Adult Swim has released a trailer for Lazarus, the upcoming anime sci-fi thriller series from Shinichirō Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop), which follows team of heroes hunting a deranged neuroscientist holding the world to ransom. Check out the trailer below…
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. Pervasive throughout the world with no known side effects, Hapna is said to have freed humanity from pain. But then, Skinner suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth.
Three years later, he re-emerges as a prophet who brings countless deaths and the end of civilization. Hapna is designed with a fatal, retroactive effect, which manifests three years after ingestion, even by those who have only taken it once. Just thirty days remain until humanity is doomed to extinction. The only way to save the world is to get the cure that only Skinner knows. For that we must first find him.
Lazarus premieres on Adult Swim on April 5th.
