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Robot Carnival (OAV)

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Alternative title:
ロボット・カーニバル (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: 9 of Japan's leading animators were asked to create a short segment that followed the theme of "Robots," for their inclusion in this film. Essentially, this "movie" is 9 short films, all independant of one another. The common element is human interaction with robots, namely the consequences of creating life with one's own hands, played in nine very different ways.
User Ratings: 386 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 42 votes (sub:25, dub:12, ?:3, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Excellent: 84 votes (sub:54, dub:24, raw:2, ?:2, others:2
1 Russian dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 99 votes (sub:71, dub:20, edit.dub:3, raw:1, ?:1, others:3
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 French dubbed
)
 Good: 73 votes (sub:57, dub:14, ?:1, others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 Decent: 40 votes (sub:30, dub:9, edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 26 votes (sub:19, dub:6, ?:1)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:5, dub:2)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:5, dub:3, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 691 users, rank: #1690 (of 9748)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.554 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.7612, rank: #1657 (of 9894)
Weighted mean: 7.497 (Good+), rank: #1714 (of 9894) (seen all: 7.56 / seen some: 6.33 / won't finish: 5.02)
Bayesian estimate: 7.496 (Good+), rank: #1411 (of 7487)
Running time: 91 minutes
Vintage: 1987
Release dates: We have 1
Chronology:
(1991-01-25) Original U.S. theatrical premiere at Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon (through 1991-01-31)
Trivia: We have 4
Review:
Robot Carnival Blu-ray (Mar 20, 2018)
News: Show:
Streaming Otomo (Apr 15, 2005)
Anime at the Alamo (Jan 5, 2004)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Robot Carnival - Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) 2018-03-27 (from $28.75)
    Robot Carnival - [4K] Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) 2021-12-28 (from $34.95)
DVD (Region 1)
    Robot Carnival (DVD) 2015-09-01
LaserDisc
    Robot Carnival [Dub] (LD) 1993-10-27

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Hidetoshi Ōmori ("Deprive")
Hiroyuki Kitakubo ("A Tale of Two Robots: Chapte)
Hiroyuki Kitazume ("Starlight Angel")
Katsuhiro Ōtomo (OP, ED)
Kōji Morimoto ("Franken's Gears")
Mao Lamdo ("Cloud")
Takashi Nakamura ("Nightmare")
Yasuomi Umetsu ("Presence")
Script:
Hiroyuki Kitazume (Starlight Angel)
Katsuhiro Ōtomo (OP, ED)
Mao Lamdo (Cloud)
Takashi Nakamura ("Nightmare")
Yasuomi Umetsu ("Presence")
Storyboard: Katsuhiro Ōtomo (OP, ED)
Character Design:
Atsuko Fukushima (OP, ED)
Hidetoshi Ōmori ("Deprive")
Hiroyuki Kitazume (Starlight Angel)
Kōji Morimoto ("Franken's Gears")
Mao Lamdo (Cloud)
Takashi Nakamura ("Nightmare")
Yasuomi Umetsu ("Presence")
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto ("A Tale of Two Robots: Chapter Meiji")
Art:
Akira Yamakawa (ep 4)
Hiroshi Sasaki (ep 7)
Kenji Matsumoto (ep 3)
Mao Lamdo (Cloud)
Nizo Yamamoto (eps 1, 9)
Yui Shimazaki (ep 5)
Yuji Ikehata (ep 2)
Yuji Sawai (ep 8)
Animation Director: Yasuomi Umetsu ("Presence")
Sound Director: Yasunori Honda
Director of Photography: Toshiaki Morita
Producer: Kazufumi Nomura

Advertising: Naoko Nukaga
Assistant Animation Director:
Hideki Futamura (Presence)
Shinsuke Terasawa (Presence)
Assistant Unit Director: Tetsu Kimura
Background Art:
Akira Yamakawa ("Presence")
Nizo Yamamoto (OP, ED)
Color Check: Yoshiko Takiguchi
Color Coordination:
Kazuko Murakami
Yukihiro Maehara
Editing:
Harutoshi Ogata
Osamu Toyosaki
Yukiko Itō (伊藤勇喜子)
Effects: Kazutoshi Satō (OP, ED)
In-Between Animation:
Akiharu Ishii
Akiko Nakano
Atsunari Ouchi
Atsushi Hoshi
Ayumi Endo
Ayumi Koike
Chie Tozuka
Chikako Machida
Chizuko Hashimoto
Etsuko Matsuno
Etsushi Mori
Fumiyo Yoshikawa
Fusako Oume
Hajime Yoshida
Haruyuki Kumagai
Hideki Hosokawa
Hideki Takahashi
Hidenori Matsubara
Hiroe Hirase
Hironobu Maekawa
Hiroshi Nishio
Hiroshi Satō
Hirotsugu Yamada
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Hisa Takasaki
Hisako Matsuda
Junichi Nagano
Junko Aoyama
Katsue Sakakibara
Kazuhiko Abe
Kazuyo Kuwasawa
Kazuyo Yoshida
Kazuyoshi Oou
Keiko Kakuta
Keiko Sakuma
Keiko Takagi
Keiko Watanabe
Kenji Teraoka
Kiyoaki Sakuma
Koichi Iwanaga
Kōichi Naitō
Kumiko Saitō
Kumiko Yoshihama
Mari Yashima
Masahide Matsumoto
Masahiro Sekiguchi
Masaki Hosoyama
Masako Matsumoto
Masanori Sakuma
Meiju Maeda
Miho Suzuki
Miiko Adachi
Mikako Kobayashi
Miki Otani
Mikio Amei
Mitsunori Murata
Mitsuyasu Nakazaki
Mitsuyuki Mutsuzaki
Miwa Imai
Miyuki Takeda
Motoaki Sugiyama
Motoki Yagi
Motoko Okuno
Nobuhiro Morise
Noriko Kiyohara
Norio Matsumoto
Rie Fujimura
Rie Nishino
Rieko Akasaka
Rieko Sato
Sadao Ogura
Seiji Nishimoto
Seiji Yazaki
Setsuko Takenouchi
Shiho Nakamura
Shinichi Kimura
Shinichi Yoshino
Shun Sotohara
Sueko Kiguchi
Tadao Yoshikawa
Takehiro Nakayama
Teruhiko Kubodera
Teruko Ishibashi
Teruko Takahashi
Tomoe Motosugi
Tomohiro Hiyama
Tomoko Fukui
Tomoko Ootaki
Tōru Aida
Toru Ida
Tsutomu Ōno
Yasuhito Murata
Yasuko Suzuki
Yasuo Iwai
Yōko Takahashi
Yoshiaki Hatone
Yoshiaki Takei
Yoshihiro Kitano
Yoshiko Baba
Yoshimasa Furukawa
Yoshitaka Katō
Yuichiro Suehiro
Yūji Ikeda
Yuji Yanagihara
Yukari Watabe
Yukio Suzuki
Yumi Goto
Yuriko Nagaya
Key Animation:
Atsuko Fukushima (OP, ED)
Kazuaki Mōri ("A Tale of Two Robots: Chapter Meiji")
Kazuyoshi Yaginuma ("A Tale of Two Robots: Chapter Meiji")
Kumiko Kawana ("A Tale of Two Robots: Chapter Meiji")
Manabu Ōhashi (Cloud)
Mao Lamdo ("Cloud")
Yūji Moriyama ("A Tale of Two Robots: Chapter Meiji")
Mixing Assistant: Hideaki Arai
Music Director: Yasunori Honda
Production manager: Toshiharu Umezu
Recording Adjustment: Yoshikazu Awa
Recording Director: Morihiro Nagata
Recording Management: Akio Miyake
Recording Mix: Kiyoshi Abe
Sound Effects:
Junichi Sasaki (eps 3, 7-8)
Kazutoshi Satō (eps 1-2, 9)
Kenji Mori (eps 4-5)
Synthesizer Operator:
Hideshi Kiyokawa
Yukari Hashimoto
Hikaru Kotono as The Android Girl (Presence;as Junko Machida)
Kei Tomiyama as Sankichi Komagata (Meiji)
Kōji Moritsugu as The Main Character (Presence)

Chisa Yokoyama as Yayoi (Meiji)
James R. Bowers as Jean Jacques Vaucason III (Meiji)
Kaneto Shiozawa as Denjiro (Meiji)
Katsue Miwa as Fukusuke (Meiji)
Toku Nishio as Daimaru (Meiji)

Aya Murata as Daughter (child;Presence)
Daisuke Namikawa as Child B (Presence)
Hidehiro Kikuchi as
Child A (Presence)
Child D (Presence)
Hideyuki Umezu as
Colleague (Presence)
Man B (Presence)
Ikuya Sawaki as Man C (Presence)
Keiko Hanagata as Grandma (Presence)
Kumiko Takizawa as
Daughter (adult;Presence)
Small Robot (Presence)
Nariko Fujieda as Grandchild (Presence)
Satoru Inagaki as Man A (Presence)
Tatsuhiko Nakamura as Child C (Presence)
Japanese companies
Animation: APPP
Animation Production: APPP
Broadcaster: Bandai Channel
Dolby Film Consultant: Continental Far East Inc.
Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory
Marketing: BEAM Entertainment
Photography: Trans Arts Co.
Production:
APPP
Recording Studio: AVACO Creative Studios
Sound Effects:
Anime Sound Production (eps 3, 7-8)
E&M Planning Center (eps 1-2, 9)
Fizz Sound Creation (eps 4-5)
Swara Pro (ep 6)
Sound Production: Arts Production
English staff
English cast
Dedicatee: Lisa Michaelson
Screenplay adaptation:
Carl Macek (Streamline dub)
Jerry Beck (Streamline dub)
Michael Haller (Streamline dub)
Bob Bergen as Kichi (Sankichi, Meiji)
Lisa Michaelson as The Girl (Presence)
Michael McConnohie as The Main Character (Presence)

Eddie Frierson as Toki (Fukusuke, Meiji)
Kerrigan Mahan as Denjiro (Meiji)
Lisa Michaelson as Yaori (Yayoi, Meiji)
Steve Kramer as Johnathan Jameson Volkerson III (John Jack Volkerson III, Meiji)
Tom Wyner as Chubby (Daimaru, Meiji)

Barbara Goodson as Old Lady (Presence)
Lara Cody as
Daughter (Presence)
Granddaughter (Presence)

Steve Kramer (Presence)
Tom Wyner (Presence)
English companies
Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network (Night of the Vampire Robots; 1995)
Sci-Fi Channel
Distributor: Lumivision (LaserDisc)
Internet Streaming:
Amazon Prime Video
AsianCrush
Crunchyroll (Subtitled & Dubbed)
Midnight Pulp
RetroCrush
Tubi TV
YouTube (subtitled)
Licensed by:
Discotek Media (2015)
Streamline Pictures (Expired)
Recording Facility: Screenmusic Studios
French staff
French cast
Dubbing Director: Marielle Ostrowski

Adaptation: Eric Comont
Alexandre Crépet as Sankichi Komagata
Bruno Bulte as L'inventeur
Naïma Ostrowski as Jeune fille cyborg

Alice Ley as Yakei
Benoit Van Dorslaer as John-Jack Ferguso
Jacqueline Ghaye as Épouse de l'inventeur
Marielle Ostrowski as Petite-fille de l'inventeur
Martin Spinhayer as Daimaru
Romain Barbieux as Fukusuke
French companies
Broadcaster:
Arte (from March 1998)
Canal +
TSR (from 1998)
Distributor: Asian Star
Dubbing: NDE Production
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Executive producer: Luis de Val

Screen Inserts: Antonio Gomez de Vicente (Spain dub)
Alberto Mieza as Kichi (Spain dub)
Nuria Mediavilla as The Girl (Spain dub)
Ricky Coello as The Main Character (Spain dub)

Antonio Gomez de Vicente as Gordo (Spain dub)
Aurora Ferrándiz as Yaori (Spain dub)
Jordi Pons as Toki (Spain dub)
Mario Arpal as Denjiro (Spain dub)
Pepe Mediavilla as Jonathan Jameson Volkerson III (Spain dub)

Aida Domingo (Spain dub)
Graciela Molina (Spain dub)
Juana Molina (Spain dub)
Mario Arpal (Spain dub)
Mercedes Pastor (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Distributor: Manga Films (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Q.T. Lever (Spain dub)

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