Line #7 YMMV/CasshernSins


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: This series is much better known in the U.S. and many Western countries rather than the 1970s anime it's rebooting, largely due to the fact that it was a centerpiece premiere in the US revival of the Toonami block.
2	* AntiClimaxBoss: After [[spoiler: Casshern loses to Dio]] in the penultimate episode, you'd expect a climactic battle in the finale, but no, Braiking Boss [[spoiler: simply dies on his own instead of being taken out by Casshern.]]
3	* BrokenBase: While the visuals and soundtrack are lauded by most people, reception to the execution of the plot (its method of storytelling, its pacing, etc) is mixed. Some people find it an amazing JigsawPuzzlePlot, others find that the series was disappointing in spite of its great potential and compelling themes, feeling that it didn't really go anywhere, wasted too much time to get to the actual plot, was obtuse about certain plot points in a bad way, and overall had an unsatisfying conclusion with way too many loose ends.
4	* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The majority of the soundtrack, which was composed by Kaoru Wada of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' and ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' fame.
5	* CryForTheDevil: Both Dio and Leda get a lot of sympathy from both protagonists and probably audience by the end.
6	* DesignatedVillain: Braiking Boss is most definitely ''not'' good, but he does nothing remotely evil in the current story proper or antagonizes the heroes. It's more his ''legacy'' that is villainous than he himself.
7	* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory:
8	** Braiking Boss and Casshern come across as TheAtoner versions of {{Satan}} and TheAntichrist respectively, given their roles in ending the world and present personalities.
9	** It's difficult to ignore the Messianic characteristics of Luna and her subsequent resurrection makes her very Christ-like…if whether she's helping the world or not weren't debatable.
10	** The obsession of the robots with killing Casshern and eating his flesh, convinced that doing so will make them immortal sounds like a twisted version of the Eucharist. Likewise, the fact that drinking Luna's blood grants eternal life invokes Eucharistic imagery.
11	* EvilIsCool: Braiking Boss
12	* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler: Luna]] can seem pretty heartless when Casshern finally meets her, but it becomes a little more understandable when it's revealed that [[spoiler: she was forced into the role of a robot Jack Kevorkian because of her powers, and couldn't handle the psychological burden that put on her.]]
13	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Did you think Casshern was dead at the end of Episode 21?
14	* MemeticMutation: People like keeping track of the number of times Casshern's name is said per episode.
15	** Also how many times he's called 'beautiful'.
16	*** DEVOUR CASSHEWS!
17	*** '''[[MadnessMantra KILL CASSHERN! DEVOUR CASSHERN!]]'''
18	* SpiritualSuccessor: Some people call it "the VideoGame/MegaManZero anime'.
19	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The theme song of Jin, a oneshot robot who sided with humans, sounds an awful lot like the theme from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
20	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The world is dead, there's a lot of death, and those still alive are either miserable or violent. There is little hope or chance for things getting better. Thus, the series can leave viewers depressed.
21	* {{Wangst}}: He has reasons to lament, but Emo Casshern might grate your nerves at times.
22	* TheWoobie: There's no shortish of people suffering in the series, but the one who's probably the biggest example of this is Niko, who appeared in episode 9. A kind and helpful girl, she was once Luna's caretaker before the Ruin hit, and she somehow wound up in the Valley of Ruin, where robots are discarded. She was apparently stuck down there for a long time, with only dead robots, dolls, and flowers as company. Additionally, she had brain damage at some point between the Ruin's breakout and being trapped in the valley, and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation being alone there for a long time didn't help]]. Now all [[StepfordSmiler she can do is smile]] at everyone she meets and try to be helpful, even though her efforts are meaningless. She made her first friends in the forms of Casshern, Ringo, and Bolton, despite how poorly he treated her when tried to help him. Her [[KillTheCutie death]] by the end of the episode was soul crushing to say the least.
23	** Wrench from episode 2 is just as much of one. All she wanted to be was TogetherInDeath with her lover Root. When all of her friends finds out that Casshern, the man that may give everyone immortality is in front of them, they all try to kill him, with the exception of her. [[DyingAlone She soon dies alone with none of her friends or boyfriend with her.]]

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