Robot Carnival

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English: Robot Carnival

Japanese: ロボット・カーニバル

Information

Type: OVA

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 21, 1987

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: Discotek Media

Studios: APPP

Source: Original

Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mecha

Duration: 1 hr. 31 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.27¹ (scored by 6,576 users)

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Ranked: #2502²

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Popularity: #4014

Members: 18,109

Favorites: 85

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Synopsis

9 of Japan's leading animators were asked to create a short segment that followed the theme of "Robots," for their inclusion in this film. Essentially, this "movie" is 9 short films, all independant of one another. The common element is human interaction with robots, namely the consequences of creating life with one's own hands, played in nine very different ways.

(Source: ANN)

1: Opening (Atsuko Fukushima and Katsuhiro Otomo)
2: Franken's Gears (Koji Morimoto)
3: Deprive (Hidetoshi Omori)
4: Presence (Yasuomi Umetsu)
5: Star Light Angel (Hiroyuki Kitazume)
6: Cloud (Mao Lamdo)
7: A Tale of Two Robots (Hiroyuki Kitakubo)
8: Nightmare (Takashi Nakamura)
9: Ending (Atsuko Fukushima and Katsuhiro Otomo)

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Episode Videos

Episode 1

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Characters & Voice Actors

Shoujo

Main

Shujinkou

Main

Moritsugu, Kouji
Japanese

Sankichi

Main

Tomiyama, Kei
Japanese

Fukusuke

Supporting

Miwa, Katsue
Japanese

Yayoi

Supporting

Yokoyama, Chisa
Japanese

Denjirou

Supporting

Shiozawa, Kaneto
Japanese

Daimaru

Supporting

Nishio, Toku
Japanese

Walkerson III, Jean-Jacques

Supporting

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Staff

Morimoto, Kouji

Co-Director, Director, Character Design, Screenplay

Otomo, Katsuhiro

Director

Umetsu, Yasuomi

Director, Character Design, Key Animation, Screenplay

Kitakubo, Hiroyuki

Director

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Reviews

Jul 6, 2008

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

psypher (All reviews)

76 people found this review helpful

While simply a series of short films, Robot Carnival really is artisic creativity unbound. Each story in and of itself is an exploration into the various aspects of artifical life forms and various implications thereof. As written by Justin Sevrakis on ANN "The show's credits reads like a whose-who of anime"- and it truly does. I cannot recommend this enough for mecha fans and really anyone who enjoys seeing artists doing what they do best.

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Dec 24, 2017

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

pyroromancer (All reviews)

29 people found this review helpful

Robot Carnival is a bunch of smaller pieces that forms a masterpiece.

30 years before Hollywood, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen hawking fear mongered the hell out of AI, these brilliant writers and animators theorize and demonstrate multiple short stories as how the AI/Robot singularity may playout, from beginnings, to present to future and post human worlds.

These films each have their own theme and tone. You might up in deep thinking, dreading, laughing and crying in this one sitting.

Enjoy these short films as they depict the struggles and joys AI/robots will face as they walk the same path as "us."

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Nov 11, 2012

9 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Lanternof2814 (All reviews)

16 people found this review helpful

I've spent over 30 years watching Anime...I started with Transformers and Robotech in the US. No matter what series I watch, no matter what movie I watch...Robot Carnival is the one that I will always compare them to. When I tell people, particularly those of the "newer" generation of anime fans, what Robot Carnival is about, I simply state, "This is, to me, the anime version of Walt Disney's Fantasia." I have loved this "movie" since the Sci-Fi channel first started in 2001. I wish that whoever holds the Copyright to this gets the stick out of their rear and allows read more

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Oct 11, 2015

9 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

NotenSMSK (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

Robot Carnival an anime that before starting I was a little hesitant about. It wasn't the art work or age that worried me (I saw it a year back or so) but the fact that each episode was completely independent and that meant that while some episodes will be mediocre, some will be amazing however regardless, there is no story to look forward to. But then again each episode has a fresh feel to it, and since their length varies from 4 mins to approx 20 mins, we are not wasting too much time experimenting. However these conflicted views were before watching the anime. For read more

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