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Luna Kozuki is a central figure in the Casshern franchise, most prominently featured in the 2008 series Casshern Sins as a mysterious and almost divine being known as the Sun that was Named Moon. In the original 1973 series and its 1993 OVA, she is depicted as a fifteen-year-old girl who fights alongside the hero Casshern using a magnetic field gun, but the darker reboot reimagines her as the source of all life in a world of robots. In Casshern Sins, she was summoned by humanity to bring salvation, possessing a fantastic power to heal and grant life. Her existence embodied hope and despair, and she was widely viewed as the symbol of both immortality and the tragic price of escaping death. Fearing her as a threat, the tyrant Braiking Boss ordered his three strongest cyborg warriors—Casshern, Dio, and Leda—to kill her. Casshern succeeded in assassinating Luna, but this act triggered the Ruin, a cataclysmic event that caused the planet's deterioration, filled the atmosphere with poison, and made robots begin to rust and die, ending their eternal existence.
Luna's personality is complex and shifts throughout the story. Initially, she is optimistic, loving, and gentle. She respected and loved Dune, who guarded her, and believed that granting death could free beings from the suffering of eternal life. However, after being killed by Casshern, her perspective changes dramatically. She becomes disgusted and terrified of death and dying. She grants immortality to both humans and robots that she deems not "reeking of death," and she refuses to heal those who are too far gone into the Ruin, such as Dune. This transformation turns her into a hidden antagonist, as she joins forces with Braiking Boss to rid the world of all death, showing a cruel side that seeks to impose eternal stasis. Her motivations are rooted in a deep aversion to mortality, yet her actions paradoxically contribute to the world's decay. She is often encountered by Casshern as a figure of memory and mystery, and hints suggest she may have the ability to reincarnate, explaining why she might still appear alive.
Her role in the plot is pivotal: her assassination is the inciting incident, and Casshern's search for the truth about her and his own past drives the narrative. Her presence looms over every character, as the rumor spreads that any robot who kills and eats Casshern will obtain eternal life, linking the protagonist's survival to her legacy. Luna's key relationships include her deep tie to Casshern, who killed her and is forever haunted by that act; she is also guarded by robots such as Dune, Lyuze, and Liza, who worship or protect her. Her development from a benevolent savior to a twisted giver of immortality underscores the series' themes of life, death, and suffering. Notable abilities include her power to heal and grant life, which makes her the "Source of Life" for the robotic world. She can reincarnate or persist beyond death, and her influence corrupts the environment. In earlier incarnations, she is a capable fighter wielding an MF Gun, but in Casshern Sins, her power is more metaphysical and central to the world's fate.
Luna's personality is complex and shifts throughout the story. Initially, she is optimistic, loving, and gentle. She respected and loved Dune, who guarded her, and believed that granting death could free beings from the suffering of eternal life. However, after being killed by Casshern, her perspective changes dramatically. She becomes disgusted and terrified of death and dying. She grants immortality to both humans and robots that she deems not "reeking of death," and she refuses to heal those who are too far gone into the Ruin, such as Dune. This transformation turns her into a hidden antagonist, as she joins forces with Braiking Boss to rid the world of all death, showing a cruel side that seeks to impose eternal stasis. Her motivations are rooted in a deep aversion to mortality, yet her actions paradoxically contribute to the world's decay. She is often encountered by Casshern as a figure of memory and mystery, and hints suggest she may have the ability to reincarnate, explaining why she might still appear alive.
Her role in the plot is pivotal: her assassination is the inciting incident, and Casshern's search for the truth about her and his own past drives the narrative. Her presence looms over every character, as the rumor spreads that any robot who kills and eats Casshern will obtain eternal life, linking the protagonist's survival to her legacy. Luna's key relationships include her deep tie to Casshern, who killed her and is forever haunted by that act; she is also guarded by robots such as Dune, Lyuze, and Liza, who worship or protect her. Her development from a benevolent savior to a twisted giver of immortality underscores the series' themes of life, death, and suffering. Notable abilities include her power to heal and grant life, which makes her the "Source of Life" for the robotic world. She can reincarnate or persist beyond death, and her influence corrupts the environment. In earlier incarnations, she is a capable fighter wielding an MF Gun, but in Casshern Sins, her power is more metaphysical and central to the world's fate.