A miracle cure with a three-year expiration date sets the clock running on Lazarus, a 2025 sci-fi action series from director Shinichiro Watanabe.
What is Lazarus about?
In 2052, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist releases Hapuna, a drug that appears to cure any ailment — until word spreads that everyone who has taken it will die within three years. Facing a threat with a built-in deadline, a specialized team nicknamed Lazarus is put together to track down the mysterious figure called Skinner, who holds the key to stopping the drug's fallout. The series follows this team as they race against a countdown that already applies to nearly everyone on the planet.
About the cast
The voice cast is led by Mamoru Miyano, Makoto Furukawa, Maaya Uchida, Yuma Uchida, Manaka Iwami, and Megumi Hayashibara. Director Shinichiro Watanabe, whose earlier credits shaped a generation of genre animation, builds Lazarus around a small task force facing a global-scale problem, pairing high-energy action sequences with a premise that keeps the clock always visible.
Context & significance
Lazarus is a 2025 Japan–United States co-production, an animated action and science-fiction series with episodes running around 25 minutes. Its premise — a cure that turns into a countdown — gives the show a hard structural deadline rather than an open-ended mystery, and its team-of-agents format lets it move between mission-driven episodes and the larger hunt for Skinner. It sits within a lineage of near-future sci-fi anime built around a single, world-altering piece of technology, using a global health crisis as the trigger for a tight, mission-based structure rather than a slow-burn political drama.
Watching Lazarus on Ktime
Lazarus streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing. Browsing the show's page requires no login at all, and watching it just takes a free K-Time account, through the same Farsi-friendly interface used across the platform's catalog.