Casshan:Robot Hunter (OVA)

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Casshan:Robot Hunter
キャシャーン (Casshan)
Genre	Adventure, Science Fiction
OVA
Director	Hiroyuki Fukushima
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Episodes	4
Released	August 21, 1993
Alternative titles

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

Enslaved by an army of rebellious super robots originally designed to help civilization avert a complete ecological cataclysm, mankind's only hope is casshan, a legendary hero who wages a solitary war to defeat the NEOROIDS and restore the Earth to its rightful order. Ironically Casshan's father is the same scientist who engineered the race of super androids now threatening to destroy all of mankind. On a crusade to clear the name of his father, Casshan must sacrifice his own humanity in order to attain the powers he needs to defeat mankind's powerful enemies. But Casshans's power does not come without a price. Haunted by the memories of his murdered mother and forced to deal with a super robot that has absorbed and now mainpuluates, the consciousness of his father , Casshan must put aside his own emotions nd fight to presevre the surival of the human race.

[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]