CASSHERN Sins #01 — 75% More Retro

October 1st, 2008

 

And you know how I feel about retro…

New Season Disclaimer:

I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of which in genres that I don’t even particularly like, but I do believe in giving every new series at least an episode to interest me.

Impressions:

See… now this is an old-styled remake maintaining the same style… but actually done well. Er… mostly well. That horrible little girl looked like she was about to eat Casshern’s brain through her giant eyes or mouth. Forget being human, I’m thinking that she’s some kind of horrible amphibion/human crossbreed. Thankfully, this show does contain child violence, so really, I felt better after she was tossed around a bit. The panty shots… we probably could have done without. It did scare me for a bit since it continued this season’s apparent trend of having an OP where you could count the number of new frames used, but luckily, the OP and ED were really the only lazy thing here.

Aside from the art there though, the production values were all excellent. The music especially was outstanding and matched very well with every scene, even if it all did lean a bit towards the overly dramatic. It never got so overblown that it felt ridiculous or forced though. The fights were rather well animated, but relied on the strength of direction more than actual animation, choreography, and key frames. There’s nothing wrong with that at all, but the sequences weren’t particularly elaborate, just slugfests more or less.

All that said, I’m still not really a huge fan. I just don’t like sci fi all that much to begin with, amnesia is my most hated plot device around, and the giant angsty "I’m a killer who can’t remember his past" thing has the potential to devolve into terribleness with more speed than probably anything else possible. However, I really would recommend that everybody at least check it out and I will definitely be watching the next episode, though I may or may not say much about it. If none of the other raw bloggers pick it up, I probably will because this episode was probably the one I enjoyed the most of the Wednesday shows, but… well… again… sci fi really isn’t my bag, so… well… I make no promises!

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8 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Wesley says:
    October 2, 2008 at 12:59 am

    I think you’re being a little over sensitve regarding the little girl. Did you really think they were going for “panty-shots” rather than simply showing a child, wearing children’s clothing, at play? Regardless, I thought she was cute.

  • Aroduc says:
    October 2, 2008 at 1:08 am

    Man, Ringo is the stuff that nightmares are made of. ^^

  • Kurotsuki says:
    October 2, 2008 at 1:50 am

    I like how Casshern looks like Seiya , and how both happen to have been voice by Tohru Furuya.

  • EX-Keine says:
    October 2, 2008 at 3:39 am

    To each his own taste, but really… what is it about Sci-Fi that you specifically loathe? Allegedly…. Sounds like some vendetta or something, but by all means, please explain besides Gundam and amnesia, as I know where you’re coming from with those two.

  • Aroduc says:
    October 2, 2008 at 5:20 am

    A robot baby ate my dingo.

    …

    It’s not all sci fi really, just the stuff that gets really wrapped up in itself, which I don’t really like much in any genre for that matter, but it tends to get especially bad in sci fi. I love Vandread, Dual and will admit at least some fondness for Outlaw Star, but those are all character driven shows instead of letting the setting or the gimmick carry them. So much sci fi uses its sceience as a license to just basically be magic, only with 30 extra lines of technobabble accompanying it and even less internal consistency than a magical setting.

    Science fiction also tends to heavily lean towards dystopian views of the future, except for, say… Star Trek. Even if it’s not all out collapse, it’s invariably tinged with cyncism, class struggles, poverty and depression. Aside from the generally homogenous nature of the setting that that creates (if you’re generous with the definition there), it brings the focus off of the characters in favor of making a static (and likely uninteresting anyway) setting that it unlike anything comparable to the audience’s own.

    Mecha in particular have their own litany of problems as far as I’m concerned.

  • Solaris says:
    October 4, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    Well this is nothing like the old Kyashan at all.

    [watch out spoiler ahead]

    In the old serie Kyashan and Luna fought together an army of robot that were destroying mankind for the sake of… restoring nature

    Now, years after we have a devasted world where human are no more, and robots fight among themselves. Kyashan is there doing what exactly? Killing his old girlfriend to find a younger one? LOL! I couldn’t stand a new serie without Luna. Little robot-chan doesnt seem to me an even pairing XD

  • Fang-tan says:
    October 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Am I one of the only people who thought Ringo was cute?

  • GP says:
    December 31, 2008 at 10:05 am

    I totally agree with fang-tan, ringo is showing inocent and childish behaviours, she is much cuter when she does it ( better than other anime kids were they all big all of a sudden), while the show is much similar to Cyborg 005, I think its on of the best show 2008, it is more phsycological and slice of life.