7.025 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
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In 2052, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist develops a drug called Hapna — a cure-all that has the unexpected side-effect of causing death three years later. In response to this threat, a special force of agents—nicknamed "Lazarus"— is assembled to take on the malevolent Skinner.
Direction
Watanabe's genre-mashing vision still unmatched in animation
Score
Genre-hopping soundtrack that shouldn't work but absolutely does
Creator
Shinichiro Watanabe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Watanabe developed Lazarus while recovering from surgery, which explains the medical anxiety permeating every frame.
The Hapna epidemic mirrors Japan's complicated relationship with pharmaceutical regulation post-thalidomide — Watanabe rarely gets this explicitly political.
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