Casshern Sins

[Munsu]

Hmm.... So, you think the ruin is just a general term for the collapse of the robotic civilization and not a concrete term for any specific ailment? I kept thinking it was a nanobot or whatever infection because it seemed to affect the robots pretty fast and considering how dry many parts of that world look like, general rusting of metals should be slow indeed.

Not saying that. This disease that is affecting robots is just that they're rusting... they call that Ruin. The only reason this really affects them is because there is a lack of resources in the world to fix their "disease". So, I'm just saying that both humans and robots are being affected by this lack of resources... humans go hungry, robots get ruined. But in the end, they're both being affected by the same thing. So just as robots call their disease ruin, the world is in ruin... and the cause for the robots' demise is also causing the human's demise (but as pointed out before, the humans were already on a downfall even before this particular problem started).

If there were resources, robots wouldn't care about the ruin... they'd rust, but they would simply get fixed and go on with it.

But who knows, you may be right... maybe there's something that is attacking the robots per se. But I also think that the current state of the world (weather, etc.) is making the robots rust quicker than usual.