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The Anime Backlog - Robot Carnival




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Gem-Bug



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:20 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:29 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:55 am Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:39 pm Reply with quote
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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