Mobile Police Patlabor (Video 1988)
"Kidô keisatsu patorebâ" (original title)

The adventures of a giant robot police force unit.

Director:

Mamoru Oshii

Writer:

Masami Yûki (comic)

Stars:

Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Michihiro Ikemizu

Cast

Credited cast:
Mîna Tominaga	...	Noa Izumi
Toshio Furukawa	...	Asuma Shinohara
Michihiro Ikemizu	...	Isao Ohta
Issei Futamata	...	Mikiyasu Shinshi
Daisuke Gôri	...	Hiromi Yamazaki
Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi	...	Kiichi Gotoh
Shigeru Chiba	...	Shigeo Shiba
Yô Inoue	...	Kanuka Clancy
Yoshiko Sakakibara	...	Shinobu Nagumo
Osamu Saka	...	Seitaro Sakaki
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Adriana	...	Shinobu Nagumo (voice)
Jonny Asch	...	Mikiyasu Shinshi (voice)
Walter Barnes	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Walter 'Barney' Barnes)
Shannon Conley	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Vibe Jones)
Curt Gebhart	...	Shige (voice)

Storyline

The adventures of a giant robot police force unit.

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Plot Keywords:

giant robot | robot | police | mecha | anime | 

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Genres:

Short | Action | Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Drama

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese English

Also Known As:

Patlabor: The Original Series

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min 25 min (7 episodes)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)

User Reviews

The first of the small franchise of Patlabor

Patlabor is set in an alternate future in which technology rapidly advanced to the creation of giant robots called "Labors". Which gives man kind a new leap in heavy industries and manufactures. But this has also rise up the number crimes, as Labors have been used for terror and mayhem. To prevent any that, a new law enforcement has been established. Now the police forces has their own Patrol Labors known as "Patlabors".

Story revolves over a female officer named Izumi Noa, a new recruit of the Special Vechicals Devision 2. After becoming a pilot for the Alphonse Patlabor model, and making new friends of the second devision. They all make quite a team, for a bunch of officials with different profiles and different goals. Noa and her team will protect and fight off masterminds, terrorists, and lunatics throughout the whole series.

Patlabor is one of the many average fight robot genders of Japanese Animation. But I think this series is one of the best. It has a good plot to it, the technology and location are well drawn, and there's plenty of character development. It has action as well as some comedy to lighten things up. Despite this series to only have 7 OVA episodes, it's worthy of being a classic to big time Anime fans.