Episodes

1. 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.

2. Franken's Gears

3. Deprive

4. Presence

5. Starlight Angel

6. Cloud

7. Strange Tales of Meiji Machine Culture: Westerner’s Invasion

8. Chicken Man and Red Neck

9. Ending

Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Kohji Moritsugu

Keiko Hanagata

Kumiko Takizawa

Katsue Miwa

Kei Tomiyama

Kaneto Shiozawa

Toku Nishio

Chisa Yokoyama

James R. Bowers