“Lazarus” is Shinichiro Watanabe’s most stylized show yet.
That may sound like hyperbole for the veteran anime director known for fusing space-opera grandeur with jazzy rhythms in “Cowboy Bebop” and a samurai storyline with hip-hop aesthetics in “Samurai Champloo” — but in this case, it’s objectively true.
Released in 2025, “Lazarus” features immaculately coordinated fight scenes supervised by the action choreography team for the “John Wick” franchise; a dizzyingly funky soundtrack crafted by Kamasi Washington, Bonobo and Floating Points; and a colorful cast of characters that includes an adrenaline-junkie parkour master, a Russian firearms specialist and a hacker extraordinaire who just happens to be a 15-year-old girl.