Robot Carnival (ロボットカーニバル) is a 1987 anime OVA, an anthology consisting of nine shorts by different directors, each with different styles. Streamline Pictures released the film in theaters in 1991 and on VHS the next year, with the two segments that feature dialogue dubbed to English. Discotek Media re-released the film in 2015.
Cast[]
Presence[]
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Inventor | Kōji Moritsugu | Michael McConnohie |
|
Android | Junko Machida | Lisa Michelson |
|
Wife | Keiko Hanagata | Barbara Goodson |
|
Daughter | Kumiko Takizawa | |
|
Aya Murata (child) | Lara Cody (child) | |
|
Granddaughter | Nariko Fujieda | Lara Cody |
| N/A (voice only) |
Colleague | Hideyuki Umezu | Steve Kramer |
|
Greeters | Satoru Inagaki Hideyuki Umezu |
Steve Kramer Tom Wyner |
|
Decapitation Victim | Ikuya Sawaki | Tom Wyner |
|
Clock | Kumiko Takizawa | Barbara Goodson |
Additional Voices[]
- Barbara Goodson - Woman in Window
A Tale of Two Robots, Part 3: Foreign Invasion[]
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Kichi | Kei Tomiyama | Bob Bergen |
|
Yaori | Chisa Yokoyama | Lisa Michelson |
|
Toki | Katsue Miwa | Eddie Frierson |
|
Denjiro | Kaneto Shiozawa | Kerrigan Mahan |
|
Chubby | Toku Nishio | Tom Wyner |
|
Jonathan Jameson Volkerson III | James R. Bowers | Steve Kramer |
Notes[]
- The OVA is dedicated to Lisa Michelson who died in a car accident shortly after she had finished recording.
Transmission[]
| Date(s) | Channel | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Cartoon Network | United States | 
|
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Region | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streamline Pictures | 1992 | 
|
NTSC | United States |
|
| Discotek Media | 2015 | 
|
1 NTSC | ||
| 2018 | 
|
A DVB-T | |||
| 2021 | 
| ||||
External Links[]
- Robot Carnival (anime) at the Anime News Network
- Robot Carnival at the Internet Movie Database