Lazarus Gets Premiere Date For Adult Swim

Adult Swim has announced an April 2025 premiere date for the highly-anticipated new anime series Lazarus from Shinichirō Watanabe. The upcoming series comes with it 13 episodes that will premiere on Adult Swim’s Toonami lineup.

The series is being animated by MAPPA with SOLA handling production and legendary director Chad Stahelski helping produce the action sequences. The series stems from Watanabe’s reaction to the opiate crisis that has plagued the world.

The English dub cast is as follows:

David Matranga as Dr. Skinner

Jade Kelly as Hersch

Jack Stansbury as Axel

Luci Christian as Chris

Bryson Baugus as Leland

Jovan Jackson as Doug

Annie Wild as Elaina

Sean Patrick Judge as Abel

Lazarus premieres 4/5 @ midnight on Toonami on Adult Swim streaming next day on MAX.

Synopsis:

In the utopian year 2052, Dr. Skinner discovered a miracle drug. In 2055, Skinner announces that the drug has a three-year half-life and soon everyone who took it will die.

A task force of five agents is assembled to locate Skinner and create a vaccine. Its name is “Lazarus”