I didn’t say that I think Lyuze’s human. I was just saying that it’s hard not to see her as such. I mean, every other robot character (even Casshern himself) seems to have, more or less, a “one-track mind”. It’s as if their thinking can be easily summarized into a simple idea like; “I know I did something very wrong, but I can’t remember anything so will anyone please just kill me”, “I like pretty things”, “I like to fight because it makes me feel alive”, “devour Casshern in order to survive”, “take things into my own hands”, etc.

Lyuze, on the other hand, while having chosen to live her life to avenge her sister’s horrible death and rid the world of the menace known as “Casshern”, her thinking has not been reduced to the same. She reasons, she evaluates, she hesitates. Her personality, to me, is simply much more dynamic than anyone else’s. That’s why I’ve said that she’s more humanlike than even the title character who’s supposed to be part human.

Now that I think of it, I can see an OAV of Casshern Sins with the story seen from Lyuze’s perspective. I think it would’ve been somewhat better if that’s what they did with this series.

I think that by “crying” Lyuze meant something with flowing tears. We’ve already seen that in this series, robots can possess the full spectrum of human emotions, but their bodies do remain of metal.

One of the things I find a bit odd in this episode is that Lyuze points out that Casshern cries as humans do (with the implication that robots normally don’t or couldn’t), and yet, when she failed to kill Casshern, it’s as if she “broke into tears”, but without any tears.

Speaking of which, given the range of emotions she has shown since the first episode, not to mention her appearance, it’s kind of difficult to think of Lyuze as a robot. I mean, she’s even more humanlike than Casshern who’s supposed to be part human or something. As I was watching the episode again, I think I’ve began to see Lyuze as more than just a pretty (or more accurately, “cute”) face. There’s just so much more to her (and in just a few episodes) in comparison to many female anime characters out there who are ironically human, a human clone, or a kind of humanized being. But maybe that’s just my narrowminded view.

By the way, has anyone else noticed that the katar-thing that projects out of Lyuze’s left arm may actually be the blade of her sister’s sword?

Now that some people have mentioned it, the hairstyles seem reminiscent of Saint Seiya. But I’m not sure who’s being compared to Shun, and I have no idea who’s being compared to Ikki.

Do you think that Casshern’s slowly gaining consciousness over his alter-ego? I’m not sure myself.

As for the less humanoid robot in episode 4, I think he’s an exception because he did say he used to bodyguard the evil antagonist,forgot the name. It seems that if you’re in that form, having alot of power seems to actually give more intelligence to them.

Think of the folks in the ruin community. Had they kept searching for Casshern (though still alive), they would probably have turned into the same generic weak aggresive robots Casshern has been facing.

Keith: Watch Skullman(2007), maybe that will change your opinion.