Casshern Sins (2008)

Original title

キャシャーン Sins

Directed by

Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Genre

science fiction anime and manga, post-apocalyptic anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 24 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cyborg named Casshern roams a dying world after killing a figure who could have saved humanity. He struggles with guilt and seeks a way to end the decay that his actions caused.

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What happens

Casshern Sins (Japanese: キャシャーン Sins, Hepburn: Kyashān Shinsu) is a reboot of the 1973 anime series Casshan, produced by Tatsunoko Productions and animated by Madhouse, it aired from October 2008 to March 2009. The series made its English broadcast premiere on Funimation Channel in December 2010. A manga adaptation was published in Jive's Comic Rush Magazine. The series discards the continuity presented in the original Casshan anime series, in which Casshern was a cybernetic superhero battling the evil robotic forces of Braiking Boss in a post-apocalyptic Earth. In Casshern Sins, Casshern is presented as a cyborg subordinate of Braiking Boss who was ordered to assassinate the savior of mankind, and has thus doomed the Earth to ruin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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