this show is the bomb. I thought episode 13 was excellent, and not only did we learn a lot, but there are still a lot more questions still out there.

I'm interested to know where that third 'shining' robot who Leda was talking to came from. Also, one of the most heavily stressed aspects of this episode was about how Ringo clearly is different from Casshern and the rest of the robots... Despite this, her Ruin is clearly quite advanced, and even though Dio before mentioned how even he would some day die, one of the big questions remains about when (and why) she was made. The fact that she's in the scene before the OP also makes it seem like she was present when Casshern encountered Luna...

This also all explains a lot about why Dio is so focused on "competing" with Casshern...

people complained about them, but I think the independent stories really have helped me get attached to the central cast of this show. We got to see a lot (if not all) of the process that Casshern talked about when he told Lyuze how he is different now.

Braiking Boss's smugness all throughout ruining everybody's day was almost the epitome of awesome bastardom.

I love how this show is very heavy on symbols and motifs for themes. Too many other animes just bandy about whatever little message/flourish the creator thinks is cool, with most shounens stopping to discuss them in diatribe. There's still some kind of subtlety to this show, and it works very well with the stark contrasts (the "Oji! Smile!" moment really comes to mind) and continually stone-serious approach to the dismal story and atompshere.