Nightmare
The city of Tokyo is overrun by its machines, as they all come alive for a night of revelry, with only a single, drunken human (Chicken Man) awake to witness it. This segment was inspired by the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment of Fantasia and is also said to be influenced by the Legend of Sleepy Hollow segment from c The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. This features the recent Japanese myth that machines can grow by connecting onto other machines, regardless of the purposes for which they were designed (as seen in Roujin Z).
Aired 21/07/1987EP 8 - Nightmare
Robot Carnival
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 independent 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.
(Source: Anime News Network)
- Opening (dir. by Atsuko Fukushima and Katsuhiro Otomo)
- Franken's Gears (dir. by Koji Morimoto)
- Deprive (dir. by Hidetoshi Omori)
- Presence (dir. by Yasuomi Umetsu)
- Star Light Angel (dir. by Hiroyuki Kitazume)
- Cloud (dir. by Mao Lamdo)
- A Tale of Two Robots (dir. by Hiroyuki Kitakubo)
- Nightmare (dir. by Takashi Nakamura)
- Ending (dir. by Atsuko Fukushima and Katsuhiro Otomo)