Short Synopsis: Dio is also out to kill Casshern, but it turns out that he knows quite a bit about him.
Highlights: The strange sort of sympathy from Casshern.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 (Good)
This episode gives a proper introduction to what are probably going to be the main antagonists of this series. Dio claims that Cashern was actually made by someone, in order to destroy all life within the world. There seems to be a guy named Briking Boss, who once saved the world as well, and Dio hopes to follow that guy’s footsteps.
The interesting part of this episode was how everyone around Casshern seems to view him in a different way: Lyuze bears a grudge against him, and yet this episode showed how she doesn’t want other to kill him, Dio wants to be the one to save the world, so he wants to kill him, the weaker robots want to be saved, so they beg for his death, the big robots simply accepted that they’re going to die anyway, so why not die with a small percentage of living, Ringo, even though Casshern scared the heck out of her in episode one, starts feeling a variation of the Stockholm-syndrome for him, and Ringo’s caretaker seems to not care, or he knows that it’s impossible to defeat Casshern no matter how he tries. So many different ways to look at Casshern, and that’s what makes this series so interesting.
What’s also interesting is that even though Dio claims to know all about Casshern, he doesn’t seem to know that he’s impossible to kill. Ringo’s caretaker (god, I need to know the name of that guy) claims that Luna was the same as he was once: she too didn’t die, and yet Casshern killed her, so he probably inherited whatever powers she had.
“There seems to be a guy named Briking Boss, who once saved the world as well, and Dio hopes to follow that guy’s footsteps.”
支配 しはい rule; control; direction
駆逐 くちく extermination; expulsion; destruction
Those are the key words here psgels.
Dio explains that robots never viewed humandkind as a enemy, they simply exterminated them, and took their place as the dominant race. The robot who stod at the focal point of this extermination was Briking Boss.
The “downfall” of the robots began with casshern killing luna, who was supposedly 不死身 (immortal). Luna’s immortallity was then transfered to casshern upon her death.
Dio’s motivations are selfish to say at the least, since he desires to rule the world, and the salvation he offers the crumbling robots could be nothing but false words. The reason for this is that the “key” to stopping the “downfall” of the robots lies within Casshern.
Dio wants to kill cashern and figure out how the 命の絡繰り “mechanism of life” that Casshern was cursed with for killing luna works, so he can rule the world. His promise the help the robots could be nothing but false promises. There’s really no way to tell.
also, note that casshern probably wasnt immortal before he killed luna, the immortality was something he attained after he somehow killed her. It also seem that Dio doesn’t share cassherns ability to regenerate, so they are probably just alike in every other aspect.
The name of “Ringo’s caretaker” is Ohji/Ouji.
As a shipper, it was great to see Lyuze back right the very next episode after she almost got killed by “berserk-mode Casshern”. Moreover, she literally stood in the line of fire for him, and against something identical to what could’ve have destroyed her the previous episode.
Yeah, she was saying something along the lines of wanting to be the one who kills him (I’ve only watched the raw vid so far, so I could only guess), but that’s a pretty lame excuse, and everyone knows it. I think she grew to like him, and I hope that Casshern would eventually feel the same towards her somehow.
I think that Leda looking at Lyuze as she saves Dio somewhat hints that her relationship to Dio kind of parallels Lyuze’s to Casshern. I really hope that’s the case. It’s what’s keeping me watching this whole melancholic mess.
I’m definitely looking forward to the subbed episode. If I could put my own Overall Enjoyment Value rating for this episode, it’d be an 11/10 (Awesome!)
I think the interesting thing about this show is the contradiction of immortality. By definition, immortal is something that cannot die and yet Casshern supposedly killed Luna.
By simple logic, this would indicate that Luna was not immortal – otherwise Casshern can’t have killed her because immortals don’t die. However if indeed she is immortal, then she isn’t dead.
Either way, I hope this series attends to that or otherwise, stop throwing immortal around if it isn’t true. Thus far, it’s holding true for Casshern.
“Yeah, she was saying something along the lines of wanting to be the one who kills him ”
What Lyuze said was that she does want to kill Casshern, but she wants to fight him fair and square, as not to shame the memory of her sister. That was why she protected him and why she didn’t kill him when she had the chance.
Thanks. Yeah, I’ve just watched the subbed episode yesterday. But it still seems like one of those kinds of excuses that some anime characters say when they’re too embarassed to just admit that they did something for someone because they like or care for that person (but not necessarily in a romantic sense). Besides, what kind of “fair fight” could she be hoping for? I think, the reason she doesn’t want him dead now, or couldn’t bring herself to deliver the final blow then, is because she has somehow come to realize that he may not be fully responsible for the things he’s blamed for.
And, like what, she watched him the whole time he’s sleeping? I wish she’d just tell him that she’d be keeping an eye on him or something then just tag along. I think Casshern would appreciate the company. But then, that would probably make him forget more things and start singing a different tune…at least until the Ruin starts to affect Lyuze too or something.