In "presence", the android wasn't magically repaired, it was either a hallucination due to the man's guilt before his death or it was her soul ready to be with the man in the afterlife. His disappearance was either metaphorical (he's dead so he isn't there anymore) or he walked away to the horizon to die (being lead by either a hallucination or a real spirit).
As others have pointed out, you are wrong about Presence's ending. He lived a life of regret, riddled with guilt. The ending was him looking into that abyss and embracing death. It wasn't a happy ending at all. For what it's worth, I love Cloud the most of the shorts. That last piano piece, Ora, is extremely nostalgic sounding to these ears.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Holy shit...an anime RUclips that isn't total cringe talking about anime from the 80s and 90s that actually bothers to do the research on the medium, and has a Vaporwave A E S T H E T I C to his videos! You sir have earned yourself a sub!
I agree, I interpreted it as him coming to meet his creation in the afterlife or as a dying wish. However, it was all an allusion because she died like 20 years ago.
I had this very same interpretation as well. This anime use to play a lot back in the early morning Sci-do runs, so this made viewing it so much easier. I often did my best to write my thoughts down, and yeah that’s what I came to the conclusion to since I myself came from a very spiritual background. The Gynoid that the man killed became a spirit, reminding him that his sin could not be forgotten so easily, no matter how peaceful he felt. At the same time, there was so much regret for that awful response to her wish that he began to see how much of a coward he truly was.
I agree with you, except I think they purposely left it up for interpretation as to if the robot truly had a soul or not (and perhaps even question if humans have souls too). If she did *not* have a soul, then it was just the man's brain winding down and firing off his final thoughts. If she *did* have a soul, then it was her spirit who came to greet him and usher him into the afterlife.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The footage is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Presence is not a happy ending the old man died with guilt. His passion for making machines and knowing that he could not leave his responsibilities of fatherhood and his wife. That he was lonely felt inferior to his wife. I believe he did get the love and warmth that he and his wife were both getting when they first dated. He wants to be free. He lived his whole life with regret. I fill sad for that man must of lived a horrible life. With out knowing if he would of done something else. He felt trapped all his life only in death he was free to presue his drama his passion. That's why he reacted so violent to the robot.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The footage is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Whoa whoa. The old man died. The vision of his robot love taking his soul to the afterlife is what we are seeing. She wasn't repaired. Her soul, forgive the shouting, WAS WAITING FOR HIM! She had a soul.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
@@ChrissyOneMusic For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
14:11 okay, i have to stop you here and come to deprive’s defense a little bit. the reason i and i think a lot of people love this short so much is, aside from its gorgeous animation, cool action setpieces, banger of a score and a killer style, is that the story itself while not very deep and a little cliched (yeah okay the girl gets kidnapped by a bad guy and hero has to save her) but i think deprive is a stylistic spin on this concept that has a LOT of potential as an actual series or full film if given the chance. the idea of a series featuring the robot as the main character (who appears human through crazy hologram technology? so cool??) saving not a woman/love interest, but a child specifically, makes this short very special. it sets it apart from a lot of the womanizing that goes on in the anime industry. a child is a more believable victim and the relationship between the girl and the bot is actually wholesome and refreshing. i dont know of any series that has this exact setup? you say they exist. im open to recommendations if any exist! i like that deprive doesnt try to cram a bunch of lore into itself or try to be super unique. i think it’s very concise in its execution yet leaves people to want more. maybe that’s where the frustration sets in for some people. but story wise its a nice little time capsule of anime pop culture of the time. i think it stands out in this regard more than any of the other shorts. also its just really freaking cool lol
2000s. Advent of the Internet, Digital Painting became easier and less of a Cost machine. Anime of the past were becoming more accessible due to Conventions and Retail stores and comic book shops, and Translations were improving though they still had issues. But the Major thing was that Network TV shows were starting to grab more and more Anime properties as the success of DBZ, Poke’mon, Sailor Moon, Yugioh, & Gundam were growing in popularity!
Mentioned in one of the commentary tracks of Project A-ko (another experimental made by various people, with Miyazaki uncredited, also debut of Megumi Hayashibara voice actress): Copyright wasn't the same back then... Yes digital animation started about the year 1997, something like Akira was plain nuts, perhaps the peak of analog animation. And i just loved Joe Hisaishi on this one, own the cd love both OP and ED themes. First watched it on the Sci-Fi channel, taped it, of course. I don't have any working vhs decks anymore...
Presence depicts the dilemma every man has to experience sooner or later. Pursuit your passion or become a family man. The man felt so trapped in his passion less marriage he literally saw his daughter as a doll-like automation while the actual automation he made from his passion moved, spoke and bled like a human. I feel Presence is a message from it's creator to pursuit your dreams as you mighy actually find your special someone while doing so.
You kinda missed the point of the ending of Presence, I interpret very different, the inventor was in the doors of death staring at the scenery waiting for death comes to him and it does.....in the form of the robot he regret broken all those years ago, I sure that was as far as a happy ending as will it be, at least that how I see it, I don't think the robot girl just self repair out of the blue and have a happy rest of the life of that old inventor, she just walk him to his final breath, this is why in the end the doll he made have the wings of an angel.
I think maybe the ending of Presence was supposed to be him dying. From there, there are a couple of potential interpretations about why the robot is intact. The first is that it's her ghost, and she's welcoming him to the afterlife (her forgiveness implying that he has redeemed himself). The second is that her appearing before him is a hallucination as he dies, showing that he never lost his obsession with her.
an interesting thing here is when i first saw this, it was on sci-fi channel in like...1997? They actually played the sequences in a different order. It went opening-star light angel-deprive-a tale of two robots-deprive-cloud-frankens gears-nightmare-ending. I feel like it starting off with those 3 sets up the tone and mood of the anthology much better than the actual order
I can say with certainty that i taped this off the Sci-Fi channel no later than 1994 (because we moved from the condo that had the big satellite dish set to Galaxy 5). It was like you said, but would have loved the original more without that atrocious dub...
The old guy dies at the end of Presence; and we get a glimpse of him going off into the afterlife. Not too hard to understand man. I think you're being too literal.
I always took Robot Carnival as the counterpart to Heavy Metal. This was at least my introduction that anime could be "adult" without aping the sex and violence that marked American adult animation. In that sense, it's really not that bad (and Presence was phenomenal) . While not the tour de force of the animation that could come a short time later, it was certainly eye-opening in what adult animation could be.
Okay I combed the comments to try to be as little of an asshole as possible and I didn't see anyone else mention this, so if you don't mind me offering a small correction on this four-year-old video: the photo that shows up for Ishiro Honda is actually a picture of Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima. Sorry if someone has already told you! Love your work~~
13:42 was that the fusion cannon? but seriously though, since the anthology isn't about story but more on visuals, in a way the anthology itself is a carnival, performed by artificial beings made by humans hands and technology. cause let's be real here, who goes to the circus to watch a tear jerker anyway?
A work of art does not have a set value that can be interpreted through objective means. Labeling one film as a masterpiece or a piece of crap is ultimately subjective and as such is not exclusive - here we have an example of a film that is BOTH. These animators did not spend their careers crafting stories, but animation, so is it a surprise that they ended up creating a film with a horribly weak story yet fascinating visuals? They could have had a veteran director give direction to the narrative, but that would have limited the artistic freedom of the animators to create their work purely in service of animation. You can't have everything. You also can't talk about films being bad if you never saw a truly bad film. Certainly a film worth seeing, and an interesting point for KB to start his catalogue!
Haha i remember having the same gripes all the way back when i watched this as a kid in the 90s. But yes it is definitely still a marvel and a testament to the spectacle of hand drawn animation. Thanks for shining a spotlight on it! (And yes i realize I'm commenting on a five year old video lmfao)
Robot Carnival is basically Heavy Metal the anime. Minus the sex and violence and being themed around robots. And no hard rock and metal bands on the soundtrack.
You’re channel is such a cool one AAA!!! I love it so much! You’re really good at making these and I may actually check out some of the anime you have talked about! Also, your intro is neat, I swear I heard the song before, what’s the name of it >w
Don't know if it's still available, but Robot Carnival was one of the first anime soundtracks I ever purchased as it was among one of the first that had an American distributor, so it was relatively cheap compared to the imports most anime collectors had to pony up for. It's still fun to listen to even though I got it specificaly for the Starlight Angel track.
Man I love Robot Carnival but this review got so overly critical it kinda sucked out the magic of what made me love this film. Its fine, because it's your review, but most of what your expressing isn't something that comes to mind. I'd still reccommend the Streamline dub anyday...even with craziness of Tale of 2 Robots.
Yeah, part of the reason the stories are so basic is the intended emphasis on visuals and visual storytelling; all the shorts were presented at higher levels of detail and design than were typical, even for movies and OVAs, at that time...
weird, when i saw this on tv it was star light angel was the first short. i remember this very well because my brother recorded it off scifi channel on vhs tape and id watch it all the time
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
I don't get why you are uncomfortable about the Dub in Tale of two Robots, when you yourself even mentioned that this a parody/reference to WW2 propaganda cartoons. If you know that was the intent, then it fits the characters to have stereotypical Japanese accents.
I think I commented somewhere about often watching dubs even if they're bad because sometimes they're bad enough to have their own entertainment value. Yeahhhhh, what little dialogue there is in this? It wasn't phenomenally well done, but the dub butchers it, purees the result, pours it out and lets it congeal into a spammy-textured jello that was left outside for a week to grow penicillin or something. The dub should come with cardboard cutouts of robots in movie seats for the bottom of the screen.
On the Note of "A Tale of Two Robots" given how stereotypical the "Western" side is much like the script itself, it may very well be that the "East" was equally stereotypical as if lampshades the whole propaganda theme of the short. Given these creators knew their art form, it is very likely if you ask me.
hate to say it, but your ability to analyze stories is not very good. Stories are beautiful when they don’t have everything answered, but bring about the curiosity, the wonder, the grandiose expectation. And they carry you through a heroes journey. Maybe you skip that in your college or honors mythic pattern class
This guy must be from the Bay Area, too many references to TV and names synonymous with the Bay Area anime underground of the 80s and 90s. Heck, I remember seeing Robot Carnival repeatedly at the UC Theater for years
How did they get away with it? Do you know how xenophobic and racists the 80's where? Not as bad as previous decades, but still pretty bad compared with now a days.
In the Eighties there was real paranoia in the United States that the Japanese were going to buy up everything and end up running the world. That was before their economy tanked, of course. But our pop culture had a fascination with the Japanese as a people who were alien and yet produced beautiful art and fantastic consumer electronics. So there was a lot of old caricaturing that was still in effect. Oh, and the Japanese were plenty xenophobic and racist themselves, and were often self-aware about it.
In "presence", the android wasn't magically repaired, it was either a hallucination due to the man's guilt before his death or it was her soul ready to be with the man in the afterlife. His disappearance was either metaphorical (he's dead so he isn't there anymore) or he walked away to the horizon to die (being lead by either a hallucination or a real spirit).
It's just an emotional TEAR-JERKER no matter how you wanna put it... 😭
As others have pointed out, you are wrong about Presence's ending. He lived a life of regret, riddled with guilt. The ending was him looking into that abyss and embracing death. It wasn't a happy ending at all.
For what it's worth, I love Cloud the most of the shorts. That last piano piece, Ora, is extremely nostalgic sounding to these ears.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Holy shit...an anime RUclips that isn't total cringe talking about anime from the 80s and 90s that actually bothers to do the research on the medium, and has a Vaporwave A E S T H E T I C to his videos!
You sir have earned yourself a sub!
No kidding
Just my two cents on Presence's end? The old man is dead in that moment. The robot he sees is not really the same one. Just his dying wish/thought
I agree, I interpreted it as him coming to meet his creation in the afterlife or as a dying wish. However, it was all an allusion because she died like 20 years ago.
I had this very same interpretation as well. This anime use to play a lot back in the early morning Sci-do runs, so this made viewing it so much easier. I often did my best to write my thoughts down, and yeah that’s what I came to the conclusion to since I myself came from a very spiritual background. The Gynoid that the man killed became a spirit, reminding him that his sin could not be forgotten so easily, no matter how peaceful he felt. At the same time, there was so much regret for that awful response to her wish that he began to see how much of a coward he truly was.
I agree with you, except I think they purposely left it up for interpretation as to if the robot truly had a soul or not (and perhaps even question if humans have souls too). If she did *not* have a soul, then it was just the man's brain winding down and firing off his final thoughts. If she *did* have a soul, then it was her spirit who came to greet him and usher him into the afterlife.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The footage is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Presence is not a happy ending the old man died with guilt. His passion for making machines and knowing that he could not leave his responsibilities of fatherhood and his wife. That he was lonely felt inferior to his wife. I believe he did get the love and warmth that he and his wife were both getting when they first dated. He wants to be free. He lived his whole life with regret. I fill sad for that man must of lived a horrible life. With out knowing if he would of done something else. He felt trapped all his life only in death he was free to presue his drama his passion. That's why he reacted so violent to the robot.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The footage is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Whoa whoa. The old man died. The vision of his robot love taking his soul to the afterlife is what we are seeing. She wasn't repaired. Her soul, forgive the shouting, WAS WAITING FOR HIM! She had a soul.
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Yeah, no... you DEFINITELY misread the end of "Presence". You took it literally. That was not the real robot girl that was his dying delusion.
Thank you for saying what I came here to say. Caps-Lock standing down. 😮💨
@@ChrissyOneMusic For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
14:11 okay, i have to stop you here and come to deprive’s defense a little bit. the reason i and i think a lot of people love this short so much is, aside from its gorgeous animation, cool action setpieces, banger of a score and a killer style, is that the story itself while not very deep and a little cliched (yeah okay the girl gets kidnapped by a bad guy and hero has to save her) but i think deprive is a stylistic spin on this concept that has a LOT of potential as an actual series or full film if given the chance. the idea of a series featuring the robot as the main character (who appears human through crazy hologram technology? so cool??) saving not a woman/love interest, but a child specifically, makes this short very special. it sets it apart from a lot of the womanizing that goes on in the anime industry. a child is a more believable victim and the relationship between the girl and the bot is actually wholesome and refreshing. i dont know of any series that has this exact setup? you say they exist. im open to recommendations if any exist!
i like that deprive doesnt try to cram a bunch of lore into itself or try to be super unique. i think it’s very concise in its execution yet leaves people to want more. maybe that’s where the frustration sets in for some people. but story wise its a nice little time capsule of anime pop culture of the time. i think it stands out in this regard more than any of the other shorts. also its just really freaking cool lol
The first time I saw Robot Carnival was at the Film Forum in New York City. I later got the VHS tape. I also saw Akira there.
80s anime was the peak of anime artstyles. It was still good in the 90s, Lord knows what the fuck happened in the 2000s.
2000s.
Advent of the Internet, Digital Painting became easier and less of a Cost machine. Anime of the past were becoming more accessible due to Conventions and Retail stores and comic book shops, and Translations were improving though they still had issues.
But the Major thing was that Network TV shows were starting to grab more and more Anime properties as the success of DBZ, Poke’mon, Sailor Moon, Yugioh, & Gundam were growing in popularity!
usage of cgi killed the industry
Mentioned in one of the commentary tracks of Project A-ko (another experimental made by various people, with Miyazaki uncredited, also debut of Megumi Hayashibara voice actress): Copyright wasn't the same back then... Yes digital animation started about the year 1997, something like Akira was plain nuts, perhaps the peak of analog animation. And i just loved Joe Hisaishi on this one, own the cd love both OP and ED themes. First watched it on the Sci-Fi channel, taped it, of course. I don't have any working vhs decks anymore...
@@freeculture Lucky you that this is on blu ray now.
@@AniSepherd972 100% TRUTH.
Presence depicts the dilemma every man has to experience sooner or later.
Pursuit your passion or become a family man.
The man felt so trapped in his passion less marriage he literally saw his daughter as a doll-like automation while the actual automation he made from his passion moved, spoke and bled like a human.
I feel Presence is a message from it's creator to pursuit your dreams as you mighy actually find your special someone while doing so.
I love that Gendy Tartakovski homage Robot Carnival in his Clone wars mini series, in the episode of Mace Windu
Google is failing me, mind if i ask what form the homage took?
I have always loved the stories of Deprive, Star Light Angel, and A Tale of Two Robots.
You kinda missed the point of the ending of Presence, I interpret very different, the inventor was in the doors of death staring at the scenery waiting for death comes to him and it does.....in the form of the robot he regret broken all those years ago, I sure that was as far as a happy ending as will it be, at least that how I see it, I don't think the robot girl just self repair out of the blue and have a happy rest of the life of that old inventor, she just walk him to his final breath, this is why in the end the doll he made have the wings of an angel.
The "happy ending" sequence of Presence is clearly a vision of him going to heaven or something, it's not supposed to look realistic.
"..Fist of the North Star with robots and and aliens..". Right..off I go to see it!! Thanks mate!
I think maybe the ending of Presence was supposed to be him dying. From there, there are a couple of potential interpretations about why the robot is intact. The first is that it's her ghost, and she's welcoming him to the afterlife (her forgiveness implying that he has redeemed himself). The second is that her appearing before him is a hallucination as he dies, showing that he never lost his obsession with her.
They did “Love Death Robots” before it was cool
*Issa joke don’t burn me at the stake*
Yeah, I immediately thought the same. I'd never heard of this. My girlfriend is apparently a big fan.
an interesting thing here is when i first saw this, it was on sci-fi channel in like...1997? They actually played the sequences in a different order. It went opening-star light angel-deprive-a tale of two robots-deprive-cloud-frankens gears-nightmare-ending. I feel like it starting off with those 3 sets up the tone and mood of the anthology much better than the actual order
I can say with certainty that i taped this off the Sci-Fi channel no later than 1994 (because we moved from the condo that had the big satellite dish set to Galaxy 5). It was like you said, but would have loved the original more without that atrocious dub...
Tale of Two Robots is fantastic. Short films forgoe the traditional narrative structure.
This video was fantastic. I really can see you one day being a big channel for the anime community.
A year later, he's known for something completely different.
But that doesn't mean he still isn't famous for this kind of stuff.
The old guy dies at the end of Presence; and we get a glimpse of him going off into the afterlife. Not too hard to understand man. I think you're being too literal.
I always took Robot Carnival as the counterpart to Heavy Metal.
This was at least my introduction that anime could be "adult" without aping the sex and violence that marked American adult animation. In that sense, it's really not that bad (and Presence was phenomenal) . While not the tour de force of the animation that could come a short time later, it was certainly eye-opening in what adult animation could be.
Okay I combed the comments to try to be as little of an asshole as possible and I didn't see anyone else mention this, so if you don't mind me offering a small correction on this four-year-old video: the photo that shows up for Ishiro Honda is actually a picture of Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima. Sorry if someone has already told you! Love your work~~
you know someone remixed the English and Japanese soundtrack for tale of two robots so the invader is in English and Defense is in Japanese
I love you voice and commentary. I hope you get a million more subscribers.
13:42 was that the fusion cannon?
but seriously though, since the anthology isn't about story but more on visuals, in a way the anthology itself is a carnival, performed by artificial beings made by humans hands and technology. cause let's be real here, who goes to the circus to watch a tear jerker anyway?
Holy crap I cannot unhear Megatron's fusion cannon
God, your music selection makes me squirm in joy
I actually think they knocked it out of the park with the dub for the time period.
Testuo AND Akira!
A work of art does not have a set value that can be interpreted through objective means. Labeling one film as a masterpiece or a piece of crap is ultimately subjective and as such is not exclusive - here we have an example of a film that is BOTH. These animators did not spend their careers crafting stories, but animation, so is it a surprise that they ended up creating a film with a horribly weak story yet fascinating visuals? They could have had a veteran director give direction to the narrative, but that would have limited the artistic freedom of the animators to create their work purely in service of animation. You can't have everything. You also can't talk about films being bad if you never saw a truly bad film. Certainly a film worth seeing, and an interesting point for KB to start his catalogue!
Haha i remember having the same gripes all the way back when i watched this as a kid in the 90s. But yes it is definitely still a marvel and a testament to the spectacle of hand drawn animation. Thanks for shining a spotlight on it! (And yes i realize I'm commenting on a five year old video lmfao)
Okay, this is the first Kyoto Video I tried watching and I just paused it at 3:57 -
I should go watch Robot Carnival first!
I was introduced to this with the soundtrack first. worked.
Robot Carnival is basically Heavy Metal the anime.
Minus the sex and violence and being themed around robots.
And no hard rock and metal bands on the soundtrack.
You’re channel is such a cool one AAA!!! I love it so much! You’re really good at making these and I may actually check out some of the anime you have talked about!
Also, your intro is neat, I swear I heard the song before, what’s the name of it >w
Yeah. I want to know too!
Joe Hisaishi doesn't miss. I still find the music of Presence incredibly haunting
The cloud is my favorite segment
I loved the anime Robot Carnival I thought that this anime has brought to miracles to 80s anime and I enjoyed it
You deserve more viewers
Then help spread the word about this channel
Right?
Don't know if it's still available, but Robot Carnival was one of the first anime soundtracks I ever purchased as it was among one of the first that had an American distributor, so it was relatively cheap compared to the imports most anime collectors had to pony up for. It's still fun to listen to even though I got it specificaly for the Starlight Angel track.
Nier: Robot Carnival
Metropolis Carnival.
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Robot Carnival came out July 1987
Final Fantasy 1 came out December 1987
No way....right?
Man I love Robot Carnival but this review got so overly critical it kinda sucked out the magic of what made me love this film. Its fine, because it's your review, but most of what your expressing isn't something that comes to mind. I'd still reccommend the Streamline dub anyday...even with craziness of Tale of 2 Robots.
Greatful researched video!
Oh my. for Presence u use straight to the point doctors logic. 😂
Yeah, part of the reason the stories are so basic is the intended emphasis on visuals and visual storytelling; all the shorts were presented at higher levels of detail and design than were typical, even for movies and OVAs, at that time...
0:46 what is this anime ?
i see AD on the side of the truck, and think it's AD Police, is it really ?
weird, when i saw this on tv it was star light angel was the first short. i remember this very well because my brother recorded it off scifi channel on vhs tape and id watch it all the time
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My thoughts and feelings towards Anime in a nutshell.
Captain harlock? at the start? Or Galaxy express?
Robot Carnival (1987)
Can you tell me the intro song of your videos
For those of who have always been feeling the same way as I did about 'Presence', this segment of the movie is very emotionally distressing and has stood out for me all these decades... The segment is just way too short to satisfy the audience's curiosity, and leaves ALOT of questions unanswered. If only I can become an animator some day, I swear that I will rewrite and remake an entire OVA based on this segment. Using influences from renown film-makers like Michael Cimino and Wai Ka-Fai, I would tell the whole entire story (in painstaking detail) of how the creator finally ACCEPTS his female android's wish for love and affection. It would tell how they stay together and support each other both physically and emotionally, all the way until the very final end (with a surprise ending). That is something that even real-life couples cannot possibly do, especially in this sad and corrupted modern age. 😞
Still a very good stuff of anime segments in a film.I mean I perferred it than memories
Fantastic review.
Great anime.
no Duologue not sound.
saint pepsi!!! good vids man... subbed
Great video Kaiser! Do you mind if I use a clip in one of my videos for a different channel of mine?
Go ahead! Thanks for asking, btw.
Where is that song at the beginning of Robot Carnival? I need to know.
IN the intro short? I believe it's just called "Coming Soon", done by Joe Hisaishi like most of them.
subbed
Music at 0:33?
I miss you (ft. Roman)
wow
great edit may be best edit
you deserve a higher sup in youtube
Brother I agree with the other comments I think you miss read presence
I don't get why you are uncomfortable about the Dub in Tale of two Robots, when you yourself even mentioned that this a parody/reference to WW2 propaganda cartoons. If you know that was the intent, then it fits the characters to have stereotypical Japanese accents.
Robot Carnival Flying Circus 🤭
Who else discovered robot carnival due to ‘presence’?
I think I commented somewhere about often watching dubs even if they're bad because sometimes they're bad enough to have their own entertainment value. Yeahhhhh, what little dialogue there is in this? It wasn't phenomenally well done, but the dub butchers it, purees the result, pours it out and lets it congeal into a spammy-textured jello that was left outside for a week to grow penicillin or something. The dub should come with cardboard cutouts of robots in movie seats for the bottom of the screen.
When is the next Looney Tunes video coming
On the Note of "A Tale of Two Robots" given how stereotypical the "Western" side is much like the script itself, it may very well be that the "East" was equally stereotypical as if lampshades the whole propaganda theme of the short. Given these creators knew their art form, it is very likely if you ask me.
hate to say it, but your ability to analyze stories is not very good. Stories are beautiful when they don’t have everything answered, but bring about the curiosity, the wonder, the grandiose expectation. And they carry you through a heroes journey. Maybe you skip that in your college or honors mythic pattern class
This guy must be from the Bay Area, too many references to TV and names synonymous with the Bay Area anime underground of the 80s and 90s. Heck, I remember seeing Robot Carnival repeatedly at the UC Theater for years
Dub's still better than Naruto's dub.
To me english sub sub more enjoyable though
How did they get away with it? Do you know how xenophobic and racists the 80's where? Not as bad as previous decades, but still pretty bad compared with now a days.
In the Eighties there was real paranoia in the United States that the Japanese were going to buy up everything and end up running the world. That was before their economy tanked, of course. But our pop culture had a fascination with the Japanese as a people who were alien and yet produced beautiful art and fantastic consumer electronics. So there was a lot of old caricaturing that was still in effect.
Oh, and the Japanese were plenty xenophobic and racist themselves, and were often self-aware about it.
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you think robot carnival is still worth watching? RACIST!