Review of Casshern Sins

Back home for vacations at the end of the year, having hit some major shocks in my first semester exams i was in pursuit of refreshments. So well, got introduced to this wonderful series by a friend of mine. Casshern Sins is not pretty much what it looks like if you’re seeing this picture for the first time. It is not the usual action adventure shounen-esque series you watch, but a very deep psychological series. The plot – The world is in ruin. Robots are rusting (dying) everywhere unable to repair themselves. Signs of Human are rarely seen, which ensure their extinction. As despair consumes the heart of everyone there is onewho is to blame for all the happenings :
Casshern, who killed Luna, the Sun that was named Moon. Struck with amnesia as seen in
the beginning of the series, Casshern walks into a journey remembering the sin he
committed.... Each episode, for the most part, explores a different aspect of humanity, usually regarding
hope and despair. They end up giving away moments of vain hope, enraging emotions
transformed into love, rarely having scenes of unfettered rage. The first fair half of episodes
are quite dull regarding the number count and how long they tried tried dragging it, makes
more reasons to why it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Whereas the second explores a mystery
about how even the most unlikely chance at life can bring out the ugliest in anyone, the emotional impact creates such unrelenting momentum that these roadblocks do nothing to
deter anyone from the end.
Fight scenes, at first it’s not hard to expect a depressing setting with some above average,
albeit grizzly, fight scenes. However in the very next moment it turns into an introspective
piece, symbolical. Just as how the very emotional depth that can be drawn from a single blue
flower (As seen in the series) is uncanny, especially as it becomes an unusual personification of death, and as the glimpse of rust on the cheek of a Robot or the emptiness in their eyes
bring out the terror of death as a monster which devours on every being.
In my personal opinion, this is one series hard to categorize. It is stands in it’s own as a
masterpiece of artistic integrity. But then again tastes may vary, as this definitely is not
everyone’s cup of tea.