Casshern Sins: Difference between revisions

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** Though depending on your take on the ending (see below), {{spoiler|it eventually becomes a [[A World Half Full]]}}.

* [[Cry for The Devil]]: Both {{spoiler|Dio and Leda}} get a lot of sympathy from both protagonists and probably audience by the end.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Once Casshern gets a better control over his own power and is able to go full strength into battle without falling into his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] / [[Unstoppable Rage]], he starts delivering this to anyone not named Dio (as opposed to his [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|more destructive tendencies]] seen through the first half of the series).

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Once Casshern gets a better control over his own power and is able to go full strength into battle without falling into his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] / [[Unstoppable Rage]], he starts delivering this to anyone not named Dio (as opposed to his [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|more destructive tendencies]] seen through the first half of the series).

* [[Darker and Edgier]]

** An impressive feat, given that the original ''[[Neo Human Casshern (Anime)|Neo Human Casshern]]'' was already set in a postapocalyptic world with an army of robots/cyborgs hellbent on wiping out humanity. (It's still more upbeat than the [[Live Action Adaptation]], though.)

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* [[Genki Girl]]: Ringo.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Signals Casshern going into [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] mode.

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: [[Tohru Furuya]] is Casshern in this adaptation, while [[Kenji Utsumi]] reprises his role as [[Big Bad|Braiking Boss]].

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Tohru Furuya]] is Casshern in this adaptation, while [[Kenji Utsumi]] reprises his role as [[Big Bad|Braiking Boss]].

** Meanwhile, [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] is Dio, Casshern's rival.

* [[How the Mighty Have Fallen]]: Braiking Boss. Once the leader of the robot army that conquered the world, now just another robot [[Walking the Earth]] and slowly succumbing to the Ruin just like everyone else. {{spoiler|For added irony, he was the one that ordered Luna's death to begin with, making his eventual fate his own fault.}}

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** He does legitimately get {{spoiler|defeated on his final match against Dio}} though, where {{spoiler|neither of them is holding back and Dio manages to deliver a blow that would’ve been fatal}} had Casshern not been {{spoiler|immortal}}. The fact that {{spoiler|Dio is also dying from the Ruin by this point}} makes it even more awesome.

* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The truth behind the assassination of Luna, her true purpose, the origin of the Ruin, Casshern’s immortality and pretty much anything else that happened before the beginning of the story is revealed very little by little, forcing the viewer to pay attention through the whole series and fit the pieces together, with some elements even being only implied and never outright stated as such. In fact, a second viewing is almost guaranteed to grant newer insight into the plot as a whole, since random elements that appeared unimportant upon first watching will suddenly gain a new meaning.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: Along with all the dead [[One Shot Character|One Shot Characters]], out of all the recurring characters, only {{spoiler|Casshern, Luna, Ringo and Friender}} make it to the end of the story.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: Along with all the dead [[One-Shot Character|One Shot Characters]], out of all the recurring characters, only {{spoiler|Casshern, Luna, Ringo and Friender}} make it to the end of the story.

* [[Left Hanging]]: Leda’s past, her connection to the {{spoiler|lab where Luna was created}} and whatever happened to her while {{spoiler|she was pregnant}}, as well as the fate of her {{spoiler|unborn child}} are never explained, aside from it all having been fairly traumatic. It’s very heavily implied that {{spoiler|Ringo is actually her child}}, but how exactly did {{spoiler|she end up where Ohji later found her}}, is also for the viewer to imagine.

* [[Living Forever Is Awesome]]: All of the robots that want to eat Casshern are this trope. They're pissed because they were enjoying immortality and now they can't because of the Ruin.

* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Do yourself a favor and don't get attached to any of the one-shot characters (of course, most of them are written so well that [[Tear Jerker|it's hard not to.]])

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: {{spoiler|Casshern}} and {{spoiler|Lyuze eventually}} fall in love with each other, but since they {{spoiler|decide to accept [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|''death'' rather than receive Luna's ''salvation'']]}} and {{spoiler|he's an immortal, Lyuze [[Tear Jerker|dies in his arms]]}}.

* [[Mechanical Lifeforms]]: robots became [[Ridiculously Human Robots]], but they still couldn't breed (meaning that newer robots had to be built, either by humans or other robots) nor grow (so if a robot is created as a child or baby, they remain so forever). For this reason Braiking Boss asked {{spoiler|Ohji}} to create robots that could actually function as an actual specie and thus, {{spoiler|Casshern, Dio and Leda}} where created, being heavily implied that {{spoiler|Ringo}} is actually {{spoiler|Dio and Leda's child}}.

* [[Mechanical Lifeforms]]: robots became [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]], but they still couldn't breed (meaning that newer robots had to be built, either by humans or other robots) nor grow (so if a robot is created as a child or baby, they remain so forever). For this reason Braiking Boss asked {{spoiler|Ohji}} to create robots that could actually function as an actual specie and thus, {{spoiler|Casshern, Dio and Leda}} where created, being heavily implied that {{spoiler|Ringo}} is actually {{spoiler|Dio and Leda's child}}.

* [[Mind Screw]]: Episode 18. Lyuze experiences some pretty abstract dreams of her dead sister Liza, {{spoiler|along with repeated photographs of a live action woman who may or may not be Lyuze's voice actress.}}

* [[Monstrosity Equals Weakness]]: while robots never get too terribly monstrous, the standard [[Red Shirts|mooks that get killed in the thousands]] all look completely mechanical and have weird proportions, while the more human looking robots (the ones more along the lines of a cyborg) are usually much stronger.

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* [[No Antagonist]]: Apart from loads and loads of [[Mooks]], all of the main characters are sympathetic to at least some degree. Dio and Leda are the closest thing to [[Big Bad|Big Bads]], but [[White and Gray Morality|their ambitions are rather petty to consider them as truly evil]].

* [[No Body Left Behind]]: Robots turn to dust when they die.

* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Casshern whenever he goes into his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] / [[Unstoppable Rage]] mode (his mask closes and his eyes glow green) delivers this against pretty much everyone, without even realizing he's doing it. The only two to ever stand a chance here are Dio and Jin.

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Casshern whenever he goes into his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] / [[Unstoppable Rage]] mode (his mask closes and his eyes glow green) delivers this against pretty much everyone, without even realizing he's doing it. The only two to ever stand a chance here are Dio and Jin.

* [[No Immortal Inertia]]: While the ruin moves much slower than how this trope is usually applied, it can still be shown to affect robots much faster than rust would affect machinery in real life. At one point a robot strong enough to choke the life out of another is suddenly blown away by a strong wind. Suffice to say, [[Transformation At The Speed Of Plotthe|ruin moves at the speed of plot]].

* [[One-Woman Wail]] : The main musical piece, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEo-wJGsXeY "Luna's Theme"].

* [[One Shot Character]]: Since he’s [[Walking the Earth]], Casshern seems to meet at least one of these (sometimes several, though the main focus is still only on one of them) on almost every single episode for more than half of the series. They will usually teach him an important lesson about living your life to its fullest. The worst part of this is that at least half of them should have been seen again (see, [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]).

* [[One-Shot Character]]: Since he’s [[Walking the Earth]], Casshern seems to meet at least one of these (sometimes several, though the main focus is still only on one of them) on almost every single episode for more than half of the series. They will usually teach him an important lesson about living your life to its fullest. The worst part of this is that at least half of them should have been seen again (see, [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]).

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Dio to Casshern, to the point of obsession.

** Lyuze shows some hints of this, at least at the beginning, and she even goes so far as to {{spoiler|save Casshern from Dio once}}, citing this as her reason.

* [[Panty Shot]]: Ringo gets quite a few, though in her case they seem to be more innocent, due to her young age.

* [[Ridiculously Human Robots]]

* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]

* [[The Rival]]: Dio to Casshern, to the point that {{spoiler|when he finally defeats him in a fair fight, he sees no more reason to continue living.}}

* [[Robot War]]: happened in the backstory, where Braiking Boss created a robot empire and wiped a big majority of the human population.