Patlabor the Mobile Police (TV)

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©1989 Headgear/Emotion/TFC.

[ alternate retelling of Patlabor The Mobile Police (OAV 1/1988) ]

Related anime:
Patlabor The Mobile Police: The New Files (OAV 2/1990) (sequel)

Alternative title:

Kidō Keisatsu Patlabor (Japanese)

Mobile Police Patlabor

Patlabor: La Policía Móvil (Spanish)

Patlabor: Policia Especial (Spanish)

機動警察パトレイバー (Japanese)

Genres: action, comedy, science fiction

Themes: mecha, police, real robot

Objectionable content: Mild

Plot Summary: In the future, advanced robotics has created heavy robots ("labors") for use in a variety of functions: construction, fire-fighting, military, and more. However, though the robots are only machines, their operators are also only human—and humans sometimes turn to crime. Since a heavy labor unit can be a dangerous weapon, the police of the future are set to fight fire with fire, using advanced patrol labor units, "patlabors". This is the story of the Second Special Vehicles Division, a motley crew of patlabor policemen and -women doing their best to fight crime and live a normal life.

User Ratings: 451 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 31 votes (sub:22, dub:3, raw:3, others:3

1 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Portuguese dubbed

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Excellent: 90 votes (sub:59, dub:21, raw:1, others:9

3 Spanish dubbed
3 Portuguese dubbed
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian dubbed

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Very good: 125 votes (sub:78, dub:30, ?:4, raw:3, edit.dub:2, others:8

6 Spanish dubbed
2 Portuguese dubbed

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Good: 107 votes (sub:53, dub:44, raw:2, ?:2, others:6

2 Spanish dubbed
1 Italian edited dub
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese dubbed

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Decent: 45 votes (sub:24, dub:16, ?:1, others:4

3 Spanish dubbed
1 French dubbed

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So-so: 24 votes (dub:10, sub:9, ?:1, raw:1, edit.dub:1, others:2

1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed

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Not really good: 7 votes (sub:5, dub:1, others:1

1 Indonesian dubbed

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Weak: 15 votes (sub:8, dub:6, raw:1)

Bad: 5 votes (dub:3, sub:2)

Awful: 1 vote (dub:1)

Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)

Seen in part or in whole by 1125 users, rank: #868 (of 5579)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.412 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.7245, rank: #1351 (of 5568)
Weighted mean: 7.376 (Good+), rank: #1280 (of 5568) (seen all: 7.79 / seen some: 6.84 / won't finish: 4.93)
Bayesian estimate: 7.380 (Good+), rank: #1054 (of 4186)

Running time: half hour per episode

Number of episodes: 47

Episode titles: We have 47

Vintage: 1989-10-11 to 1990-09-26

Opening Theme:

"Patlabor" by Bernard Minet

#1: "Sono mama no Kimi de Ite" (そのままの君でいて) by Yuuko Nitou (eps 1-34)

#2: "Condition Green—Kinkyū Hasshin" (コンディション・グリーン～緊急発進～; "Condition Green—Emergency Launch") by Hiroko Kasahara (eps 35-47)

Ending Theme:

#1: "Midnight Blue" (ミッドナイトブルー) by KISSME QUICK (eps 1-34)

#2: "Paradise no Kakuritsu" (パラダイスの確率) by JA-JA (eps 35-47)

Trivia: We have 5