For many years, Toonami and Grownup Swim have helped increase anime’s profile right here within the west via fashionable shonen like Dragon Ball Z and My Hero Academia. 2021’s Blade Runner: Black Lotus was a joint collaboration between it and Crunchyroll, and now two of the late night time block’s upcoming applications see it additional staff up with a pair of massive title Japanese creatives.
Lazarus from Shinichiro Watanabe (famously the director of Cowboy Bebop) was introduced earlier within the week, however obtained its first take a look at San Diego Comedian-Con. The sequence, being labored on by Vinland Saga’s Studio MAPPA (and battle scenes designed by John Wick director Chad Stahelski), is ready within the 12 months 2052 as a miracle drug known as Hapuna has worn out all illnesses and illness on the earth. Shortly after the drug’s reveal, its creator Dr. Skinner up and vanished, and the present picks up 12 months’s later following his sudden return.
Seems, Hapuna’s obtained a brief life interval, and anybody’s who taken it should die three years later. In response to Skinner’s declaration, the titular Lazarus activity pressure—made up of 5 elite brokers from around the globe—has been fashioned to carry Skinner in and discover a approach to develop a vaccine. A cool premise with an excellent cooler trailer, as seen above. Count on Lazarus to premiere on Grownup Swim someday within the close to future.
Uzumaki, in the meantime, is an adaptation of Junji Ito’s 1998 horror manga. This present was introduced again in 2019, and phrase on it has been fairly quiet since its delay in 2021. Grownup Swim launched a brand new take a look at the upcoming sequence, which is being developed by Manufacturing I.G. (Kaiju No. 8, FLCL Shoegaze). Whereas a launch date for Uzumaki nonetheless hasn’t been set, the trailer right here ought to tide Ito followers over till its arrival.
Just like the manga, the present focuses on the fictional city of Kurouzu-cho, which has been plagued for years by a spiral-themed supernatural curse. Excessive schooler Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend Shuichi Saito change into an increasing number of conscious of the curse and the way it impacts the remainder of the city, main them each to attempt to discover a approach to both escape or break the curse. The manga obtained robust reward upon launch, with some critics on the time calling it one of many scariest manga round, and it might be thought-about certainly one of Ito’s definitive works.
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