Lazarus review: Wildly stylish, but it’s no Cowboy Bebop
You can call Senchiro Watanabi Lazaros Restoring a masterpiece, Cowbob pippop. This does not mean that the offer is bad – based on the five episodes that I have seen so far, Lazaros It is still an entertaining and elegant journey. But I expect more legendary Creator like Watanabe.
It was appointed in 2052, which is a near fancy when the famous neurologist has launched a drug that can erase all the pain. If this looks very good so that it is not true, then it will be: Dr. Skinner’s creator reveals to the world that everyone who dies the drug will die in the end. Then it disappears. Like the evil Willie and Nika, one hopes to survive: you find it in 30 days, or that humanity is governed.
To help find Skinner, the government prepares a secret group called Lazaros consisting of convicted criminals. This is where the similarities come. There is a progress, Axel Gilberto, a Parkor addict like a reckless Spiegel and attacker. The team closer Christine, a great pioneer. To us, the pirates of a bright young man; And Doug, a horrific investigator who has a little patience for disgusting. These are all clear counterparts for the BEBOP crew from Faye, ED and Jet. The new element in the team is Layland, a nice university student takes different roles during the show (perhaps just a stereotype of PippPoppress is adorable).
There is a little bit of Suicide Band In the idea of using criminals to find the greatest evil for humanity, however Lazaros The reason for this is not truly justified (it can be answered later in running the 13 -loop width). And you thought there would be more government efforts outside a group of teeth to accomplish the task of providing humanity. the Lazaros The crew gets some opportunities to link during each episode, but their personal dynamics feel less organic Pipp The characters, whose relationships have been enriched through the pressure nail environment in the space ship between planets, the permanent economic struggle and the canal backgrounds. By the fifth episode of LazarosI had no real understanding of these characters, while Pipp The seminal episode was delivered A song from the fallen angels By that time.
Like Watanabi Samurai Chambloand Lazaros It is better to enjoy it if you do not look closely at its holes or contradictions (the inhuman Parkor capabilities of Excel make the Spike Spiegel instincts refuse to compare). It is better to sit and enjoy incredibly elegant feelings. This includes wonderful liquid animation from MAPPA. Attractive soundtrack by Kamasi Washington, floating points and Punobo (with a great end theme, “Lazaros” by Bo Radlets); And photographing the geographic bones before John Wake Director Chad Stelinsky. It is difficult not to appreciate all the talents concerned.
But again, I hope the entire project is more original. Lazaros The hypothesis is not far from Copy Pepop: The movieWhich included a terrorist plot to spread nanoparticles that would kill everyone on Mars. It is also funny to see the display arrives at a more creative view like Max’s Common side effectsWhich deals with the consequences of miraculous drugs that can heal any disease or injury. The characters of this symptom are more accumulated and related, and the reason for the pharmaceutical companies stopped killing such a miracle medicine.
“The story started with Dr. Skinner … is it a saint or a demon?” Watanabe said in Engadget with a translator (while relaxing in shades with a mountain of records behind him, like the absolute president is). “What exactly what he wants to do? This was a great first part of the story. What I thought at first in Skinner [the] The start may change within 13 episodes. “
It is not a huge spoiler to say that Dr. Skinner is not always photographed as an evil in the show. Before the launch of the Hapna, the famous neuroscientist who prompted humanity to respond to the climate crisis was. But instead of listening to it, the countries of the world have chosen to follow the profit on the future of humanity. With this in mind, it is not a shock that watanabe says that the inspiration for our Japhna was, in part, the opioid material crisis.
Throughout the memories of the past and short opening monologues, Lazaros It gives us glimpses about the effect of HaPNA on our main characters, all of which are more convincing than actual research to find Dr. Skinner. Have you really cured the pills of the pills, or are they getting rid of their ability to feel real emotions?
I am sure that the new arrivals to work WatanABE will not have the same reservations with Lazaros As I do, I hope that the show has the same distinctive identity as its other series. Cowbob pippop He is Nuer mired in jazz. Dandy space It is a Farhan countryside on the type of space opera. and Carroll and Tuesday It is a touching story of two small girls who follow the pop profession. Lazaros It is basically another movie of excitement, but this time it is recorded to modern jazz and e -music.
I hold hope for that Lazaros It ripens in a more thinking view in the second half. But even if it was not, it is still worth celebrating anything new from Shinichiro Watanabe. There are not many animation and book managers with a sense of elegance and excellent taste in the music and work cinema. Even if the watanabe project is the least, it is still more entertaining and creative than the vast majority of shows that bombed us in the era of flowing, anime, or otherwise television.
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2025-04-01 17:03:00
