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(REVIEW) Heavy Metal in Hot Pursuit in PATLABOR: THE MOVIE

Can this classic’s many technical artistic achievements overshadow the fact that, at its heart, this is still a movie about a bunch of cops heroically saving the day?

The Magic Planet

Pre-2000s Anime with Multi-Channel Audio

 Had this in Drafts for about a year because I lost interest. Obviously this is an incomplete list, so I may come back and update it if I…

Genga Land

Patlabor the Movie

By Andrew Osmond. Mamoru Oshii, the director of Patlabor the Movie, once described his 1989 film as pop entertainment. Any fan of Oshii, best known for Ghost in…

All the Anime

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Mobile Police Patlabor The Movie

The two Patlabor movies directed by Mamoru Oshii are landmarks in anime history. Even without considering their intrinsic artistic qualities, their importance for the development of the aesthetics…

Animétudes

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What I Watched This Week – 6/27-7/3

Patlabor: The Movie – I wasn’t sure if this movie was a sequel to the OVA or the TV series, but it turns out it doesn’t really matter…

The Romantic Goldfish

#OshiiOct Patlabor 2: The Movie – A Needed Intervention

Following Patlabor: The Movie, which I have mostly positive thoughts on, comes Patlabor 2: The Movie. Something I feel a lot better at and much more thematically rich…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

#OshiiOct Patlabor: The Movie – Low Frequency Problems

This post is a culmination of a lot of previous posts finally coming together. To understand all that craziness, this movie is a follow up to short OVA…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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Patlabor: The Movie

I’ve written about Patlabor before. The TV series is a great sitcom about Japanese police officers in the future, that offers commentary on politics, humor working with strange…

Prede's Anime Reviews

OtakuGeneration (Show #517) Avengers: Age of Ultron

  Shownotes :: (show 517) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Kemonozume, recorded live May 3rd, 2015. This week we saw the…

otakugeneration's Podcast

Manga Mania Mondays – July 1995

Cover this month was by Metin Salih NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got news feature in bold) Manga Video – Project A-Ko 2, Patlabor the Movie, Wings of…

AWESOME ENGINE