Casshan

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Neo-Human Casshern (anime)
新造人間キャシャーン
(Shinzō Ningen Kyashān)
Genre Science fiction
TV anime: Shinzō Ningen Kyashān
Director Hiroshi Sasagawa
Studio Tatsunoko Productions
Network Flag of Japan Fuji TV
Original run October 2, 1973 – June 25, 1974
Episodes 35

Casshan, known in Japan as Neo-Human Casshern (新造人間キャシャーン Shinzō Ningen Kyashān?), is an anime series created by animation studio Tatsunoko Productions in 1973, which was based on a serialization in Kodansha’s “Terebi Magazine” and Akita Shoten’s “Boken Oh” (Adventure King).

[edit] Plot

Tetsuya Azuma (東鉄也 Azuma Tetsuya?), also known as Casshern, is a cybernetic neoroider (新造人間 Shinzō Ningen?, lit. "neo-human") who turned himself into a cyborg for the purpose of hunting down and destroying robots that have taken over the world. His late biological father, Dr. Azuma, was the inventor of the robots that were originally intended to serve humankind, but mutinied en masse when their cold logic concluded that the good of the Earth Ecosystem required the destruction of the human race.

Casshern and his robotic dog, Friender, join forces with a beautiful girl named Luna to battle the robots led by their brutal boss known as the Black King.

[edit] Translation

The American publisher performed an awkward katakana to romaji transcription, by translating "キャシャーン" as "Casshan" instead of "Casshern". "Casshern" is the romanization used in Japan and in other countries, and is used as the romanized title of the 2004 live action film. Casshan is set to featured in the fall as a limited edition comic series.[1]

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