The fear of death plagues all sentient beings/”Why do I live?”
Well, that was a much deeper episode than I ever espected to get from Cassshern Sins. But now that I think about it, the prospect of death for robots who have until that point thought they had eternal life could lead to some interesting psychological aspects of the show beyond Emo Casshern. The tale of the two lovers was especially poignant; warmth that transcends touch and is rooted within the feelings that they have for one another. Random attack dog is random though. The Ruin shows robots something they’d never have thought they’d have seen: their mortality. Even if they claim that now they truly live as they can die, in the end, as shown by the pitiful fates of them all, the urge to survive conquers all other emotions and desires.
Casshern Sins do not only relate to the past crimes he has commited; even now, in this desolate, destroyed dog-eat-dog (<—haha, eat? “Devour Casshern”? Heh.) world he is compelled to destroy all those who oppose him. What confuses me is why he does so. If he truly didn’t wish to harm those creatures and to not be at fault, all he would have had to do is run away. But instead…
I’m wondering if this is a cinematic technique or some sign that Casshern temporarily went “berserk” and killed anything in his path. Only time will tell if Casshern was as malevolent a being as he is said to be by the mysterious girl or he is simply a lost, confused wanderer (albeit with immense power).
Episode 3
The second Akoes started coughing was the moment I knew a great character was going to die by the end of the episode. Akoes introduced introduced the much needed perspective of a human in this ruined world dominated by the rotting robots. It would’ve been nice to learn a bit more about his history,rather than just knowing he always ran away, but here we got to see someone who was truly ready to face his mortality; having never experienced immortality like the robots, he was simply living for himself. However, this lead to him running for his life and then that eventually became living to run. Basically, the message of this episode (and Akoes’ advice to Casshern) is to stop running, and face your mistakes and sins. At the very least, this served to get Casshern to stop emo-ing, for which I am so thankful. I am also wondering who exactly closed Akoes eyes. Could it perhaps have been another human?
What the heck was up with the fight with the dog? That kind of cheapened the whole message of the episode; there’s no way I could take something named “Friender” seriously. Though this does remind me of Megaman/Rockman and Rush. New ally get!
Next Time:
But it’s too cute to ruin anything!
Grand Punk Railroad 
DEVOUR CASSHERN!
Also, new Kaiba confirmed.
Oh, yeah, intelligent-sounding comment, sorry. My impression from Casshern’s reaction at the beginning of ep.3 was that the rampage at the end of 2 was more beserker than just Casshern being angry, but as you say we’ll have to wait and see.
Ehhh? Is this true? A new Kaiba confirmed? ^ .. Am I missing something.
Anyhow, nice coinage – “Emo Casshern”. And I believe the girl at the end of Episode 1 who said she couldn’t kill him yet was the one who closed Akoes’ eyes. But sad, really – I thought Akoes was a cool person.
i like this show. this is going to replace natsume yuujinchou for me.
@The Animanachronism
Intelligent comments? Such things are not needed.
Uncontollable power Casshern ftw?
By new Kaiba, do you mean this could emulate the success (at least in my eyes) of Kaiba, or there’s actually a season two of Kaiba?
@Hoshi
“Emo Casshern” could really just be “Casshern”, at least until theend of ep.3. But now, he seems to be just “Guy Who Destroyed The World But Forgot How He Did So Casshern”.
@biankita
No way is it as good as Natsume, but it’s still awesome.
More the ’emulating success’ idea, especially given the disorienting introduction, masterful use of landscape and gently thought-provoking episodes of both series.
> … he is compelled to destroy all those who oppose him. What confuses me is why he does so.
Because Casshern is more human than not, and being self-contradictory is what human does—sometimes for good, as shown in episode three; other times, detestable, as shown in episode two.
@bakaneko
Just because they are self-contradictory, doesn’t mean that they always do the opposite of what they wish. Plus we have yet to confirm that Casshern even IS human.