Also known as: 機動警察パトレイバー, パトレイバー
Patlabor (a portmanteau of "patrol" and "labor"), also known as Mobile Police Patlabor (機動警察パトレイバー), is an anime and manga Science Fiction franchise created in 1988 by "Headgear", a group consisting of manga artist Yuuki Masami, director Oshii Mamoru, screenwriter Itō Kazunori, mecha designer Izubuchi Yutaka, and character designer Takada Akemi.
Patlabor is set in a near future Japan, and it chronicles the exploits of a metropolitan Police unit equipped with patrol Mechas called "Patlabors".
The franchise includes a manga, a TV series, two OVA series, three feature-length movies (Patlabor The Movie, Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor 2 The Movie, and WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3), two light novel series, a short film compilation named Minipato (ミニパト) because of its Chibi drawing style, a live-action series titled The Next Generation -Patlabor-, and a reboot in the form of the Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor REBOOT pilot and Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor EZY.
The original manga received the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1991.
Characters
- AV-98 Ingram
- Alphonse (AV-98 Ingram)
- Izumi Noa
- AV-98 Ingram Unit 2
- Oota Isao
- Shinohara Asuma
- Kanuka Clancy
- Kumagami Takeo
- Gotou Kiichi
- Nagumo Shinobu
- Shinshi Mikiyasu
- Yamazaki Hiromi
- Type J-9 Griffon
- Badrinath Harchand
- Hal X-10
- Doshka
- RADHA (Patlabor)
- AH-88 Hellhound