It’s not often I keep up with seasonal anime. Sometimes I’ll watch an episode or two of something, but usually I’ll fall off due to getting distracted by other things. It has nothing to do with the quality of the shows, but rather when I have to wait a week for a new episode, not to mention finding a way to watch said episode, I tend to get lazy/forget about it.

I picked up Lazarus after hearing it was from the same guy who did Cowboy Bebop and was being associated with Adult Swim (not sure if they helped finance it or what) Right from the get go, you can kind of tell they were trying to go for another Cowboy Bebop thing. A team of misfits with one cool Spike like guy.

I have to admit that I’m somewhat disappointed. It wasn’t bad by any stretch, but it felt a bit undercooked. I was really digging it for a couple of the episodes, but about when I learned it was only going to be 13 episodes (I think around episode 8 or 9) it felt like they were cramming things into episodes to get to the end faster.

It feels like a waste because I did think the cast was quite good and had some interesting dynamics together. There was a lot of room to flesh them out more into a really loveable cast. However, each member of the 5 member team gets only one episode exploring who they are, apart from the main guy Axel who has his circumstances told slapdashly in the last couple episodes.

I do really feel like they had a good series on their hands. I think it just needed more. A full 26 episode season (or I guess that’s two seasons) like Bebop and Champloo had. Make you really love the characters, and then they could really raise the stakes with the last couple. They wouldn’t even have to change much, though I do think they really could have made how everything resolved better (Too many coincidental stuff)