I declare 2026 as The Year of Patlabor
>>23793618>You will never have a Noa backpack
>>23793618I hope EZY turns out good.
>>23793669Cry about it.
It really is. First EZY and now I just heard of the new Patlabor game too. Lotta good stuff for Labor fans this year if nothing else.
For its faults, that first monster scene in WXIII at the storage facility can go toe-to-toe with any of the classics
>>23793701Troll post.
>>23795130What faults?
WXIII is actually a very decently made monsterflick. It was made about a decade after original saga had already ended. If people tempered their expectations a bit before watching, then it would be liked more.
>piss off fans by pandering to brown vtuber faggots >the mud flood doesn’t even watch itHope the movie flops
>>23795173This, speedwatchers are just being retarded again.
>>23795153It's a weird tonal shift and wasn't marketed as a side-story so attaching the Patlabor name feels like a weird bait-and-switch especially as iirc the actual protagonists barely achieve an impact on the story's events and then SV2 swoop in near the end and do the climax for them, as a story it's messy, as a mood piece, gorgeous sidenote on the quality of the animation - the person lipreading the videotape for them being a black deaf woman is a great, granular bit of observation by the animators, I can totally believe a job that specialist would be the sort they'd be more likely to need to grant to a foreigner to fill, I love when animators display the intelligence/real-world experience to work in such subtleties, what unappreciated refinement
>>23795767What makes it even stranger is that it's adapting an arc of the manga where Noa and Asuma ARE the main characters. It's a truly bizarre endeavour, I can't really think of anything else that does something similar within an established franchise.Arguably the reason that Patlabor can pull its trick of being all genres whenever the hell it feels like is that it's anchored in such an incredibly well realised core cast that you're happy to watch them do pretty much anything. Chucking away that common anchoring point is a tough sell regardless of the standalone merits of the project.
>>23795767>weird tonal shiftHow? It's perfectly fit alongside what 1 and 2 built upon.>wasn't marketed as a side-story so attaching the Patlabor name feels like a weird bait-and-switchIt's Patlabor, a vehicle to tell military otaku stories, not the avengers. I get the complaints but I don't agree with any of them, the magic of anime is that it's so detached from Hollywood's predatory practices and studio bullshit (at least it was 30 years ago) so trying to make sense of why something didn't happen the way you think it should've happened and framing it as a 'flaw' seems a bit immature.
>>23795799Anon how the flying fuck did you somehow bring Marvel movies into this?
>>23793618Ship it
>>23796607
>>23796607>>23796609I remember there being some news about an older lady calling the cops on this
my two cents is that the movies are really good in a vacuum but they might as well not have been called patlabor.
>>23796609
https://x.com/moesino/status/2037899861388083268
>>23793618why are her arms so long and muscular
https://hjweb.jp/article/2608708/
>>23799671Why do the legs look like that?Is it some sort of soft plastic?
but no oshii?
>>23802881It's a soft vinyl kit, you need to heat up the parts and jam the large flared areas into the sockets for assembly
is there an english translation of the manga that doesn't read left to right?
hehe
>>23793621Asuma is so lucky.
>>23793618Can someone just explain what the fuck Pats job is?
>>23805597labor
>>23805597Putting blacks into place.
Is there any definitive info whether the new Patlabor will follow the OVA+movies or the TV anime?
>>23810008They've said a few times now that the show is considered to be in the TV/OVA2 continuity. Which makes sense given that Headgear got the gang sans Oshii back together because they didn't want TNG and Oshii's vision of Patlabor to be the final word in the franchise, and the OVA/film continuity is the one he had the most influence in shaping.
>>23796925Where are the rest of them?
>>23809122So who ripped off whom?
>>23813212 after looking into it a bit apparently the pose is taken from a naruto vs sasuke fight
>>23796925This is unbelievably hot.
>>23796645 movie 1 is arguably still patlabor
>>237966451 and 2 are definitely Patlabor but miss the comedy and short stints of actions for more political and "sophisticated" content. 3 nah. Monster flick with Patlabor glued on the side.
>>23796645>>23818068>>23818072You don't get to decide what is or isn't Patlabor.
>>23818075when nobody does everybody does the self is the final judge and the only one that actually matters
>>23818114Shut the fuck up faggot.
Dakishimete, midnight blue.
>>23796925tsuge is so lucky
Which timeline is better?
>>23818751watch it yourself and find out.I like both but TV has more material to work with.
https://slow.pics/c/DFVGzS0o>DNRslopI feel sick...
Sex with Alphonse.
>>23819161Calm doen Noa.
>>23793618who's making the best AV-98 Plus?
>>23819179 noa wouldn't do that, alphonse is named after her dog despite appearances noa isn't a white girl
Oshii was the only one from the rest of Headgear who wanted Noa and Asuma to get together. EZY probably won't say anything about the old crew. Fuck this show
>>23820088How many more years will you cry about it?
>>23820088Is this true? I would have thought the opposite
>>23820110What in the world are you talking about?
>>23820088I think there's a little more to it, headgear was just cautious about approaching the relationship after a certain point. Most episodes of TV and at the end of the manga imply they had a more pure and unique relationship with each other than anyone else. The novelizations of Next Generation turned Noa into a housewife who now just simply had Asuma's kids, which stopped her from responding to a call to action. The Noa's clone Akira Izumino lost a bit of respect for her because of it, which is honestly really stupid. I'm a big fan of the relationship since I think it's development is pretty unique, but I can't say I'm completely on board with Oshii's portrayal of it
>>23820183This is kind of irrelevant to me when the conclusion someone Kazunori Ito who was the main screenwriter for the TV show ends up writing cuckshit about Noa marrying some other guy and Asuma okays it at the wedding and neither of them talk to each for years until her husband dies in a freak accident lol. Is that really a " pure and unique " conclusion to the relationship?
>>23820183>The novelizations of Next Generation turned Noa into a housewife who now just simply had Asuma's kids, which stopped her from responding to a call to action. What's even wrong with this? TNG canonized them in a relationship " both public and private " meaning that they were married and Noa worked with Shinohara Industries iirc. It makes sense to retire from that after she had kids. Seems perfectly realistic especially when Oshii's version of Patlabor has Labors increasingly fazed out in the future>Akira lost a bit of respect for her because of it, which is honestly really stupid.Seems like that's an interesting plot line though because Akira deified Noa so much
>>23820217I really didn't need to know that main writer for Patlabor TV wrote Noa x Asuma cuckshit holy fuck.
>>23820217Don't get me wrong, I also disagree with Goto Sushiya's take on the relationship heavily, Ito was definitely out of line. When I was talking about a pure and unique relationship, I was referring to slow build up that they had across TV and the manga. Goto Sushiya was intended to build off the movie timeline anyways, which wasn't what I was talking about initially
>>23820233I don't mind Noa having kids and settling down, though I think her becoming a traditional stay at home mother feels a bit too "standard" for the kind of character she was initially. If you think otherwise, that's fine, I would've preferred to see something a little different
>>23820262Is it standard? How many mecha protagonists end up married with kids and retired? I really can't think of many.
>>23820262Why do americans hate the nuclear family so much?
>>23820257The timeline shit is really an invention from the rest of Headgear to separate Oshii's work though, they were basically supposed to be all watched in release order and basically seen as the same continuum with Patlabor 2 being the franchise's whole conclusion. What Ito wrote is just how he sees the conclusion to Noa and Asuma's relationship imo, irrespective of TV/movie
>>23820275Not in the realm of mecha protagonists necessarily, just generally a "traditional" thing to do. Usually women get married and settle down, that's just how things are. For Patlabor's setting it's fine, which is why I said I wasn't "completely" on board with it and not that I fully disagreed with it. For clarification I was more or less trying to make sense of Headgear's hesitance on touching upon their relationship and Noa's marital status. The tension between Oshii and some of the members via the creative liberties he took in TNG led to EZY, how he handled Noa was one of the points of contention. Looking at interviews post TNG you can kinda tell how flip floppy they are about it when the topic comes up, vs before where they were willing to indulge in it more
>>23820279Well I said I didn't mind her settling down and having kids so I'm not sure where this is coming from
>>23820296Sure it's traditional in the Japanese society sense but not really in the " mecha protagonist " lens. You're right that Noa isn't the traditional women but again it's not like Oshii had them get hitched and Noa's admittedly popping out babies. She works alongside Asuma with Shinohara Industries like I said.
>>23820290This is true, which is why I always tell people to watch release order and don't worry too much about timelines, I think it makes the viewing experience more complicated than it should. Unfortunately I see too many people bringing up timelines whenever watch order is brought up
>>23820313immediately not admittedly
>>23820313She did work at SHI yeah, it's just that in the novels she just becomes a mother who just became pampered by generational Shinohara wealth and had not a care in the world. I think that's the part that turned off the other members
>>23820217As in official shit? If so that makes me want to puke. Good thing it can be ignored (hopefully). Plus, the manga is also open ended but implies something happening, so there's also that.
>>23820419It was a novel called Goto Sushiya (Goto the Sushi Chef) written by Kazunori Ito very recently actually in 2021. Here's the official Patlabor website talking about ithttps://patlabor.tokyo/news/1085/
>>23820431God what a disgrace>Ezy scripted by ItoOh fuck, I guess all we can hope for the best then....
>>23819521>From Hokkaido >The most Catholic state in JapanShe counts as Honorary Irish at least
>>23820431Ok I got back from puking. So the TV series and manga (open ended but leans in the direction in the last few panels) imply they get together, Oshiis work confirms it in his own thing, what about the books? I heard there's books and light novels but don't know how it ends. Can you at least get me some good news? Worst case scenario after exy releases r34 will be filled with NoaxAsuma NTR, I definitely hope that is not the case.
>>23820440>>23820464EZY isn't likely to mention any of the old cast in any meaningful way so I think you're going a little overboard and don't have much to worry anon. Personally I just lost some respect for Ito and Headgear after finding about this
>>23820470I don't think the Japanese fans like it either. I try and be charitable to creators having free reign over what they create, but Ito's take on their relationship in Goto Sushiya is abhorrent and, in my opinion, misguided.
>>23820464Fair, in any case the duo are cute together, it would suck if that was ruined
>>23820470post meant for reply above
nuka best girl
>>23820557more like nuka n my balls haha gottem
>>23820319Anon, my physical release of the box set straight-up has timelines denoted on the back. This is not some unique recent fan obsession or something.>>23820464NTA but it wouldn't exactly be the first time a novel based on a mecha franchise went off in some batshit direction that isn't reflected in the rest of it, even when the same creator is involved in both.
>>23820334I can see why. I'm sure it'd depend on execution to a degree, but what that implies about both Noa and Asuma really doesn't sit right to me. Between what he's said in recent-ish interviews about not knowing what to do with Noa, how the Major in GITS '95 gets flattened down to an existential angst that can only be cured by popping out cyberbabies and how dirty Shinobu is done in Patlabor 2, I'm thinking he may have some hangups around women that occasionally show through into his work.In particular I recall an interview where he basically says that he finds Noa one-dimensional and unbelivable. Maybe this was a clumsy attempt to add depth, and inadvertently ended up shoving her into a much more stock and cliche box instead. Hard to say without reading it of course.
>>23820334Sorry for the late response but I think you're just reading too much negativity in a Noa that is literally post-retired, with multiple children lol. Maybe there's some " negative " traits that come with it, that's okay>>23821203There's nothing wrong with Oshii's writing of Noa, Major, and Shinobu lol.
>>23820334I'm taking Oshii's trad ending for Noa literally after she's retired and with kids over Ito and Headgear's apparent disgusting cuckshit 10 out 10 times sorry.
>>23821231>Literally after she's retiredIsn't TNG set in like, 2015? She's in her mid 30's.
>>23821239I don't know, I haven't seen TNG and am just basing this off of what people have said in the thread
>>23821215In the novels it's pretty evident it's meant to portray a "fall from grace" Noa took with this direction in her life, characters like Akira looking down on her for it. I think that's lame
>>23821168Yeah mine does too, they're real and official, that's why people recommend them when someone asks for a watch order. My point wasn't that it's a recent fan obsession, it's that people would be better off with release order
>>23821231It's really easy to make an ending for them, all it takes is to just give them respect they deserve. Ito's personal course correction cuck fantasy, Where Noa's fiance dies anyway and they're back to square one, is a hundred times worse. Thankfully it's barely canon in the first place and I hope they don't try to over-complicate a relationship that was perfectly fine 30 years ago
>>23821168>>23821856The TV/movie timeline separation has obviously been made a real thing, but I don't think it was something that was really originally intended. I think it became one as Oshii and the rest of Headgear's opinions diverged with where to go next. Like I remember seeing a tweet from Masami Yuki where he said movie 3 was a sequel to New Files in like 2012 iirc
>>23821893I was going to reference that earlier actually, in the timeline graphic that's on the official site they have a dotted line that all the other timelines lead into. I think it's placement is a lot more ambiguous despite inconsistencies like Kumagami's absence and their uniforms/helmets. Timelines in general were generally an afterthought though
>>23821864Let's just pretend it doesn't exist, since the TV series/new files basically lead to them getting together. If he forces his cuckshit in ezy we can of course lynch him
>>23821864It'd be easier to ignore if wasn't written from Kazunori Ito who is literally the main series series screenwriter for the television timeline and wrote almost half the episodes.
>>23820448
>>23823587It was another time.
Why am I just finding out that one of the main members of Headgear and the person most responsible for Patlabor TV which inarguably showcased more Noa/Asuma relationship moments wrote a fucking cuck ending for the two of them? Like holy shit, did /m/ never know or talk about this until now?
>>23824051it's some side material so I don't care.
>>23824069cuckshit is cuckshit. especially if it's written by the main guy
>>23824087Yeah. Oshiis stuff, along with Yukis Manga (more love-hate thing) and the TV show point generally in the same direction for their relationship dynamic, so it's still a shock. Hopefully it can be ignored but since he's working on EZY, well..
>>23824051>>23824087Fuck off tourist.
>>23824121Not liking cuckshit doesn't make you a tourist lmao
>>23824051Because this information was exclusive to a now defunct JP exclusive subscription service called the Patlabor Fanclub. It came with a variety of benefits and one of them was Kazunori Ito's personal post Patlabor 2 story that we know as Goto Sushiya. From anecdotes I can find the plotline involving Noa and Asuma's separation wasn't exactly popular, one person best described it as "superfluous." It's ironic since he wrote the best episodes that defined their relationship, so I hope he takes the feedback if Noa and Asuma's relationship is ever touched upon in EZY.
>>23820445Is that a good or a bad thing?
>>23830723Good of course.
>>23824259It makes little sense. They're a cute couple (especially if it's done on the down low and not overly dramatic). Maybe Ito was writing something in a pessimistic or worn down mood (life doesn't always go the way you want it to, that sort of thing), but otherwise there's no reason to try to ruin it.
>>23830763How do you figure?
>>23832447If we're being serious, I would probably prefer someone who is down to earth(with a spark of something deeper in there), upfront, loyal, and unyielding. I feel that it would be more common to find that in someone from a small town, farm, or whatever than a city slicker (though I could be wrong). I find their dynamic writing wise decent (better in the manga somewhat, where Asuma really fucks up instead of just getting a slap on the wrist for an ep or two) because it's two people complimenting their differences, + the TV series being relatively low key about their relationship instead of it being a "will they won't they" thing. I tend to be pessimistic on how lots of media turn mediocre over time (like Halo) or get laced with NTR, so other than the actual mechs and world building of Patlabor, I found their dynamic cute. The prospect of that being retroactively ruined in EZY is depressing.
>>23832552I would not be too worried about this. I for some reason ever so slightly doubt that one story written by one creator as a spinoff to a different continuity, and I suspect not intended to be taken as anything weightier than a what-if, foreshadowed a different work in a different continuity on which they are only one of the people involved.It's reasonably common for Japanese franchises to have novels treated as more an exploration of something not suited to the primary medium that the writer thought was interesting than intended as serious expansions of the canon. The definitive example here would be Tomino's various Gundam novels.>>23830939People just drift apart sometimes, it happens. People also realise they fucked up too late to do anything about it. I don't like it for them but nothing about what's been described sounds too contrived.It's also hard to judge this without knowing the actual context in the novel. Maybe it's part of some overarching theme of meeting your heroes and finding that the time in between isn't what you'd hoped. Maybe he thought it was a more interesting dynamic to write for them, or allowed him not to have to try and work out what they'd be like after 20 years together. Maybe he was in a bad mood.Not saying it doesn't suck but there's also a reason nobody had even heard about it before this thread.
>>23832552>+
>>23832552Shut the fuck up already you fucking moron.
>>23835983Would you give her the flowers?
>>23836010I would take her flower.
>>23836066Well, you could try, but you'd just end up dead well before you could accomplish anything toward that end.
Does nuka hate sex or just that /m/an in particular?
>>23836444She's an overzealous cop who draws first and appraises the situation later.
>>23838416>an overzealous cop who draws first and appraises the situation laterthat would be ota.
What are the chances that the Indian boy returns as a tech ceo of Schaft in EZY?
>>23838802pretty slim, he was caught and deported back at the end of Griffon arc.
>>23838419I want to kidnap noa.
>>23793618Anyone managed to find raws of that Patlabor X Zoids anniversary crossover?
>>23842452nope
>>23845056FUCKWhy do the good things have to be so insanely hard to acquire?
>>23793618NOA I LOVE YOU PLEASE BE MY WIFE NOA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>23845513>t.
>>23835983Is that AIslop?
>>23845974 nta but the sauce is: https://x.com/sugroop/ status/2048328950632599727 there's an anti AI indicator on the profile bio so i'm assuming their style is just conventional enough to register as AI...
Will EZY only be a theatrical release for a while or will it air normally soon after?
>>23846821I think they will only release it in theatres, till all three are done before airing them weekly.
>>23846821They are shown once in theaters and then the masters are incinerated. It's the ultimate FOMO.
>>23796645I felt like I wasted my time watching the OVA and the movies both. I don't really care for slice of life, I can put up with it if there's good payoff, but then I didn't really care about the payoff either. The only good arc in the OVA was the final terrorist arc, I almost forgot what happened in the first movie and the only thing I remember in the second one was a few conversations between the villain and the chief. I get it if you like slice of life though. The closest I've come to enjoying slice of life is Season 2 of FMP.
>>23847981If between OVA1 and both movies you can't find anything you like then Patlabor's probably just not for you.
>>23847990The 2nd movie mostly pissed me off with how totally unrealistic the scenario was. More than anything it's a compatibility issue, I agree.
>>23847996What struck you as irreconcilably unrealistic about Patlabor 2 specifically?
>>23847997The amount of points of communication that would have to fail for a police force to be fighting its countries military was mostly what I was thinking about.
>>23848002Watch GITS.
>>23848009There's a lot more people and interests pulling the strings in GitS, rather than a few people with grievances. I also found the villain totally unsympathetic and hypocritical.
>>23848016Ehh kind of? GITS' world is also much bigger and at a much larger scale, I'm not saying it's the same but both play with similar scenarios.
>>23848002Well for the most part it's not, SV2's action at the end isn't exactly sanctioned, nor is it against 'the miltary' at large.Part of the film's point is how when lines of communication break down you don't need people acting in bad faith for things to get very tense very quickly.Japan's also got a situation where the military and police establishments are unusually at each other's throats and distrusting to begin with. Postwar law enforcement is extremely focused on not being a militarised presence in civilian life and extremely resistant to anything it sees as pushing itself that way. Pretty famously that's why they still issue S&W .38 specials, it's a distinctly 'not military' firearm. Attempts to switch to a semiauto were undercut by trying to find the least scary ones possible.It's basically part of the 'joke' of the premise of Patlabor. It's not just about day to day and civilian uses of mechs, it's about the direct opposite to military service of them. The AV-98 being a police-first model later adapted to the ARL-99 for the JGSDF, and SV2 specifically existing as part of a rivalry with the JGSDF's labor unit that tries to headhunt Noa is also part of this reoccurring element.Plus just take a look at the number of times the Diet has actually changed hands if you want to understand why those seeking to protect postwar civil institutions may default to being a little on edge about the health of Japanese democracy and resistance from consolidation of power.>>23848016Unsympathetic, sure, but hypocritical how?Just so you know I'm not exactly Oshii's strongest Patlabor 2 defender here, I just think these are the places it's strongest.
>>23848033>Well for the most part it's not, SV2's action at the end isn't exactly sanctioned, nor is it against 'the miltary' at large.Thematically I took it to mean the police conflicting with the military as an institution. >Japan's also got a situation where the military and police establishments are unusually at each other's throats and distrusting to begin withThis cultural difference went over my head entirely while watching it. It's not so farfetched that government agencies are in competition with each other to me, just escalating into actual violence is what I'd expect from a developing country, not one with settled institutions.>Unsympathetic, sure, but hypocritical how?His stance is that a global society built on violence is wrong and he's willing to use violence to prove it. I don't know what else to call that other than hypocritical.
>>23848056>escalating into actual violence is what I'd expect from a developing country, not one with settled institutionsMidwittery.
>>23848063It's your fault you don't have people to talk to. Unfortunate.
>>23848056>His stance is that a global society built on violence is wrong and he's willing to use violence to prove it.Not quite. His beef is with Japan's self-image as apart from and above it. Japan's postwar constitution was largely written for it by the United States and often known as the 'peace constitution'. This has become a point of pride for Japan since, and more recent attempts to reinterpret the self-defence-only clauses for military force have been very... heated.His contention is that as a developed, rich first world nation at the top of the geopolitical food chain along with the global west, Japan benefits from the violence at times used to entrench and defend that position while claiming to be enlightened and peaceful.The Gulf War just two years before the film came out would be a good example. Japan had their interests benefitted by the actions of Coalition forces, directly or not. If you want to go back further, the countries it had been fighting barely five years prior were now creating it a more favourable geopolitical position under the UN banner in Korea.Bottom line is that he sees this contradiction as needing to be resolved, somehow. He'd also be the first JSDF soldier to fire a shot in anger prettyuch ever in the prologue sequence. And note that he technically breaks ROE to do it. He is possibly the only living combat veteran of modern Japan.Goto's unjust peace speech is a repudiation of it. Basically, take your polsci theory shit and fuck off, fair or not we have something good and worth defending here.
>>23848009I'll bet you believe in homeopathy too.
>>23847981You should have watched the tv series, Noa actually has a character arc there.Patlabor 2 is supposed to be the final headgear project to finish off the franchise.
I understand that the timeline stuff wasn't a thing back when the OVAs, the movies and the tv anime were in production, but I honestly can't think of a way how the tv anime and the new files OVA would lead into movie 2. It's good that the separation happened and that EZY is a proper sequel to the tv/new files, though with that long of a timeskip I don't think it'd be that much relevant. I hope we'll get some Schaft shenanigans and some Griffin-related fanservice.Speaking of movie 2 it's still a weird leap even within the Early Days+movie timeline. It seems like an excuse for Oshii to be preachy.
>>23850035You only say this because you binge watched the show and movies in a weekend.
>>23850035>seems like an excuse for Oshii to be preachythat's almost everything Oshii made in his life post UY Only You
>>23850035The continuities were always a thing. What people seem to struggle with is that it was made with the expectation that you'd be going between them. That's distinctly not the same thing as being made without a concept of different continuities.>how the tv anime and the new files OVA would lead into movie 2Well yeah, because TV/OVA2 is a loose adaption of the manga's larger story arcs. TV even contains outright contradictory alternative versions of events from OVA1 and the fist movie. Anyone trying to tell you that audiences weren't supposed to understand that the three are related but different things while watching is an idiot.
>>23850373>audiences weren't supposed to understand that the three are related but different things while watching is an idiot.I think it's more "audiences generally didn't give a fuck about continuity autism"
>>23850376The kind of audience buying mecha OVAs on VHS or LD sure as shit did.
>>23850377how so?
>>23850380Someone in the 80's or 90's engaged enough with the medium to be finding out about and renting or buying an OVA of an original IP was not the most casual of viewers. Stuff like this was viable specifically because of that more engaged and invested otaku audience that sprung up, particularly for mecha. OVA1 and the manga hit the shelves the same year CCA was in theatres. This was at that point a well developed market of people who absolutely were obsessive about shit like continuities and setting details.The main difference if anything, is that Japanese audiences don't get so hung up on the idea that a story is only as worth engaging with as it is in canon with other works. That's very different from not giving a fuck about continuity.I've seen threads that talk about it like the idea of canon is some strange western import that Japanese audiences had no concept of or trying to insist that Patlabor only really had them introduced after the fact. which is both stupid and demonstrably wrong.
>>23845895NO, I'M NOT A WOMAN, I'M NOT A LESBIAN.
I just watchedOVA1>1st movie>2nd movie>3rd movieandTV>OVA2within a month
>>23850397>Japanese audiences don't get so hung up on the idea that a story is only as worth engaging with as it is in canon with other works. That's very different from not giving a fuck about continuity.Alright I see your point.>I've seen threads that talk about it like the idea of canon is some strange western import that Japanese audiences had no concept ofWell yeah, they don't get hung up on it so it's not really relevant, only in the western audience do you see people asking stupid shit like viewing order for something small like Patlabor so prevalently.
tbdesu other than the basics of how Noa meets Alphonse (labor) and the spare gal is there anything really specifically separating the two continuities?
>>23850644SV-2 is established completely differently, in Early Days they all start working at the same time, whereas in TV Division 2 is already active. You also have Kai's coup de tat that would be happening nearly at the same time as the first Phantom incident, and the team showing no concern or hesitance when a labor that looks strikingly similar to the one Noa had to put down on the Ark is delivered to Division 1 as the AV-0 Peacemaker
>>23850474Prove it.
Posting Noa butt.
>>23850769I am not sending a dick pic.
>>23850766so basically nothing, right
>>23850783Your hairy ass will suffice.
>>23850806Maybe you do not have such a problem, but I put my dignity above proving trivial points.
>>23850811Okay dyke, you want one of the flannel shirts I used to wear when I was 12? They might be a bit big for your small frame though.
>>23850819I'm not a lesbian.
>>23850766There's also the alternative version of the rogue hovering tank-labor prototype that has nothing to do with HOS, and the Babylon project never gets sabotaged in the TV timeline.
>>23850625Really if anything, I think the mistake is people talking about OVA1/movies like they're created to be a rigid set of entries in order. If anything's an after-the-fact creation it's probably the 'OVA timeline'. What you've really got is the manga, TV and the entries that don't fit either of them that we lump together.
>>23846405Not sure whether or not to be dismayed.
>>23845895Who's Kana?
>>23842349>I want to be arrested by noaftfy
>>23852238in-universe pop idol.
New trailer...https://x.com/patlabor0810/status/2052674880513200338
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/2052312494111424846
https://ezy.patlabor.tokyo/news/ezy963/Merch.
>>23852598good ol' hayashibara
>>23852598I hope this hog gets a lot of porn
>>23852605>blu raySo it's coming out soon then?
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/2051950094946078758
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/2051587715431563388
>>23852595When did they start putting English on their uniform insignia? For that natter, WHY did they start doing that?
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/2052946659689341225
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/20529013663819162206 days left.
>>23853595They started having English on their uniforms since Patlabor 2, which is what their current uniforms are based on. As for why? Well, same reason Japan loves putting English everywhere else
>>23853595This one is basically an inverted version of the Patlabor 2 style SV2 patch, which I think the Reboot short also went with. The full detail version of the movie 1 style patch also has 'S.V. II' on it, though I don't think they draw it in the movie itself with it.As for why, why does Noa write Alphonse on unit 1 in roman characters instead of Japanese? Why is their unit known as SV2 when that's the contraction of the English name Special Vehicles, section 2? They say and use the contraction based on the English name but when actually speaking the full name generally use the Japanese. Why is Shinohara Heavy Industries' logo the SHI of the English name, and why are thier LOS and HOS operating systems named mainly in English?Shit's always been all over the place, it's just how Japan is with English.>>23852965The staggered release is a deliberate OVA throwback, they'd often be released in volumes of two or three episodes rather than one by one or all together.
What are the chances they'll reference something from TNG?
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/20532637489206437885 days remaining.
>>23853670>same reason Japan loves putting English everywhere elseFashionability?
>damn it, we delivered it to wrong noa.
>>23855976lol
Apparently Shige is set to appear in EZYhttps://x.com/patlabor0810/status/2047293046312894478
>>23855989Of course he is.
>Watching Patlabor TV for the first time>Kanuka leaves and the next episode is a Shinshi episode about him taking over as command for Ota and overcoming his weak willed and passive nature>Gets replaced by Kumagami in the very next episodeLiterally what was the point?
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/2053626138287837576
>>23855989he was in the trailer yeah
Sex with Nuka on the beach.
>>23856964Its launching in Japanese theaters right? So probably a while before we get it
I think Ito's instinct that not having the legacy characters means no one will care is going to prove to be right.
https://trimmer.com/patlabor0810/status/20539885305322869133 days remaining.
https://youtu.be/z9MettbICzg?si=8VfCdnl_rKk1-0YNApparently there's going to be a game tie in too? It looks pretty fun.
https://twitter.com/gsc_mechasmile/status/2054348396031320358
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/20543509132347310752 days to go.
>>23855989Legally, they are not allowed to call it "Patlabor" unless Shigeru Chiba is in it.
>>23861832Kek
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/2054713303658598496The final countdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77e2LzhtEpo
So is the file 1 blu-ray being sold at screenings? I remember the first Hathaway movie did that.
>>23863834I'm pretty sure yes. Then it's being sold online a week later.
It can't be overstated how god awful that OP song is
People are procuring the blu-ray
>>23864026Its honestly not that bad
https://twitter.com/patlabor0810/status/2055045237655957672
>>23864072wait, it's out? hope somebody rips it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpIJrhmmes4
I saw it. I didn't know the blu rays were already on sale, if I knew I would have picked them up. I'm not sure if the mixing on the movie itself was bad or the theater had the volume cranked all the way up but it made watching it painful, especially when character's start YELLING FOR COMEDIC EFFECT. The OP is also painfully ass, the ED song was much better. I hope they change it in the next file. The CGI is mostly good with some shots that look like a PS3 game (mostly the 3rd ep). I didn't care for the new section 2 at first but the 2nd ep really warms you up to them. It ended up being the highlight episode for me since it was just the entire team fantasizing and co-writing an imaginary dispatch against a Zero. The first episode is really basic and filled with exposition that social media exists now (covid is also now canon in Patlabor). The 2nd episode I thought was great and the 3rd episode, which takes place on a movie set, is silly but really enjoyable. Ota and Shinshi appear, Noa is mentioned by name.There's still no replacing Gotoh and Noa however Hachikuma is very cute and I like that she is too big to fit in an Ingram.
>>23865266Have they mentioned or referenced any event from the tv show? Like the Schaft or the Griffon things? Considering the Zero appeared, are Unit 1's Peacemakers a thing in EZY?
>>23865266cool beans. Thanks for the report!
>>23865266oh shit, there are Blurays on sale already? Meaning we won't have to wait ages before it goes online. Sweet, I was getting anxious.
>>23865327If there were I didn't catch it because it's been a few years since I watched the show. Peacekeepers didn't show up, Unit 1 uses the same Ingrams as Unit 2 I thinkThe helldiver is a part of episode 3 however.
>>23865266sounds like it will be fun stuff, hope it gets ripped soon.>>23865903I heard that blu rays will be available for sale after a week but I don't fucking know for sure.
https://xcancel.com/yuuki_spirits/status/2053706949238444092#m
I'm literally seeing japs on twitter post screencaps from their blu-ray copies but not a single torrent upload yet. Hurry up!
>>23867214Retard.
>>23867214 The Japanese are never going to upload torrents of it, it's a huge crime there. The EZY "pilot" was being shipped out on SD cards and sold on Amazon JP and it only got put on the internet after some Portuguese dude got it
