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Book Of Patlabor: The Movie



Mamoru Oshii is the director of the first movies of the police mecha-drama Patlabor series, which will be releasing its newest installment, Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot, on Saturday, October 10, 2016.




book of Patlabor: The Movie




As previously stated, every cut is intentional and meaningful. However, Oshii once makes a contradictory statement in the book. He states that there must also be cuts that serve absolutely no purpose nor add any development to the story.


While the third volume is in a slightly larger, more expensive feeling, format and is made up almost entirely of photographs, the first two also have extensive articles on modeling/painting tips and instructions for specific kits. Although all of the text is in Japanese, there another diagrams and images to make these books useful to Patlabor fans or mecha kit hobbyists in general.


WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (also known as Wasted 13) is an unrelated side-story taking place somewhere between the first and second movies. It is directed by Fumihiko Takayama and produced by Madhouse with the screenplay by Miki Tori. The film barely features the main cast of Patlabor, though labors themselves are still visible in the setting and related to the plot.


The last and darkest of the three movies, Patlabor the Movie 3 falls heavily to the serious side of the Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness. While Mamoru Oshii was only the producer instead of directly working on the film, it is much like Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade and Ghost In The Shell Innocence that he made around the same time, both being very moody and grim.


Starting its animated life as a 7-episode, direct-to-video OAV series in 1988, prompting a 47-episode TV series, a second 16-episode OAV series and the first movie version the following year, the world of Patlabor was originally created by a group known as Headgear, which included Mamoru Oshii, Masami Yuki, Kazunori Ito, Yutaka Izubuchi, and Akemi Takada among its members. The original manga conceived by Yuki in the early 1980s was published simultaneously with the release of the first series. Adding humour and social comment into the mecha mix, Patlabor sits proudly among the role call of the most popular and important cult anime series of its era.


In the first movie version, a spate of recent incidents of Labors rampaging out of the control of their operator is tracked down to a fault in their newly installed Hyper Operating System released by Shinohara Heavy Industries. The original programmer Eiichi Hoba spectacularly committed suicide by jumping into the bay. However, his body was never retrieved and all personal information has been scrubbed from his employment records, and neither the Shinohara company nor the government who have invested heavily with public money in the project seem willing to acknowledge the problem. Then the Patlabor team discover that the bug is in fact an act of wilful sabotage by Hoba to impede the ceaseless construction by turning machine against machine and tearing down the city. The bug is triggered by the high-pitched sound of wind whistling through tall buildings, and guess what, there's a typhoon heading straight towards Tokyo. 2ff7e9595c


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