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India.com
a day ago
- Entertainment
- India.com
Top 7 Anime Picks In 2025
Zee Media Bureau Jun 09, 2025 This anime tells the story of Saito Hojo who forced to marry Akane Sakuramoni the girl he hates in his class to inherit his grandfather's company. This anime follows Rudo a boy who lives in a lower part of a floating town. One day he is framed for murder he didn't do and gets thrown off the edge in the trash wasteland. A dark historical fantasy anime which follows Jinta a demon hunter who engages in a centuries old battle from the Edo period to the Heisha era. This anime explores romance and challenges for high schoolers amid global pandemic. It Follows the story of a young man Shiki Ichinose who discovers he has Oni blood which is a lineage of powerful demons. A decent pick in 2025 to binge watch. It follows the story of a former hitman Taro Sakamoto who chooses to retire after meeting the love of his life but when the past catches up he must protect his family from threats. Set in 2052 humans are living in utopian age because of a miracle drug known as Hapna which is developed by Dr. Skinner. Lazarus is a great anime to watch in 2025. Read Next Story
The Review Geek
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Lazarus Episode 9 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where To Watch
Lazarus Lazarus takes place in the utopian year of 2052. A genius neuroscientist by the name of Dr. Skinner has discovered a miracle analgesic drug known as Hapna, completely relieving the user of any pain. After inexplicably disappearing, we cut forward three years later, where Dr Skinner resurfaces to the public in an online video. He announce that the drug has a three-year half-life and soon everyone who has taken it will die. As a result of this, a task force of five agents is assembled to locate Skinner and create a vaccine. Its name? Lazarus. If you've been following this anime, you may be curious to find out when the next episode will be released. Well, wonder no more! Here is everything you need to know about episode 9 of Lazarus, including the release date, time, and where you can watch this. Where Can I Watch Lazarus? Lazarus is airing in Japan on TXN (TV Tokyo) and Animax. It is also available to stream on Adultswim and HBO Max for those in the US and other territories, along with airing for free on Channel 4 for those in the UK! Lazarus Episode 9 Release Date Lazarus Episode 9 will debut on Sunday 1st June at approximately 9pm (ET)/ 12am (ET) and 5am (GMT). Episodes will then drop every week at the same time each week. Of course, it's really dependent on how quickly the platform uploads new episodes. Expect this to be pretty close to the release time though. Lazarus is airing in the West with a pretty strange licencing agreement here. Warner Bros. Discovery have decided that the series will first premiere in English on Adult Swim, with a next-day upload on Max. Then, the Japanese with English subtitle version of the anime will debut in the United States on Adult Swim and Max 30 days after the English-language premiere. It's likely the same thing will occur in the UK too. How Many Episodes Will Lazarus Have? It has been announced that Lazarus will have 13 episodes in total, with one episode releasing a week. With all of that in mind, we have 4 more episodes left of this one! Is There A Trailer For Lazarus? Yes! You can find a trailer for Lazarus below. What do you hope to see as the series progresses? What's been your favorite moment of Lazarus so far? Let us know in the comments below!
Kyodo News
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Kyodo News
"LAZARUS" Episode 3 "LONG WAY FROM HOME": Preview Images and Synopsis Released!
By Koji Uchida, Animate Times - 7 minutes ago - 16:36 | All Preview images and a synopsis for the 3rd episode of "LAZARUS", titled "LONG WAY FROM HOME," have been unveiled. "LAZARUS," an original anime series directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (known for "Cowboy Bebop"), premiered on April 6th (Sunday) at 11:45 PM JST, with simultaneous release on Adult Swim and online streaming on Max. Episode 3: "LONG WAY FROM HOME" Synopsis Chris and Leland, disguised as cleaners, infiltrated Skinner's house but their search yielded no clues. Simultaneously, Axel and Doug sought out Doug's former mentor, Claude, who had previously worked with Skinner. Claude, now homeless, provided crucial information, revealing that Skinner's grandmother might be in Istanbul. Acting on this lead, Axel and Leland ventured into the most perilous district of Istanbul, where they were promptly encircled by a group of local thugs. About "LAZARUS" Story 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. Hailed as a "miracle drug" with no side effects, Hapna spread across the globe, freeing humanity from pain. However, Dr. Skinner, the drug's creator, suddenly vanished without a trace, his whereabouts unknown to all. Three years later, he resurfaces as a demon hellbent on bringing about the world's destruction. Hapna, it turns out, was a trap—a drug designed to trigger fatal symptoms in its users exactly three years after consumption. "You have 30 days. If you can find my location within that time, humanity might survive." The only hope for salvation lies in using the single vaccine Skinner possesses. He challenges the world: if you want it, come and find me. A team of five agents, "Lazarus," has been gathered from all over the world to counter Skinner's plot. Can they save humanity? And what is Skinner's true purpose? Cast Axel: Mamoru Miyano Doug: Makoto Furukawa Christine: Maaya Uchida Leland: Yuma Uchida Eleina: Manaka Iwami Hersch: Megumi Hayashibara Abel: Akio Otsuka Skinner: Koichi Yamadera Yuichi Nakamura Tomokazu Sugita Shoya Chiba Neeko Daisuke Ono Kazuhiko Inoue Satoshi Hino Sumire Uesaka Hidenori Takahashi Koki Uchiyama Kensho Ono Aoi Tada Ayane Sakura Yoshiko Sakakibara (C) 2024 The Cartoon Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved
New York Times
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Lazarus' Is a Dark and Kinetic Adventure
Image A scene from 'Lazarus.' Credit... Adult Swim Right on the heels of 'Common Side Effects' comes another animated pharmacological thriller, this time the Japanese anime series 'Lazarus,' which premieres, dubbed, on Saturday at midnight, on Adult Swim. The show is set in 2055, and a miracle pain killer that claims to free people from all suffering has become ubiquitous. Years after the mysterious Dr. Skinner released this drug, Hapna, he re-emerges with a second bombshell: After three years in your system, Hapna will kill you. Humanity has 30 days before everyone who has taken it — which is just about everybody — succumbs. Unless, of course, someone can find Dr. Skinner and the antidote only he can share. This calls for a ragtag team! Of course it does; 'Lazarus' was created and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, best known for his work directing 'Cowboy Bebop,' which is also a dark, funny, futuristic ensemble adventure. The show's other big draw is its fight choreography by the 'John Wick' director Chad Stahelski. The action sequences are the highlight of the five (of 13) episodes made available for review: a big jailbreak in the pilot, lots of urban scrambling, a zippy comeuppance for a sex-pest sleaze. Our snappy hero and newest member of the crew is Axel Gilberto, an escape artist and underbelly-dweller who is serving 888 years in prison — your sentence is doubled every time you escape. He is recruited out of his cell and into a shadowy group that is determined to find Dr. Skinner and has the requisite position players to do so, including a hacker, a researcher and an icy boss. Each episode of 'Lazarus' begins with the same visual montage, but each opening narration and narrator is different. The episodes end with a countdown of how many days are left until the Hapna apocalypse. This repetitive yet iterative framing feels like a ritual, and the show is filled with religious imagery and musings about the nature of divinity. If Dr. Skinner can both cure and kill everyone, does that make him a god? Or just the world's most powerful drug peddler? If pain is a part of life, and there is no more pain, maybe we're already dead, and there's nothing left to pray for. If you thought the end was coming, would you change course or just surrender?
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lazarus, the new anime from the creator of Cowboy Bebop, premieres April 5
Adult Swim announced that it would air the next anime from Shinichirō Watanabe, the creator of Cowboy Bebop, way back in 2023, and as of today, we finally have a release date. Lazarus is set to premiere on April 5 at midnight on Adult Swim, and will be available to stream on Max the day after. Lazarus follows a task force of agents, also called Lazarus, who are hunting a mad scientist that developed a miracle drug called "Hapna." The drug was created to be a painkiller, but was also secretly designed to kill whoever takes it, three years after it's first taken. Lazarus are trying to find the creator of Hapna to create a vaccine that prevents the drug's negative side effects, and save the world in the process. Based on the trailer, the series' sci-fi setting, jazzy music (provided by Bonobo, Floating Points and Kamasi Washington) and shaggy-haired protagonist Axel all recall Watanabe's previous series Cowboy Bebop, but Lazarus looks like it'll have its own charms, too. The series' action sequences are choreographed by by John Wick director Chad Stahelski and the story takes inspiration from the opioid crisis and climate change, according to a Polygon interview with Watanabe from October 2024. Watanabe's last series Carole & Tuesday premiered on Netflix in the US in 2019 and Netflix's less-than-stellar live action remake of Cowboy Bebop came and went in 2021. The world is more than ready for some original strength Shinichirō Watanabe anime, and now it won't have to wait much longer to get it.
