Kidô keisatsu patorebâ (1988) (V)

Director:

Mamoru Oshii

Writer:

Masami Yûki (comic)

Genre:

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

Plot:

The adventures of a giant robot police force unit. |

Plot Keywords:

Giant Robot | Robot | Police | Mecha | Anime

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: English version)
Jonny Asch	...	Mikiyasu Shinshi (voice: English version)
Walter Barnes	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Walter 'Barney' Barnes)
Curt Gebhart	...	Shige (voice: English version)
Tristan Goddard	...	Jitsuyama (voice: English version)
Wayne Grayson	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Dan Green	...	Asuma Shinohara (voice: English version)
Matthew Harrington	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Vibe Jones	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jamie McGonnigal	...	Sakuma, Criminal, Security Guard, JSDF Captain, Ambulence Driver, Kai Subordinate, Policeman (voice: English version)
Chunky Mon	...	Hiromi Yamazaki, Inspector Matsui (voice: English version)
Debora Rabbai	...	Kanuka Clancy, Ine "The Gadget" Ito (voice: English version)
Joey Rappaporte	...	Kiyoteru Kai (voice: English version)
Kurt Riddle	...	Sobue (voice: English version)
Frankie Rome	...	Sakaki (voice: English version)
Matt Saha	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Michael Schwartz	...	Kiichi Goto (voice: English version)
Jack Taylor	...	Hirata Hakase (voice: English version)
Veronica Taylor	...	Mahoko Goto, Tamiko Shinshi, Noa's Mother, Shinobu's Mother (voice: English version)
Elisa Wain	...	Noa Izumi (voice: English version)
Bruce Winant	...	Kaiho (voice: English version)
Greg Wolfe	...	Isao Ota (voice: English version) (as James Wolfe)

Also Known As:

Mobile Police Patlabor
Patlabor: The Original Series (USA) (video box title)

Runtime:

25 min (7 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Tokio Private Police (1997) (V)

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.