This fight was a highlight of the series for me. Felt vary cinematic and enjoyed how creative Axel was throughout the fight using the guards ties against them. Shoutout to the female guard for locking in and carry the guards. Might of gotten the upper hand on Axel if it wasn’t for her tie. Interested to hear your thoughts on the fight.

Happy to see this series get its flowers!! ❤️

Ik ik you all missed me xoxo

Hi,

Does anyone know the name of a track that plays while Lazarus is on the run from the authorities?

It plays in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xsR9kGy0GA

I haven't been able to find it in the released albums.

Update: Douglas has fallen in love with Makima

Thoughts?

I can't believe I got his personality right on the first go

Also lemme know if I need to tune up his appearance I think I got him close enough

ive been looking for it since last night 😭😭😭

https://reddit.com/link/1sczelw/video/sqzgnachcctg1/player

Does anybody know which song is playing in this piece of trailer?
Checked OSTs from Bonobo and Floating Points, but didn't find it

I finished the show awhile ago but saw this in the Popular Bookstore in Malaysia, it whispered to me like the mask...

I don't know why some people hate on it, other people are indifferent towards it, I absolutely loved Lazarus and for some reason it made me feel like a kid again

I have noticed that in most Western cartoons if the lips are not lines they tend to have a thicker lower lip for white women(check out Invincible and all sort of shows) and this goes way way back in Western animation, but in anime usually the upper lip is the one that is thicker as in Disney animation. This is how actual lips show up for most women and I find it curious that the show has more western looking lips for the women because Netflix usually is very good at copying the desired animation style they want to get

Warning: loooooooong rant and negative opinions regarding this series ahead of you.

After sitting trough 8 episodes of this expecting this to be an instant modern classic based how stacked the staff list was in the credits, this show so far has left me very frustrated.

The harsh reality seems like director Watanabe isnt fully responsible for the likes of his most known works, Cowbow Bebop or Samurai Champloo, being so great. The screenplay for Bebop and Samurai was written by Keiko Nobumoto (who also is the creator of Wolf's Rain) who unfortunately passed away from cancer in 2021, while working as an advisor for Lazarus during its early stages of Development. Watanabe only has a writing credit on a couple of episodes in these, while for Lazarus, Watanabe is credited for co-writing the entire screenplay. Watanabe considers Lazarus a tribute to her work and spirit. Apparently Watanabe wanted to make it even more comedic in vibe, but William Street forced him to make it more serious, which explains the clashing half baked tone in the show. Theres probably a lot of executive meddling from the western producers, the dialogue feels way too stunted.

This show feels like if someone who stayed up to watch Toonami tried to write a show similar to them. I think maybe we have a bit of a George Lucas effect here, where a director that works well when they have other people contributing, but dishes out a lot of nonsense when allowed to control the whole creative process.

This type of story that focuses on ridiculous setpieces and wacky characters can absolutely work, especially with the episodic format. I've seen my fair share of shows that get carried by the cast's personalities and the general tone of the setting, but you have to put in the work to make sure people like those characters first. A show that did this right in my opinion, was High Card. It's no masterpiece of storytelling but it executes what it aims to do very well. However that one also had the benefits of being two seasons long.

Lazarus had a pretty small episode count, and even then it felt like it was wasting too much time on villain of the week subplots. I mean ,you are making an original show, you don't have an original source material to adapt. If you know the episode count limit you should probably plan ahead to fit a coherent story in that short run.

The plot lacks intrigue, the writing is weak and it meanders way too much for any of it to feel connected. Bebop worked so well because it didn't really have a central plot. It was more thematic and character driven with a cast you ended up really caring about as you saw their adventures.

There's a lot of talent working on this show that feels squandered this way. The soundrack is definitely the highlight of this show alongside the animation.

They made the beach episode the most atmospheric and introspective one, it kinda gave me Black Lagoon vibes minus the crimes and murders.

The main cast feel more like archetype gimmicks with one or two discernable personality traits, rather than actual characters you write and develop. Yet these characters haven't been very fleshed out for 8 episodes now, they all feel so hollow and distant which is clearly not what they were going for. They barely interact with each other outside the context of the mission and we barely know anything about them even with entire episodes dedicated to their backstories.

Unless the theme they really going for here is "humanity has lost the plot". The idea that a dystopian future where everyone is dull and distant, and this forced work relationship is the closest someone gets to a sense of community could have been an engaging direction to follow. There is the moment where the blonde kid struggles to communicate how good it feels to have the bond they all have, and perhaps at that point in the setting its very rare.

I feel like this show tries to portray a lot of moments that are supposed to be emotional payoffs, showing off the relationships built between these characters, not too different from Watanabe's previous shows. But it's missing something really important: showing the relationships actually building. We get a beginning and end, but never the middle. They're all just so underdeveloped their attempts at emotion all fall flat. A darn waste of potential, its beyond frustrating. This series needed to be 26 episodes so they could devote time to making us actually care about these characters.

This show on paper should have it all. It has beautiful action choreography, it has stunning animation, it has the cool vibes and atmosphere, it has a really tense premise, yet the plot and writing just are not there to hold those elements together for me.

The best thing i can say about this show is that it had enough stuff happening on screen to hold my attention to keep watching and react to every episode, unlike Pluto, another short science fiction anime that was hyped for years, which i really struggled to connect with. It's a very unique and stylish anime and clearly something that isnt produced very often in a sea of copy and pasted fantasy anime with slideshow visuals.

You might be wondering why am i still watching a show that i don't like after 8 episodes. I was *begging* for this series to be good and i came to the conclusion that it just doesn't want to.

I'll now go watch the remaining 5 episodes just to see how the overarching plot will wrap up. The episodic format kinda killed all sense of urgency with the 30 days countdown.

I just want to have a discussion on Dr Skinner in general, like what do people think of him, and stuff, if you can't tell by my name. I think he did no wrong

I just finished the show last night and I really liked it overall. Personally for me I saw a lot of people saying the show felt like it was all over the place with the characters doing random stuff. To me, I thought this was a pretty good way to do worldbuilding and honestly was pretty realistic in how most humans would behave if news like this dropped. Most people carried on business as usual just waiting for the Hapna deaths to happen while others like the Lazarus group were looking for Skinner. Humanity is really disorganized and tribal. Skinner tried to put people into a position to unify and as we saw this didn't really pan out too well. World powers still bickered as everyday people still suffered as if a mass death event wasn't on the way.

What I really would've liked to see were more dedicated episodes to Axel and Doug's backstories. They touched on this a bit with Doug being at the academy but it was nothing in comparison to Chris, Elena, and Leland. Axel got no characterization in the form a backstory at all other than the flashback where he was in that airport when Hapna was released as a toxic gas. I feel like another handful of episodes would've done them justice.

I really liked the overall environment and feeling of the world that was portrayed to us but there were definitely some parts they could've done better on. I know the creator is likely not giving us a second season but I'm glad it ended the way it did where the characters are still clearly together and there isn't a huge looming mystery like there was with Spike in Cowboy Bebop(although he likely did just die).

7/10 would probably watch again to see if I missed some details. Watched it over the course of a month

It made me feel some type of way that I've honestly never ever felt before (Blade Runner 2049 comes close though)

It was very comforting to watch, ngl. Sort of like the feeling of familiarity and peace you get when you come back home from an intense day and see the love of your life and you go "ahhhh...its all going to be okay. I think I'm going to order some pizza and watch some shows with them."

I think this'll be one of the shows I'll watch at least twice a year, every year.

Unironically one of my all-time favourites. if lo-fi was an anime, it'd be this for me.

i know, not a very comprehensive review. but I dont care, I finished this show, and I wanna vent about how much I love it.

I feel a "void" at the same time I want to see more and at the same time I don't want there to be more (Sao...)

I know there isn’t any confirmed season2, but I’m hoping for one. I really like the concept of them becoming an official group that can track down important people who have gone missing. It can be kind of an anthology, but we can also learn more and more about the characters as it progresses. I’m also a fan of the romance between Axel and Christine. Fingers crossed 🤞 for more!

A lot of people seem to have been put off and disappointed by this show, I am not one of them. However, the one thing I noticed immediately and constantly throughout the duration were two things, score and sound design. Now I found it to be an interesting choice that made it unique and set it apart, especially in the anime sphere personally.

But the sound design and score for the series is almost universally extremely lowkey and minimalistic, from punches and kicks to industrial machinery and gunshots, everything is extremely drawn back. There are little to no dramatic smacks or massive booms, which in some scenarios made it feel a lot more grounded than most action series ironically. During those incredibly impressively animated fight scenes, gunfights and bombastic explosions though there is almost never a score to match the intensity of the situation.

I know that Watanabe’s previous work essentially popularized the low-fi genre as a whole with things like Samurai Champloo and a running theme of the show is seeming apathy about humanity and life even in the most extreme of circumstances. I found it to be an interesting aesthetic choice, sure, buuut.

I think the reason I’ve seen so many people calling the show boring despite the vast majority of most of its episodes basically being insanely high production action set pieces that when things like a dramatic character death on an exploding oil rig happen, the music sounded like I was on hold with Best Buy or something. I just think the show could have benefitted from a Bebop-esque jazz banger of a score outside of more than the OP for a lot of folks.