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Lazarus original anime scheduled for 2025
The San Diego Comic-Con panel for the Rick and Morty: The Anime series revealed on Friday that the anime of Junji Ito‘s Uzumaki horror manga will debut on Adult Swim‘s Toonami programming block on September 28 at 12:30 a.m. EDT (effectively, September 28). The anime will also stream on the Max streaming service. In addition, the Lazarus (Lazaro in Japanese) original anime is scheduled for 2025. Adult Swim began streaming a new trailer for Uzumaki:
© Junji Ito, Shogakukan
The four-episode Uzumaki mini-series was originally slated to debut on Toonami in 2020 before it premiered in Japan, but the anime was delayed to 2021. It was again delayed to October 2022, and then delayed again in June 2022.
The voice cast includes:
- Abby Trott / Uki Satake as Kirie Goshima
- Robbie Daymond / Shinichirō Miki as Shuichi Saito
- Cristina Vee / Mariya Ise as Azami Kurotani
- Doug Stone / Toshio Furukawa as Kirie’s father
- Aaron LaPlante / Takashi Matsuyama as Shuichi’s father
- Mona Marshall / Mika Doi as Shuichi’s mother
- Max Mittelman / Katsutoshi Matsuzaki as Katayama
Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi) is directing the mini-series at Studio Drive and Studio Akatsuki. Production I.G. USA and Adult Swim are co-producing the anime. Colin Stetson (Hereditary) is composing the music.
The 1998-1999 manga follows the inhabitants of a town where strange occurrences related to a spiral shape began occurring one after another. Viz Media originally released the manga in three collected volumes from 2007-2008, and later released an omnibus edition.
The manga inspired a live-action horror film starring Eriko Hatsune and Fan Fhi in 2000.
Source: Rick and Morty: The Anime panel at San Diego Comic-Con (Kalai Chik)
