Robot Carnival
| Robot Carnival | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ロ ボ ッ ト ・ カ ー ニ バ ル |
| transcription | Robotto Kānibaru |
| genre | Science fiction |
| Original video animation | |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 1987 |
| Studio | Studio APPP |
| length | 91 minutes |
Robot Carnival ( Jap. ロボット·カーニバル , Robotto Kānibaru ) is an anime - episodic film , the 1987 original video animation was published. The film contains nine episodes by various Japanese directors on the topic of "robots".
Episodes
| title | Japanese | Director | content |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening | オ ー プ ニ ン グ | Atsuko Fukushima , Katsuhiro Otomo | A huge robot circus drives through a deserted landscape and uses rockets, exploding robot dancers and other things to destroy a village that is on its way. |
| Franken no Haguruma | フ ラ ン ケ ン の 歯 車 | Koji Morimoto | A scientist tries to bring a robot to life. But the attempt fails and the scientist is killed by the falling robot. |
| Deprive | DEPRIVE | Hidetoshi Omori | A woman is kidnapped during an alien invasion of Earth. To fight the invaders, a man becomes a cyborg. He can eventually defeat the aliens and save the woman. |
| Presence | プ レ ゼ ン ス | Yasuomi Umetsu | A scientist secretly builds a robot in the form of a beautiful girl in a remote hut. When the robot begins to develop its own personality, it breaks it up. Years later, however, she appears in front of his house. When the scientist looks in the hut, he finds the destroyed robot there just as he left it. When The Robot Girl reappears in front of the man's house a year later, he disappears with her. |
| Starlight Angel | STARLIGHT ANGEL | Hiroyuki Kitazume | Two girls visit an amusement park together. When one of the two finds out that her boyfriend is going out with her friend, she runs away crying and is attacked by a giant demonic robot in one of the virtual reality attractions . Another robot comes to her aid and saves her. |
| Cloud | CLOUD | Mao Lamdo | The film shows a robot in the form of a boy who walks in front of a panorama of white clouds. The episode was inspired by the book Snow and the Young Boy by the same artist. |
| Meiji Karakuri Bunmei Kitan - Kōmōjin Shūrai no Maki | 明治 か ら く り 文 明奇 譚 〜 紅毛 人 襲来 之 巻 〜 | Hiroyuki Kitakubo | In a city in Japan during the early Meiji period (late 19th century), two wooden and steam-powered robots ( karakuri ) fight against each other. One is controlled by John Jack Volkerson III, who wants to conquer Japan; the other of Denjiro and other Japanese who want to defend themselves against Volkerson and ultimately win. |
| Niwatori Otoko to Akai Kubi | ニ ワ ト リ 男 と 赤 い 首 | Takashi Nakamura | At night, the machines in Tokyo come to life and are guided by a towering robot figure. A drunk who wakes up in this scenario is chased by a servant of the big robot. |
| Ending | エ ン デ ィ ン グ | Atsuko Fukushima , Katsuhiro Otomo | The robot circus, which was once built for the entertainment of people in the cities and traveled the world for this purpose and now only causes destruction, stops on a hill in the desert and crumbles. |
Production and publication
The anime was created on the initiative of producer Kazufumi Nomura, who wanted to depict the topic of "robots" in different ways. The 91-minute film was then produced by the APPP studio under the directors of the episode. The music for this was composed by Isaku Fujita , Joe Hisaishi and Masahisa Takeichi . The respective directors took on the tasks of character design and artistic direction.
On July 21, 1987 the film was released in Japan on VHS cassette. It was later broadcast by Bandai Channel . The Sci Fi Channel aired the anime in English, Canal + in French.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Android girl ( Presence ) | Hikaru Kotono |
| Protagonist ( presence ) | Kōji Moritsugu |
| John Jack Volkerson III. | James R. Bowers |
| Denjiro | Kaneto Shiozawa |
| Sankichi | Kei Tomiyama |
| Daimaru | Toku Nishio |
reception
The Complete Anime Guide by Trish Ledoux and Doug Ranney cites the film as an example of how the idealism of the science fiction genre of the 1960s slowly waned and was replaced by dark stories. Robot Carnival offers a wide variety of original and sometimes surprising stories and is like a " local animation film festival ". The American critic Leonard Maltin wrote that not all episodes were entirely successful, “ but the best are pretty good ”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Trish Ledoux and Doug Ranney: The Complete Anime Guide , p. 50. Tiger Mountain Press, Issaquah (Washington), 1995
Web links
- Robot Carnival in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)