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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:
Kido 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)
Themes: Mecha, Police, Real Robot
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
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.
Video:
User Ratings: 355 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 23 votes (sub:16, raw:3, dub:3, Por.sub:1)
 Excellent: 67 votes (sub:43, dub:17, Por.dub:3, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Very good: 92 votes (sub:54, dub:27, Spa.dub:3, edit.dub:2, raw:2, Por.dub:2, ?:2)
 Good: 89 votes (sub:44, dub:36, ?:2, Spa.dub:2, Ita.edit.dub:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, Por.dub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 37 votes (sub:20, dub:14, Spa.dub:1, ?:1, Fre.dub:1)
 So-so: 23 votes (dub:9, sub:8, Spa.dub:2, ?:1, edit.dub:1, raw:1, Por.dub:1)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:5, Spa.dub:1, dub:1)
 Weak: 13 votes (sub:6, dub:6, raw:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:3)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 907 users, rank: #657
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.3701 (Good+.37), std. dev.: 1.6962, rank: #1130
Weighted mean: 7.295 (Good+.29), rank: #1011
Bayesian estimate: 7.30142 (Good+.30), rank: #821
Number of episodes: 47
Episode titles: We have 47
Vintage: 1989-10-11 to 1990-09-26
Opening Theme:
"Patlabor" by Bernard Minet 
#1: "そのままの君でいて (Sono mama no Kimi de Ite)" by Yuko Nitou (eps 1-34)
#2: "コンディション・グリーン~緊急発進~ (Condition Green ~Kinkyou Hasshin~)" by Hiroko Kasahara (eps 35-47)
Ending Theme:
#1: "ミッドナイト ブルー (Midnight Blue)" by KISS ME QUICK (eps 1-34)
#2: "パラダイスの確率 (Paradise no Kakuritsu)" by JA JA (eps 35-47)
Trivia: We have 4
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Related reviews:
    Patlabor TV DVD 4
    Patlabor TV DVD 1

Related releases:
    Patlabor - Anime Test Drive (DVD) 2003-10-28
    Patlabor - The TV Series (DVD 8) 2004-04-06 (from $4.99)
    Patlabor - (DVD 11) 2005-08-09
    Patlabor - Collection 2 (5-8) (DVD 5-8) 2004-04-06 (from $29.99)
    Patlabor TV (DVD 1) 2001-08-14 (from $21.99)
    Patlabor TV (DVD 2) 2002-06-11 (from $5.00)
    Patlabor TV (DVD 3) 2002-12-03 (from $23.99)
    Patlabor TV (DVD 4) 2003-02-11
    Patlabor TV - (DVD 5) 2003-05-13 (from $23.99)
    Patlabor TV - (DVD 6) 2003-08-12 (from $23.99)
    Patlabor TV - When Mecha Clash (DVD 7) 2004-01-13 (from $4.99)
    Patlabor TV (DVD 9) 2004-07-06 (from $4.99)
    Patlabor TV (DVD 10) 2005-03-08 (from $5.00)
    Patlabor:The Mobile Police/The TV Series - DVD Collection (DVD 9-11) 2005-08-09 (from $22.49)
    Patlabor:The Mobile Police/The TV Series: DVD Collection (DVD 1-4) 2005-08-30 (from $23.99)
    Patlabor TV (Dub.VHS 1) 2001-08-14

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Naoyuki Yoshinaga

Screenplay:
Hibari Arisu (ep 18)
Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
Kazunori Ito
Mamoru Oshii
Michiko Yokote (ep 15,17)
Naoto Kimura (ep 6,8)
Tetsuo Takahashi (ep 16)

Storyboard:
Kazuhito Kikuchi (ep 17)
Mitsuko Kase (ep 18)
Shinji Takamatsu (ep 15)
Yoshihide Kuriyama (ep 16)

Music: Kenji Kawai

Original creator: Masami Yuuki

Character Design: Akemi Takada

Animation director:
Akio Takami (ep 15)
Atsuo Tobe (ep 18)
Hiroki Takagi (ep 16)
Nobuyoshi Nishimura (ep 17)

Mechanical design:
Yoshinori Sayama
Yutaka Izubuchi

Producer: Taro Maki

Animation:
Akio Takami (ep 2,6)
Atsuo Tobe (ep 4,9)
Chuuichi Iguchi (ep 3,7,10)
Nobuyoshi Nishimura (ep 1,5,8)

Assistant director:
Akihiko Nishiyama
Keitaro Motonaga
Yasunao Aoki
Yasunori Urata

Key Animation: Toshihiro Kawamoto (eps 20, 29)

Planning: Kazunori Ito

Theme Song Performance: Hiroko Kasahara (OP #2)

 

Miina Tominaga as Noa Izumi

Michihiro Ikemizu as Isao Ota

Osamu Saka as Seitaro Sakaki

Ryunosuke Ohbayashi as Kiichi Goto

Tomomichi Nishimura as Detective Matsui

Toshio Furukawa as Asuma Shinohara

Yoshiko Sakakibara as Shinobu Nagumo

You Inoue as Kanuka Clancy

Akio Ohtsuka as
Gomioka
Kataoka

Arihiro Hase as
GDF Labor Pilot (ep. 11)
Hiker A (ep. 4)
Mechanic E (ep. 3)

Aya Hisakawa as Yukie Kashima (ep1)

Bin Shimada as Niibori (ep 43)

Daisuke Gouri as Hiromi Yamazaki

Eiji Maruyama as Priest (ep 19)

Hirotaka Suzuoki as Utsumi / Richard Won

Ichirô Nagai as Fujioka (ep 22)

Issei Futamata as Mikiyasu Shinshi

Keiko Yokozawa as Takeo Kumagami

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Oguri (ep 43)

Mahito Tsujimura as Jitsuyama

Masako Katsuki as Fuwa

Masashi Hirose as Sakuma

Megumi Hayashibara as Momoko Sakurayama

Mika Kanai as Kana

Noriko Hidaka as Prince Uru

Rihoko Yoshida as Takayama

Shigeru Chiba as Shigeo Shiba

Shinobu Adachi as Tamiko Shinshi

Sumi Shimamoto as Ayano (ep12)

TARAKO as Tamiko

Tarako Tarako as Tamiko

You Yoshimura as Nekowatari (eps 24,42)

Chafurin

Akira Ishida

Fumihiko Tachiki

Ikuya Sawaki

Junpei Takiguchi

Kenichi Ogata

Kikuko Inoue

Kiyoyuki Yanada

Kouichi Yamadera

Mitsuaki Madono

Mitsuru Ogata

Reiko Suzuki

Rica Matsumoto

Rokuro Naya

Takehito Koyasu

Tesshô Genda

Toshihiko Seki

Urara Takano

Yuuko Maruyama

Japanese companies 

Backgrounds: Ishigaki Production

Broadcaster: NTV

Creation: HEADGEAR

Distributor: Bandai Visual

Production: Sunrise

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Allan Gus

Translation: Pamela Parks

Executive producer: John O'Donnell

Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

ADR Engineer: Kevin Wilson

Associate producer: Tom Wayland

Dubbing Script Re-Format:
Kathleen Westlake
Katsuho Shimoharu
Kevin McKeown
Kevin Wilson
Tom Wayland

Dubbing supervisor: Tom Wayland

DVD Coordination: Michael Palan

DVD Menu Design: Craig Cefola

DVD Special Features:
Justin Sevakis
Neil Nadelman
Tim Werenko

English Rewrite: Jay Parks

Sound Mixing: Kevin Wilson

 

Elisa Wain as Noa Izumi

Adriana as Shinobu Nagumo

Angora Deb as Kanuka Clancy

Curt Gebhart as Shige

Dan Green as Asuma Shinohara

Frankie Rome as Sakaki

Jack Beam as Asuma Shinohara

James Wolfe as Isao Ota

Michael Schwartz as Kiichi Goto

Tara Jayne as Takeo Kumagami

Adam Moore as Rudolf Shinbori

Bruce Winant as
HSS Guy
Linus One
Officer

Christopher Nicholas as Takahata

Gregory Wolfe as Hiromi Yamazaki

Jamie McGonnigal as Bud Renard

Jessica Calvello as Kiyama (ep 16)

Jonathan D. Boggs as Oguri

Jonny Asch as Mikiyasu Shinshi

Keith Howard as Sakuma

Kurt Riddle as
Linus Two
Street Preacher

Matthew Harrington as Matsui (Ep. 33)

Michael Sinterniklaas as Utsumi

Robin Custeau as Ayano Fujii

Sonny Dey as Momoko Sakurayama

Veronica Taylor as
Naoyo Yamada
Prince
Satoru (ep 16)
Tamiko Shinshi

Vibe Jones as
Fuwa
Kana Matsumoto
Yoshikawa

Yotee as
Gomioka
Matsui

Ami Shukla

Benjamin Deckter

Christopher Nicholas

Eric Laing

Frankie Rome

Gabriel Seador

Joey Rappaporte

Josh Mosby

Manny Mineo

Matty Sawyer

Ross Lefko

Roxanne Beck (23-26)

Sonny Dey

Tara Jayne

Tom Wayland

Yotee

English companies 

Audio Post Production: Matlin Recording, Inc.

Broadcaster:
Anime Selects
iaTV

Distributor: U.S. Manga Corps

DVD Design: Metropolis DVD

DVD Mastering: Metropolis DVD

DVD Menu Design:
Ascent Media DVD
Audio Plus Video International

DVD Premastering:
Ascent Media DVD
Audio Plus Video International

Licensed by: Central Park Media

Recording Studio: Matlin Recording, Inc.

Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

Translation: Studio Nemo

French staff 
French cast 

Theme Song Performance: Bernard Minet

 

Danièle Douet as Elodie 

Stéphanie Murat as Elodie

Anne Jolivet as Shinobu Nagumo

Anne Rondeleux as Elodie (1ers eps)

Emmanuel Curtil as Allan (1ère voix)

Laurence Crouzet as
Johanna
Raphaelle

Marc François as Gotô

Mireille Audibert as Barbara

Régis Reuilhac as Mickael

Sady Rebbot as Etienne

Serge Bourrier as Mickael (substitution)

Vincent Ropion as Allan (2ème voix)

William Coryn as William

French companies 

Broadcaster:
AB 1
Mangas
TF1 (1992)

Dubbing: SOFI

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Dubbing Director: Gerard Badías (Spain dub)

Translation: Barbara Pesquera (Spain dub)

 

Benjamin Rivera as Asuma Shinohara

Monica Manjarrez as Noa Izumi

Núria Trifol as Noa Izumi (Spain dub)

Aleix Estadella as Isao Ohta (Spain dub)

Alfonso Vallés as Captain Kiichi Gotoh (Spain dub)

Armando Réndiz as Seitaro Sakaki

Carlos Di Blasi as Asuma Shinohara (Spain dub)

Carmen Calvell as Shinobu Nagumo (Spain dub)

Daniel Albiac as Shigeo Shiba (Spain dub)

Enrique Mederos as Mikiyasu Shinshi

Ernesto Lezama as Shigeo Shiba/Shige

Marcos Patiño as Isao Ohta

Maria Rosa Guillén as Kanuka Clancy (Spain dub)

Rafael Rivera as Captain Kiichi Goto

Carlos Lladó as Mikiyasu Shinshi (Spain dub)

Eduard Itchart as Sakuma (Spain dub)

Joaquín Díaz as Seitaro Sakaki (Spain dub)

Oscar Redondo as Hiromi Yamazaki (1st voice) (Spain dub)

Patricia Acevedo as Mana (1 ep)

Salvador Campoy as Hiromi Yamazaki (2nd voice) (Spain dub)

Antonio Pujós (Spain dub)

Azucena Díaz (Spain dub)

Francesc Rocamora (Spain dub)

Jordi Pineda (Spain dub)

Manuel Gimeno (Spain dub)

Ramón Hernández (Spain dub)

Ramón Rocabayera (Spain dub)

Toni Mora (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
America TV (Peru)
Canal Sur (Spain)
ETC...TV (Chile)
Fox Kids Latin America

Distributor: Jonu Media (Spain)

Dubbing Studio: Dubbing Films (Barcelona, Spain)

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Dubbing Director: Sergio Masieri

 

Felice Invernici as Azuma Shimohara

Lara Parmiani as Noa Izumi

Pietro Ubaldi as Isao Ohta

Marco Balzarotti as Kiichi Goto

Maurizio Scattorin as Seitaro Sasaki

Antonio Paiola as Gem

Caterina Rochira as Clancy Kanuka

Claudio Moneta as Captain Otsumi

Davide Garbolino as Budd Kanuka

Flavio Arras as Mikiyasu Shinshi

Gianfranco Gamba as Hiromi Yamazaki

Ivo De Palma as Isp. Matsui

Massimiliano Lotti as Shigeo Shiba

Patrizia Salmoiraghi as Shinobu Nagumo

Roberta Gallina Laurenti as Kumaji Kumagari

Italian companies 

Broadcaster:
Italia 7
Italia Teen Television

Distributor: Yamato Video

Dubbing: D.D.E. Divisione Doppiaggio Edizioni


Dutch staff 
(none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Manga DVD

Dutch cast 
(none)
Portuguese staff 
Portuguese cast 
(none)
 

Iara Riça as Noa Izumi

Christiane Monteiro as Momoko Sakurayama

Felipe Grinnan as Asuma Shinohara

Hermes Baroli as Shigeo Shiba

Mabel César as Shinobu Nagumo

Portuguese companies 

Broadcaster: Fox Kids (Brazil)

Dubbing Studio: Telecine

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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