At most I kept up with one series throughout the entire year, most of the cases being the latest batches of Saint Seiya OVAs. Yes, they were a glorious piece of crap, you gotta try HARD to end so sh
itty, but I digress.
Once I heard of Casshern Sins, the live action alone would have sold me to see the original concept. Then they said it was to be directed by Shigeasu Yamauchi, who directed the cream of the crop of SS's revival and was then fired by the series' creator in a stupid hissy fit. Then I watched the first episode and the voice actor for Casshern this time around is Tohru Furuya, the one true Pegasus Seiya... and they made Casshern his spitting image (coincidence?). Down to having Kunio Tsujita as the colorist. If you thought Tsujita was SS's colorist too, you're quite right. Add to it that the classic Saint Seiya series had Takao Koyama at the helm for writing and then see that he worked on the first Casshern series and Jesus F
uck, it's all connected, I can see forever. Behold the blanket.
Either way, it's being an interesting ride so far, with some ups and downs alright, but I'd watch this stuff if only to see Furuya doing the spitting image of the character he immortalized (and viceversa). I liked the fact they gave Dio what seems to be his female doppelganger (doppelganger of a doppelganger but with big round breasts and smooth long hair. What's not to love?). When Yamauchi isn't too caught up on his chaotic direction the action scenes are awesome as well.