In Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus, parkour is the only way to go

By wazup on October 18, 2024 Comments Closed / 47 views

Adult Swim announced today that Cowboy Bebop stars Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara are rounding out Lazarus’ Japanese voice cast.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Though Shinichirō Watanabe’s new animated series Lazarus still doesn’t have a solid release date, Adult Swim has just dropped a wild new clip from the project showcasing its parkour-friendly vision of the future.

Along with giving New York Comic Con attendees a chance to see Lazarus’ first episode, Adult Swim revealed today that Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara — the Japanese actors who voiced Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine — are part of the show’s cast. Yamadera and Hayashibara are joined by Mamoru Miyano (Death Note), Maaya Uchida (Chainsaw Man), Yuma Uchida (Jujutsu Kaisen), Makoto Furukawa (Kaiju No. 8), Manaka Iwami (Phantom of the Idol), and Akio Otsuka (Spy x Family).

Adult Swim also posted a short clip from Lazarus introducing Axel Gilberto (Miyano) a young fugitive who’s knack for breaking out of prison and evading police makes him the perfect candidate to join team Lazarus. With the entire world plunged into panic about a popular wonder drug that’s about to start killing people, Axel and Lazarus’ other operatives are the only people who might be able to find a solution.

The clip does’t really clue you into just what Axel will bring to the team when Lazarus premieres some time in 2025, but it does show off how useful his parkour skills will be as he sets out to save the world.