Anime Like Lazarus

The year 2052 is hailed as an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. One of the driving forces behind this was the introduction of Hapna, a miracle cure-all panacea that appeared to have no known side effects. After it was introduced by Nobel Prize-winning neurologist Dr. Skinner, use of Hapna spread throughout humanity

However, three years after it was introduced, the reclusive Dr. Skinner returned with an announcement—all those who took Hapna will die in approximately three years.

With just a month left before humanity’s extinction date, the government is desperate to hunt down Dr. Skinner and find a vaccine for Hapna, so desperate that they are willing force five agents gathered from across the world to go on a manhunt for their very lives.

In the distant future, humanity has, for the most part, abandoned Earth and colonized several different planets in the solar system.

In order to keep peace in the galaxy, the Inter Solar System police was established, but they often rely on the aid of bounty hunters, referred to as “cowboys,” to bring criminals on the run to justice.

This is the story of Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, a pair of cowboys that end up with a rag-tag crew of other misfits as they travel the galaxy trying to keep food on the table and their own dark pasts at bay.

Amanda Waller, head of A.R.G.U.S., has harnessed mysterious magical energies to open a portal to another world. There, the organization intends to strip the world of its resources for profit, but needs to protect their investments and create stability first.

In order to do this, she assembles an expendable team of super villains to send through the breach. Super villains Harely Quinn, Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface, and King Shark are freed from their prison cells only to have bombs implanted in their neck and sent through the portal to another world.

Once there, the newly-free inmates run wild only to be captured by Queen Aldora and her knights.

With the the bombs in their necks set to explode after 72 hours if they don’t regroup at the portal, this newly-founded Suicide Squad agrees to help the queen with her war against rampaging orcs, dragons, elves, and other fantasy creatures.

Prisons are filled with super villains who got caught after attempting “just one more” heist before their retirement.

However, Johnny Bolt has come up with a solid plan to make him and his team filthy rich. All he needs to do is get everyone onboard to rob one of the world’s most notorious super villains.

After life turned him down the path of crime, Makoto Edamura cockily thinks himself the best swindler in Japan. However, after trying to swindle a tourist only for the tourist to swap it back, he finds the police on his trail.

Making his escape, he runs into this tourist again, a move that would take him all the way across the sea to Los Angeles. There, he learns that this tourist was in fact a man called Laurent Thierry, a successful confidence man, who wants to recruit him onto his team.

The region of Kansai is overrun by powerful criminals known as Akudama.

One night, after picking up 500 yen dropped by an Akudama, an Ordinary Girl finds herself wrapped up in a huge plot to foil a public execution.

Now with a bomb collar around her neck, she and other Akudama must complete tasks given by a mysterious Black Cat.

Average business man Rokurou Okajima found his life turned upside down when he was captured and held hostage by a mercenary group in Thailand called Black Lagoon.

After learning how disposable his life was to his company, he decides to quit the salaryman life and join the very group of mercenaries that held him hostage.

While he finds himself unexpectedly good at their various work, his ideals about the world vastly clash with those of his companions.

After surrendering global decision-making to an AI named Sapientia, the Earth has achieved prosperity and peace. Now, humanity lives by loyally obeying Sapientia’s decisions. In order to preserve a growing Earth population, the AI has deemed that criminals and various by-products and pollutants should be sent to the Moon colonies.

After years of being Earth’s dumping ground, the children of the Moon have risen up and attacked Earth, destroying the new global lunar elevator, causing a massive loss of life on Earth and kicking off a war of rebellion.

For Jacob “Jack” Shadow, the son of the family that launched the lunar elevator project, he watches his family die in the lunar elevator attack and, vowing revenge, joins the military. Yet, the truth of his past waits for him on the Moon.

Zen Seizaki works as a prosecutor in the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. In what originally was an investigation into claims of false advertisement, Zen uncovers that a Japanese pharmaceutical company faked clinical trials on their company’s new drug.

Further investigation leads Zen and his entire department into a growing case of suicides spreading across the city linking to a plot in the mayoral election of a newly formed district in Tokyo. As Zen gets caught in an increasingly more complex whirlwind of an investigation, he finds the truth challenges his very sense of justice.

During the Iraq War, a soldier named Griff goes insane and starts killing his own platoon. After being subdued, all he kept speaking was the words “banana fish”.

Years later, Griff is taken care of by his brother Ash, a boy who ran away from home and was taken in by mob boss Papa Dino who abused him.

Now, Ash seeks to unravel the mystery of this banana fish, a phrase that keeps mysteriously popping up in his life.

After a terrorist attack on a Japanese nuclear facility, the country was paralyzed to act. After six months of searching for the perpetrators, the public is shown a video of two boys known as Sphinx who take credit for a recent bomb attack. The pair are soon linked to the terrorist attack on the nuclear facility by police.

Threatening more mayhem to come, it is up to the police to catch these terrorists. However, Sphinx has been very careful to never kill anyone with their attacks. Instead, they hope to use them to expose a secret government experiment and its cruelty.

In the 22^nd century, the justice system has changed. The Sibyl System now determines the threat level of each citizen by examining their mental state for criminal intent. This has become known as their Psycho-Pass.

Once criminal intent has been identified, Inspectors like Akane Tsunemori are in charge of subjugating them.

However, this tough job is not without dangers. This is why Inspectors are paired with Enforcers, like Shinya Kougami, latent criminals with just the right amount of psychopathy to keep other criminals in their place.