| Casshern Sins | |
 Cover of the first DVD volume, featuring the titular character Casshern (foreground), and Friender (background). | |
| キャシャーン Sins (Kyashān Shinsu) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Post-apocalyptic[1] |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
| Produced by | Hiroyuki Oomori Yasuhiro Kamima |
| Written by | Yasuko Kobayashi |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Productions (production) Madhouse (animation) |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TVS, MBS, TVA, CTC, tvk |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 1, 2008 – March 15, 2009 |
| Episodes | 24 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Masaki Takei |
| Published by | Jive |
| Magazine | Comic Rush |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | October 25, 2008 – July 26, 2009 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Casshern Sins (Japanese: キャシャーン Sins, Hepburn: Kyashān Shinsu) is a reboot of the 1973 anime series Casshan, produced by Tatsunoko Productions and animated by Madhouse, it aired from October 2008 to March 2009. The series made its English broadcast premiere on Funimation Channel in December 2010. A manga adaptation was published in Jive's Comic Rush Magazine.
The series discards the continuity presented in the original Casshan anime series, in which Casshern was a cybernetic superhero battling the evil robotic forces of Braiking Boss in a post-apocalyptic Earth. In Casshern Sins, Casshern is presented as a cyborg subordinate of Braiking Boss who was ordered to assassinate the savior of mankind, and has thus doomed the Earth to ruin.