Casshern: SINS

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Casshern: SINS

December 9, 2008 by abryce

Alex Bryce
Blog Post #12
December 9, 2008

I’ve been watching this anime series, and it’s just…. amazing.

I know some people in the class who have/had negative misconceptions about anime (especially after watching Chobits and Sailor Moon). I can only urge you to watch this series, as it really represents another side of anime; a truly well-done, thought-provoking anime that doesn’t focus on trite objectification/sexualization of women. It is violent, however, just FYI.

It deals with everything that we’ve discussed about Cyborgs, albeit it approaches cyborgs from the robot side rather than the human side. Much of the show deals with robots (the majority of inhabitants in the future earth) wresting with the human concepts of death and beauty and life. Which brings us to mind our previous discussion: although we know humans can become cyborgs–is it possible for machines to acquire human qualities and become cyborgs themselves?

Here’s a site where you can watch it online for free. Note, it is an ongoing show, so only 10 out of the 24 planned episodes are currently out. Keep checking back weekly (or so) for a new episode.

http://www.animecrazy.net/casshern-sins-episode-1/

Please… even if you don’t like anime, find the time to watch the first two or three episodes

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on December 14, 2008 at 6:49 pm | Reply baimeeker

This is definitely one of the better cyborg anime I’ve seen, although I don’t think I’ve seen as much as Alex. There’s a bit in there about cyborgs falling in love and other cyborgs telling them that they are being “too human”. The question is, are they feeling love the way that we do, or are they just simulating love? Acting like they are in love?

Another good anime for this, although it’s very confusing, is Kaiba. Kaiba is about a civilization with humans who can condense their memories into chips and then move from body to body. There’s a little bit of gender bending in this series that results from this notion. Selling bodies is one way that the poor can survive, and many of them end up in bodies that look more like stuffed animals than humans. Also, the rich never have to die, but trickery ensues with the poor, who may never get their memories saved to a chip and thus are lost forever. The name of the series, Kaiba, refers to a memory eating plant that is about to destroy the planet .