...this comes from Watanabe Shirow, because it lacks everything that made Cowboy Bebop so damned good. The characters in Lazarus are two-dimensional, with nothing remotely interesting about them. They're boring, predictable, lazy, and stereotyped/clichèd. The dialog is pedantic, and the English dub is excruciatingly stilted and painfully slow. The storyline is just virtue-signaling scolding nonsense (I watch anime to be preached to? Who knew? Not me). And then there's the antagonist who has a completely contradictory agenda: everyone's to blame, so I'm going to kill everyone, except no I'm not, because if you can find me everyone will live. Huh? The entire first episode has 15 minutes of parkour because...? I don't know either. But I do know it got really stale after the first five minutes.

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