Once a magnificent traveling showcase, it is now heavily rusted, damaged by decades of weathering in the desert, while its many machines wreak havoc as the village is destroyed beneath its might.

As the sun sets over the traveling relic, flashback stills recall the grandeur of the Carnival at the peak of its existence – an unparalleled engine of mirth that brought timeless joy to the various cities it visited.

In the epilogue at the end of the credits, set several years later, a man discovers an orb among the remains and brings it back to his family.

The ballerina finishes its dance with a leap into the air; the explosion that follows destroys the shack where the family lived, leaving "END" in enormous letters lying in its place.

In "Deprive", an alien invasion of robot foot soldiers attacks a city and kidnaps people, including a young girl.

"Presence" (プレゼンス, Purezensu), one of only two segments featuring intelligible dialogue, tells the story of a man who has an obsession with an automata 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 automata 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.

"Star Light Angel" is a bishōjo story featuring two friends – teenage girls – at a robot-themed amusement park.

"Strange Tales of Meiji Machine Culture: Westerner's Invasion" (明治からくり文明奇譚〜紅毛人襲来之巻〜, Meiji Karakuri Bunmei Kitan: Kōmōjin Shūrai no Maki, retitled "A Tale of Two Robots, Chapter 3: Foreign Invasion" for the Streamline dub) is set in the nineteenth century and features two wooden "giant robots", directed from within by a human crew.

When the sun rises, the robots disappear, and everything is turned back to normal, but Chicken Man awakens to find that the now-restored machines are embedded high up in a set of skyscrapers, while the citizens of Tokyo go about their lives far below.

In the United States, Streamline Pictures producers Carl Macek and Jerry Beck, the latter an animation historian, licensed the OVA and gave it a theatrical premiere in Portland, Oregon on January 25, 1991, with a home video release later in December.

Carl Macek stated with certainty that the reason for the "shuffling of segments" was due to considerations regarding the theatrical exploitation of the OVA.