. Visually slick, emotionally bankrupt, and creatively safe. Skip this resurrection. See more Erick H @RT58479262 May 23 Communist Cowboy Bebop, the anime. This is what you get when you let occidental thought influence japanese creators' minds. Awful. It is not even well plotted like Cowboy Bebop, due to the messaging taking over the actual plot development. Thank god the industry gatekeeps itself so we don't get a deluge of this kind of anime, See more Read all reviews

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