A discarded security guard crossing the cosmos to ask: 'why did you leave me?'
Atom is attending a party on the space station with Dr. Ochanomizu. However, while at the party, he hears a voice. It is the voice of a robot that had been abandoned by someone. The abandoned robot is a security guard robot named Ivan, and after being refueled with energy, Ivan sets off on a journey to find his owner, Minya.
Direction
Dezaki's signature freeze-frames hit harder in space
Cinematography
Hand-painted cosmic loneliness, 2003 digital couldn't touch this
Director
Osamu Dezaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dezaki directed this at 60, still perfecting the visual language he invented in 70s Ashita no Joe. The 'postcard memory' technique here is pure grief in animated form.
Ivan's design—a bulky Soviet-esque security bot with sad eyes—was reportedly based on early industrial robots from actual 1980s Japanese factories.
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