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BurntToast
Since: Mar, 2018
ash966
Since: Dec, 2014
2018-04-10 19:48:08
“Cloud” from the anthology anime Robot Carnival? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t8odrru9aAM
MCXLVIIII
Since: Apr, 2018

This one was an animated short that I saw on Toonami around 2000. It was a boy walking left to right with clouds overhead that kept changing into different patterns. That was it. There was no dialogue and possibly no music. I believe the word "Cloud" showed onscreen at the beginning or end. This has been bugging me for years.