Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days

"Labor: The common name for robots designed for heavy industrial use. The rise of labors sparked a revolution in construction and civil engineering, but labor-related crime skyrocketed as well. To combat this new threat, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police created a patrol labor unit, the Special Vehicles Unit Second Section. This was the origin of Patlabor."— Tagline used in the Early Days OVAMobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days (also titled Patlabor: The Mobile Police) was the animated component of the Patlabor Real Robot media mix. It was a seven-episode Original Video Animation written by Headgear and produced by Sunrise, which originally released on VHS and LaserDisc from 25 April 1988 to 25 June 1989.As the series opens, the newly assembled Ragtag Bunch of Misfits that is Special Vehicles Division 2 is on standby, awaiting the delivery of their AV-98 Ingram Patrol Labors... which are stuck in traffic. With little else to do, the team starts weeding the yard of their base, until they'...