robot with lightning, just like Victor Frankenstein did. During a vicious thunderstorm, the robot is successfully brought to life, and mimics his creator's every movement. Overjoyed, the scientist dances with glee, trips, and falls. Seeing this, the robot dances, trips, and falls on the scientist, killing him. Staff Director / Scenario / Character Designer: Koji Morimoto Backgrounds: Yūji Ikehata Sound Effects: Kazutoshi Satō "Deprive" In "Deprive", an alien invasion of robot foot soldiers attacks a city and kidnaps people, including a young girl. Her companion, an android, is damaged, but retains her locket. A human with superhuman abilities is then seen; he goes through waves of robots before being stopped by two powerful robots. Captured by the alien leader, he is tortured, but it is also revealed to be the android from earlier, now upgraded into a combat android with a human disguise. Defeating the two powerful robots and the alien leader, he rescues the girl. Running through the wasteland carrying her, the girl eventually wakes up and recognizes his new form because of the locket he still has. Staff Director / Scenario / Character Designer: Hidetoshi Ōmori Backgrounds: Kenji Matsumoto Sound Effects: Jun'ichi Sasaki "Presence" , one of only two segments featuring intelligible dialogue, tells the story of a man who has an obsession with a gynoid he has been secretly constructing in an attempt to compensate for the lack of any close relationship with his wife and family. The setting seems to be British and of the early twentieth century, but also suggests another planet or a future which has attempted to re-establish a former social structure. When the gynoid takes on a personality of her own, far beyond what the man had programmed, he smashes her in a fit of panic, and leaves his secret laboratory for what he believes is the last time. Twenty years later, the man has a vision of his gynoid appearing before him, but then blowing up before he can take her hand. He returns to his shed to find the gynoid still sitting smashed in a corner, just as she had been left years earlier. Another twenty years elapse, and the gynoid appears again before the man. This time, he takes her hand and walks into the distance with her, before vanishing in front of his shocked wife. Little of the dialogue is actually spoken on-screen; all but a few lines