Watanabe’s name being attached to the anime almost guaranteed its success, but so far, Lazarus does not live up to the ...

Lazarus has already shown itself to be a series separate from Shinichiro Watanabe's other iconic series, Cowboy Bebop, but ...

“Cowboy Bebop,” for instance, makes specific references to films like “Alien” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.” For “Lazarus,” Watanabe went further, teaming with a Hollywood ...

More than anything else, Shinichirō Watanabe wanted Kamasi Washington to trust his musical instincts.

Maybe. In the anime series Lazarus, which streams on Adult Swim and Max, creator/writer/director Shinichiro Watanabe has applied pieces of his Cowboy Bebop toolkit – unlikely heroes, hyperized ...

“Fuck that, I’ll do it,” he recalled to Polygon in a video interview.

Coming from the creator of the incredible Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, Lazarus effortlessly slips into the best anime 2025 list. Nearly all of Sinchiro Watanabe’s universes are familiar with ...

Lazarus brings together some of the most celebrated names in not just anime but all of entertainment. The completely original sci-fi series is helmed by none other than Cowboy Bebop’s ...

Cowboy Bebop showcased the genre-defying creativity Watanabe would later bring to projects like Lazarus. For fans hungry for more shows carrying on its legacy of stylish, philosophical sci-fi ...

Three episodes of Lazarus have been released so far, and the series is already getting the fanfare it so strongly deserves. New episodes are released weekly on Adult Swim before being added to the ...