Though Kaz Kiriya's live action adaptation of classic robot-hunting anime series Casshern has it's share of detractors - and I am not one of them, I love the thing - it certainly seems to have sparked a renewed interest in the character. Shortly after the live action feature released the original animated series received a bit of a polish up and re-release on DVD and Japan's Madhouse Studios have been hard at work on a new Casshern anime series. Titled Casshern Sins the show is slated to hit Japanese airwaves in September and the first trailer has just arrived. And, typical of Madhouse's work these days, it's looking gooood. Check it out in the Twitch Player below the break. The live action trailer is there, too, just because I love it.
Dude, spurned on by my own post about the cast I watched Casshern again last night. Love it. Then I went digging for info about the original anime. I'm going to assume there is no robotic dog named Friender in this rendition?
I am also a massive fan of the Casshern live action movie (the Japanese 3 DVD edition rocks) so I'll approach a newer continuation of the anime with a little trepidation, as that trailer looked okay, but nothing astonishing. I wish they'd release the original Anime series with English subtitles...
I hated the live-action Casshern! It was way too bleak and nihilistic for my personal taste (although some of the visuals were superb, especially when he decimates a tank battalion). A new anime take on the character will be welcome.
Hello, Casshern is one of my favorite movies,I love the movie.
Casshern is everything wrong about what people love most about Japanese cinema and anime.
Agreed, Aleph. It was a gorgeous film. I wanted to like Casshern so much, the art direction was TERRIFIC. It was one of the first few films that looked like a live action "anime." But man was it stupid, a lot like most anime.
Problem is, it wasn't trying to be stupid. It was campy, but it didn't feel intentional like Cutey Honey or Speed Racer. Both of which I found far more entertaining.
Instead, It embodied everything that I hated about anime and Japanese pop culture when it's done wrong. Story was more convoluted than a Final Fantasy game. Casshern was a failure in Japan, mostly everyone I met there thought it sucked, yet the American Otaku fan boys eat it up.
It tries so hard to leave a serious message about war but everything that happens in the story is SOOOO lame and laughably melodramatic. Feminine man-boy-girl villians who yell a lot. I got bored halfway in and turned the volume off and just watched as background while listening to music. It's a good show piece, but apart from asthetic, I don't see how it works as a film on any level. Seriously, I just don't get it. But I do get why people love it, and I think it's just for the look of it. But that makes it far more disappointing for me. If only the film itself was a match for the effects and visuals. God, the acting was horrid in it.
Indiemaker0583,
You should have seen this in a BIG cinema where you cannot escape the sound.
:cheese:
Seriously though: I agree the story and melodramatics in it are ridiculous, but I got the idea this was intentionally so and fits the style of the film.
Casshern for me is the very embodyment of opera, albeit without the singing. The unabated tragic and "preachy" morality tale, the over-the-top acting, the theatrical visuals, the emphasis on the bombastic soundtrack...
Speaking of which: seeing Casshern on a small screen with the sound off must surely be the most blatant sabotage you can perform on this film.
I actually got to watch the first episode of this this past weekend at Otakon. It's a lot darker than the other anime series. It's a bit early to judge how it'll turn out but it looks great so far. I loved the ova and can't to see the rst of this.
cool stuff.