Casshan

Shinzo Ningen Casshan (?????????? Shinz? ningen Kyash?n) is a groundbreaking anime series created by animation studio Tatsunoko Productions in 1973. Casshan (Tetsuya Azuma) is a cybernetic "neo-human" (shinzo ningen in Japanese) that was created for the purpose of hunting down and destroying robots that have taken over the world. His late biological father Dr. Azuma was the inventor of the robots that were originally intended to serve humankind, but mutinied en masse when their cold logic concluded that the good of the Earth required the destruction of the human race.

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Casshan and his cybernetic dog join forces with a beautiful girl named Luna to battle the robots led by their brutal cybernetic boss known as the Black King. In the typical style of anime visionary Tatsuo Yoshida (who also created Speed Racer and Gatchaman), the series storyline builds up into an incredible wallop, delivering a surprise near the finale that leaves Casshan looking into the soul of his own existence.

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As with Gatchaman, Yoshida has created another great superhero in the tradition of the Henshin Craze brought on by Shotaro Ishinomori's Kamen Rider in 1971.

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Anime: :This article is about Japanese animation. For the oleo-resin, see Anim? (oleo-resin)....

1973: 1973 was a common year starting on Monday....

Tatsuo Yoshida: Tatsuo Yoshida (吉田竜夫, March 6, 1932 - September 5, 1977) is an anime pioneer who founded legendary anime studio Tatsunoko Productions....