With just under a month to go until its grand debut, Shinichiro Watanabe’s new anime Lazarus is adding more voice actors to its cast—fourteen more, to be precise. Who will they be playing? That’s a surprise for later!
Joining the cast of the action series are:
Yuichi Nakamura (Satoru Gojo in JUJUTSU KAISEN)
Tomokazu Sugita (Taro Sakamoto in Sakamoto Days)
Shoya Chiba (Akihiko Nirei in WIND BREAKER)
Neeko (Reborn in REBORN!)
Daisuke Ono (Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler)
Kazuhiko Inoue (Kakashi Hatake in Naruto)
Satoshi Hino (Momonga in Overlord)
Sumire Uesaka (Lum in Urusei Yatsura 2022)
Hidenori Takahashi (Konohamaru Sarutobi in BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS)
Koki Uchiyama (Gen Narumi in Kaiju No. 8)
Kensho Ono (Tetsuya Kuroko in Kuroko’s Basketball)
Aoi Tada (Radical Ed in Cowboy Bebop)
Ayane Sakura (Ochaco Uraraka in My Hero Academia)
Yoshiko Sakakibara (Queen Nehelenia in Sailor Moon Sailor Stars)
Each voice actor’s role will be announced when their respective episode premieres.
Shinichiro Watanabe writes the original story and directs Lazarus at animation studio MAPPA with planning production by SOLA ENTERTAINMENT. Dai Sato, Takahiro Ozawa (Ume), and Tsukasa Kondo join Watanabe in writing the scripts. Chad Stahelski (87Eleven Action Design) serves as action supervisor, Akemi Hayashi provides the character designs and Kamasi Washington / Bonbo / Floating Points provides the music.
The synopsis of Lazarus reads:
The year is 2052.
The world has entered an era of unprecedented peace and stability, largely due to Hapna, a drug developed by neuroscientist Dr. Skinner. Hapna spread throughout the world as a “miracle drug” with no side effects and freed mankind from pain. However, its developer, Skinner, suddenly disappear and no one knew where he had gone.
–Three years later, he reappears as a demon who leads the world to ruin.
Hapna was a trap, a drug that causes death after three years of use. “Thirty days left. If you can find my place by then, humanity will survive.” The only way to save the world is to use the only vaccine Skinner has.
Lazarus, a team of five agents gathered from around the world to fight Skinner’s plot. Can they save humanity? And what is Skinner’s true purpose?
Source: MoCa-News
