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Shinichiro Watanabe, MAPPA's Lazarus Anime Reveals Visual, Main Cast
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Attack on Titan The Final Season). MAPPA also revealed more staff.
The anime will star: (Top row, left to right)
- Mamoru Miyano as Axel
- Makoto Furukawa as Doug
- Maaya Uchida as Christine
- Yūma Uchida as Leland
(Bottom row, left to right)
- Manaka Iwami as Eleina
- Megumi Hayashibara as Hersch
- Akio Ōtsuka as Abel
- Kōichi Yamadera as Skinner
The anime is scheduled for 2025.
Senior vice president and head of anime and action series at Adult Swim Sola Entertainment is producing.
Miho Sugiura is the art director. Other staff include:
- Color Designer: Kana Tanabe
- Cinematographer: Takuma Sakamoto
- Compositing Director: Mitsuhiro Sato
- Sound Effects Supervisor: Formosa Group)
- Animation Producer: Masato Matsunaga
Adult Swim describes the story:
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?
Watanabe directed such notable anime productions as Cowboy Bebop, Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada in July 2022.
Sources: Lazarus anime's website, Comic Natalie
