Finally some new info on this anime I thought was cancelled.https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2025-12-13/patlabor-ezy-anime-to-be-8-parts-long/.232055
>>284454904>will be 8 "parts" longThe heck does this mean
>>284455000It doesn't specify. lol
>>284454904Will it be longer than Jojo or just eight films . This confuses me.
If there's going to be 8 of them I can't imagine this being anything but an OVA.
>>284454904>8 episodesThey really can't just stretch animation staff across 8 measly episodes and have to use CG shit instead?
Patlabor is my favorite series but I do not want or need another installment especially a potentially sub par one.
>>284455519That's the state of modern animation.
>>284454904Is it even a relevant series today? Is there an audience who gives a shit anymore?
>>284454904I hope we see Kanuka's daughter, Noa-Asuma's son and old unmarried terrorist Goto.
>>284456186>old unmarried Goto
>Izubuchi said, "I'm not making this as a feature film. It's a series. Due to various circumstances, it ended up being eight films. At first, I wasn't planning on being a director, but it's been fun doing it. I wondered what people would think of 'Patlabor' in this day and age. However, there is nothing like the first OVA or the new OVA these days. It would be fun to go back to my roots and give it a try.">Regarding the new work, he said, "I feel that the essence of 'Patlabor' is a series of spin-offs. Each episode is self-contained, and rather than being the standard story, I'm aiming for a series of 'Patlabor' spin-offs. That's why it won't disappoint those who think of 'Patlabor' as such."Seems it's going to be more in line with the very first OVA series.https://mantan-web.jp/article/20251213dog00m200039000c.html
The thing making me most hopeful for this is that they've got Kazunori Ito writing it.
>>284456211Tf why is Nao wearing pajama bottoms at a wedding?
>>284456478Its obviously supposed to be Hawaii or some other tropical destination.
>>284456267Wait they actually dragged him back? Even though he made an entire movie about how he was ready to move on from the IP and never made any Patlabor media for the next 30 years?
>>284456227finally, the Patlabor OVA Universe
Please don't rape the Ingram too much with CGI
>>2844550008 seasons long
>>284456211>christian priest officiating huh
>>284456778It'll definitely be CG
The new main chick's a bit fugly
>>284456879Just a touch of man face, nice eyebrows though
>>284456211not canon
>>284456879her hairstyle and appearance look like kanuka.
>>284456837Japs love having random Priests do their weddings. The classic joke is that every Japanese person is born into Shintoism, marries under Christianity, and dies as a Buddhist.
>>284456879>thick eyebrowsnice
>>284454904Since this is an OVA, I really hope they put actual effort into animating it
Wasn't this announced like 10 years ago or more? Why is it taking so long to make 8 episodes of something that will inevitably be majority CGI? We're getting to video game levels of production cycle and inevitable disappointment.
>>284456879Will she just be two of the original characters' personalities lazily slapped together, like the shitty reboot movie characters?
>>284461092apparently it's not, it would be released on streaming, so ONA?
>>284462244It's so over
>>284461272>Wasn't this announced like 10 years ago or more? Why is it taking so long to make 8 episodes of something that will inevitably be majority CGI?Sounds like the Redline treatment, but with even more obscure details. I wonder if it has to do with framing the CGI because the old coots aren't familiar with it for 10 years.
>>284457487Its official art so its more cannon than anything you can come up with.
