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| The animation was maybe the best of all the series I have been following in this season, but the writing was horribly sloppy, sometimes almost painfully bad. It was not easy for me to find a proper rating to this show, still fretting about it. |
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| Another L for Adult Swim originals. Yeah, the animation and directing were superb, as expected from Shinichiro Watanabe, but the story and characters are abysmal and the pacing beyond rushed. Much like Gquuux, this needed at least 24 episodes. Also we never got to learn who Doug was. |
| It had its issues, but I really enjoyed the characters! The ending was pretty meh, but with the way they ended things I can’t help but feel a season 2 isn’t off the table. 7/10 but I’ll up it to 8 cause I love Axel and the rest of the cast. Would rewatch. |
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| What the hell was this last episode? It was so rushed, everything was resolved suddenly with no consequences for (virtually) anyone. Well, it's finally over. |
My honest reaction to this hellspawn disgrace to Bebop and Champloo |
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| gd this anime was not good but i watched every episode |
| 🌈 i just want gintama back |
| Disappointed would be an understatement. This show tried so hard to be something big; tried to be many things at the same time and ended up being steaming pile of shit. It felt like author let his 12yo child write the script aided by ChatGPT or something. There's just so much BS going on in this show one can write entire thesis on it, but I'll just shut up and go waste my time on something else. I think I'll give it 5/10 since at least one episode was very good. |
| i have to pause and literally guffawing. bro you couldn't be serious saying it's a shame such an excellent group like lazarus has to disband. BRO THEY MISSED BIG CLUE FROM EP 3 TO FUCKING DRAG IT TO EP 13 AND YOU SAID THEY'RE EXCELLENT??? WHAT STANDARD YOU'RE USING LMAOOOOO even until the end i still feel it's such a convoluted way of doing things. what's even the purpose of gathering 5 individuals immune to hapna to search for skinner? that requirement isn't even needed to search for skinner in the first place LMAO. also, why doug is even there with these criminals? what did he even do before?? the way they all treated lazarus members like criminals (that bracelet that basically force them to search for skinner unless they wanna die lmao), what chance would u find all these immune individuals to somehow be problematic enough to warrant dragging them in like criminals huh??? also what the heck with that whole producing vaccine in like less than 24 hrs?? producing AND administering it to people in the whole 24 hrs even wtf. is logistics never part of equation in this whole timeline? like they also move from place to place so quickly too, like it only took 2 hrs to fly from US to istanbul LMAOOOO i had always thought this anime should have ended ages ago, they just prolong it for nothing. cuz who even cares about the whole hundun stuff, is it even relevant to the whole hapna shit? my rate would probably be 5/10, it seems their budget all just went for the animation and hiring bonobo and the other dude for music and nothing else lmaoooo |
umagiJun 30, 9:31 AM
| i jus dont i jus dont understand the point of this show it is so vapid and any hint of messaging is lost in the shit dialogue like this show seems objectively bad this was made to be bad i dont know how dawg |
| 🌈 i just want gintama back |
| Finally this mess is over. Axel literally saying how bad of shape he's in only to leave and fight the assassin on a building that comes crashing down and still surviving, while again, being badly wounded, is just too comedic for me to have any care for what the "stakes" are. Not to mention, the little time the episode spends on Skinner and his reasoning for all of this is practically a huge nothing burger, which is on brand for this show I guess. So cool, team Lazarus gets their freedom at the end of the day and dumb cop guy gets some recognition. The idea that Lazarus gang wants to go on more missions is super funny cause I'm 100% absolutely not interested in seeing any of their future endeavors. This whole show started out as promising only to quickly become a wild goose chase week after week after week. All the worse with little to no progression and shoehorning in character focused eps that didn't add any dept to the characters or overall plot at large. This show had enough riding on it to be great, and it ultimately was just a pile of garbage. Even trying to take it as "turn off your brain/popcorn entertainment" type show didn't do anything for me. Don't get me wrong, I do love me some bad anime, I really do. But this was next level disappointment considering this was by the man, Watanabe, and with his claim that this was his magnum opus, if I'm not mistaken. Genuinely can't see how anyone could defend this show without realizing how deep the flaws are, but I guess the saying of "one mans trash is another mans treasure" always hold's true in some regard. The only positives I can give this show is that studio MAPPA did an impressive job with their top notch production values and that the show had solid OST. But beyond that, there's nothing of value here. |
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| I expected so much from the ending but apart from the amazing final fight it was the worst episode of the show, it had so much potential with all the staff and MAPPA but sadly it ends up just being a pretty good show that missed being the new Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo. I feel like the plot was originally written for at least 2 cours but they had to remove half of it to stick everything in a single cour and couldn't adapt the ending to these changes. |
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Reply to Ryuseishun
My honest reaction to this hellspawn disgrace to Bebop and Champloo
| @Ryuseishun i thought it was just ok, calling it trash(and using a sonic meme, ew) is a bit much. Something i need to ask though, are you really trying to pretend you’ve actually watched all that anime and read all that manga? On top of that disliking it so much your mean score is under 2 😅. To put in perspective for your list to not be absolute bs you’d have to of spent 10 years straight(24hrs of every day)of your life watching anime and reading manga. |
| no one here has watched samurai flamenco and it shows |
| 🌈 i just want gintama back |
| last episode and the mystery was resolve finally!!! The doctor was near than them imagined!!! Nice anime in general 7/10 |
| Lazarus would've worked better with more episodes, at least 24. That way, all the plot lines are resolved, and we get more time to flesh everything out. This finale isn't the worst I've seen, but it could've been better. It focused too much on Axel VS Soryu (how is Axel able to move around freely again?) and not enough on finding Skinner. And this is more of a question I had in general, but, why is everyone just living their normal everyday lives as if Skinner didn't announce that the world was about to end in 30 days? However, I will give credit where it's due, they are great at foreshadowing. The homeless camp shown in episode 3 is what leads them to Skinner at the end, and we were right all along, that old homeless man was Dr. Skinner. We also got Popcorn Wizard at the end, even though it felt like she was only there to rub the loss in Lazarus' faces in episode 4. Overall, is this as good as Watanabe sensei's other works like Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo? No. Does it have problems, yes. But is this anime as bad as the reviews make it out to be? No. It was still worth the watch, and if you want to watch it, I say go right ahead. |
| If I had to choose between One Piece and a girlfriend...I think I'll go with One Piece |
Reply to Ashhk
I expected so much from the ending but apart from the amazing final fight it was the worst episode of the show, it had so much potential with all the staff and MAPPA but sadly it ends up just being a pretty good show that missed being the new Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo. I feel like the plot was originally written for at least 2 cours but they had to remove half of it to stick everything in a single cour and couldn't adapt the ending to these changes.
| @Ashhk Yeah, that's my main problem with Lazarus. They have too much going on, compressed into just 13 episodes. They should've done either one season with 24 episodes, or two cours with 12-13 episodes. I don't think the finale was completely irredeemable but yea, somewhat disappointing. |
| If I had to choose between One Piece and a girlfriend...I think I'll go with One Piece |
| its finally over i dont have to think about this hollow silly show. I am kinda mostly just happy the shows over. I was expecting they find skinner since he’s a block from the Lazarus building and thats the episode. that line read for “he [skinner] has a deep love for plants” was so wooden im not going to remember it but that one could have used a second take. i dont think i’ve heard anyone really talk about the music but I gotta say I don’t like it. The jazz especially doesn’t fit the fight sequence. Speaking of the fight sequence is pretty good the resolution to the little assassin subplot is a nothing payoff. A real waste since like all the other fight sequences it looks really good. giving credit where its due, I like that the show is rather diverse and has all these different kinds of characters I just wish that they were more interesting to follow. I think it’s funny people are saying this should have had more episodes, I hard disagree. I think this should have been a lean 90-120 minute movie. Theres no reason this race against time story should have wasted more time with tedious clues that lead no where. If they wanted to develop the characters in 13 episodes the show absolutely could have but it chose not to. Thats not an episode length problem its a structural problem. |
| They were able to resolve all the plot lines in the end even though it's very obvious that it was rushed a lot and they wasted time with a lot of unnecessary plot lines that served no use to the main plot. I still don't get what the use of that assassin plot line 😭😭 I wonder how Skinner was able to survive this long when he got infected like every other person. He didn't develop resistance like the Lazarus group but he managed to live so long. Was Hapna a good drug and was modified by the INSCOM or was it deadly right from when it was created!? This show left us with just dissatisfaction since it had huge potential to be something big. In the end, we can see that it's a tribute to Keiko Nobumoto, the original screenwriter for Cowboy Bebop. So it's obvious that Lazarus is just a failed attempt at trying to bring another Cowboy Bebop. Shinichiro Watanabe and others weren't able to reproduce the same magic as Keiko. |
Reply to Runasius
Another L for Adult Swim originals. Yeah, the animation and directing were superb, as expected from Shinichiro Watanabe, but the story and characters are abysmal and the pacing beyond rushed. Much like Gquuux, this needed at least 24 episodes.
Also we never got to learn who Doug was.
Also we never got to learn who Doug was.
Runasius said: Also we never got to learn who Doug was Not enough time😂 |
| Yep, I put it together pretty early, “evolution of their genes”, causing the entire team they put together to survive the gas leak, “The raising of Lazarus”. Well this brings up the argument in the “evolution” camp of “gradual” vs “spontaneous” vs both, have at it people who believe in this unscientific fictional origin story. I’ll sick back and watch with my popcorn. 😂👨💻🍿🥤 This entire anime is like someone doing their best to write a good story, but no matter how hard they tried, for some reason their heart was not into it. At least that’s how it felt to me. I’m calling “anime logic”, there is no way Axel could do anything in his condition, let alone fight that assassin. Oh … I admit that I enjoyed it enough to ask for a second season, seeing that team stayed together. |
ejleonJun 29, 2:46 PM
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| a little deceived by this end. It was rush for ending this in 13 episodes Skinner was in the place we though he was 10 episodes ago.... |
| I wanted to like this anime so much but it disappointed me more and more each episode, the ending was just so bad! :( How come the bald guy got all that information out of nowhere?! if he knew and recruited Lazarus' members because they were "inmune" to Hapna: 1- Why was so much focus on Axel being the savior if not only him was inmune. 2- If he knew they were inmune why couldn't they develop a cure researching their bodies? 3- Why did Elaina fell sick if she was already inmune? 4- What was the point of the assassin arc, he didn't even have anything to do with Axel in the end nor with Hapna or Skinner. 5- Axel story who was the main character was not even shown... he just talked it out with Chris and nothing more. 6- They DID develop a cure and spread it in the whole world in just 24 hours? How sad is it that the story feels so rushed. |
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Reply to cc_nee
I wanted to like this anime so much but it disappointed me more and more each episode, the ending was just so bad! :(
How come the bald guy got all that information out of nowhere?! if he knew and recruited Lazarus' members because they were "inmune" to Hapna:
1- Why was so much focus on Axel being the savior if not only him was inmune.
2- If he knew they were inmune why couldn't they develop a cure researching their bodies?
3- Why did Elaina fell sick if she was already inmune?
4- What was the point of the assassin arc, he didn't even have anything to do with Axel in the end nor with Hapna or Skinner.
5- Axel story who was the main character was not even shown... he just talked it out with Chris and nothing more.
6- They DID develop a cure and spread it in the whole world in just 24 hours?
How sad is it that the story feels so rushed.
How come the bald guy got all that information out of nowhere?! if he knew and recruited Lazarus' members because they were "inmune" to Hapna:
1- Why was so much focus on Axel being the savior if not only him was inmune.
2- If he knew they were inmune why couldn't they develop a cure researching their bodies?
3- Why did Elaina fell sick if she was already inmune?
4- What was the point of the assassin arc, he didn't even have anything to do with Axel in the end nor with Hapna or Skinner.
5- Axel story who was the main character was not even shown... he just talked it out with Chris and nothing more.
6- They DID develop a cure and spread it in the whole world in just 24 hours?
How sad is it that the story feels so rushed.
| @cc_nee You bring up some very good points, I agree. On the “fever point”, experiencing some symptoms but not succumbing to it is quite common. Like with Cov*d, some were immune experience very little, some were affected by a few systems then recovered, some people (like me) who had all the systems and almost died but survived, then there are the ones who didn’t make it. At least that is how I thought about it. |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| ...And they all lived happily ever after! :D This show sucked so much ass, it's unbelievable how it just kept getting worse, episode after episode. It has so many flaws and issues, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Such a shame, it's a good concept. I really liked the first episode and I was so hyped. Little did I know, it would have been all downhill from there... Also, the assassin's subplot was so out of place. Really, what was the point? I think it was there just to serve as a "final boss" and provide more action scenes. Outside of that, it's completely irrelevant to the anime. Maybe they were trying to say something about... Governmental secret projects involving people? Really hard to tell, with how awful the social "commentary" is in this anime. And couldn't he just google the myth? And Skinner's motivation, the resolution, the dialogue, everything... It's all so lame, amateurish, just bad. The action scenes were the only real reason I kept watching, but even those fell off too somewhere around the middle, although this last one was really good. Only real saving grace is the music. Lazarus is... somewhat entertaining? But still awful. @17999 17999 said: some of the very few who do care. Except that they were forced with a death threat to find him lol @0451 I don't think 13 more episodes would have saved this series either. 24+ episodes could have worked only if they spent more than a single episode investigating a location. That way, it could have had the time to actually explore the characters and flesh them out, and also more time to competently explore the themes it wanted to portray. But maybe a good writer could have pulled it off in just 13? I wouldn't know. But what Lazarus really needs is a screenplay that is not written by what seem to be complete amateurs, considering that they found the pill that almost directly led them to Skinner in the second fucking episode, Chris just so happened to forget about it. Scratch that, they had the MAN HIMSELF right in front of them back in episode 3, they just didn't happen to recognize him because... He was wearing a beanie and sunglasses? Bruh Or they could have also just focused solely on the action and the manhunt and make it a movie. In short, it's not the length the issue, but the direction. I know this is a really disorganized post, it reads more like some sort of stream of consciousness, but I couldn't care less. Fuck this show. |
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Reply to Fintan
@Ryuseishun i thought it was just ok, calling it trash(and using a sonic meme, ew) is a bit much. Something i need to ask though, are you really trying to pretend you’ve actually watched all that anime and read all that manga? On top of that disliking it so much your mean score is under 2 😅. To put in perspective for your list to not be absolute bs you’d have to of spent 10 years straight(24hrs of every day)of your life watching anime and reading manga.
| @Fintan Then explain this if you can.  |
| This show had some good parts but overall pretty boring and the ending doesn't do it for me 5/10. |
| lost steam pretty quick but at the very least not super overrated the way cowboy bebop is. |
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