Short Synopsis: Casshern meets a painter who wants to leave his mark on the world. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Well, if it’s indeed true what CasshernXLyuze said, then this was the last of the “filler” episodes of Casshern Sins, and as usual it was a really interesting one. It’s about another aspect of a future of [...]
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Short Synopsis: Casshern gets himself stuck in trouble, and Frender needs to find help to save him. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) I remember noting that there weren’t enough males in this series that Casshern would run into. Well, somewhere along the line the creators seem to have listened, because this episode exactly offers the demographic that [...]
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  Polo! Impressions: Yeah, they really threw me for a loop this time. Instead of a crazy woman obsessively doing something to show hope or acceptance of the world, it was a guy who just looked like a woman. Whoa. Such a drastic change in route presentation that I almost got a head rush. Our damsel in [...]
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Episode 11 puts the humans back into the mix, showing us a group of people coexisting with cyborgs, which I imagine is the only way they can survive anymore. We’ve seen it a million times: humans build robots only to become subservient/dependant upon them. This episode was pretty much a 22 minute display of Friender’s loyalty. [...]
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  However, not robot lactation. Impressions: A solid, if not particularly memorable episode. Casshern gets buried under a giant rock in the opening segment, so Friender goes off and finds some humans and robots living together, ebony and ivory in perfect harmony, led by the rather unfortunately voiced Jin, who somehow managed to fight evenly with [...]
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Originally titled "Casshern: Chinese Whispers, the backward march of time, and Truth as agent of Hope." I edited the post <en>and the title. You're welcome.
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A Casshern Sins episode that doesn’t star Casshern, Friender, Ringo and company is, not surprisingly, still solid material. The episode focused on Dio and his scheming lady friend,  Leda. What we see of Dio is what you’d expect; a man much like Casshern, only replace the sadness with rage. He complains about the state of [...]
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  No! We wants to be the Casshern! See? This is what happens when my schedule is off from late raws. I get grumpy. And full of bile. I need a nap. Impressions: I’m sensing a pattern here. Either we get Dio and some nice action, or we get Casshern’s crazy robot girlfriend of the week. Gee, [...]
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Short Synopsis: Dio prepares an army to go against Casshern. Highlights: Good! Focus on the bad guy! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Well, I should have known. As awesome as this series is, it still has to obey the Golden Rule of Anime: a character is dead, only when you get to see the dead body appears on [...]
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[ Episode 8: The Paean of Hope ] Janis is Love. Love and Hope. Oh. My. God. This has easily become my favorite episode in the series thus far. It was absolutely beautiful in terms of writing, visuals, audio, and choreography. This time around Casshern meets a beautiful singer named Janis. I was absolutely stunned when she [...]
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[ Episode 7: The Woman of the High Tower ] Touchy-feely woman in the high tower is touchy-feely. Wow. What a powerful episode. Simply put, this episode was about a woman (robot woman of course) that used to be a worker in a factory. She feels that she must continue to build things as evidenced by the [...]
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[ Episode 6: Reunion with Fate ] Lyuze >>>> Dio! So from the looks of things there seems to be at least two others that are similar to Casshern. One male and the other female. Dio seemed to be pretty full of himself while fighting Casshern and while he does have power, it never really felt that [...]
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Casshern Sins in one line.
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God. This is just depressing. Episode 9 really knew how to pull on the ol’ heartstrings. I thought I’d make it through without blubbering, but then they showed that last scene with Bolton and the flower petal and I lost it. I love that they made the most colorful episode the most heartbreaking. Talk about [...]
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It’s hard to explain how I feel about Casshern Sins. It’s way beyond anything else I’ve seen this year. More than just another good anime series, more than just entertainment, I find it is engaging, evocative and inspiring, perched somewhere in-between the surreal, fable-like quality of Kino’s Journey and the philosophical melancholy of Mushishi. After [...]
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There is a magical moment in Casshern Sins 8. Not one of those feel-good moments in Natsume Yuujinchou, but one that is both surreal and sublime. Here, toward the end, both heaven and hell converge at one place, but, at the same time, both are definitively separated by the concert dome’s walls that echo the [...]
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[ Episode 5: The Sun That Was Called Moon ] Pink-hair girl’s older sister was a hottie! Somehow I wasn’t surprised that the girl seeking revenge couldn’t do a thing against Casshern. Seriously, the dude heals almost instantaneously. What could you possibly do to him unless you have his speed and strength to force pressure onto him [...]
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I’ve got nothing witty to say. Really. Episode 5 I was surprised at how typical the Ryuze’s story was; she just wanted to kill Casshern for justice and revenge, but no so much for her sister as for herself. Hell, that time all her sister said before she was ruined was “Casshern wo…”; it could’ve and most [...]
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Short Synopsis: Casshern arrives at a robot graveyard. Highlights: Nico was awesome. Overall Enjoyment Value: 9/10 (Fantastic) Oh my god. This was without a doubt the best episode of Casshern Sins yet, and with such a series, that really has to say something. I can’t believe how easy these writers make it seem to just create such wonderful [...]
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  Two lolis, one tsundere, one singer, two yanderes, and one dog… Oh god… I’m watching Da Capo. Impressions: Wasn’t I complaining last week about the seemingly endless parade of women in danger that Casshern seems to run across? Well, we’re up to five in the last six episodes (and six out of nine overall… seven if you count [...]
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