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.

(Source: Anime News Network)

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Studios

• Sunrise
• Maiden Japan

Staff

• Michiko Yokote — Script (ep 12, 15, 17, 22, 25, 26, 42, 45)
• Shinji Takamatsu — Storyboard (ep 15)
• Tomohiro Hirata — Key Animation (ep 20)
• Atsuo Tobe — Animation Director (ep 18), Animation (eps 4, 9)
• Ludwig van Beethoven — Insert Song Composition (ep 25)
• Mamoru Oshii — Script
• Kenji Kawai — Music
• Takayuki Negishi — Theme Song Arrangement (OP2)
• Mitsuko Kase — Storyboard
• Akio Takami — Animation Director (ep 15)
• Hiroyuki Hoshiyama — Script (ep 5)
• Yutaka Izubuchi — Mechanical Design
• Toshifumi Takizawa — Storyboard
• Tsukasa Dokite — Animation Director (ep. 44)
• Keitarou Motonaga — Assistant Director
• Naoyuki Yoshinaga — Director, Episode Director (ep 12), Script (ep 23), Storyboard (eps. 1,11-12,21,23-24,29,33,35,44,47)
• Yukihiro Shibutani — Art Director