Anime Gold 15 - What Makes Us Human?

Our Bodies? Our Minds? Or perhaps our Souls?

Created by the Author of Gantz this is Inuyashiki: The Last Hero. Follow the story of a kind old man living with a family who is indifferent to him. He has lived this way without causing ripples for anyone around him, until one day he finds out he has terminal cancer.
However unable to tell his family who takes him for granted, he ventures alone into a lonely park, in the dark, to vent his frustrations. In the park he soon realizes that he is not alone, a young man is there too staring at the sky.
But suddenly a weird noise rings and both he and the young man are struck and killed by a mysterious machine appearing out of thin air.

This object seems to be a space ship as we hear it's passengers talk.

First accessing the damage caused by this crash landing to the ship and then the surroundings.
Realizing they just destroyed intelligent life forms, the ships occupants they decide to reconstruct them, as the have to leave as soon as possible.

The next morning the same Inuyashiki who was hit by this mysterious craft wakes up in the same park feeling refreshed.
He soon realizes that his usual body aces are gone and that he doesn't need glasses but most surprising of all his cancer has completely vanished.

What really happened that night and how is he still here?

Find out in Inuyashiki The Last Hero

Anime Info

Directed by Keiichi Sato & Shuhei Yabuta
Writen by Hiroshi Seko

Music by Yoshihiro Ike
Studio: MAPPA