Robot Carnival (1987)

Season 1

An anthology of various tales with robots being the one common element among them. It consists of nine shorts by different well-known directors, many of whom started out as animators with little to no directing experience. Each has a distinctive animation style and story ranging from comedic to dramatic story lines.

Released July 20, 1987 Episode 10 min None+

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction

Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.anthology, tmdb.romance, tmdb.anime, mdblist.anime-dub

Production Companies: A.P.P.P. Company, Streamline Pictures

Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

IMDb

6.8

/3367/

Trakt

/15/

TMDb

/11/

Letterboxd

3.6

/8775/

MAL

7.2

/10603/

Katsuhiro Otomo
Director

Kohji Moritsugu

Keiko Hanagata

Kumiko Takizawa

Katsue Miwa

Kei Tomiyama

Kaneto Shiozawa

Toku Nishio

Chisa Yokoyama

S1E1 - Opening

A boy finds a small "coming soon" poster advertising the Robot Carnival, and becomes frightened and agitated. He warns the people in his village, most likely to escape, when a huge machine with many robots performing on its exterior grinds its way right towards the village.

July 21, 1987, midnight