Mobile Police Patlabor OVA

With the rapid development of Hyper Technology came the Labor...

a multi-purpose, humanoid construction machine whose use...

spread into almost every field.

However, this gave rise to a new threat to society: Labor crime.

The Tokyo Metro Police founded the Special Vehicles, Section 2...

within the Security Division to combat these ever-growing crimes.

This was the beginning of the SV2 Patrol Labor... Patlabor... units.

You really threw a wrench into my works

If I can get my heartbeat under control, I think I'll make it

We're futurists, you and me; technicians of love

Higher, faster, I'll love you if I want to

I think I'll get to like

The way I get flushed at the touch of your metal body

Oh, don't stop this gravity-defying feeling

That goes way beyond mere imagination

You really threw a wrench into my works

When I hold him tight, my Alphonse can do anything

We're futurists, you and me; technicians of love

Anytime, anywhere, nothing's impossible

Nothing's impossible

SV2 maintenance here.

Chief!

Chief!

We just got a confirmation call from the manufacturer!

Three Ingram AV-98 Patrol Labors, along with their transport trailers...

left their Hachiouji factory at 7 this morning!

Their ETA is 11:00 AM.

Good.

- Old Man. - What?

The new Labors are finally coming!

What about it?

I'm so happy I could cry!

We're supposed to be the Metro Police's high-tech vanguard squad...

the forerunners of the police of the future!

But the truth is, with all the budgeting and planning problems...

we're stuck out here in this reclaimed area...

and our "equipment" is just three second-hand construction Labors...

that were painted black and white!

In the three months since the SV2 was founded...

they've looked down on us, calling us the force's trash!

Their appendix! A fifth wheel!

It's been rough on the squad, especially us maintenance people!

But today, we'll kiss those hard days goodbye...

with the arrival of those three new Labors...

as we're reborn as a real Patrol Labor unit, a proud unit...

that will drive a wedge of justice into the tumultuous days to come!

Shige.

When I was 12, my dad beat me for taking apart...

our footwarmer-engine scooter.

In the fifty years since then, machines have been my life.

I don't have any pretensions or vanity anymore.

But...

I want to see those brand-new machines more than anyone;

I want to fiddle with 'em, take 'em apart.

I've been standing out here all morning with that on my mind.

I'm a machine moron, an outdated nuts 'n bolts kind of guy.

A shuttle from headquarters?

I wonder what they're doing out here at this hour?

I've seen something like this in a movie.

It was something like "Rabaul" or "Fighter Zero" or "One Family"...

with no women in them;

the mechanics were in the mafia, 'n were always drinking, gambling...

cooking rice in outdoor cookers, 'n bonding by fighting all the time.

So? That's the army.

Cops and the army both have ranks and guns... what's the difference?

He has a point. It certainly doesn't seem like Tokyo out here.

Now's the time to run.

Run if you want. But if you do, I'll shoot you for desertion.

Now that's the army.

Hey! You new guys out front!

Up here!

Bring your papers with you and assemble in the SV2 Chief's Office!

Damn, he spotted us.

Let's go!

Move it!

Hello.

Looks like your personnel got here first.

I hope you have some worthwhile people.

Why wouldn't I?

They passed up my unit of veterans and gave you...

those top-of-the-line Labors. You'd better have some good people.

That was HQ's decision. The same with the five people they chose.

Five?

I'm missing one.

Hey! This area's off-limits to civilians!

If you play around here, you're gonna get arrested.

Officer Noa Izumi reporting for duty with the Security Division's...

Special Vehicles Section 2, Second Unit.

Nice to meet you!

All right, here are your assignments:

Unit 1: Forward, Noa Izumi.

Yes!

Backup, Asuma Shinohara.

Unit 2: Forward, Isao Ota.

Backup, Mikiyasu Shinshi.

Power Crew, Hiromi Yamazaki.

I had planned to wait for the new Labors to get here...

and then assign them immediately so you could start their patterning.

Chief!

But it looks like it's still going to be a while...

so why don't you go grab something to eat?

Yes, sir!

Chief!

It's an urgent call from the transport driver, Chief.

Sakaki here.

We're stuck in weekend traffic!

With those bombings in Shiba and Takebashi, we can't move an inch!

We're right in front of the Miyakezaka interchange now.

I didn't wanna use the expressway because it's a priority delivery.

But with that Labor being hijacked on the highway just last week...

your chief told us to make sure we used the expressway.

He said the police would never live it down...

if one of their own Labors got stolen.

Huh? What?

QUIET!

Um, it's nothing. I was talking to someone over here.

Huh? You're going to wait until the Labors get there?

I don't mind, but I don't know when we're gonna get there.

So he's been waiting out there since this morning.

He can be pretty stubborn.

He must really like Labors. I think we'll get along!

From what I've heard, he's been a mechanic...

ever since they founded the motorcycle police corps.

When he goes down to HQ, they say...

the Maintenance Division Chief himself greets him at the door.

Heck, he's like God to us.

Wow.

No matter what it says on paper...

the top dog around here is Old Man Sakaki.

#2 is Captain Nagumo, the First Unit's chief.

And I guess way down there in a distant third is your Captain Goto.

Hey, what's the matter? Aren't you gonna eat any lunch?

I didn't bring one.

Man, I wish I had a girlfriend to make my lunch for me.

I made this. Would you like one?

Is there any place around here that delivers?

Heck, any place delivers if you order more than two items.

It'll take more than an hour, though.

There's a corner store run by an old lady a couple of miles away.

Want to borrow a bike? The handlebar's bent, though.

Guns? You mean the Labors' 20mm revolver cannons?

Sure, we keep 'em in here, but you need the Old Man's okay to open it.

You want me to let you use a 20mm because you want some practice?

If you want to practice, go get permission from your captain.

Shooting practice?

I ought to have experience with live ammo before I'm sent out.

How are you going to fire it without a Labor?

- I'll borrow one from the First Unit! - I doubt they'll lend you one.

Then once my Labor gets here...

You can only fire a gun of that caliber at the Fuji shooting range...

and the Self Defense Forces have it booked through winter.

What about shotguns? I've heard Labor Unit members can use them.

Ota!

You have to put in an application to get ammunition...

and it takes a month to get it after a strict review.

You can expect one shooting practice session a year, tops.

Then how am I supposed to fulfill my duties when the time comes?

Come on, Ota, call it quits.

You'll have to. "Don't waste valuable bullets...

and avoid live-fire practice as much as possible.

Should the need arise, do the job with one shot."

That's the way it is for soldiers and cops here in Japan.

That doesn't make any sense! Let me... Let me fire a gun, sir!

Let me...

Let me shoot a gun, damn it!

There's nobody here!

Does the First Unit have the day off?

Get real.

There was an explosion on an expressway interchange...

and they were sent out as backup a while ago.

Found one!

So this is the first Patlabor model.

Don't you think he looks like a bad guy, kinda?

It's called the first, but it's basically just an Asuka 95...

civil engineering Labor that's been upgraded.

But the Type-98 AV Patrol Labor is a whole different beast.

It was built for anti-Labor combat, and deliberately designed...

to have a psychological impact on anyone who sees it.

You're a strange guy, Shinohara.

For someone who doesn't know much about Labor units...

you sure seem to know a lot about Labors.

Yeah, I guess.

Hey, Asuma.

- Stop calling me "Asuma," okay? - Why?

I don't like being on a first-name basis so quickly.

What should I call you, then?

Figure it out yourself!

Geez, this guy sure acts high n' mighty.

Asuma Shinohara... Shinohara...

I know that name from someplace.

Shinohara Heavy Industries

Hey, Mr. Shinohara.

Don't call me "mister"!

Are you related to someone at Shinohara Heavy Industries, Asuma?

It's my dad's company.

No kidding. I had a feeling...

No way! It's your dad's company?

You're the son of the president of Shinohara Heavy Industries?

What? How come his son is a public servant?

- Well? - My parents suckered me into it.