天下制覇

Because nothing says dystopia quite like a circus.

Impressions:

I really have to wonder what goes on in the script writing rooms at Casshern central. "Okay, let’s have them rehash the last episode for 6 minutes… then… what if there’s a robot circus recapping the whole destruction thing as comedy. Hmm… needs a cliffhanger though… ah, have an evil robot army show up and the immortal guy can just let himself get beat up! Perfect! Print it!" It just reinforces my belief that the writers have lost all their facilities. In many ways, tossing a circus in is even worse than the dream episode. At least that was meant to be unreal. The circus was the kind of thing I expect from a French art film juxtaposed with a man smoking a hookah and standing on a beagle.

Not the most exciting episode even outside of the pretentious circus. Lots of "what’s up with this!?" angsting and even more exposition, plus the shocking SHOCKING revelation that there’s something suspicious about this Luna. Thanks, Ohji. I never would have guessed it if you didn’t say anything. Although at the same time, it’s kind of sad to see the party jump on the "but isn’t that the real Luna?" boat after expressing some doubts last episode. Oh well, me wanting to throttle the characters on this show is certainly nothing new. At this point, I’m just hoping we get an impressive Dio/Casshern final battle at some point, but given that they’ve all but phased out the action for arthouse nonsense… inertia and misplaced hope are really the only reasons I pay attention to this these days.

Preview:

Hanging out at Dio’s crib.