The Most Realistic Mecha Anime
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- A review, A retrospective, a rambling, and a love-letter to my favorite anime series of all time: Mobile Police Patlabor. I've been working on this one for a very long time, and I hope that you all enjoy it!
For more info on Patlabor:
www.patlabor.i...
I made a patreon!
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Wow you guys loved this one alright, Thank you all so much!!
Videos like this take a lot of time, writing, editing, and research, so I'm glad to see it pop off so hard in the last year. I hope to make more like this and I am currently working on them, but I would very much prefer to do it un-sponsored and without youtube's ad bullshit constantly ruining the experience for everyone. So please feel free to use ad-blocker, I am not getting money from them in anyway.
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I hope you all look forward to more videos in the future! See you all then!
Saw the movies before the series because they were on premium cable channels we had at the time. Man, 90s anime movies have such a good vibe. Those backgrounds.
I'm a simple man. I see Patlabor, I watch the video. Well done!
Right there with you, my childhood mecha show.
So am i
i see [what appears to be a cool retro animation series with great artwork that ive never seen before] i watch the video.
Yessss!!!!! o7
Likewise
I like that you noticed the difference in tone between the movies and the original tv shows. The series was much more light hearted while the movies were done in the style of the director Mamoru Oshii who went on to do Ghost In The Shell. I preferred the tv series much more. Great review and I hope people search for this title and enjoy it. The way we watched anime in the past was to rent vhs tapes from various places and I was lucky to find Patlabor vhs tapes rented out by a comic book store.
Title: Most realistic Mecha
TH-cam: It's Evangelion
There it is, the Patlabor video! The waiting was worth it! I loved it!
Patlabor is so unique in its portrayal of the mechas and soooooo comfy. I am still amazed that they created a franchise where you could put all the characters in every story you want and it just works. The franchise was lightning in a bottle. All those talented people coming together to create something awesome. The whole creation story behind Patlabor is easily as entertaining as the show.
I wanted to add some sidenotes:
Patlabor 3 is based on the manga arc WASTED WXIII which is an extended version of the monster episode from the OVA. Yet in the manga, SV2 is heavily involved in investigating the monster and bringing it down. Plus it integrates itself into the Griffon arc. But all those connections and SV2 were basically cut in the third movie... but I still like the movie. It's at least pretty lol.
The live action show is an entertaining watch. The vibe is like the tv show (some of the stories are even heavily inspired by some episodes) but the last episode and closing movie have big ties with Patlabor 2, so there the tone shifts to be more in line with the movies.
So yeah, thanks for the video!
Comfy?
Short form for comfortable :)
@@boi1133 Yeah, my question is how a mecha anime is comfortable. Not what the word means.
Well Patlabor is more a slice-of-life show where you watch the crew having problems with tooth ache or what they want to eat. Sure there is mecha action and crimes to solve, but that's not the part of the franchise which is in the foreground (well, at least not in the OVA and TV show).
love your profile pic. Mass of the Fermenting Dregs is one of my favorite Japanese bands!!
Patlabor is definitely one of the GOATs next to Gundam, Macross, VOTOMS, and Five Star Stories. The world building and storytelling is genuinely good, and the mecha are more than well worth the price of admission.
I still have all the dvd collection of the patlabor tv series i had when I was a kid. although I completely forgot 99% of the anime, I remember it so fondly that I'd still consider it one of my favourites. I was afraid of rewatching it because maybe it really wasn't that good, but your video made me want to take a deep dive in this forgotten gem
I found out about the Patlabor movies when watching the GITS dvd extras in 2000. They used shots from the opening battle from Patlabor 2, and I knew I had to see these movies.
The score by Kenji Kawai is so wonderful puts the viewer into the right frame of mind. I remember listening to the score on my iPod while taking the limo bus from Narita into Toyko, and it was perfect.
You should do Armoured trooper votoms retrospective next. I think it might be realistic as this
You know. That's not a bad idea.
Votoms comes really close, but still has some lofty scifi ideas. Both are amazing shows tho, man I love mecha
@@parkerpartain5529 Me too, Barricade. Me too.
@@luckyonce Dream of mine is to find a good copy of Live: Noa Izumi, the art book of her as a style study
@@luckyonce it's starship troopers but mecha and instead of aliens, these are humans killing each others. Chirico is literally Riddick, the bastard just hard to die
Damn, I could already tell you're passionate about the craft from the second you presented yourself. This is more well shot than most drama channels that talk about fuck all, this is honestly some good stuff man.
I think if I had a gripe it was the audio editing. I had to change the volume every other scene since your voice overs were sometimes lower than everything and I had to go nearly full volume on my phone. But my attention was held nonetheless :o.
Patlabor is one of my go to mecha anime, other than Dai-Guard and gundam 0080
My favourite episodes are a tossup between the one with the Mossad Spy Dog and the one where Ota becomes Ryan Gosling.
I'm not an anime fan, but listening to the sheer volume of Home during the cuts makes my brain vibrate into something more than happy. Great video man, keep up the great work!
Once school is done at the end of May, I will binge the hell out of any Patlabor Manga/Anime I can find. I just love this series so much because of how different it feels most of the time.
stumbled onto this video, decided to check it out since I never got to see Patlabor but was aware of it.
From your presentation, down to your use of some of my favorite vaporwave hits (mostly from Home) - this was a wonderful watch. Thanks!
With regards to the patlabor EZY project, news has been sparse on the matter but there was a pilot screening in Tokyo for patlabor day IIRC (yes patlabor day is a thing in Japan) and that was it. At least three stills of the anime exist on the open internet. There doesn't really exist much beyond that but who knows.
Yeah I had heard something like that. Like that they were doing pilot tests or something.
@@luckyonce also I think one of my comments got removed because of the use of the F bomb on the channel. Whoops sorry about that. Anyway it was basically me saying patlabor 2 is my favourite and the more darker tone is perhaps better explained by the series coming to an end (at least it was perceived as such at the time, if we take into consideration the last patlabor video media released, to my knowledge anyway, was the drama CD, Patlabor The After Days which is set post anime as the SV2 members move on)
@@jaredgup6537 Yeah I loooooove Patlabor 2. And as mentioned I loved how the franchise portrayed the political climate of the time. You really can see the shift from the bubble economy to the bubble crisis. The live action series also shows that the world abandoned the labors because they feel like a dream from better times...
And yes Patlabor 2 was the closing for the franchise which also contributed to the darker tone. But I thought it was fitting and really heartbraking seeing it after all the other Patlabor media. Really felt like and ending. For me it's with the New Files my favorite entry of the franchise.
A truely underrated series that deserves more love. I'd like to see more stories in this universe, or maybe like a light novel showcasing what happened to the main cast after the end of the series (both OVA and TV) in more detail.
Amusingly I'm one of those fans who loves the TV series despite some of the flaws, and few of it has to do with the writing in my book. A few times due to being on a budget crunch-time TV schedule that some of the action scenes become very 'static moving objects' as opposed to dynamically moving mecha duking it out. Which makes me wish the TV show could get a redo with modern animation but otherwise leave most of what was written intact (aside from any needed updates or improvements to meh concepts). Although sometimes its best to leave a good thing in the past so the modern age doesn't erode it.
Not to say I dislike the OVA's, they are the OG's and I LOVE the first two Patlabor movies, they're among my most re-watch anime films and still hold up thirty years later. The third movie, is the only piece of Patlabor media I am very meh on. I don't hate it, but the absolute near removal of the SV2 crew was a BIG mistake, otherwise it's a nice noir detective piece set in the Patlabor universe, but it barely feels like a Patlabor piece of media until the very end.
My exposure to Patlabor has kind of been all over the place. I first saw the second movie, with the dub by Manga entertainment. Sad to say, I felt like I had come in to the franchise too late, and the movie had this feeling that the party had ended a long time ago, and the movie was cleaning up some time later.
Thankfully, I managed to watch the original OVAs, and a few tapes of the tv series and the new files. Along the way, I managed to get a few issues of the manga when Viz was releasing chapters as monthly comic books.
You covered most of the main cast, but I was kind of disappointed to see that you didn't mention two of my favorite characters from the mechanical crew, the crew chief (aka the Old Man), amd Shigeo (voiced by the incredibly talented Shigeo Chiba), (but you did show clip of him from the Godzilla pastiche episode).
I would have to say that my favorite ovas were the Godzilla and Ultraman parodies, although the one about the mechanics staging a revolution wasn't without its charms.
If the opportunity came up, I would probably watch all of the ovas, the tv series, and the first movie. It's sad to hear that Wxii (which I had read about in the late 90s as something attached to Izubuchi), turned out so bad.
ALPHONSE! I love the OVA, Noa is such a lovable character, and yes, i like Ota too, he is loud, he is obnoxious, he is a gun nut, but he has a good heart, somewhere, probably at home.
Patlabor is amazing and severely underappreciated, especially the OVA, the mecha designs are great, having even some overlap with other franchises.
Sadly today we rarely get good mecha shows, the last one i really like was Knights & Magic.
Though there are mechas, I never thought Patlabor as a mecha genre, but more of a Japanese police drama series. This makes the series easier to transition to live action J-Drama because all the elements are there.
that's how mecha shows work,
most people misunderstand the genre, they think it's some kind of transformers with robots talking and silly stuff, most mecha shows have mechas as a tool, as a plot device, as part of the context or the story, but the whole thing doesn't "focus on robots"
the same thing they always say about evangelion with the " omg this show is about the characters and not the robots" apply to the 100% of mecha shows actually
every mecha anime fan acts like their prized mecha anime is the only one that focuses on the characters and all the other ones are stupid
@@cpte3729 that's the same for anyone that has only seen a single mecha anime
I am standing up and applauding you.
Yo, that first song is from the album “Before The Night” by “HOME”. The song is “We’re Finally Landing”.
Great video, turned me onto a show I had no idea existed, and I'm someone who searches out mecha anime. Will definitely be checking this one out, and looking out for more of your content.
FINALLY! Somebody whose knowledge of mecha doesn't just boil down to "uhh it's Eva... I guess" and then ratting off tons of misinformation or vague guesses about the genre.
I'm not that big on the realism but Patlabor is great and a must-watch. Also, Noa is a treat for every Tomboy lover.
Great video, great soundtrack (hat tip to you sir)... subscribed!
Super great vid man, I can't wait to watch Patlabor for the first time ever now!!
Finally. Tons of trash I've went through to get to this gem is behind me. It took a damn week to find something I genuinely interested to watch. It's harder and harder each time, but it was worth it. Damn great vid, keep em up.
well the guys behind the anime actually know their craft i guess. i mean: the same folks might have actually worked on the ghost in the shell tv series and in the second episode of season one right at the start you can see a HAW 204 and the follow up model HAW 206 mech tanks. and the HAW 204 uses caterpillar tracks that are build into the legs to walk and drive while also being a plausible design.
I just recently rewatched both Patlabor 1 and 2 and god are they beautiful. There's just something about that 80-90's aesthetic style that just pulls me in a way more recent anime cant
i love patlabor so much!
wow that was awesome. I love me some Patlabor
Love patlabor and love the music you used in this video! Can you list the songs you used.
cant believe this isnt a massive video from a massive channel the quality is insane
This is a series I have a lot of love for, so I really tried to hone my skills so it would come out the way I felt it needed to be.
@@luckyonce well u did a fantastic job man shit slapped will definitely be checking out the show because of this
A video about Patlabor? I think we could be friends.
Mentioning and giving respect to Megas XLR? SUBSCRIBED
hits just right
Liked and subbed. You made me get the good kind of flashback. Clicked that bell I hope more o.g. mecha context. Ty for this. Did you ever watch gunhed? It wasn't a fabulous film I bet you seen it but the costumes in it were sick
Gundam 0080 and patlabor are both slice of life with giant robot. They share same mechanic design and both have photograph-like illustration book. The gundam book is called ms era 0099 and I just want to say I have the live: Noa photographs which is really cool.
The coup scenes I think it was tanks with the snow lightly falling always gives chills in patlabor 2
This editing is fucking S Class. Hot damn. Keep it up dude
This is such a beautifully animated series, I have never watched Patlabor but Evangelion was one of my first animes and helped me through a dark time in my life thats why im so endeared to the mecha genre. I will definitley watch this series after your video Ive been getting into old anime recently and want to see this after having watched Zeta Gundam and Ghibli films!
These are my favorite kinds of comments. Thank you for giving this series a chance!
@Lucky Once I definitely will and I love your editing style thanks for the reply!
I love Patlabor, its the only non-military mecha anime I can think of.
I've heard Turn-A Gundam is pretty nonmilitary
@@luckyonce Thanks, i'll check it out
I'm surprised you didn't talk more about the manga, it's been almost entirely fan-translated at this point (Less than half a volume left to go.)
I literally subscribed just because of the monitor head, absolute genius!
Wow. My favorite HOME song in a Patlabor video. Great choice.
Me sees Patlabor, me likes video, me thanks Computer monitor man. Luv you.
I really hope your channel grows and you get more recognition. :D
I love Patlabor tv series probably one of my favorite anime I got so excited when this video came up hehe ty
I know im late to the party but i absolutely love this video and Patlabor.
Its always a party here
“Build homes for an ever growing Japanese population”
Well that didn’t age well
You should do a April Fools review of the BattleTech cartoon. All the episodes have been uploaded on TH-cam remastered. It's so bad that it's good.
I love the TV series and the second ova series of the Patlabor, first and second movie are also great, I really wish to see more patlabor anime or manga, but just like you said if the sequel become something compelety different like the third moive, is better just end the story.
Good video, I enjoyed it. I should finish watching all of Patlabor myself.
The next generation Patlabor (drama) is remake of Early days OVA in contemporary setting. Members are the 3rd generation of SV2, And veeeeery similar to "Glorious" 1st generation members, though Kanuka(American) became Kasha(Russian). Oh, Shiba became a boss of engineer team, and Shiba`s voice actor do same line like "When I was young, I slept on the cold steel!!" lol. It even has crocodile dungeon episode, so If you are a fan of Early days OVA and it would be good.
TNG patlabor the movie is... the remake of ... (drum roll) Patlabor 2 the movie but this time with stelath helicopter! Yeah.
god id cut my toes off for more stuff set in this setting.
I'd love a show about fire/rescue teams in this universe. Or a slice of life about construction labor pilots that goes more into private sector labor uses
@@luckyonce my god yes that would be great!
I see patlabor, I watch. Time to spam this to my friends
WoW man ngl the music edit in this video make review more Superb Quality. If feels like you're watching one of those Netflix Documentaries 👌
after watching the movies, i watched some of the TV series and realized it really isnt just a mecha series.
I saw the title, and i agreed, so i watched.
Great video! Just had to subscribe since you've introduced me to something I've been trying to find.
Thanks for the reminder that I need to make time to watch Patlabor.
me show Patlabor figure at gathering, and my gundam friend : "Jegan, how are you"
Patlabor is the GOAT
I watch every episodes of the anime. It was dead boring at first time I watched it in my elementary school days. I asked for a Gundam but my dad bought this one instead. But I watched it again when I was an adult then I realized what a masterpiece it was
Cool video man! Recoding it with this thing in the head was not easy
For me, the movies were my introduction to this franchise. I actually watched the first two after I saw ghost in the shell.
great, enjoyed it! subbed!
Its interesting how prevalent the whole "anime girl andd giant robot" trend was back in the day. Quite odd really. Its also funny how back then when they smiled they looked so goofy. Nowadays they are cute wheen they smile and don't look like monkeys.
That tangent aside, old school mecha always had the most attention to detail and believability in mecha. Honestly the 80's andd 90's in general was the golden age of detailed, realistic, dark (literally), gritty, down to earth anime. Now everything is almost painfully bright and colorful and all so over the top fantasy. Not to mention the attention to detail on objects is far less.
Weirdly enough my favorite patlabor changes between 2 and 3.
TH-cam removed my original comment for being too threatening so I am contractually obligated to instead say, Good For You! I'm Glad You're Able to Find Enjoyment from those Movies.
patlabor and votom take my top pics with Gasaraki and big o being honorable mentions for rendering
Wow i use to watch this when i was kid❤
Also, War In the Pocket? Favourite Gundam series hands out, go see it. Not fun. But a masterpiece.
I like the end credits song!
wait there another one made after the 90's... i am old. i was 12 when i watched the "originals", and thus i became an anime fan.
Yeah there's also some video games but Idk if they're any good
what is the music playing during the opening section about the three films? that sort of lo-fi cyberpunk is such a great sound.
Decay by Home. A lot of this music is from Home's album Odyssey
i miss those days when they drive big destructive machines strangle a girl while shedding tears on them. i wish i could do the same😊
I love Patlabor but Votoms inches above is very slightly just because I like me some Military Sci Fi.
Show Kenji Kawai some love...
The music of patlabor almost deserves its own video
Great video!! Loved the movies as a kid but I've never seen the show.
Also: what's the music that starts at 19:31?
Decay by Home
@@luckyonce ahh, thanks!
Patlabor, at least I know you have good taste. Need to break out the box set again.
Never stop making this content I love it.
Also, I would enjoy an Evangelion video from you immensely, because I feel you would address things I haven't heard from other reviewers. Do you think Evangelion had to be as depressing as it was in order for it to get its message across?
Oh have a lot of very very strong (not negative) feelings about evangelion that I won't really state until I've gotten a clear idea of every piece of media in its universe. I try to be thorough before I go stating my favorite likes and dislikes of them. Right now I have only end of Eva and 4.0 to watch and I wanted them to be like a double feature for me.
The Eva video I'm working on will be a big one. I already know that. Currently I'm working on a FLCL video because that was the anime I immediately fell for after patlabor as a child.
@@luckyonce Thanks for the insight, good on you for wanting to do things right. If you're saying you haven't seen EoE yet, well.
@@alexbraun55 oh yeah I'm in for it.
eva is not depressing, it's quite the opposite, try to check Space runaway Ideon, Victory gundam or Brave raideen/ rahxephon, eva tried to deliver the same message but failed due to a lot of things
Eh, I'm so tired of every TH-camr and their dog making videos about EVA in these last few years. Like Christ,.it gets talked about more than berserk, hell, maybe even more than Naruto now. It was good, it wasn't THAT good.
I just heard Yugi in there.
Aw yiisss another tomboy enjoyer :D. Anyways this has moved Patlabor up my watch list for sure.
Patlabor was my first mecha. Patlabor will be my last.
Wait how the hell do you barely have a few hundred subs?!?!
Since you mentioned venting I want to have my turn. I didn't really enjoy the Patlabor OVA. I loved the first 2 films. Especially the 2nd one. I didn't like the goofy nature and for me the slapstick didn't resonate much, it was just a bit too much for me. However I think that is just a taste difference. I HATE the effects of Evangelion on the mecha genre. Evangelion has no right to be as influential as it is. Pre-Evangelion mecha deconstructions in the form of Gundam War in the Pocket are much better as mecha deconstructions. NGE is not bad, but it isn't the greatest anime, I would say far from it. I think Gundam (the original series) handels teenagers in robots better. Patlabor is neat however and it would be nice to see more of it exploring the police aspect.
Funny, while I can see where the two OVAs can be superior to the TV in some regards, I've always like the TV show better, perhaps for it was introduction to Patlabor just watching the Latin American broadcast of Fox Kids, and seeing the commercials that the show was coming and like the design on the Ingram, (looked similar to Tekkaman Blade aka Technoman which I like already) and saw the movies and OVAs a few years later. And like the more comedy driven angle at times, kind of middle ground or mix of Gundam with the Police Academy movies. And liked the flying Griffon over aquatic version. And teh TV and OVA version of the AV-0 Peace Maker over the one on the 1st movie.
I know the song in the intro and it's driving me crazy that I can't remember what it is
We're finally landing, by home
@@luckyonce Thanks so much!
the manga is really good.. when the manga ends, i wish there is more..
one of the best animes of all time....
Hm, interesting, I grew up with Macross/Robotech growing up, and this definitely caught my interest as a mecha fan. I'll definetly have to check Patlabor out. Also, I really like the song you used at 19:30 can I ask what it is?
Decay by Home! A lot of the music I use is by Home
@@luckyonce Thanks, much appreciated.
You're not wrong to like the last film... You're just wrong if you think it's good Patlabor.
29:40 this is actually close to the manga.
Yeah, but I love the manga version a whole lot more. It actually feels like a piece of patlabor media.
@16:32
either Keroro or One Piece
guessing its One Piece
Was that the Laine theme I heard in the background?
At one point yeah
can i have some context as to why the dude at 4:58 has the Oxygen Destroyer from Godzilla? 🤣
Long story short that whole episode is OG tokusatsu references, and he's trying to cosplay serizawa during a national emergency.
I love the cinematography and music of the 1st movie. And I was enthralled by the story and it's what got me hooked on the show. I also deeply love the character stories and the English dub.
2nd film is a little disappointing.... The destruction of the labors made me think wtf....
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Not seen the 3rd.
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I've been looking for a copy of the Ova and the TV series for ages. To no avail.
When was 11 in 2005 my uncle gave me all 3 films after a trip to another state he found them for cheap. The first movie knew what it was, the second was going for a new vibe, but the third was and will always be trash. Why wasn't it's own thing without patlaber. It wasted its potential being a a movie.
Not to mention yugi is in it lmao
Is your channel name a reference to the IRA bombing Thatcher? Because that'd be pretty cool.
Yes.
patlabor 2 the movie is a vibe man
I had a hard time deciding on what footage to use for the opening music video to that section of the video, and what song to pair it with. Originally I wanted to use a specific song from the sound track but it got the video muted