User blog:Aijihi/When old animes haunt newer ones

So I had the most surreal watching experience. There’s this anime called Casshern Sins I recently watched, and oh boy I didn’t expect what I got. The series is set in the future, where there are fully sentient robots who have taken over the world. However, one day Casshern murders Luna, and this somehow unleashes a cataclysm on the entire world, causing the robots to decay and fall apart, and has sterilized most humans and rotted most of the world. Pretty dark, right? Well, none of that is the part I didn’t expect. No, what made this entire series a surreal watch was that it was done in the same art style as Heartcatch procure. No joke.



To start off, Ban Kenji looks a bit like Casshern if he one day woke up with the worst case of bedhead I’ve ever seen. But that’s pretty minor, and Ban has nothing on Dune. No, not Heartcatch Dune, but Dune from Casshern. Who looks exactly like a shorter-haired Sabaku. That sure made things harder to keep track of. Some of the characters also had vague resemblances to some Heartcatch characters, although nothing that couldn't just be coincidence. But this makes me wonder just how many people who worked on Casshern got roped into making Heartcatch. Such a tone shift for them, although that really explains some of those more…intense scenes. And why the enemies wanted to make the world a desert, read: wasteland. Figures they’d choose that since that was approximately 90% of the backgrounds in Casshern.







 So has this case of animes seeming to cross with each other ever happened with anyone else? 