The cowboy bebop creator's new anime Lazarus features action from the director John Wick

The cowboy bebop creator’s new anime Lazarus features action from the director John Wick

Shinichirō Watanabe, the man behind anime classics like Cowboy Bebop And Samurai ChamplooHe has his next anime project planned. The new series is called Lazarus and comes from an all-star creative team that includes John Wick director Chad Stahelski and jazz legend Kamasi Washington.

Lazarus takes place in the year 2052, after the world has been given a miracle cure that cures disease forever. However, three years later, the inventor of the drug reveals that it was secretly a slow-acting poison that would kill anyone who ingested it. A special five-man task force called Lazarus is then assembled to find the doctor and stop his plan to save the world in time.

Watanabe will serve as the series’ creator and director, but he’s not the only one who created it. Stahelski is on board to design action sequences, while Washington, Floating Points and Bonobo will all contribute to the soundtrack. The series is also animated by MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen

). There is no release date for Lazarus not yet, but it will air on Adult Swim in the US.

There’s also no word yet on when we might see more of it Lazarusbut with the Adult Swim Festival set for July 22, it’s possible we’ll get a first look at the series soon.