The Manga Cross website has announced that the Casshern R manga that it is restarting serialization of the ongoing series. The fourth and latest chapter of the manga has also released.
The manga initially started releasing in Monthly Champion RED in September 2023. Tatsuo Yoshida initially released Casshan in 1973. Its story focuses on Tetsuya Azuma, a young boy who can transform into the cyborg Casshern to fight against humanity’s enemies.
asshern R will be released on Monthly Champion RED’s next issue on September 19, 2023. Satoshi Shiki, a manga artist known for his work on Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, will provide the art of the manga. Chabo Higurashi, a writer who has worked on both anime and manga, will provide the script.
Several adaptations of Casshan have released over the years. First, ADV Films launched Casshan: Robot Hunter in 1993. Eleven years later, Go Fish Pictures launched a live-action remake titled Casshern. Funimation streamed the most recent remake, Casshern Sins, in 2008. The anime is also available on Crunchyroll. It is described as follows:
Casshern, a cybernetic assassin with no memory, awakens in a wasteland where a plague known as the Ruin reduces everything in its path to rubble. Robots and humans alike seek vengeance against Casshern for the role he played in murdering the last hope for this world. But now, lost in a future he does not recognize, a machine built to kill will fight to save the dying.
The Casshern R manga is available to read now on the Manga Cross website.
