Neo-Human Casshern
| Casshan | |
Casshern DVD cover art
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| Genre | Science fiction |
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| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
| Produced by |
Kenji Yoshida Ippei Kuri |
| Written by | Akiyoshi Sakai Hiroshi Sasagawa Naoko Miyake |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | October 2, 1973 – June 25, 1974 |
| Episodes | 35 |
Casshan, also known in Japan as Neo-Human Casshern (新造人間キャシャーン Shinzō Ningen Kyashān?), is an anime series created by Tatsunoko Productions in 1973, which was based on a serialization of Kodansha’s Terebi Magazine and Akita Shoten’s Boken Oh.
The Casshern franchise also includes a 1993 original video animation titled Casshan: Robot Hunter, and a 2004 live action adaptation titled Casshern. In October 2008, a reboot of the franchise Casshern Sins premiered. In anticipation of the upcoming series, a DVD box set of the original series, Neo-Human Casshern Complete DVD-Box "All Episodes of Casshern", was released in Japan on September 24, 2008. Casshern also appears in Tatsunoko Fight and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars as a playable character. At Anime Expo 2013, Sentai Filmworks announced that they had signed a deal with Tatsunoko to release some of their catalog, with Casshan being confirmed as one of the characters involved.Sentai Filmworks released the series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the United States on March 4, 2014.
Tetsuya Azuma (東鉄也 Azuma Tetsuya?), also known as Casshern, is an android with a human consciousness, also known as a neoroider (人造人間 Jinzō Ningen?, lit. "artificial human"). Tetsuya turned himself into an android to hunt down and destroy the robots that have taken over the world.
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