Robot Carnival (1987 Video)
10/10
Robo anthology
29 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This is a Fantasia-like anthology of robots. The most noble are Presence, Deprive, and Nightmare. Nightmare is the story of an evil, cybernetic overlord that rises one night and unleashes its robotic servants. Deprive is a science fiction tale of a young girl who has been abducted by an invading army of robots, and only a mysterious cyborg can help her. Presence is about a young toy-maker who makes a beautiful, female cyborg. When she becomes "a bit too real", he destroys her, only to be haunted by her spirit for the rest of his life.

I really enjoyed this film and the many short stories it had to offer. (Makes me wish we had more animes like this.)

If I had to pick which one was my favourite segment it would probably be Presence, the one with the mad scientist, the one at the theme park, Nightmare and Deprive.

What makes this unique is how majority of the segments are music only which does give the audience freedom of what the characters are thinking, feeling and saying. There are two which have talking in.

The art style and animation has definitely aged well and looks even more beautiful on blu-Ray quality.

The music was outstanding

The dub was excellent too.

If you are into anthology anime films I think you might enjoy this.
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