{"id":122992,"date":"2025-05-30T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=122992"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:54:41","slug":"lazarus-tv-anime-reveals-new-key-visual-featuring-main-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/05\/30\/lazarus-tv-anime-reveals-new-key-visual-featuring-main-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazarus TV Anime Reveals New Key Visual Featuring Main Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/01\/24\/shinichiro-watanabes-lazarus-tv-anime-premieres-april-2025-in-japan-unveils-new-teaser-visual\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new key visual<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been revealed for the ongoing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/04\/11\/lazarus-tv-anime-series-soundtracks-now-available-on-music-streaming-platforms\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lazarus<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> TV anime series, ahead of the ninth episode premiere on June 1, 2025. The anime began airing on Toonami\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/02\/27\/lazarus-tv-anime-debuts-april-5-on-adult-swims-toonami-block-releases-new-english-dubbed-trailer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adult Swim<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> programming block and in Japan on April 6, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The series is slated to broadcast for 13 total episodes and is streaming on Max the following day after its TV broadcast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122996\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"122996\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/05\/30\/lazarus-tv-anime-reveals-new-key-visual-featuring-main-characters\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1811%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1811,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lazarus new anime key visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 2024 The Cartoon Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=696%2C983&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-122996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=350%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lazarus new anime key visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=725%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1085&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1087%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1087w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1449%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C984&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1509&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?w=1811&amp;ssl=1 1811w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 2024 The Cartoon Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, the main opening sequence for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lazarus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was released on MAPPA\u2019s YouTube channel, which features the song \u201cVortex\u201d by series co-music composer <\/span><b>Kamasi Washington<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300eLAZARUS \u30e9\u30b6\u30ed\u300fOpening Movie(Short)\uff5c\u300cVortex\u300dKamasi Washington\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/40hxb3yJdUg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Shinichiro Watanabe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is credited as the chief director for the original anime series, while <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Wick<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> director <\/span><b>Chad Stahelski<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is designing the anime\u2019s action sequences. <\/span><b>Sola Entertainment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is producing the series, with MAPPA in charge of the animation production.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other staff include <\/span><b>Akemi Hayashi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maboroshi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> animation director) as character designer, <\/span><b>Stanislas Brunet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Super Crooks, Symphogear XV<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as concept designer, <\/span><b>Miho Sugiura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buddy Daddies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as art director, <\/span><b>Kana Tanabe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RE-MAIN<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as color designer, <\/span><b>Takuma Sakamoto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as cinematographer, and <\/span><b>Mitsuhiro Sato<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pluto<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as composting director.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Bonobo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>Floating Points<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Washington are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/03\/27\/lazarus-main-theme-song-2-soundtrack-singles-now-available-on-music-streaming-platforms\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">serving as the music composers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the anime series.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Meanwhile, the anime\u2019s main Japanese voice cast stars:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Mamoru Miyano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Axel<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Makoto Furukawa <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Doug\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Maaya Uchida<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Christine\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Yuma Uchida<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Leland\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Manaka Iwami<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Elaina\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Megumi Hayashibara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Hersch\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Akio Otsuka <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Abel<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>\u2022 Koichi Yamadera<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Dr. Skinner<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_118596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118596\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"118596\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/04\/11\/lazarus-tv-anime-series-soundtracks-now-available-on-music-streaming-platforms\/lazarus-new-key-visual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lazarus-new-key-visual.jpg?fit=569%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"569,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lazarus new key visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 2024 The Cartoon Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lazarus-new-key-visual.jpg?fit=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lazarus-new-key-visual.jpg?fit=569%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-118596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lazarus-new-key-visual.jpg?resize=350%2C492&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lazarus anime new key visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lazarus-new-key-visual.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lazarus-new-key-visual.jpg?resize=299%2C420&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lazarus-new-key-visual.jpg?w=569&amp;ssl=1 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 2024 The Cartoon Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adult Swim describes the main synopsis of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lazarus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The year is 2052 \u2013 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\u2026 and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned \u2013 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 \u2013 and coming soon.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner\u2019s plan. This group is called \u201cLazarus.\u201d Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out?<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lazarus_jp\/status\/1928375847104254317\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lazarus Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AIR_News01\/status\/1928492681757434161\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AIR News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new key visual has been revealed for the ongoing Lazarus TV anime series, ahead of the ninth episode premiere on June 1, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":122995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[444,14,10149,90,10150,4087],"class_list":["post-122992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-adult-swim","tag-anime","tag-lazarus","tag-mappa","tag-shinichiro-watanabe","tag-sola-entertainment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/lazarus-new-anime-key-visual-scaled-e1748634419337.jpg?fit=1809%2C1019&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-vZK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122992"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126584,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122992\/revisions\/126584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}