Forum - View topicThe Anime Backlog - Robot Carnival
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Gem-Bug
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An excellent anthology, with "Presence" also being the standout for me. Not much more to say that others before me haven't said already. <3
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mdo7
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Thank you for giving Robot Carnival a little retro publicity. If anyone on ANN have friends and relatives that watched or loved Netflix's Love, Death & Robots, then please recommend Robot Carnival to them (I'm kind of surprised that Discotek and has not made this film available on Netflix to help recommend viewers of Love, Death & Robots to watch this film).
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lemurs
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This is the film that got me back into anime watching again after the Robotech days of the mid-80s. The Sci-Fi channel ran a triple feature of Robot Carnival, Lensman and Vampire Hunter D one evening in the mid-90s and I was hooked all over again. The aforementioned "Presence" segment is a dramatic standount, but it also provides the action-packed "Deprive", comedic "Meiji Machine Culture", and mood piece "Cloud". There's a little something for everybody in there, and it stands out as a wondrous little snapshot of late 80s anime.
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dm
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Thanks for the reminder, Lynzee. I don’t think i’ve seen this since it was in the theaters.
Other anthologies worth checking out, in addition to Memories, which you mentioned: Genius Party, Heavy Metal (not Japanese), Neo Tokyo, Short Program. They’re all great, |
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Cho_Desu
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I watched this a few years back and found it a nice watch. Like most anthologies, I really dug some, and didn't care as much for others. (I recall enjoying one that was like an 80s shoujo-themed music video in a robot amusement park, very cute.) But even if a segment doesn't click for you, the animation is still fantastic throughout. I want to check out more of these classic anime anthology films, but unfortunately most aren't officially available anywhere.
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Covnam
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This is a good reminder for me that I haven't gotten around to watching my copy from discotek yet. It's been quite some time since I've seen it, so I really should get on that
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lemurs
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Oh, and for those that do have it on disc, note that the BD and UHD have different feature sets! The BD offers the option to view the shorts in three different orders corresponding to how it had been released on home video in the past, while the UHD provides both fullscreen and widescreen presentations.
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