An advance screening of the original anime "LAZARUS" by director Shinichiro Watanabe, known for the anime "Cowboy Bebop," was held on March 7th at Shinjuku Wald 9 (Shinjuku, Tokyo), with Mamoru Miyano, who plays the main character Axel, Makoto Furukawa, who plays Doug, and Yuma Uchida, who plays Leland, in attendance. Miyano said of the film, "I think this is the highest level of entertainment that we Japanese can create. Nabeshin of the world! I'm excited. I'm excited to think that this work will reach everyone."
The story is about a team of agents from around the world, Lazarus, who are pursuing Dr. Skinner, a neuroscientist who developed a painkiller called "Hapuna" that causes death three years after taking it, in order to save humanity. Character design will be handled by Akemi Hayashi, known for "BANANA FISH," and the work will be produced by MAPPA.
Miyano and the other voice actors said they were asked to make the recording sound "real," and revealed, "When we were shown the finished footage, we were surprised to hear our own voices in a way we'd never heard before. The footage has a realistic texture."
In the anime, Miyano plays the main character Axel, who is imprisoned due to a certain incident but repeatedly escapes, and whose "hobby is escaping from prison." Furukawa, Uchida, Uchida Maaya, Manaka Iwami, Megumi Hayashibara Akio Otsuka, and Koichi Yamadera appear as voice actors. The series will be broadcast on TV Tokyo affiliates every Sunday at 11:45 pm from April 6th. There will be a total of 13 episodes.
