Casshern Sins is a reboot of the 1973 anime series Casshan. In the series, Casshern is presented as a cyborg subordinate of Braiking Boss who was ordered to assassinate the savior of mankind, and thus doomed the Earth to ruin. The series made its English broadcast premiere on Funimation Channel in December 2010. A manga adaptation was published in Jive's Comic Rush Magazine.