Oldtaku no Radio #022 – Robot Carnival

Anthology films — feature-length presentations comprised of
multiple, stand-alone stories — afford their
contributors great artistic freedom and, quite often, crucial
visibility. Robot Carnival, which was initially released
mid-1987, gathers some names you have probably heard of before,
but for many, this was their debut. Including the bookend
animation (a worthwhile story/anecdote in its own right), there
are eight installments centered around the loose theme of
“robots,” and Jared and Ink dig into each of them. (Spoilers
via plot point run rampant, but enjoying these stories does not
hinge on plot.) Join us as we talk for nearly the length of the
anthology about the components thereof: their themes,
their strengths and weaknesses, and how they complement each
other and contribute to the overarching theme as it builds piece
by piece.


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Runtime: 1 hr, 29 min
Show Notes Opening Song: “Through the Glass” by Kaz
Mirblouk 0:00:00 — General intro and discussion 0:06:25 — Robot
Carnival Opening Sequence – Katsuhiro Otomo 0:19:15 — Franken’s
Gears – Koji Morimoto 0:26:43 — Deprive – Hidetoshi Omori 0:33:00 —
Presence – Yasuomi Umetsu 0:48:26 — Star Light Angel – Hioyuki
Kitazume 0:56:38 — Cloud – Mao Lamdo/Manabu Ohashi 1:03:05
— Strange Tale of the Meji Era (A Tale of Two Robots) –
Hiroyuki Kitakubo 1:12:26 — Chicken-Man and Redneck
(Nightmare) – Takashi Nakamura 1:18:50 — Twitter question!
Ending Song: “Money 1973” by NO FUTURE Buy Robot
Carnival on DVD or BD over at
Rightstuf or Amazon. Twitter: Ani-Gamers, Oldtaku no
Radio, Ink, Jared Ink also writes for Otaku USA
Magazine and The Fandom Post. Jared also writes for The
Electrum Edition and Wave Motion Cannon.