Product Details

• Actors: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yô Inoue, Issei Futamata
• Directors: Naoyuki Yoshinaga
• Writers: Kazunori Itô
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Us Manga Corps Video
• VHS Release Date: September 26, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304183615
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #88,089 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The men and women who make up Special Vehicles Division 2 of the Tokyo police force in the not-too-distant future are perennial underdogs. Because they deal with crimes involving the giant industrial robots called Labors, they're known as Patlabors (an elision of "Patrol Labors"). The 47-episode broadcast series based on Masami Yuuki's manga serial "Mobile Police Patlabor" has a lighter tone than the features. The misfits and oddballs who make up Division 2 suggest a comic Hill Street Blues. They watch others get the credit for their work saving a government minister from a construction site in "The Tower: SOS," save an ancient, sacred tree in "The Green Phantom," and thwart a dated terrorist plot in "Red Labor Landing." All the episodes offer the combination of mecha adventure and ensemble comedy that have made Patlabor such a popular franchise. Unrated; suitable for children 8 and older; minor violence, tobacco use. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but you might want to wait-Update- Vol 3 is announced, June 26, 2002

By	Jeffrey B. Griffith "griffith122" (Fredericksburg, Va United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Patlabor - The Mobile Police, The TV Series (Vol. 2) (DVD)

I have enjoyed all the Patlabors that have come to DVD. My only complaint with this one is, the last episode of this DVD is continued on the next one, and guess what, there is no announced date as to when volume 3 will be released. So my advice is wait until they announce the next one or even wait until it is available or you will really have a cliff hanger.
Good news Central Park Media has announced on their internet site a Nov 4 pre-release date for retailers and a Dec 2 public release. The cliff hanger may finally come to an end.