Review of Lazarus

In summary, this anime might just be the biggest waste of a top-tier budget and a top-tier team of artists. It is, without a doubt, the most extravagantly wrapped piece of turd of an anime I have watched. The premise is interesting, and the early reception which was mostly negative did not bother me that much, as I wanted to give a show that looks so slick a chance. I should have listened to the negative early reviews. In the end, its simplistic but morbidly dragged-out story/narrative is a crotch punch to all the very talented visual designers, interior designers, futuristic engineers, Blues musicians, fightchoreographers, and the legendary Watanabe Shinichirou himself. Just go back to make more absurdist raunchy comedies like Space Dandy, Watanabe Shinichirou. Seriously. Why did you make an anime to insult yourself and punch yourself in the tenders? What is wrong with you? Why does an all-around rip-off of an anime has all the budget in the world, while more original and creative stories gets only shoelace budgets?

3/10. Stay away from this good-looking but ill-meaning piece of "postmodern art" at all cost.

It tries very hard to show you that it has absolutely nothing substantial to say. Its world-ending stakes, Bourne-ish conspiracies, and big philosophy talks about whether humanity is worth saving, in the end, amounts to a most infuriating and nihilistic passing wind.

Go punch yourself in the crotch harder next time, Mr. Watanabe Shinichirou.