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Casshern

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Casshern (キャシャーン) is a Japanese media franchise about an android hero who fights robots to protect humans. The series debuted as Shinzou Ningen Casshern in 1973 and was later adapted into an OVA series in 1993, a live-action film directed by Kiriya Kazuaki in 2004 and a new anime TV series in 2008. Through many versions, only the main characters were kept, each adaption presents a new story. Aside from the 1993 OVA, although the early United States releases translated "キャシャーン" as "Casshan", the right spelling is always "Casshern".

Shinzou Ningen Casshern (1973)

Shinzou Ningen Casshern (新造人間キャシャーン) or Neo-Human Casshan (in the United States) is the original idea of all later adaptions. It was aired from October 2nd, 1973 to June 25th, 1974. The story focuses on Casshern, a cyborg who fights robots to protect humans. He was originally a human named Azuma Tetsuya but was turned to a "shinzo ningen (新造人間; neo-human)" by his father, Dr. Azuma Kotaro. In his journey, he was accompanied by Luna - a beautiful girl and Friender - a robotic dog.

The opening and ending theme are "Tatakae! Casshern (たたかえ! キャシャーン; Fight! Casshern)" and "Ore wa Shinzou Ningen (おれは新造人間; I'm a Neo-Human)", both songs were performed by Sasaki Isao.

Cast

Casshan (1993)

Casshan (キャシャーン) or Casshan: Robot Hunter (in the United States) is the 1993 four episodes OVA adaption of the series. Most of the idea is based on the original Shinzou Ningen Casshern. This time, "キャシャーン" is officially translated as "Casshan" in the logo of both Japanese and English releases. The story is set in a near future, when the planet was conquered by robots leaded by the "Black King", an android hero appears and protects humans. It is later revealed that he is a human turned to cyborg by his father, an expert scientist who engineered the super androids race now threatening to destroy mankind. In order to atone for his father's sins, Casshern decided to become a machine to fight robots and save humans.

The opening and ending theme are "Casshan ~Kaze no Bohyou~ (キャシャーン ～風の墓標～; Casshan ~The Gravestone of Wind~)" by Kageyama Hironobu and "Kibou Shigosen ~Horizon Blue~ (希望子午線 ～ホライズン・ブル～; The Meridian of Hope ~Horizon Blue~)" by Columbia Animation Stars.

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CASSHERN (2004)

CASSHERN Poster

CASSHERN (キャシャーン) is a dark science fiction / action film released on April 24, 2004, written, directed and edited by Kiriya Kazuaki. It is half based on the minor 70's anime Shinzou Ningen Casshern (新造人間キャシャーン) and William Shakespear's Hamlet, though it has many aspects of George Orwell's 1984.

CASSHERN was one of the first films to be completely filmed on a greenscreen where actors act in front of the screen and computers add all the details after the shooting (this is called 'Digital Backlot').

CASSHERN is set in the mid 21st century in a parallel universe to ours, in which the planet is ruled over by totalian governments and has been ravaged by biological weapons. A geneticist, Azuma-hakase Kotaro, believes that he has found a way to rejuvenate human body parts, but the experiment goes deadly wrong and something has been inadvertantly created which threatens the existance of humanity itself.

The film had mixed reviews; as Kiriya was praised for it's aesthetics, but was shunted for his overly complex storyline. His defence of this is that it was meant to be like a dream, or somebody's nightmare. He stated that nightmares don't have to make sense, but you have to go with the flow of ideas.

Music of CASSHERN

The theme used for CASSHERN is Utada Hikaru's Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro. The background music for CASSHERN was composed by Shiro Sagisu and Satoshi Tomiie. CASSHERN also has two soundtracks; these are:

  • [2004.04.23] Our Last Days -Casshern OST- - Disk one is a collection of famous Toshiba-EMI artist's music that either appears in CASSHERN or is a tribute to CASSHERN. The second disk is a partial collection of the background music that plays in CASSHERN.
  • [2004.08.20] CASSHERN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (Complete Edition) - A complete collection of the background music featured in CASSHERN. This features some of the songs that were on the first soundtrack as well as songs that did not make it to the first soundtrack.

Cast

Several of the cast is featured in the music video for Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro. They are marked with a #.

Casshern Sins (2008)

Casshern Sins (2008)

Casshern Sins (キャシャーンSins) is the newest anime TV series of Casshern franchise. It was adapted by the prolific MADHOUSE studio into 24 episodes aired from October 1st, 2008 to March 15th, 2008 on various TV channels in Japan. Casshern Sins also was adapted into a manga in series October 2008.

Casshern Sins presents a new point of view different from the original series. The world is set to a far future, when the land lost its life, the sky lost its light, the robots are ruining and humans are hunted by insane robots. Casshern - a special robot who isn't attacking by the ruins and can heal himself from wounds woke up with none of his memories available. While wandering in search of his true self, he was attacked by several robots claiming that eating Casshern will bring them life. He was later told by Lyuze - a female robot hunting him to avenge for her sister that he killed Luna, "the sun which is named the moon" and leaded the world to its destruction because of Luna's death. Then rumors about Luna appeared somewhere are showing up, Casshern decided to set on a journey in search of Luna to atone for his sin in the past.

Music

The music of Casshern Sins is composed by Wada Kaoru and produced by DREAMUSIC company.

Theme songs
Soundtrack albums

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