Lazarus (Anime) Thread

I like this show quite a bit (the soundtrack is godly), but we're 4-5 episodes in and I feel like I barely know any of the cast of characters.

Is it better than Terror in Resonance? I thought it was at first, but I'm now not so certain this show is a pure artistic vision without other agendas. I wasn't going to freak out about the small role with a troon character (the delusion exists in the world, for better or worse), but then they had the fat black hacker girl, the black dude's story about RACISM in academia, and the cartoonishly evil nightclub owner and rapist. And what was with the mention of SoundCloud in one episode? That wasn't a fucking native ad, was it? I miss the lady who wrote Bebop.

This show is still pretty damn great, don't get me wrong, but it pales in comparison to Bebop or Champloo. I hope the main characters become fleshed out at some point.
Travoltron said:
Like a college President would actually say "there will never be a black Einstein" to a black guy in this day and age, let alone the future.
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The implication is accidentally based.
 
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I just remembered this show existed and started watching it.

Noped out in the second episode with the troon and the immediate acceptance/reverence of said troon.

I’m really sick of this shit. It’s like if flat earth took off and every show/movie/game was afraid to depict a round earth again. It’s literally that retarded and yet we’re doing this in 2024/2025.

The show was boring, unoriginal dogshit anyways. There wasn’t a single non-cliche thought that went into what to do with its premise or the characters.
 
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frozen_runner said:
I like this show quite a bit (the soundtrack is godly), but we're 4-5 episodes in and I feel like I barely know any of the cast of characters.
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I couldn't tell you any of their names. I thought it was just me.
I think the show is OK too. I'm still watching it. I guess its reputation will hinge on if the big mystery is solved in a satisfying way. If it has a bad Game of Thrones or Attack on Titan ending, it will be forgotten.

But I do have to shut my brain off a bit to enjoy it. If the majority of the population of the planet took a poison pill, how is everyday life still functional? There would be riots in the streets and constant rape and murder if everyone only had a few weeks to live. And why would anyone show up for work?
 
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FPTMIU said:
Funnily enough, I recently watched the original Trigun for the first time and thought it was shit (Or, more accurately, the second half is shit. I was actually really enjoying the first half before it retard'd out). The Manga might be better, still gotta finish that. Hoping that the second half of the anime is just the anime itself having a shitty original story because the manga didn't finish before the show did.
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Times were certainly different now that you could voice a different opinion regarding Trigun, like with Cowboy Behop. As it was considered sacrilege by American weebs to say any part of was shit back in the 90ies and 00s. I'm not disagreeing with you on it sucking.
 
The episode with the cult and the following episode (where they searched different areas around the world that had sunk due to rising ocean levels) were pretty great. If every episode was that good, it would be a great show instead of a decent one.

I have a feeling we'll get a second season. Or, at least, that the story won't be over by the end of this season.
Gravityqueen4life said:
"Nothing ever happens" the show.
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This occurred to me. And then it occurred to me that nothing ever got done in Bebop, either. But that worked, because it was funny that they never made any money.

That's a big part of what Lazarus is missing: humor. I'm all for serious stories, but this one could stand to take itself a little less seriously.
 
I swear my eyes rolled into the back of my head with this latest episode. Start it off with more hamfisted shit like the public mass shooting. Then there's the investigation into lazarus regarding their inability to make any progress whatsoever (oh boy the show has become self-aware) which is amusing at best. Then the stupid assassin shit where dozens of armed men failed to kill one guy with some wires. There's theories he'll kill at least one of the lazarus team but the show really hasn't developed any of these characters enough to make me care.
 
Hijo de D. Woodchucks Jr. said:
From the creator and director* of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, among others.

Holy Jesus, how the fuck did the same guy make this dumpster fire?

*But not the writers.
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Well, on the topic of the writers for Cowboy Bebop and Champloo: I am watching Wolf's Rain right now (Written by Keiko Nobumoto who was lead writer on Bebop) and it's so far suffering from a lot of problems that Lazarus has like a forgettable cast and barely anything happening. I will have to watch Tokyo Godfathers as well to get a final dandy on whether or not Nobumoto was the "REAL genius behind Bebop". I might do this with every single writer for that final dandy, But I might have to admit that Watanabe is actually a talented director, and it's mainly the western producers that fucked with the show and made it the way it is. Demarco seems to be the main genius behind lazarus being shit so far

FPTMIU said:
That being said I have been enjoying Kowloon Generic Romance so far. That's the one surprisingly solid show this season.
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Update on that, the show jumpscared me with a gay sex scene. That's all you need to know, probably. I don't even know why because the show from episode 1 seemed to have been trying to appeal to straight men this whole time.
 
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Would the show being two-cour work better in its favor, or no? Why are producers just not fighting for two-cour series at this point anymore?
 
Cowboy Bebop was good because Dai Sato was heavily involved in writing it and Watanabe hadn't achieved sufficient big-kahuna status to just force whatever bullshit he wanted into it. Once you've got a well-regarded property under your belt in Japan everyone else has to kowtow and suck your dick, so directors can be self-indulgent and put out garbage for decades and nobody will call them out on it.

Terror in Resonance should have been sufficient to make everyone give up on Watanabe, it's a show about terrorism where the terrorists are so ebin smart that they don't have to kill anyone. Either Watanabe himself or his writers like Keiko Nobumoto are just too dumb to produce much of value. Dai Sato, on the other hand, moved on to make mind benders like Ergo Proxy, which was too brainy for the general public and has prevented him from having enough control to save later Watanabe productions he's been involved in.
 
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