Mapa's Lazarus jumps to an excellent start in the captivating first episode

The following contains spoilers for Lazarus episode 1, “goodbye, cruel world”, available for adult swimming.

Summary

• Miracle Drug became death sentence in the 1950s.

• Interesting animation and action sequences combine anime with an action film.

• Interesting plot and characters indicate a promising series in Lazarus.

Humbuk leading to edition LazarusShinichirō Watanabe's original anime cooperation with the Mappa studio has been tangible since the first time was announced by Adult Swim in July 2023, and now that the first episode was finally released, the excitement seems to have been guaranteed. Assumption, characters and action (with a kind permission John Wick Stunt Director Chad Stahelski) are all seen in the strong first episode of the series LazarusThere are no unnecessary movements, because the Watanabe and Mappa's Touch Director brilliant brilliance will come together to create something that has the potential to be a title in the spring of 2025 standout.

With a lot of persecution, parkour and silk jazz music between all, the first episode is good enough to beat this series, but we will not get in front of us – unlike the characters we have a lot of time.

If you find that you cannot feel any pain, then it does not differ from dead. Although it is unfortunate, because of his addiction to hap, humanity, as we know, is dead. We also adapted to short -term profits and an endless battle against our colleague. This struggle irreparably destroyed the environment of our planet and in this process took the lives of countless people. My conclusion of the scientist is that this is the true nature of humanity. Can we allow this evil to continue? Shouldn't we, the human race, be responsible and face punishment for our sins?

– Dr. Skinner, Lazarus, Episode 1

The panacea turned the poison

The miracle medicine transforms to the death penalty

First episode Lazarus He begins with Douglas Hadeen's voice when he remembers that he is a child and wondered how and when the world will end exactly. When they speak, unbelievable visuals flood the screen to accompany Doug's explanation of the situation in which the world finds itself as cheap, a cure for a miracle that was created about four years before the events of the series, the pioneer of one. Skinner, it's a death penalty. A year after the creation of Hapna, a brilliant scientist disappears, and in the next three years the world quickly enters prosperity and did not know that the drug was a trap all the time.

In Northport Correctional Facility, the prisoner stretches, while Dave, now visible, waits in his car outside, while his superior, a woman named Hersch, enters prison to visit Axel Gilberto. He does not recognize it because they are foreigners, but he knows everything about him, starting with the fact that he has been serving a total of 888 years. Hersch shows him the video of Dr. Skinner issued to the public and announced that the drug mutated three years after ingestion, which means that the first death -related death will soon be recorded.

To make it worse, it is a challenge: If someone finds it in the next 30 days, it will give them a medicine. Of course, the world is thrown into chaos, because the drug that once made the era of world peace would show itself as the leadership of Misanthropy by the scientist of the genius. Hersch wants to hire Axel to become part of the working group to find Skinner, with his freedom on the cards, if he agrees, but Axel counts that he will only have freedom. Run one of the first cases of Chad Stahelski expertise Lazarus How Axel, a chronic prison can turn a scenario in which he is surrounded by several cops to his advantage through various overturning, tricks and performance of athleticism that defeated the first officer nothing but his legs before securing his pistol and heading to his visitor.

It is really great on this scene how the animation sells a relatively “grounded” but highly dynamic feeling of a movement that improves (and is still outrageous) during the episode. We have axel scaling walls, jumping over the abyss and piruetting over police officers; basically pulling and Prince Persia Brilliantly escape prison. So we have a conspiracy, a solid introduction to MC and in the first five minutes are struggling – a great start.

Tasting of freedom as the world burns

The beginning of the end

Axel escapes from prison, with Hersch and Dave in Hot Pursuit, reveals more members of their group. During the announcement of Dr. Skinner asks a teenage boy to apologize from the class, meeting a young woman. Both were included in Hersch and are pulled into the persecution of Axel, while Elena, a worker who is a resident technician of the group, uses GPS to watch its location. Meanwhile, the world plunged into chaos as people panicked over the news of Hapna, while the pharmacies were hard affected by angry rebels, the stock markets collapsed and the White House tried to answer.

The drug is quickly interrupted and pulled out of the market. Intelligence reports provide a lot of context on the consequences of Hapn's announcement in the world, which also gives us a chance to look at this futuristic world that Watanabe imagined.

Futuristic feeling Lazarus It is unique in how the aspects of the present with sci-fi elements that do not mean that the assumed future feels like an alternative reality, and one of the elements that connects it with the present is fashion and background. Architecture has undoubtedly some futuristic elements, but in is so much texture Lazarus“Background, graffiti and eccentric architecture contrasting with the kind of elegant, cold logical designs that one would expect. It is beautifully realistic and yet so clearly. Axel encounters a policeman who warns him not to dress into the general, because people could be confused with a refugee convict, but managed to play it as a strange choice of fashion.

Pursuit

Something's film will come

Until the second half, the episode will not get “crazy” and starts the introduction of Babylonia, a suitably named city that has a strange tower in the middle. Babylonia City throws out an earlier statement on setting up “finely futuristic” Lazarus -This is 100% sci-fi metropolis with high-tech tracking, high-tech trains, high-tech airport; You will get an idea. Here Axel tries to catch flights, not feelings, but is easily identified by the tracking system and forced to run for it, tails by security drones and Hersch workers.

Axel jumps from the roof to the roof, through the smallest gaps, jumps from skyscrapers to scaffolding without crushing fear. The whole sequence is directed so well and has the feeling of an unmistakable film “Action” when we watch Axel when it turns the dead end into the occasion and puts a waste of supervisory drones with its special skill set.

At one point he almost dies, but can stick to life on the arm of the crane (thing of the building machine) and the barrel rolls to safety on the roof lawn of a certain building in a more futuristic part of the city. There, a young woman in Hersch's team's win Axel to force him to go on the road to the roof of the old building where Dave caught up on him. It looks like Axel is done, because everything that is ahead is the country that is lower, but cuts off an episode of incredible antiquity with a smug jump from the building and safely captures the drone that has just started Dave's teenage cakes. He runs through the drone until he finds a safe point that lands on the passing truck, again escaped his pursuers. He thinks he has lost them, but is founded Christine, who pretends to be passers -by who saw him to do some of those parkour things. She gets close enough to go out with a stunned gun hidden in her wrist hours, as Axel Gilberto is finally secured.

The potential is sure

The first episode of Lazarus is a very strong beginning

It was a sequence full of amazing dynamic shots in an episode that was immersed from beginning to end, with a pleasant animation that we can get more in future episodes. When he comes, Axel wakes up on a barber chair and Elena watched him from a safe distance. Christine and Leland enter with Dave and a mirror before Axel Illuminates and reveal Hersch's face. He welcomes him and reveals the name of their small organization as “Lazarus”, after a character in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, which was resurrected four days after his death. First episode Lazarus It is exciting, captivating, with a firm introduction to the main characters and at the same time it is really easy on the eye. The soundtrack was also really easy to like. It is too early to say with certainty, but this is the air of the size.