Review of Lazarus

What happens when rotten western minds get involved in the production of an anime? You get Lazarus. This show has been gutted and you can see it in EVERYTHING. The dark parts are not dark, the characters have been made "safe", there are the now-a-days forced "token" characters and relationships in places they make NO SENSE whatsoever, the punch lines never punch, the action never goes full hard, the scenes which should go 'that is awesome' just fizzle, the sound is flat, the colour are bland, there is nothing that is memorable and every scene is just meh. NOT once did the show grab 100%of my attention for anything.

Lazarus could have been the badass classic-adjacent of the 2020s, but it will be just another mediocre original, forgotten within a month after people saw it.

This is why western media is garbage now a days and it is now spreading to the anime industry. The Adult Swim we all loved, for shows like Robot Chicken is dead. It has been replaced and it is going down. Unless they go back to their roots, which, is never going to happen in this sanitised world of western media. Cartoon Network is done, thus is Adult Swim.

Will give MAPPA what they deserve, the animation is amazing where it needs to be. BUT the colour palatte is bland. It feels like everything was beige and boring, where it should have been INTENSE like the entire plot of limited time. Their creative freedom was shorted too.

All the main Producers need to be shoved to the side to give way to actual good talent. The Animation Producers did a good job.
- The Excecutive Producer, Jason DeMarco, needs to never be worked with again. He did a horrible job with Ninja Kamui, Uzumaki, C Danshi, Bladrunner:Black Lotus and now Lazarus
- The Producer, Joseph Chou is the same story, with only mediocre works, except a above average Kami no Tou.

Shinichiro Watanabe's direction and writing were taken and neutered. Hope he never works for a western network ever again.

Overall, the show was BAD and I hope Watanabe-san comes up with more fantastic shows without being neutered and sanitised!
RIP Keiko Nobumoto

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The character stories were incomplete. 3 of the main characters had traits which were used extrensively, the others had nothing special to them. 2 of the main characters would have had an amazing story built around them, making key events in the show work even better with emotion and tension, but that was never built upon until episode 12 with a tiny scene and even that didnt have the right emotions.

The overall world building was weak. If this wasnt sanitised, there would have been shot from world building when the boring dialogue is happening to support the main plotline of HURRY HURRY only 30 days till people start dying. Even very important people to the world were affected by this and the only thing we see is ONE scene towards to end. It felt like the rest of the world didnt exist at all.

There were multiple scenes which introduced characters which were DRAGGED. Something that should have been 30 seconds was dragged on for THREE MINUTES. While on the other than, something CRITICAL to the story and importance was shown for 10 seconds in 2 dialogues.

The multiple mini-plots all had significance but NONE were emphasised at the right moments and none made any sense when connecting the dots on the go, not even a 'they might be related'. They only made sense in hindsight. This made most of the first half of the show feel like a waste of time. The story was wasted, the tension was wasted, the characters' time was wasted, everything wasted. Thus, the final reveal which should have been 'OHHHHH, that makes sense' was instead a 'wait? that is it? the end?', which ruined the show even more.