When I first began watching anime decades ago, I avoided Cowboy Bebop like the plague because of my overall disinterest in science-fiction anime. I already wasn't a fan of anime with mechas, which are ...

With all of the above said, you're likely not surprised that our first recommendation is Watanabe's newest series Lazarus, the first episode of which arrived on Adult Swim at midnight on April 5th.

It’d be difficult for any TV series, let alone an anime series, to be greeted with higher expectations than Lazarus. And, as Lazarus proves, it’d be equally difficult to live up to those expectations.