Cloud (Robot Carnival)

[babelnoize]

I think I was in elementary school when this was aired on the SciFi channel. Oh nostalgia :)

[friedinsugar]

Kind of hypnotizing, relaxing to watch. This is a beautiful art piece.

[marsharent]

i mean you could replace the walking guy with a donkey

[marsharent]

looks like i'm the only one who can't see the point in this or what it has to do with robots

[MyMike305]

cloud and presence are incredible

[blastbeatdown]

it seems most of you first saw this when you were young. i was about 21 and on acid haha. one of the most beautiful and memorable experiences ever. it still takes me somewhere else whenever i hear this music.

[SwaggerLikeUz]

Takes me back to 93' watching this anime on the Sci Fi cartoon express. With animes like Lensman, Vampire Hunter D, Gigantor, Robotech reruns, etc.

[rang3r34]

How wonderous......I'm speechless.....

[WildBuck007]

Why isn't this on DVD/BD ?? =/

This was one of the most amazing artist ova's ever made.

[alanSJ1000]

Thank you for upload!

[Johnlindsey289]

Very artistic segment of the movie, i saw this masterpiece on TBS 18 years ago when i was 12 along with Heavy Metal, Vampire Hunter D, Rock and Rule and American Pop, they blew me away and all became faves.

[hbsub]

I remember seeing this when I was about 15 . It was so intriguing an it's haunted me since. This is the second time I'm seeing it.

[KARENK72886]

so the best!

[OneTrueBelmont]

From 6:09 on, the piano part of this animation is probably the most beautiful I've ever heard. Turn up the volume, close your eyes and just let the music sink into your soul.

[Johnlindsey289]

@OneTrueBelmont

Has that Final Fantasy score don't you think?

[OneTrueBelmont]

@Johnlindsey289 Yeah, I see what you mean.

[Johnlindsey289]

@OneTrueBelmont

Did you see this masterpiece of an anthology on TBS 18 years ago?

[OneTrueBelmont]

@Johnlindsey289 Not on TBS but we taped it off Cartoon Network one weekend and I watched this and the other segments many MANY times.

[Johnlindsey289]

@OneTrueBelmont

Oh yes the 95 CN showing, how old were you when you saw this?

[OneTrueBelmont]

@Johnlindsey289 Uhhhhhhhh I think I was either a junior or senior in high school. Then I'm sure they played this on Saturday Anime on Sci Fi when I was in college

[prheadfrankie]

fart out

[NobodyStudio]

AGHH ROBOT CARNIVAL NEEDS A BLU RAY RELEASE. AND MAO LAMDO NEEDS TO MAKE MORE ANIMATION! This was one of the last things he had ever created. #SIGHX9000

[blastbeatdown]

@NobodyStudio i can't find ANY other work from mao lamdo, nor this composer :( it bums me out. this is so perfect

[MicahBuzan]

thank you for posting this amazing work!

[UniQueLyEviL]

Holy shit. I have been looking for this. Since I was like................

I think since the beginning of middle school?!

At some point when this was playing way back in the day during Sci Fi channel's Saturday Morning anime.

I'm going to be 25 soon!! ;_;

I FINALLY FOUND IT! Tried in the past and had nothing to go on, so I gave up. But I finally found it on a whim too!

AWESOME!!

SO Happy to be able to watch again!!!!! <3 <3 Never got a chance to finish it on tv. ;_;

[Massivec09]

@UniQueLyEviL Hey Jess... thnks for the comment. I'm glad to know that beautiful women watched Anime back in the day too. Atleast the gender stereotype crap wasn't pressuring you into anything you didn't want to. If you like Anime... like anime. And I feel the same way as Volcanicmax007. He's my lil brother.

[ZEX606]

@UniQueLyEviL me too finaly found it im 26 know

[totbox77]

This was produced at least 20 over years ago when I was still a little child :) Really a a cool fest for robot lover. Enjoy~

[MrPendejosoy]

0:00 - 1:07 just close the eyes and imagine u flying for the clouds.. JUST DO IT..

[MrPendejosoy]

The first song make me fly for the clouds, beautiful clouds..

[mickaelmadar]

masterpiece

[LeonorDeAquithania]

Que bellos reucerdos.....de mi adolecencia los mejore!

[SwaggerLikeUz]

Yo big up, I remember I had this on a VHS tape also back in the 90's. I love The Retro Anime stuff !!!

[VirtualBilly]

robot carnival = WIN!! i still have this recorded on vhs from back when it was featured on the sci-fi channel's saturday anime!

[lis880]

My favorite off of robot carnival.

[Mogget01]

Very power imagery, this is something that lives with me to this day, about 15 years ago....

[ejflesher]

Even at 13 this moved me deeply. The morose and somber feeling it invoked seemed to resonate in me. Not much for sentimental moments but this is one of a few I have had.

[draconvarie]

Thank-you so much for sharing this. I have always loved this piece.

[AdamGoulett]

Oh my god...

[hikahika2]

this is real classic

this is like, you konw, about human histroy and human being itself

like, the robot boy is our human being, we walk through history, we being in the storm, we have great successful, we have dark hours - yet we dont really give a shit, like the boy, just keep walking with his head down

and the goddness, i think the director just want say, in god's eyes, the human being just like the robot boy, we're not truely 'human being' yet

this is so beautiful

[inlacrima2013]

i think u have to be a dreamer to appreciate this kind of anime, it really opens up your imagination

[Mythinkingbox]

i remember watching this when i was younger and always wanting to skip the long parts. this stuff is OLD but i miss it. ;)

[73Calirobo]

I ABOSLUTELY ADORE IT.

[73Calirobo]

this is such a beautiful pice of animation. i believe its based on The Little Prince. It has such innocence to it.

[Kemonokami]

Absolutely beautiful. It reminds me of so many things: David Lynch, Winnie The Pooh, Benimaru Itoh, Okami, Dragon's Heaven...

This movie is the only thing in the mass media that I have seen that has come even close to my unique vision of the afterlife.

[princesselushia]

wow this...i remember this so well!! THANKS FOR POSTING...the music is beautiful!!!!!

[ralph262]

beautiful.. noone noone ever would ever ever in the whole global earth would ever beat the beauty of what the continent of asia has created no matter what .theyve created a magical world........ bow to them.... i did.....

[Peryscapyne]

I Remember seeing this on Sci-Fi as well but I Think I saw this somewhere else too.

Yeah I Loved this also. Beauty Like this can mean a CRAPload of Different Things. You can guess for days what you Think it stands for and STILL not get the right answer. The only one(s) who will ever REALLY Know would be the Writer/Artist. (At least you enjoyed the show -- and the guessing.) :) :)

[DickensianDreams]

That was beautiful. :)

[jbskorp]

My favorite part of this anime'. ^.^

[amg9166]

So simple and so meaningful.

[s7rugg1es]

natsukashiii

[mrgreenranger]

This is from one of my favorite animated films. Absolutely fantastic soundtrack.

[sakuraXmoto]

This is what anime now is kinda missing, it doesn't have the same beauty.They only focus on what the characters look like, never the story.

[eexot]

I have been looking for this so long it's not even funny. All I could remember was some short about a robot boy walking I saw on scifi channel. If I knew this was part of Robot Carnival it would have made things so much more simple. This film breaks so far away from the common anime conventions I thought it was a western piece.

[joemanses]

I'm not sure one can really look at any work of art the "wrong" way. Sure artists often have the intent of conveying specific ideas in their art, be they subtle or obvious, but in the end it all comes down to personal interpretation. After all, art is often just a reflection of the person viewing it; the subject matter mearly serving as a focus on which part of us the piece mirrors.

[ejflesher]

@SvoreSvore This piece is about perseverance. I am relatively confident that the person who made this piece was affected by the bombing of Japan by the U.S. The storm that starts about 2:15 is the war. You can see them bomb drop at 3:20 and then the rest is how the artist dealt with the aftermath.

[MikMan89]

@ejflesher a bit too strict, don't you think? There are the connections, but what justifies what you just said?

I tend to get irritated by works of arts which don't reveal their meaning easily(what the artist himself has meant with it). It's his own choise, if an artist wants to make his work obscure, but if he does so, he cannot blame his audience for not understanding him.

doesn't art become in a sense very meaningless and irrelevant if there's only blind individual interpretation?

[ejflesher]

@MikMan89 Well, I honestly don't remember exactly what svoresvore said and his posts have been removed, so perhaps I chose my words incorrectly, I dunno for sure. Maybe that is the problem with art? That people, including myself, think it is our right to know exactly what an artist is trying convey. It isn't always about a statement but conveying a feeling or emotion. Maybe the artist didn't know exactly what they wanted to say they just made what came to them. I still find this piece haunting.

[MikMan89]

@ejflesher yes, surely it isn't always, probably even in the majority of works of art, that there is a meaning to be found which can traduced into something literal and exact. As you said it can also be something vague, possibly a certain "feeling" that possibly even the artist himself can't describe in a satisfactory way (this could easily be the motivation behind such works of arts), and continuing from this, It is also true, that it can't be expected for an artist to always express exactly

[MikMan89]

@ejflesher what he means or even something exact in the sense that I mentioned earlier. Art can be produced in such a way, as you said, that the artist makes what comes to him. This method of doing art strikes me as negative. I can't say wrong because I dont think there is a wrong way in art, but if art is only doing something intuitive, producing it as it comes, it doesn't feel, at least to me, as important as art that tries to communicate in a more literal sense, that's trying to say something

[ejflesher]

@MikMan89 There are many types of art but I think we are discussing communication and conveyance. I personally prefer conveyance. It conveys a feeling or atmosphere, it also tends to be more personal, not just for the artist but for the observer. It doesn't come with an agenda or feel like it is telling you are wrong for not feeling the same way. I think communicative art has it's place as it can affect change and bring to light issues but it can be contrived and forced to me and even preachy.

[MikMan89]

@ejflesher I've never thought about the good parts of "conveyance" in art. Especially the capability to be more personal is something it might have over a more exact philosphy of art. I think that the main problem with conveyance is that it can easily become just meaningless aestheticism (as I feel that the majority of art is nowadays) and with communication what you said, it can easily be contrived and forced. In the end it might come to the skill and personal agenda of the artist. Same to you!

[ejflesher]

@MikMan89 This is what I like about YouTube open discussion. Thank you.

[MOVIEmusicFIEND90]

First saw this with my father and will never forget the experience i had with him watching this with him back when i was around 8 (now 18). I love my dad for showing me such great art as this. It is absolutely breathtaking everytime i watch it. One of my fav animes because it was the first anime film i have seen. Thanks dad.

[ieatpandas]

i saw this when i was on shrooms... epic.

[curtisb3000]

THIS ANIME TREATMENT SIMPLY TAKES THE CAKE! It inspires so much emotion and beauty beyond most of the media I have seen before! The music is perfect in every frame, any part of this is picture perfect!

[mleliza3]

Wow! I remember watching this on the sci-fi channel when I was 10 yrs. old and barely having enough patience to watch the end. Watching this now (in my 20s), I realize that the imagery and music are actually quite beautiful.

[Mr9]

true! i remember seeing this skit specifically when i was super young but somehow understanding it. now that im older it's even more beautiful.

[UltraGanjagirl420]

@mleliza3 i know i remember seeing this and a lot of others on the animation festival when i was the same age this is the only one i remembered by name.do you know where to find any of the other shorts they played during those festivals or where i could find the names of the some of the shorts

[Massivec09]

@mleliza3 Same here bro.. I was 9 when I saw this on Saturday Anime on Sci Fi channel at that time.. Now I'm in my 20's and I can still remember watching it and never finishing it also. Now I really understand what it was trying to show me. Good observation...

[UniQueLyEviL]

@Massivec09 Holy shit dude. I pretty much just left the same comment you did a second ago!

SO PSYCHED!!!

[volcanicmax007]

@UniQueLyEviL LoL... good to know bro.. Atleast we all can relate about somethings that draw us together, with things that make us happy. No matter what our background is. I just hope that those who survive the Chaos in Japan can probably watch something like this and I hope it makes them feel good about their future and about themselves. I'll pray for them all....

[matariel83]

@mleliza3

For me it was TBS Nite Flix in '92 or '93 was when I first saw this, but '94 was when I somehow had the foresight to check the listings again to record it on VHS. I remember the annual(?) TBS night of Vampire Hunter D, Robot Carnival and Heavy Metal. Anyone else remember that?

[ZEX606]

@mleliza3 yes after 20 some years i final find this anime i had forgot the name of this and yes i agree that why i was looking for it to here the music

[0m1n0us]

@mleliza3 OMG I was about the same age when I saw this..It came on right after Akira on SciFi (Which blew me away). #nostalgiaaaa

[68mopar440]

i still have the robot carnival soundtrack on cd.

[68mopar440]

the music is perfect...fits animation and what its tryin to convey..

[Sovairu]

@ InternetTrafficCop, The Lensman came first, then Vampire Hunter D, then Robot Carnival. We still have The Lensman and D on VHS somewhere.

[InternetTrafficCop]

one of the first animes I saw (it showed the same night as Vampire Hunter D on sci-fi; I can't remember which came on first)

this was always my favorite vignette from it

[supermantahoo]

I found this a little boring however, after 2:23 I found things a little more intresting. To be honest, this looks like moving artwork! Im a big anime fan, and this has to be the most beautiful, dramatic, and superior anime scene I ever saw!!! The music fits the mood, everything!!!

5/5

[supermantahoo]

P.S. Im 11.

[Shirro384]

huge lol @ blackpanthro. hell yeah...gosh! i couldve sworn that i was the ONLY person who got up at 9a.m on saturday to watch this on sci-fi. How wonderfully wrong i was:) i second all the comments here:) 'tis quite beautiful, robot carnival.

[blackpanthro]

when ur 12, u dont know what to think about this....but as an adult....a weed smoking adult....this is really beautiful

[Cyanmint]

are you serious?!

[Fragile0Still]

I continue to write Criterion to get this and Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg released officially in America. This is a beautiful film I feel terrible it is not represented and released to a wider market. This film is simply beautiful.

[sailordragonball]

Is there a piano score available for this???

[tranceotaku]

That was amazing. Thank you for sharing!

[ripmowt]

oooh you will never know how much i love this. a mile stone in my childhood. THANK YOU FOR POSTING.this made me love classical music

[Spideredge]

This used to bore me as a kid. I won't lie. But you have to grow up to appreciate it. It's pretty deep and intense for an independent artistic animation

[CaptainGoofysstash]

This and Star Light Angel were my two favorite pieces from Robot Carnival. :) I read somewhere the director saying he got the idea from taking an afternoon to relax looking up at the clouds and sky in all their shapes and moods, and how it felt so wonderful that he felt like a child again (which we see here literally). Beautiful.

[owaffs]

-_- this animation bored the hell out of me.

I kind of feel bad because everyone else commenting loves it. I just preferred Deprive and Tale of Two Robots ^_^"

[TGGeko]

Yea, kinda boring for me too. I wish that the background he walked through had more meaning, instead of rabbits and rain clouds.

[EnviousDominous]

This cartoon is a stark image of mysef. Wandering through changing landscapes while all the true human beings occasionally glance at me but continue on their way. One angel may take notice of me and offer her affection, I keep walking because it's all I've ever known.

[dredawg202]

i was around 13 when i saw this...and just recently remembered it....but couldn't find it anywhere... i'm so glad youtube exsists and cloud was created....

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Sent from my Helio Ocean

[hikahika2]

I personly believe this is the most talant, the brightest of all 8 stories.

maybe someday we'll turn over to think about ouselves like the robot boy did.

[MonoAzul]

If Robot Carnival were available on Blu-Ray, I think I would have "Cloud" playing on a loop in my house 24 hours a day.

[Princeben07]

Mao Lambdo is a very excellent composer. You can find this entire soundtrack if you look around on Amazon. I STILL OWN it. n.n

[Jouri21]

This is a true classic anime. Whats really good about this short is the animation and the way the music is played in it. It almost makes you think about Depression and I think they portrayed it very well in this anime. The moral of this short is "When your all alone and walking in the rain, all you got is yourself...no one else cares about you".

[sakuraXmoto]

One of my favorite parts.You don't get good animation like this anymore.

[sleomazzola]

This short has the the most unbelievably brilliant music.. It's so well done it's hard to take all the beauty in at once.

[avidffanx]

in my opinion

this is the finest ten minutes of anime ever

[phuturephunk]

I'd have to agree.

[avidffanx]

thanks

[Neutral1]

@avidffanx how true. It changed my life. Made me rethink the relationship between still images and music and what animation MEANS. As well as its capabilities.

[HerrSchenkel]

Stuff like this was what got me into anime in the first place...and not much like it has come close since.

[Boggles577]

why she make him humans :(((

now he grow up and DIE in 80 years!!

[sakuraXmoto]

well after everything he has seen over the decades I think he might enjoy a normal human life that is able to end.

[hikahika2]

i think that boy stand for human, and the story is about human history

those background flash over just like what we've been faceing: suffering, disaster, war, science progress. but stiil we're little boy in gods' eye

[MaliceLibrarian]

Thank you for uploading this - it's the best clip of the film!

[Rashaed]

This is one of the most artistic things I have ever seen.

[darklonmars]

tears just run down my face everytime i see this. In all this mess of a world can something this beautiful exist and its almost as soothing as believing that someone or something is really looking out for us!

[dualoutput]

Omg- im glad i hinted this down havent seen this since i was 11

[maypost]

THANK YOU!!!(^_^)

Cloud was the best part of Robot Carnival, and that is really saying something.

[youmontana55]

el mejor corto de animacion que he visto, excelente

[loveunderlaw]

Anime perfection...

[theredpriest]

Never take this down. . .NEVER!!! I love this so much. Such a work of art/beauty. =)

[frankmarlowe]

This clip is what single-handedly got me interested in art and anime. I was 9 when I first saw it when SciFi still aired Saturday Anime. All I could think when I saw it was "It's so beautiful..." Especially the musical score at 6:09.

[elasticmachinery]

me too. i was 8 and saw presence. It really made me truly sad and haunted. I didn't know what it was un till i got so aggravated at the guys at tbs telling me its probably one of the kiddi animes they show on adult swim. Every one i asked about the plot to that short, thought i was crazy. so finely, i went through every single anime that was on sifi back then on Wikipedia. This to got me in to art and literature.

[electricfoxx]

Awesome! I also remember watching Gall Force on Sci-Fi

[mymymaichun]

one of my fav shorts from the anthology. actually i used to loathe watching cloud when i was young but i guess over time i learned to appreciate the strong visuals combined with the musical score. i only wish you included the very beginning as well

[avidffan]

thanks

[chewface]

I wish I could put it into physical words that can be typed, even spoken; Either way...this beautiful, underrated, materpiece of an animated experience...taps into something I can't explain. It's something in the music, the pacing...especially the music...the specific notes used, the timing, the tones...the vague, dreamy theme...the sky and the clouds...I'm rambling now...either way, this makes me cry almost every time. And I wish I knew why. There's something to be said in that. It's beautiful.

[icecreamberry]

I know what you mean.

It makes me feel the same way. :)

[avidffan]

indeed

fantastic video

[Tsubahi]

What a beautiful little robot.

He (it) looks SO lonely!:(

[aknatn]

This is my favorite short, and possibly favorite bit of film ever. It inspires powerful emotions and has brought tears on several occasions. Summonedknight has the timing exactly right when the powerful music and scene occur. This is just a flat out amazing piece of art.

[bigyellowlegoman]

fatastic

[harrythecrumb]

wow

[wisdomempire]

Robot Carnival is THE best Anime ever. The music featured in it has been and still is inspiring me to this day.

[blahdeedah]

ahh...it's missing the first bit, of him as a child, though. XD But thanks anyway.

[blahdeedah]

Best short from robot carnival. Thanks for the upload. =)

[canzona]

Truly a superb piece of art. I didn't realize how much this defined my aesthetic. Completely inspiring!

[Summonedknight69]

that song that comes on at 6:09 always moves me and chokes me up.after ll these years a beautiful piece. this is what anime is all about

[wisdomempire]

I agree, as a matter of fact this is the first song that I learned to play on the piano. absolutely beautiful.

[Citzenesse]

Again, I have to say how much I love this piece. Ever since I saw it on the Sci-fi channel from time to time. The poignancy is so achingly sweet.

[maypost]

Robot Carnival will ALWAYS be the best anime ever

[SpankRamen]

Cloud goes far beyond Pinocchio. The journey from Robot to Human takes him through the beautiful as well as hellish events (anyone notice the mushroom clouds? Hiroshima?) through the annals of mankind. Ethereal music heightens your senses as you follow the robot. The score at 2:30 was in the trailer for Robot Carnival & it's what made me fall in love with this anime as a small girl in the early '90s!

[NODEDON]

wait.. dude.. you're missing the beginning =( that little opening.. remember?

[maypost]

The opening is called "nani" (japanese for "what?")

[Angelshymn]

~*~Robot Carnival as a whole, but especially "Clouds" is **sigh** breathtaking music & art! Beautiful, timeless, & inspirational. So soft, yet powerful & moving. I thank u deeply for posting this~*~