Have you ever felt like you were the only competent member of your team?
Have you ever felt like you were the only competent member of your team?
Charles Hughes
Adrian Nelson
I like the part where Kanuka instructs Asuma to deactivate the bomb
Brody Myers
kanuka is cute
why don't they make a new patlabor season or game?
Kayden Barnes
Reminder, Shinobu fucks old men for pure love
Aaron King
shinobu is too busy being on the worst patrol labor division
Ethan Thomas
>why don't they make a new patlabor season or game?
Zoomer otaku don't care.
Jonathan Nguyen
Do zoomers even watch /m/echa or toku?
Easton Clark
I know Japanese kids think mecha is for old guys, but I really don’t know about Toku.
Dylan Ramirez
>I know Japanese kids think mecha is for old guys
Fuck, in that case i really hope Toho doesn't aim the next set of Godzilla films for kids, i really want a new Mechagodzilla one
Chase Walker
modern weebs can't handle patlabor because all they like now is over the top gurren knockoffs or shows where characters cry for 24 episodes and then it ends.
Andrew Scott
Quick search of the latest anime chart showed no mecha but I'm out of touch with the trends anyway.
Colton Harris
Often, why?
Owen Diaz
I'm pretty out of the loop myself but I just watch shows toku so no surprise I guess
Colton Hernandez
There's a new Gundam coming october, but it's yet another web gunpla show so i can't blame you i you don't count it
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Why did Kanuka, being half japanese, looks and behaves more like an authentic japanese person than the rest of the team, who were actually born in Japan?
Anthony Martin
Overcompensation for failing hard at being american
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Isaiah Howard
her accent makes me of a chink speaking japanese. it's kinda cute.
Gabriel Walker
really sad, because Patlabor is so good. it achieves being badass and comfy at the same time
Alexander Allen
>Most Japanese looking one in the cast
>Is American
I miss Yo Inoue ;_;
Colton Morris
>achieves being badass and comfy at the same time
That it did. Would be nice to get badass girls too.
Juan James
Alexander Barnes
Fuck, I wasnt expecting that.
Blake Bailey
She loves her grandma who is Japanese. I believe she grew up in Hawaii too, so she's used to a variety of Asian mannerisms. She may even be her only remaining relative. Don't forget she's also truly elite and speaks fluent Japanese. However, there's hints throughout the series that part of the reason she was sent to work in Japan was because she didn't get along too well with the rest of her team in the US.
By the way, we all agree the episode revolving around Chinese takeout was the best, right?
Nathaniel Cox
The newest Patlabor production was the live action wasn't it? As in, it was a true sequel and also concluded Noa and Azuma's relationship?
Heard it was good.
Logan Edwards
actually, isn't she hawaiian?
Ryan Harris
She's of mixed decent, yes.
Michael White
The Patlabor TV series is so comfy.
David Richardson
The "You did it!" bit gave me quite a chuckle.
Lucas Stewart
>By the way, we all agree the episode revolving around Chinese takeout was the best, right?
It's up there but no.
Jason Morgan
I just wan a patlabor video game in the style of RD and Noa gf.
Is that really so much to ask for?
Luis Jones
I feel like that every time I browse Yea Forums.
Austin Lee
man Isao doesn't develop through the series at all
forever a hot head who can't even do good on his reputation as a sharpshooter because
>It's hard to hit a moving target
Benjamin Lopez
My favourite is when Goto gets everybody drunk.
Liam Campbell
>>It's hard to hit a moving target
He nails the moving target training in the second movie like a badass
Noah Foster
Ohh, didn't have this one saved. Man what was up with Japan and skis in the 90s.
That's a good one too, but my favorites are the two parter Eve's Shudder and Trap. Excellent exploration of the feelings of those whose loved ones serve as well as giving Kanuka a lot of real vulnerability and humanization.
Sebastian Long
I meant RAD.
Elijah Hernandez
Noa’s a top-tier tomboy
Michael Green
Shinchi is great.
Benjamin Gray
>every single episode is something about a character's backstory and how they need to learn from their past
>show rarely takes place in the present
Anthony Rodriguez
Dominic Ward
I never heard of this anime before. Is it any good?
Matthew Hill
which tomboys were even in anime before her?
how many were the main MC?
Jacob White
Levi Myers
>Goto and Shinobu at the love hotel episode
Christopher Lee
if you gotta ask, I think boku no pico is more up your alley
Jace Lee
I hated both of the labor pilots. Why were the two most incompetent people on the team put in charge of piloting multi billion dollar mechs? Fucking retarded.
Nolan Phillips
Isaiah Murphy
patlabor is weird for me. I REALLY loved the OVAs but the tv show has such an odd sense of humor and I can't stand it.
Adam Ross
Because Azuma knew how badly Noa wanted to pilot it.
Yamazaki was too big.
Kanuka was only temporary.
Shinshi cared too much about his wife.
Alexander Reyes
it's a lot like GitS in that the core setting is really good but it's up to whoever is in charge where they go with it
I might have to read the manga one of these days
Robert Ward
Someday right?
Lucas Lopez
They got the progression of AI right. Truly ahead of its time. It truly does feel like a proto GitS
Ryder Reyes
Patlabor was fucking kino, man.
Blake Johnson
Connor Walker
Goto was the best character. Surrounded by retards and doesn't give a shit.
Lucas Roberts
why were they the only options though? out of a force as big as the japanese police, they had a bunch of a third stringers in charge of the huge billion dollar mechs?
Mason Martin
No, because Mecha is actually masculine.
Jace Richardson
i do
Luis Sanchez
Bipedal mechs are definitely not something I'd want cops to have.
Camden Scott
>they had a bunch of a third stringers in charge of the huge billion dollar mechs?
You really overestimate how much it costs to build an Ingram. And are an idiot. These aren't Gundams. The Ingram is a great labor but it's main job is to look cool. Seriously. They flat out say as much. The helldivers and brockens probably cost way more. Also Asuma's Dad's company made the fucking things. Try paying attention.
Dylan Davis
He was a little too Mary Sue for me. The stupid shit he did never bit him in the ass directly.
The series makes it very apparent that the Labor force wasn't respected to begin with (waste of taxpayer money, etc.), and all the competent people were a part of SV1 already.
Isaac Hernandez
why the fuck is this thread on Yea Forums.
that said, based patlaborfags
Andrew Phillips
>the cute hapa girl looks and behaves more like an authentic japanese person than the rest of the team
John Perry
They needed the mechs to fight other mechs though. It was just the way of the world.
Matthew Rogers
YEAH BUT WHAT ABOUT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS :D
ESPECIALLY THE DRUNK ONES
Eli Brooks
>the first three seconds of that webm where she just rollerskates behind the guy
nothing personnel
Josiah James
Love this scene.
No they don't. They need the mechs to put the fear into a drunk fork truck driver. They're not actually supposed to fight. It's why they're always getting trouble.
Ethan Edwards
A Yamato Nadeshiko doesn't need to be Japanese to have Japanese qualities.
The series in general was pretty good at subverting stereotypes early on.
Noa the tomboy, but still girly MC.
Shinobu being the "competent" foil to Goto
Big guy is a gentle giant
Computer nerd isn't some shut-in but has a wife he dotes over
and so on
Evan Sullivan
But they did.
youtube.com
Thomas Ward
>Big guy is a gentle giant
He deserved better.
James Sullivan
Early in the series we're treated to SV1 taking out thugs with their batons.
Jack Stewart
Absolute based
>that absolutely wasted and assblasted expression
Gabriel Nelson
terrible upscaling
Julian Baker
I've seen worse
Dylan Green
Is goto our guy?
Alexander Ross
is this an actual 1080p bluray rip
Cooper Jackson
nvm just realized it's the tv show, already have that in 1080p
Jeremiah Hall
Hey, Dirty Pair.
Nathan Price
I like this new trend of people going back and appreciating old things. I hope it's one that continues.
Jeremiah Martinez
>its a "the gang gets drunk" episode
>it's actually a good one
Ryder Gomez
EZY is coming in 2020 supposedly.
Jeremiah Thompson
excuse me, you nigger, but the magnet link people said this was a legit bluray rip
aren't you mentioning my terrible meme MPV filters? I am testing some shit I copy pasted from chiru.no
Anthony Diaz
I don't want to interrupt this pato thread but...
Juan Hughes
Not the guy you're replying to, but what makes upscaling good or bad? I see it's got a lot of pixels and the image doesn't look great when you look close, but how does one upscale better?
Don't blame me; I'm anonymous.
Parker Moore
Takeo Kumagami was a mistake.
Ayden Parker
*hits cig*
Elijah Nelson
why didn't you ask WHY THE FUCK THEY DON'T SHARE ROBOTS WITH 1st DIVISION? how the fuck? all public services are like that! even if for some goddamn obtuse reason they didn't buy it on enough numbers for every team, they don't even have the same work hours, just take turns!
Zachary Nelson
Which episode was that?
David Cox
not enough memory for the pilot configurations bro
those are like 2 megabytes each
Jace Gray
This show sure loves short hair girls
Ayden Bennett
Episode 14 of the TV series. Kanuka has to spot for Noa and they're conflicting ideas make it harder than should have been. Goto realizes he needs to work out better team unity so gets everyone shit faced.
Gabriel Gomez
>born just in the right time for Labors in your daily life
>we got facebook and smartphones instead
Goddamn Every Dystopic Faggot Writer were wrong by a huge margin
Grayson Jackson
well when you've went through the cream of the crop of the current generation, where else do you have to go but check out the cream of the crop of the past?
Ryder Moore
youtube.com
kinda surprised this hasn't been posted
Lincoln Clark
Didn't it have something to do with the pilot data?
Besides, SV1 were actually competent so they didn't need the latest tech.
John Lee
Because that would put tremendous strain on the joins. The MO disks record pilot data and help the machine program ease of motion better. If you have 5 pilots on one mech it just puts stress on the mech and it will break down. They explain this quite clearly. Pay attention, you retard.
Samuel Gray
i didn't even bother with the current generation
I only listen to old ass hiroko taniyama albums from the 70s now
Isaac Lewis
as the world should be
Christopher Russell
ow
Asher Anderson
Me too
Cooper Smith
>nu patlabor is CGI anime crap
Fuck off stupid japs, if you want to do it, do it right
Benjamin Reyes
Why did Oota always got the best girls?
Daniel Flores
They're cops. Cops probably wouldn't have long hair.
Oliver Russell
When overwatch was first released I was dropped into a match that was pretty much hopeless from my side. Their team actually had us boxed into the spawn my team was so terrible.
I switch to the ninja guy and just snuck around them to the final capture point. I guess they didn't take it seriously or were just too far away because I was able to win the game without attacking anyone. It was a great feeling seeing their entire squad run into visible range right as I finished capping the point.
Josiah Hall
Why? I imagine there's a lot of regulations but long hair for woman probably wouldn't be one of them. Toss it in a bun or pony tail maybe?
William Collins
not really sure how any of that is relevant but good for you I guess
Jeremiah Baker
>Have you ever felt like you were the only competent member of your team?
The answer was yes I felt competent winning the entire match by myself.
Nathan Butler
>You're Under Arrest
Why can't anime be good again
Jason King
Based.
Brandon Jackson
is it time for another stealth /m/ thread?
why is the patlabor tv series so boring?
Hudson Wright
Andrew Harris
Kamille BTFO
Julian Green
couldn't even watch past a couple episodes
pacing is borked due to tv scripting and the writers have a horrible sense of humor
Nathaniel Lewis
Why is she so cool, bros?
Charles Kelly
Patlabor is bureaucracy kino.
Caleb Flores
Brayden Sanders
Kamille? Isn't that a girls name? That's a boy.
Jose Price
really had to share it. what about kanuka in a kimono and a wood sword with no explanation whatsoever?
Rule Of Cool
Jeremiah Lewis
Levi Mitchell
Nah, that's Dai-Guard
Jason Edwards
Fuck off, zoomers.
Hunter Thompson
nigger I loved the ovas, the tv show just sucks
Nolan Robinson
i know this feel all too well
Thomas Rogers
cops r bad ann stuff
Jaxon Scott
This fucking part.
Camden Kelly
There is no "I" in team, you were all terrible, you included.
Caleb Ramirez
Long shot
John Nguyen
I just finished the TV series and I don't know why people shit on it so much. The pacing is a little more relaxed with more of a 'slice of life' tone but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Thomas Collins
Watch Active Raid.
Nolan Thompson
Is that soulless eyesore you posted supposed to entice anyone?
Hudson Morales
I have some complaints with the TV series, more specifically Kumagami. They sent Kanuka home way to soon. But on the whole I liked a lot. I put a lot of the blame on people who think they need to binge watch everything, so a lot of the more repatative elements become way more obvious.
Jack Cooper
thanks for the Video Game contribution user. I almost feel bad making thinly veiled threads
Hunter Wilson
>girl speaks English
>dude blurts out "remember pearl harbor"
real mature
Thomas Powell
As do I.
Camden Torres
>recently looked through archives of anime when they started airing from 1970-2019 to see if there was anything interesting hidden somewhere
>95% of anime released in the 80s were mech
how the fuck did you boomers not get tired of this shit
Carter Ramirez
I burnt myself out on the ova and movies by the time I got to the tv series. I need to go back and finish it.
I think the 3rd movie gets too much flak. I know it's barely a Patlabor movie but it's a very entertaining film set in that world.
Zachary Sullivan
imagine being so competent, and yet you're always second place
Lucas Carter
Noa/Asuma was resolved offscreen.
Blake Edwards
Based Japs dabbing on (((americans)))
Levi Carter
Replacing a good character with a total non-entity was a weird choice. I was expecting them to bring Kanuka back, but when they finally did it was only for 1 episode plus a little cameo.
The only good thing about Kumagami was she reigned in Ota's retardation a little.
Elijah Baker
(You)
Nicholas Nguyen
no arguments? post your top 10 shows
Adrian Miller
I didn't think the TV series would get this much hate on here. It's not fucking gundam "I am a war hero", they're fucking Cops. the everyday hero type. some days you help a whale, others you beat up international terrorists for the Japanese """Defense""" Force because they are a bunch of pussies
Blake Watson
>newest Patlabor production was the live action
i thought the reboot short was
Colton Cox
>but when they finally did it was only for 1 episode plus a little cameo.
She came back for all the Grypon stuff so it was a bit more than one episode but yeah it was a real bummer. I think they did a really good job of showing her and Noa's growing mutual respect and friendship.
Thomas Barnes
Go Nagai Magic
Asher Phillips
>how the fuck did you boomers not get tired of this shit
What would you prefer? Isekai harem?
Jaxson Bailey
this is so accurate it's honestly painful.
Nathaniel Allen
>
Easton Nelson
why are you so desperate for meaning that you have to do this to people who don't like the same shows as you
Owen Perez
Man if you think this was boring, I'd hate to see you try something like Gasaraki
Matthew Foster
I liked gasaraki and my favorite movie of all time is over 4 hours long and I watch it regularly all in one sitting. patlabor TV is just really boring and oddly paced
Sebastian Sullivan
Toku is more for moms now than anyone. The fan events for some Kamen Rider events are like 80% women.
Mason Roberts
alright dude,but I think someone else already said it here. Patlabor is not your average mecha anime when everything is big and important. they are just common people, who have access to giant robots. Isn't kinda great Patlabor be its own thing? It's almost 30 years and they haven't nailed a copy of this type of show yet.
Zachary Taylor
I said this like 20 times in the thread already. I adore the concept of patlabor and I enjoyed the movies and OVAs immensely, enough for them to rank very high among my favorites. the format and the concept of a bureaucratic, character-focused, semi realistic approach to mecha isn't the problem, the tv show being poorly constructed is the problem
Jace Watson
Why is the helo flying so close you could literally throw a rock at it?
Liam Barnes
>oddly paced
I saw it mentioned in another post gere, but you guys are aware it's very much a type of cartoon like Ed, Edd n Eddy or the Ashnime where it's mostly focused on the individual episodes written by different writers as opposed to truly caring about some overarching grand narrative, right?
Samuel Lee
>it's mostly focused on the individual episodes written by different writers as opposed to truly caring about some overarching grand narrative
completely aware of this. the OVA was the exact same way. Does not excuse its flaws at all.
Aiden Gomez
I'm with you about the OVAs being far more substantial, but it's really just a difference in format. You get like 2 or 3 OVAs and everyone is putting in their utmost versus you get like 10 episodes and try random ideas you had in half of them.
Daniel Long
Nolan Rivera
I totally agree on that front, but as a consumer what matters to me is the final product. I'm no stranger to long-form shows in anime or otherwise, but the TV show was simply so variable in quality both in writing and visuals that I didn't want to finish it.
Hudson Brooks
I respect that. I think you get the most out of Patlabor TV if you really enjoy the slightly more wacky setting. I watched it before the OVAs so that helps too. That said I think it's still worth it for a fan of the franchise to finish, even knowing you won't love even half of it. Ironically I think it's part of its charm though. It's like you don't know what kind of episode you're going to get.
I recommend keeping track of the ones you do like though so you can just as easily rewatch only those ones. It definitely does have some gems in there.
Joshua Brown
>even knowing you won't love even half of it
I know this feeling, the vampire princess miyu TV show was like half and half on good episodes
I'll give it another go after I finish outlaw star
James Nguyen
Grandbelm is fucking kino and is airing this season.
Sebastian Roberts
It's funny because the guy also has a huge case of oneitis with shinobu
Nathaniel Walker
>how the fuck did you boomers not get tired of this shit
Serious answer: they did. That's why most 90s anime was goofy fantasy.
Anime burned out on mecha/scifi in the 80s and everything afterwards until the 2000s was more or less taking the piss and parodying it
Logan Butler
You'd best not be talking shit about Active Raid.
Landon Rivera
didn't he get to do something really cool in one of the movies?
Sebastian Foster
He actually goes get to shine every now and again. In the OVA he's actually the one to stop the bad guy and in the OVAs and in the Movie he gets a sweet ass tank rifle.
Blake Phillips
Ignore that first "AND"
Logan Johnson
I mean second. Fuck Im to drun right now.
Jaxon Fisher
Really? I haven't watched past that episode. I think it's 18 but I'm not sure.
Josiah Sullivan
That's episode 14. Goto's relationship with Shinobu doesn't show up too often so I couldn't really point out many stand out episodes but I think a lot of it also Mamoru Oshi, who is, for some reason, super in love with her too. To the point where he made the second movie basically all about her.
Dominic Evans
They just made a live action tv show a couple of years ago
Wyatt Gutierrez
you are the only person in this 175 post thread to point that out.
Connor Johnson
Negotiation: SSS+ rank
Jaxon Wilson
oshii has an unhealthy obsession with blankfaced too cool 4 school girls, this is nothing new
Gavin Martin
if you look at goto and shinobu's interactions it's clear he has affection for her and doesn't pursue other girls
Cooper Ortiz
PATLABOR THREAD
IN MY Yea Forums?
more likely than you think
Austin Anderson
>Patlabor Thread and another robot thread on Yea Forums
>trek thread too
You're alright today Yea Forums
Luke Long
he's the guy who keeps unit 2 from sinking into oblivion
Nathaniel Anderson
I agree, I was struggling to get through her first two episodes
Jason Watson
It really feels like a spiritual successor of patlabor but they couldn't keep up the wackiness that happened in the first 1/3 of the show to the rest of the 2/3. I dropped it somewhere around s2
Carson Lewis
>CGI mechs
>CG backgrounds
No
Evan Fisher
Kill yourself.
Colton Barnes
what the fuck is wrong with you? why is the concept of someone having an opinion that doesn't line up with your own so offensive to you?
Anthony Peterson
Would Dirty Pair count?
Angel Hughes
She was very cute in the ghost episode.
Adrian Robinson
>Ranking of fun
Patlabor: The Movie
Patlabor: TV
Patlabor: OVA
Patlabor: The Movie 2
Patlabor: The Movie 3
Zachary Jones
Original Kei is actually pretty girly.
Brody Murphy
Why did mecha have to die lads? There's barely any new series and virtually all of them are trash. The last time I had fun with a mecha series was the first season of Gundam Build Fighters and that was over 5 years ago at this point.
Noah Hughes
>watch second Patlabor movie
>it isn't Patlabor at all
>it's an animated Tom Clancy novel
Boring as fuck.
Isaiah Wright
To be fair Oshi was a bit Clancy fan. Hence...
Matthew Cruz
Cute girls doing badass things again when?
Gavin Bailey
At least we have mountains and mountains of backlog.
Just finished Xabungle the other day, fun stuff.
Ayden Ramirez
Not soon enough
Aaron Watson
The interesting thing about Rally's design is that she's not cute, nor sexy, nor cool, but at the very midpoint of all those traits.
Jack Kelly
Its gone a bit more micro than macro, but it looks like unless we build interference towers everywhere drones are going to be the big "future is now" thing. Alternatively, AI gets stacked into drones BECAUSE of interference and then we really are there.
Nicholas Russell
How is the zeiram anime? I've only seen the two live action movies.
Dylan Davis
Because giant robots are awesome. What are you, some kind of faggot?
Nathaniel Morgan
What's this hairstyle called? The Major has it too.
Connor Ramirez
reverse bob
has it too
Isaiah Baker
Because a story having giant robots in it doesn't really tell you what kind of story it's actually going to be.
By comparison if you have an isekai harem LN adaptation you know EXACTLY what kind of story it's going to be.
Justin Long
Crab tanks were here, bipedal mechs are for sissy girls.
Noah Lewis
Did those sluts get a time machine?
Anthony Walker
Are there any other mecha anime out there with the same feel as Patlabor?
Nathaniel Torres
Depends, we talking the movies like your picture or the show? Wildly different feel between them.
Aaron Carter
Not him but both, doesn't even have to be mecha. I just need something good to watch.
Mason Brown
I confess to being a bit biased as it was my first real anime but it's also still one of my favorites that I rewatch regularly. If you liked the movies you should like the anime. The design of the world is great.
Xavier Robinson
You'd be amazed at how much they get around. They've shown up in everything to Uresei Yatsura to Star Trek the next Generation (kinda)
Jackson Wright
>Star Trek the next Generation (kinda)
wut?
Carson Russell
Either desu, I really like the concept of a "realistic" mecha series set in the modern day world but I also liked the fun quirky elements that the TV show had with the character development and slice of life stuff.
Chase Sanders
They don't physically show up but a lot of background text and signs make direct mention of them. It's just the producers being cheeky. But it happens a lot.
Noah Garcia
Connor Gonzalez
Noah Harris
>Federation canonically used anime to write a complex treaty up with autistic space children.
Frankly it does explain a lot.
Carter Richardson
The one about the therapy unit makes me giggle the most.
Jason Carter
I disagree. I fucking loved the TV show as much as i loved the OVAs.
Isaac Watson
Goddamn, i love these two together.
Adrian Collins
Yeah, they're really nice friends
Lucas Baker
>why is the patlabor tv series so boring?
Because you expected it to be another TTGL with nonstop action and friendship moralfaggotry for underages.
Adrian Walker
see
John Hall
ok let's do it
Asher Butler
everytime i played overwatch. thats why i quit.
Austin Johnson
Get the first movie too.
Matthew Cox
And the second one
Henry Torres
I may be weird but I liked WXIII. You go in the right attitude it's a fine detective monster movie.
Joseph Flores
not the second one
Adam Clark
Maybe Deunan in the Appleseed OVA.
Matthew Peterson
Reminder there exists an Eroge that is a parody mash-up of Patlabor and Nadesico.
Eli Gray
Patlabor 2 and GitS are like sister movies. And if you dislike the more serious tone, get fucked.
Easton Jenkins
They even feel like taking place in the same universe
Benjamin Perez
pleb
Isaiah Wright
That's just Oshii's Hong Kong boner.
Gavin Harris
Pretending to like a boring cartoon with a story ripped straight from a bottom shelf spy novel a baby boomer would buy at the airport doesn't make you look smart.
Joshua Rivera
Okay? I don't "pretend" to enjoy movies to make myself look smart. That's a very idiotic reason to come up with why someone would watch a film.
Caleb Howard
Always the second one.
Angel Baker
I want anime to be good again
Nathaniel Kelly
GiTS 1&2 and Patlabor 1&2 both feature the art work of Hiromasa Ogura, so that's probably why.
Justin Hernandez
>Copy and pasted from a previous thread, so forgive me if it's not 1 to 1
I initially want to say "fuck you, it's fun", but I don't think that really articulates why I prefer Patlabor TV over the OVA or Movies.
The first movie is a masterpiece. Brilliant animation, great story, with good pacing and suspense, with a fantastic action payoff at the end. However, I think the story is more of an focus on the genius of the world of patlabor than the actual characters. The driving force of the plot in the first movie was in fact, the following of the footsteps of a dead guy.
Patlabor 2 was a decent movie with a lot of drama and care put into the sociopolitical plot and cloak and dagger intrigue, but in the end, didn't feel much like a true Patlabor movie.
I didn't watch the third movie.
When I first watched the OVA's the first thing I thought as I watched was how tightly written each episode was and how nice the animation looked. It truly looked like a lot of time and love was given to each episode for them to shine, however, I believe the moments I loved the most weren't from those OVA's.
I loved most was the team cop element of Patlabor and the mecha part was simply an added bonus. The characters were what made the show for me and I got more truly fun moments during the course of the show than during the OVA since those were so plot focused.
I loved it when Ohta strapped a Labor Gun on the side of his car and then it actually helped out Noa in the fight.
I loved it when Goto was being harassed by his longtime former associate who still held a grudge against him, but despite everyone's best interest couldn't psych him into letting him help.
I loved it when the team went into the sewers in search of the thief and how they acted scared and psyched out about a rumor of an alligator down there.
I loved the episode where the entire base was starving and the restaurant wouldn't deliver the food they ordered
Parker Campbell
Time where there was a patlabor in the movie
0:00:00-0:10:52, 1:12:52-1:13:18 (the scene of them getting destroyed), 1:38:45-1:45:57
That's about 18 minutes where Patlabors actually mattered. During the course of the entire rest of the movie was spent on the aspects of the military cabal hiding in the shadows. Unlike Patlabor 1, the plot did not revolve or involve the labors in any shape or form. The only relevance this had on anything was that Goto was main character in all this while it happened, and we barely got to see the rest of the crew, which was the five minutes after the opening credits and the action scene at the beginning. At least in the OVA, everyone got something to do, but here they all got shoved into the background. I loved it when Ohta commandeered the training labor at the military academy and used that machine gun from the military to resist, but missed nearly every shot.
Juan Williams
The point of it all is that Patlabor is a series that revolves around
A the police
and
B the Patlabor
Goto was removed from the police station for nearly every scene and the girl who cannot stop cucking him. Everything was about the JSDF. Not partially with some whacky rogue patlabor, no just political maneuvering by some nobody that no one's heard of before.
Police are involved only at the climax when the writer remembered that this is a dime pulp about secret organizations in Japan, but based on a fucking show with an actual cast
Patlabor Movie 1 did it best. There was a seroius tone. Mystery suspence. Police crew investigating. AND FUCKING PATLABORS.
So if you want to watch something GitS-like. Then fucking watch GitS
Gavin Clark
A new one is in development but there's no known info about it. For all we know it might have the same main cast that one short from a year or so back had (basically gender-swapped Noa, Asuma and Goto)
Landon Flores
I feel like the TV series helped me appreciate the movies more if anything, 90% of the characterisation comes from the TV series
Jaxson Baker
Also
Samuel Hughes
youtu.be
Unironically kino, never get tired of watching this
Cameron Thompson
Everyone watched the The New OVA (aka 2nd season) right?
Chase Harris
Apparently it was the other way around in the manga (that still has no english scans last I checked)? As in Kumagami was the one who was there from the start with Kanuka coming in later
>oddly paced
It's just an episodic slice-of-life, it's about as "oddly paced" as The Simpsons is. I can get not caring for it but that's the weirdest complaint I've ever seen anyone make about it.
Noah Campbell
It was phenominal with the exception of the sea monster. Really felt out of place for the whole thing in relation to the movies, but felt alright if you consider only the TV show. Loved the spooky episode.
Jose Collins
I thought the movies were both great but I couldn't stand the first episode of early days, is it still worth giving another shot?
Alexander Jenkins
Of course.
Cooper Bennett
odd pacing in each individual episode, from scene to scene. not the pacing of the series as a whole.
Evan Lopez
Which makes no sense. Every other Patlabor feels like it takes place in a post-modern Japan.
Patlabor 2 feels like it takes place in a dystopian future Hong Kong during wartime.
Michael Roberts
What was up with Patlabor Reboot?
They put out one seven-minute teaser episode and then did nothing else with it?
Carson Jenkins
Might be a teaser for that new series that's supposed to be coming out next year.
Liam Morales
That's understandable. All that episode was for was to establish character. If you've already watched the TV show, you-
Wait did you say you quit on the OVA? Like you watched the movies, but not the shows first? Why would you do that?
Some episodes were definitely better then others. It happens.
Colton Hall
I still remember the porn ban episode pretty vividly. The humor was pretty hit-or-miss but when it did hit it was way funnier than most comedy anime. Should give this a rewatch one of these days.
Xavier Scott
How similar is Astral Chain to this? I know nothing about that game beyond how people are describing it
Lincoln Roberts
Not even remotely. Patlabor is basically as real life as it gets with the occasional robot squabble.
Thomas Baker
Nothing aside from being about the futuristic cops
Benjamin Green
Really? Because when I check my torrents I downloaded it 1013 days and 12 hours ago now and my RSS downloader hasn't seen any activity since. I thought I was getting a new Patlabor series and I've been waiting around ever since.
Colton Lee
Cutest Labor
Isaiah Lewis
Kayden Kelly
A new series was announced a while after that short came out, they haven't shown anything about this new series though aside from it having a 2020 release date.
James Nelson
>good Patlabor thread
>on /v
Adam Brown
You better not be getting my hopes up for nothing.
Chase Taylor
Astral Chain is closer to GitS than Patlabor
Noah Davis
Why bother having hope? It's probably going to be decently written, but lack the talent in directing and animating the show
Connor Hall
Soon.
Grayson Moore
Google "Patlabor EZY"
Connor Russell
I mean I watched the movies without watching the show and I still thought they were both really good 8.5/10's
Jaxon Lopez
I miss having a good giant robot series to watch every week. My only options now are digging up old stuff that I havent watched yet.
Gavin Ortiz
I've got a bad feeling stuff like this and sex robots will happen right outside our lifespans/the current generation
Elijah Stewart
I didn't even notice I wasn't on Yea Forums
Julian Perry
So basically, you went into it with your own ideas on what is and isn't a "true Patlabor film"? And you were upset that it got taken in a completely different direction, even though that's what Mamoru Oshii is known for?
And you were pissed off because there wasn't enough mecha, even though you also like how the series diverges from the mecha action to show the characters.
And you think that Patlabor is about "the police" and "the patlabors," and not about the way in which these two elements are part of a larger setting that's used to showcase a variety of issues that are prevalent in Japan at the time. Or did you really think Patlabor is just a simple series about cops in giant robots?
Did you just forget about the last episode of the OVA, which was literally the basis for the second film?
Like I'll admit the film isn't perfect. There isn't any characterization at all and almost all of it is exposition. I first watched it after I saw the first film without seeing anything else and I couldn't follow a single thing that was going on. I wouldn't recommend someone watch the film until they've seen everything else and got to know the characters, because the film is entirely focused on plot.
Kazunori Ito and Mamoru Oshii made P2 because they wanted to create a story that spoke to people about how they viewed Japan at the time. They weren't concerned about petty shit like what makes something a "true Patlabor film." Oshii in particular has stated that his goal is to make a film that no one has ever seen before. If they made just went with the same style as the first film again it would be going against how he works as an artist.
The film is obviously very different from everything else in the series. And it obviously has it's flaws. But I think it's best enjoyed for what it is. You're free to watch films in your autistic manner, but don't try to tell others that they have to do it like you.
Jaxon Bennett
never knew Yea Forums had actually good taste in anime
Caleb Lee
I knew I wasn't on Yea Forums because people were actually discussing a good old show instead of fawning over waifus and sexualised little girls.
Jeremiah Reed
Last two times I tried making a patlabor thread on Yea Forums I got like 4 replies
Kayden Miller
They have quality, no doubt. Even non-noncommittally, you'd have that, but both movies don't share the same tone of the show.
They're more character driven, while the movies were more plot driven. And by character driven, I mean almost entirely the show is about
>fun cops doing fun things and there are robots more than half the time
It has a lot of soul in it's characters and comedy, and only ever lightly do things start building up.
If it doesn't sound appealing to you, you're better off skipping the show and OVA, though the OVA did have a great three parter at the end, so maybe it might be worth watching the OVA's and skipping episode 3
Eli Hernandez
>My only options now are digging up old stuff that I haven't watched yet.
Wait until you get to the point where I'm at, when you've already watched everything above a 6 and now if you want to want robots you've got to wade through all the obscure (for a reason), untranslated (for a reason), and generally mediocre to bad shit.
Logan Bennett
Well maybe in another 5 years Dragonar will finally be finished
Oliver Murphy
>Mamoru Oshii
Why the fuck would I watch a movie that has more to do with the style of the director than what the story was based on
>Did you just forget about the last episode of the OVA, which was literally the basis for the second film?
And they did better in the show to the point where the entirety of the movie is moot. Better characterization, better action, better exposition. But you know what they didn't have? Fish eye lens. That's what I wanted so god damn bad in my police dramas.
>Oshii in particular has stated that his goal is to make a film that no one has ever seen before.
Well then maybe instead of making boring movies, he should write a fucking book. If your objective in a medium is to transcend a message that really says something about society, you can rise up, but the anime medium isn't a product to set your moral quandaries in, if it cannot at least be good enough to watch.
>But I think it's best enjoyed for what it is.
An anime where all people do is talk? Read a fucking book, dipshit. You probably almost qualify for it if you watched in subs.
Adam Phillips
It's all about timing. Try close to the dead hours. Like right before so you can get a small boost and then coast into night, where randoms might drop in.
Weekends also help, especially for older stuff, which is similar to how older games get hosts during the weekend. Then again this is all for Yea Forums, haven't been to Yea Forums in a long time.
Lincoln Jenkins
play Super Mecha Battle
get it on bluestacks
William Wood
Should I watch the series or the movie first?
David Nguyen
OVA1->Movies
TV->OVA2
Robert Green
Series obviously
If you don't have the patience for it though the movies are perfectly watchable standalone even if some of the character interactions would obviously have more impact with more context
Daniel Cox
>Why the fuck would I watch a movie that has more to do with the style of the director than what the story was based on
Why not? There's more than one reason to watch a film dude. And there's more than one person who made the film in the first place. His influence on the project is just one large element of the production.
>And they did better in the show to the point where the entirety of the movie is moot.
They really didn't. A simple finale to an OVA where the main character gets over their own personal attachment to a giant robot whilst the bad guy stages a military coup on the capital is much less interesting than a thematically relevant political thriller about a former secret conspirator turned radical terrorist who creates a panic under the guise of a coup that results in a lockdown and martial law in order to protect the unjust peaceful status quo. At least for me it is.
>Well then maybe instead of making boring movies, he should write a fucking book
Oshii has written novels but that's not really the point. His forte is as a filmmaker and director, and that's where he exceeds. Provided he's working with a talented screenwriter as well.
>the anime medium isn't a product to set your moral quandaries in, if it cannot at least be good enough to watch.
I don't really know where you're going with this because we are talking about a film that is good enough to watch. And anime is full of "moral quandaries" of the people who make them, among many other things.
>An anime where all people do is talk? Read a fucking book, dipshit.
Again where are you going with this? Did we watch two different films? And the "read a book" argument? Really? Enjoying films doesn't exclude me from also reading, but that's a different topic entirely.
To be honest at this point it's obviously fruitless to keep discussing this further since you've already resorted to lame bad faith arguments, so I'll stop responding. Have fun being mad I guess?
Anthony Fisher
>Oshii in particular has stated that his goal is to make a film that no one has ever seen before.
If he wanted to make something so wildly unique then he shouldn't have chosen to make a sequel in an established franchise.
Levi Clark
Holy shit you are such a pleb,have sex.
Jace Carter
Production of Patlabor the Movie 2 started after Kazunori Ito was appointed as the scriptwriter for the upcoming movie back in the early 1990s. It wasn't up to Oshii.
Sebastian Watson
yes, established IPs should never ever be used as a launching pad for something different from their original tone
Robert Williams
Sometimes I feel like i’m the only incompetent member of your team
Nolan Miller
It's a lost art with character design.
Colton Wilson
How does one get into patlabor? Where to start?
Luis Ross
watch the TV series, then watch the movies.
Anthony Cooper
Watch the OVAs and the first two movies,first try the TV series to get aquited with the characters a bit and if you find it boring drop it and just go OVA->movies 1,2.
Ryan Edwards
Pretty much every game
Brayden Richardson
Early Days OVA, then the first two films, then the TV series and the second OVA right afterwards.
James Davis
Patlabor movies 1 and 2 are genuine kino. Pure masterpieces.
Patlabor TV series is a boring as fuck slog which is literally of no value.
Go ahead and zoomer meme all you want, this is the correct opinion.
Ryder Hernandez
Sorry but you're an SJW now if you don't want everything to be waifushit.
Personally I love spending hundreds of dollars on gatcha games to own the libs.
Julian Richardson
what a retarded way of making sense of the world
Elijah Long
Fuck off feminazi. You can't shame people into not being straight, so just stop trying.
Liam Reyes
>Patlabor movies 1 and 2 are genuine kino. Pure masterpieces.
Just the first one. Second movie is nothing special.
Jason White
you're unironically more retarded than the people you seem to hate so much
Thomas Green
>Go ahead and zoomer meme all you want, this is the correct opinion.
Why are you people so obsessed with needing everyone to fit your hivemind nowadays? Posts like these aren't even trying to discuss anything either before someone tries to pretend that's what it is, it's just non-descript asshurt over people liking what they dislike and vice versa
Chase Perez
not him but thats already been used as an "argument" in this thread multiple times
Blake Thompson
Kid show kidnapping episode was kino.
Carter Rodriguez
The reason why gangweed was so effective is all you had to do to make faggots who fume about women all day sound stupid was repeat their own opinions back to them but with a picture of the joker attached.
Caleb Bennett
I watched the OVA and the films. I love the characters so much but is it my impression that the TV show is similar to the OVA with just episodic self contained episodes? I don't really like that formula, I prefer a story building towards a long narrative arc.
Both movies are fucking flawless though.
Benjamin Robinson
>Oshii in particular has stated that his goal is to make a film that no one has ever seen before.
It's shame he's usually only capable of rehashing the same story over and over again then.
Anthony Moore
2 is the most boring thing ever animated and put to film.
Jayden Clark
What that user is actually trying to say is he wanted to use the zoomer argument but was annoyed he was inb4'd
Nobody has a halfway decent argument to make in defense of the show which is why the thread is full of morons using "zoomer" instead of actual points.
Jayden Garcia
Shitty team members always feel like that
Owen Roberts
The original Ghost in the Shell manga did what the Patlabor TV show attempted to do better imo. Although the setting is slightly different I suppose.
Nathan Campbell
>dude lets make the manlet LITERALLY Vegeta
how did they get away with that?
Carson Stewart
>What that user is actually trying to say is he wanted to use the zoomer argument
That wasn't what I was saying at all.
Kayden Sanchez
he has a short temper totally Vegeta
Watch more than 2 tv shows in your life, FFS
Nolan Wood
It's more likely he's annoyed by the term "correct opinion". The idea of a "correct opinion" comes from the minds of irritable spergs.
Ayden Jackson
The second movie is a slow burner, I can't really blame anyone if you didn't like it. If you watched in the wrong mood or expectations it's very easy to perceive it as boring.
There's also a lot of subtext and themes that are very local to japanese politics, it also completely went over my head when I watched it at first. If you're curious about it:
youtube.com
Ethan Adams
True.
But it really was the correct opinion.
Jason Martin
Instead of samefagging you could just ask me to breakdown my post into babymode retardspeak if you're having trouble understanding what I said you know.
Charles Wright
Yep, an irritable sperg. Seek sunlight.
Isaiah Cooper
That's not why people dislike it though. Most of Oshii's works are slow burners, and a lot of his works also share all the same themes it had since in general the guy doesn't have much else to say despite all his output.
Evan Brooks
sup /m/
Zachary Howard
cool animation, but how the hell does:
>that chopper have so many bullets
>that 'mecha' armor not withstand the damage
like why bother making a big mecha suit when you can just use a chopper to fuck shit up?
Elijah Rivera
The mechs in Patlabor are just construction equipment.
Cooper Sanders
Why would you say people don't like it then? I always assumed it was the slow burner aspect. Sure stuff like Angel's Egg is very very slow, but I think people«s expectations are properly aligned when going to watch it. As with Patlabor 2 I think people expect a very Action oriented Film, while it's mostly politics and people talking.
Gabriel White
GitS in general is a superior franchise. Patlabor's fine for what it is but because it gets overshadowed it attracts more up-their-own-ass contrarian types.
Not only has almost everything Oshii ever made featured heavy political subtext, the mecha/sci-fi genre in general used to be the go-to genre for narratives like this.
Evan Baker
They're not military grade
Carter Baker
Literally ever annoying shitter in the world think they're the competent member of the team
Nicholas Nelson
o...
Joshua Cruz
>Why would you say people don't like it then?
Because it's pretty dull? Most of Oshii's other works feature the same themes and are also pretty slow (dunno why you mentioned Angel's Egg as that's one of the only ones that's somewhat different to his usual output) and manage to be way more interesting. Nothing to do with expecting loads of action either, the first movie only had a total 10-15 minutes of action in it towards the end.
I'm going to assume you irrationally waifufag Shinobu like Oshii himself does if you think Movie 2 is this amazing, because I can't imagine why else someone would like it.
Joseph Garcia
Why turn a mostly light-hearted Police Academy-type show into some navel gazey political drama, though? That's kind of missing the point.
Oliver King
>best shot on the team
>never hits anything
Oota needs to get fired
Kayden Lee
>because I can't imagine why else someone would like it
Because of Oshii. He's like David Lynch for weebs. They like anything he touches and anyone who doesn't appreciate him is a pleb.
Evan Thompson
The concept is flexible enough that it can exist in different formats imo
Colton Bailey
He's a fucking idiot. The cop, I mean. Not the guy.
Angel King
How so?
Logan Gomez
I imagine shut-ins neets would find the TV show sort of alien, with it's focus on character interaction/camaraderie and workplace bureaucracy. Wacky conspiracies where everyone is out to get them like what the movies dabble in are probably more palatable to those sorts of people.
Owen Butler
>the guy doesn't have much else to say despite all his output
And what is Patlabor 2 saying that you feel he already said in his other work?
Benjamin Rogers
> dunno why you mentioned Angel's Egg
I was mentioning it to the fact that it's his most slow-burner movie as an example.
> Because it's pretty dull?
That doesn't really answer the question. I'm not trying to like tell you have to like the movie or anything, I was just curious what particular aspects of the movie turned people off. I postulated it was because of the slowburner nature of it, you're saying that's not the reason and countered that it's because it's dull, but that's hardly an answer with any substance, but fine if you don't want to talk anymore about it.
> I'm going to assume you irrationally waifufag Shinobu like Oshii himself
Man what are you even talking about. If I wanted to jack off I'd watch some porn, who honestly cares about this waifu shit non-ironically, this bullshit is consuming modern anime, why would I care for it.
James Barnes
>like why bother making a big mecha suit when you can just use a chopper to fuck shit up?
They're basically big policemen suits, and most criminals don't have military helicopters
Michael Lee
Fuck You!
Nolan Morgan
But the whole premise of the original OVA was the police training shtick and all the humor that came with it.
Aiden Evans
>genuinely trying to spin shit like "the movies are for weebs and the TV show is for cool alpha guys with big dicks"
lmao
Oliver Davis
You have to be a turbo weeb to like either one user, it's an anime from several decades ago.
Jordan Diaz
>not being a shut-in = cool alpha guy with big dick
I thought Yea Forums was supposed to be better at discussing anime than Yea Forums was
it's impossible to talk about anything there because they can only talk in retarded extremes
Wyatt Stewart
I know, that user is a retard who can't imagine defending the TV by talking about its merits and can only string buzzwords together and hope others somehow feel shamed into sharing their opinion.
Which I guess is every single post on Yea Forums these days.
Angel Gutierrez
Think about it.
Alexander Allen
>it's impossible to talk about anything there because they can only talk in retarded extremes
Are you genuinely trying to pretend you're trying to get more thoughtful and insightful discussion going here by claiming the Patlabor movies are for shut-ins and the TV show is for outgoing people who love bureaucracy? (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean)
Liam Jones
I disliked Patlabor 2 and it wasn't due to expecting anything action oriented, as no other Patlabor media is action oriented.
I was expecting something that felt like it took place in the same universe as the other installments, with the same characters. A story revolving around a mechanised police squad operating in postmodern Tokyo
Instead it was a cold war style political thriller where the majority of the cast where relegated to background characters in a world that bears no resemblance to the other Patlabor installments.
Some people love it because it's a departure from the rest of the series, some hate it for that reason. I don't think that can be reconciled.
Ryder Collins
I'm that user and I didn't use a single buzzword in my post, if you feel I did then point them out please. A shut-in neet, which a lot of anime fans are whether you like it or not, would most likely find a lot of what the TV show is about to be completely alien. Whereas big political conspiracies where everyone is out to get them would be way more palatable to them. Also no it has nothing to do with "cool alpha guys" you insecure retard.
Michael Hughes
This. I wanted to see the same thing I'd seen before. If I don't see the anime archetypes doing the one thing they do over and over again I get bored.
Luis Flores
This seems like a pretty fair assessment
Camden Nguyen
You explain yourself fag
Asher Sanchez
Yea Forums is better at discussing anime than Yea Forums
The Patlabor movies are for shut-ins and neets
Lucas Clark
I took a media production course in high school and ended up paired up with the laziest mother fucker in the school
It wasn't so bad the second year though since we ended up with the only teacher in the entire school he couldn't charm into not realizing how poor a student he was. In hindsight I should have taken history instead.
Jaxson Williams
Anyone actually played any of the video games?
Anything good?
Jacob Barnes
This. You know what sucked about Red Dead Redemption 2? It was a fucking western shooter. Just like the first game.
The plebs ate it up but true patricians like me know it should have been an RTS or flight sim to be original and subvert expectations.
Andrew Walker
Opposite.
I often feel like I'm holding everyone else back.
Mason Smith
Are you incapable of replying to a post without completely twisting it into something else? I'm not that desperate for a mindless argument with you man
>the Patlabor movies are for shut-ins
>the TV show is for outgoing people who love bureaucracy? (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean)
All I said that what the TV show is about would probably be alien to them compared to what the movies are about. Different sorts of people have difference preferences you know?
Angel Thomas
You can bet your ass they are jap only, kyodai
Levi Wright
I agree with everything you said and I still love Patlabor 2 because despite all that its still an excellent movie. Now with Patlabor 3 all of that applies on top of it being a mediocre film, which is why I dislike it.
Landon Sanchez
A guy I used to play games online with constantly had this attitude. Genuinely believed they were doing ALL the work. They would be at the bottom or near the bottom of the scoreboard after every game and regardless of if we won or lost he'd say everyone else was an idiot.
I think most people with this mindset are furious everyone isn't doing what they think they SHOULD be doing at all times. Even though others are doing just fine. They are megalomaniacs or autistic or both. And every time I see people here complaining about it I remember my idiot friend who scored the worst in every game but somehow managed to maintain the delusion that they were the only person who had a clue.
Anthony Evans
>start a patlabor thread on Yea Forums
>on fucking patlabor day
>a handful of replies
>Yea Forums gets an excellent patlabor thread
Why are off topic threads always the best? This applies to all boards.
Dominic Myers
This. I can't imagine being so retarded that you'd have any opinion other than this one.
Lucas Collins
Sebastian Adams
/v is the real /b
Sebastian Allen
every time i play single player games with a party system where i as a player cant control the party
Grayson Price
Because Yea Forums is shit overall. I'm a fucking weeb, have been in Yea Forums since 2004 and I still haven't used that fucking shitshow of a place.
Dominic Sullivan
>posting wacky conspiracy story shit for shut-ins and neets
Yawn. Don't you have any workplace bureaucracy kino?
Adam Cox
There were 30 mecha anime that aired in 2018 alone.
There's some toku that's still popular like Kamen Rider.
Last year had Gridman which was a really popular anime adaption of an old toku/mecha series
This season has Granbelm, which looks weird at first (chibi mecha piloted by magical girls) but the directors and producers hate the state of modern mecha so it's a hotblooded 2D super robot series.
There's also Symphogear which final season's airing and it's literally a fanservice to toku and ancient shounen.
Andrew Hughes
Have you tried /m/
Tyler Scott
Because it's a novelty and a topic hasn't been discussed to death on a different topic's board.
William Parker
I feel like with a new cast also should come a new setting.
Brody Howard
Patlabor's been discussed to death on Yea Forums that all the people who would discuss it would rather not because they do it every year.
Grayson Garcia
Thread was only good for the first half because retards like this guy weren't up yet
Luke Morales
What's your problem?
Henry Reyes
Whats yours? And I was referring to the linked poster and not whoever he was trying to troll
Anthony Stewart
>been meaning to watch patlabor for awhile now
>keep getting into other shows and constantly putting it off
>have pretty much everything from initial d downloaded and currently i'm watching through symphogear
Logan Sanchez
He's a shut-in neet who likes wacky conspiracy stories instead of workplace bureaucracy.
David James
I'm more about TV than OVA1 but 'you did it' is still one of the best moments in the franchise.
Leo Morgan
I will try them next year.
Jeremiah Edwards
As everyone has already said, the Patlabor series is very boring. Nobody contests this. (They say zoomer but have no argument beyond that)
Patlabor movies 1 and 2 are great though.
Wyatt Kelly
Wasn't the film Headgear's last entry in the series? And it was set three years after the events of the first film, where the characters had to clean up other people's mess in an only somewhat official operation to destroy the Ark. It makes sense that Division 2 got broken up with the characters either taking new jobs or retiring, not just because of the events of the last film but to show that time moves on and good things come to an end. The lack of characterization in the film is definitely it's biggest flaw, but I would also argue that given the themes and scale of the plot there wasn't really much choice out of the main cast apart from Goto and Shinobu. This is something that was improved on in Ghost in the Shell, but even then most of the action focused on Motoko, Batou and Togusa. Also Kazunori Ito is arguably the true genius behind Patlabor/GITS, not Oshii.
Jace Reyes
Are there any good Patlabor artbooks?
Michael Martin
The entire point of mecha in Patlabor is that they're not at all practical for 'traditional' mecha stuff. Even military labors are pretty lightweight but these civilian use ones? Their armor isn't even metal, it's mainly carbon fibre and plastic.
Colton Bennett
>TV show is for outgoing people who love bureaucracy? (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean)
Are you pretending o be retarded?
He's saying people who have held a job and thus experienced workplace bureaucracy, ya NEET dicklet.
Jeremiah Wood
If you're a shut-in neet you will find the TV show sort of alien, with it's focus on character interaction/camaraderie and workplace bureaucracy. Wacky conspiracies where everyone is out to get them like what the movies dabble in are probably more palatable to people like you.
Caleb Perry
It's not at all what you're talking about. There's a subset of 'intellectual' Oshii fans who get offended at stories having any sort of humor element in it. Sounds retarded but it's the truth, and that's all it is in this case. It sort of used to be the case with Ghost in the Shell which has been mentioned a few times in this thread too, although after the shitheaps that were Arise and more notably the Hollywood adaptation a lot of those types of fans disappeared, I guess they're only in it if it's "hip" to like the series.
Jaxson Carter
harsh truths right here.
Ian Thomas
Patlabor looks really interesting, seems to two movies and an anime, were would you start?
Matthew Thomas
Start with the early days OVA.
Jordan Lewis
TV show is a slice-of-life comedy, if you've seen any of the Police Academy movies before it's like that as an anime basically
OVAs/Movies are more serious thrillers
both are pretty self-contained, watch whatever appeals to you
Gabriel Morgan
Considering I'm the ONLY one on my team...yes.
Jacob Reed
She's got that "I'm going to grow a dick and rape you" 80s hentai look.
Jaxson Watson
Watch two episodes of the anime and then drop it out of boredom then enjoy the films.
Jacob Sanders
OVA then movies then TV show
Tyler Sanders
Watch two minutes of the films then drop it out of boredom and enjoy the OVA.
Nathaniel Barnes
Matthew Martin
Fafner's apparently one of the hugest modern mecha series in Japan currently
Nathan Green
Nice, thank you, I'll probably give the films a watch
Adam Robinson
There are two continuities. The first OVAs that lead into the movies and the TV series that lead into the second OVAs. Either is fine to start with.
Nathaniel Murphy
Are you serious? I've actually downloaded something from that franchise thinking its some obscure eva "ripoff", never really seen it discussed
Charles Thompson
what a stupid mech design
Jack Wood
Whats stupid about it?
Joseph Nguyen
Literally me
Jose Evans
>mecha
Gundam's still trucking. Code Geass is immensely popular too. Also one off shows like Darling in the Franxx or Gridman seem pretty popular.
>toku
Kamen Rider's plenty popular, Sentai is on life support though. There's also Garo I guess that still gets stuff every now and then but that's always mainly existed as a pachinko thing.
Samuel Thomas
There's no "smart" mecha design to begin with, it's whatever looks cooler
Thomas Walker
The TV show is a loose adaption of the manga. It's got a few two-part episodes and a couple of longer background arcs, particularly towards the end and into OVA2. For my money it's better written than OVA1 too. Much better characterization, thanks to how long a time it has to flesh them out and grow them over.
Evan Clark
It's extremely unpopular in the West but it's really popular in Japan.
The first season is an Eva ripoff but everything afterwards is argaubly the best mecha series of the current century so far
/m/ loves it but you won't see it talked about much anywhere else on the English side of the internet.
Brody Flores
nobody has ever done this
Sebastian Sanchez
based
cringe
David Thomas
If you're a shut-in neet you will find the TV show sort of alien, with it's focus on character interaction/camaraderie and workplace bureaucracy. Wacky conspiracies where everyone is out to get them like what the movies dabble in are probably more palatable to people like you.
Xavier Campbell
Not that user, but I am too was never been a fan of the patlabor's mech. The pilot is too exposed and unprotect relative to its size. Even VOTOM does a better job and the scope dogs are twice as small.
James Mitchell
Can we talk about how awful Patlabor 2 is and completely throws away character development and steps on the campy spirit of the series?
Juan Reed
"Fafner of the blue Sky" is the one I torrented. I genuinely didn't know it had a following in japan.
The west seems way more harsh on eva clones for some reason, I personally really enjoy them, RahXephon and Argento Soma were both awesome shows. Had put this one on the backburner but knowing that I might pick it up later
Joshua Bailey
I really enjoy how the Helldiver is at its core just an Ingram but with hardpoints replacing handheld weapons. Kind of sells the idea that SHI doesn't need to reinvent the wheel when it already has a perfectly good high performance platform to work with.
Kayden Scott
This is all correct but it's still a great film. Maybe it would be better for it if it was a completely new IP. But it's still a good film nonetheless.
Camden Bailey
Your autism is unironically lending credence to that guy's shitpost. Have sex.
Evan Flores
>By the way, we all agree the episode revolving around Chinese takeout was the best, right?
We'll have to agree in disagreeing.
This guy comes and slaps your labor in the ass. What do you do?
Joseph Rodriguez
Movie #2's fine for what it is but apparently Shinobu is Oshii's self-insert which paints a really bizarre picture of him considering what Shinobu's story is in that movie.
Kevin White
The Oshii fanboys are going to swarm.
William Anderson
Guys I'm sorry I didn't intend for someone to turn my post into a shitpost
David Ward
Patlabor 2 is pretty much the definition of 'it's a good game, but not a good [franchise] game'. It's a great political thriller and has some interesting things to say, particularly about domestic Japanese politics and the cultural understanding of the US-written constitution.
But I also don't think it gains much, if anything at all, from hanging its hat on the Patlabor IP other than not needing to establish its cast in its runtime. It's far from a bad film, but I still don't know what to make of it. WXIII is the same thing again, but also not a great film even on its own merits.
Kevin Kelly
Patlabor takes place in the late 90's not in a science fantasy in outer space. They still use crt monitors in the mechs in Patlabor.
Julian Bailey
Yeah, you have to watch it all in order since it's one story. Check out pic related for a watchorder.
It's a bit outdated since there's a new set of movies now too (that are being reworked into a TV series.
Jack Hall
>character development
>in anime
lol
I think it's a shame the characters don't get more screentime but lets not kid ourselves here
Jace Harris
I think you're misunderstanding the intent behind them, then. Labors, particularly the ones we see most frequently, aren't some cutting edge military god of the battlefield. They're forklifts with legs.
Andrew Wood
>The pilot is too exposed
Kinda like driving a forklift, as that's pretty much what the mechs are in Patlabor.
Liam Young
Any second now
Isaiah Wright
Ah sweet, thanks. I've already made the mistake of downloading the second season before the first so thats handy.
And good to know it has a following, it helps to have some more confidence in it before diving in, more obscure shows like this usually need a bit of time investment before getting good.
Hunter Torres
You didn't watch the first movie, did you?
Robert Thompson
>usually need a bit of time investment before getting good.
The first season isn't bad by any means but there's a huge change in writing quality at episode 12, when they switch to a better writer who's been with the series ever since. He turned the series from another average Eva clone into something really cool.
Blake Butler
98 Zoomer and I like mecha
Started watching Gundam in 2012 with 0079 and loved it, watched the rest of UC from there and other shows like Patlabor and Votoms.
Don't care about toku.
I want Armored Core 6
Nicholas Sanchez
What's your favorite mech design from any of the mecha you watched so far?
Bentley Sanchez
Not him but I'm also a 98fag and my favorite mecha design is Gaogaigar.
Nicholas Long
Are you me? Every single thing you said is true to how I got into mecha and I was born in 98 as well
Uncanny
William Hill
Lincoln Johnson
dominion tank police > patlabor
leona > noa
Charles Cook
>ps4 2017
What the fuck?
Landon Perry
What was up with the weird architecture in dominion? It was like all the buildings had fungi inspired facades. It was very strange.
The second one made the whole world look like it was the factory at the end of Robocop.
Thomas Jenkins
It's the Disaster Report spin-off featuring Ultraman, Godzila, Eva, Gamera, and Labors.
Bentley Perez
I hate the second OVA because it ruined a lot of the charm and uniqueness of the first OVA's setting. The second OVA is a reboot/original story
Apparently the first OVA followed the original manga that explains why the world is some weird biopunk cyberpunk setting but I never read the manga so I don't know.
First OVA really felt like that beyond the silly police setting, there was some serious world altering sci-fi shenanigans happening in the background.
Second OVA felt like a shitty Patlabor clone which is ironic considering Patlabor is a clone of the first OVA/manga. Makes me mad it was a reboot because the story was getting good too.