Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 61 - Patlabor The Movie
Hosts: Feddy, Jeremy, Mike
This is about giant robots with revolvers and extendible karate chopping arms, mecha fan girls, and two guys saving Tokyo in their underwear in a sleazy apartment.
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| Posted 30 June, 2008 - 09:17 by Destroy All Pod... |
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9 comments postedI saw the dubbed Manga Ent. ver. many moons ago, and this is also my only exposure to actually seeing animation from the Patlabor universe. (Yes, I would also like to see the dubbed series just cuz.)
Keeping my feedback short here...
It's been a while, but I do remember that I really liked this movie. I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Certainly seeing animated Labors on-screen fightin' 'n shootin' n' such instead of always pictures in my dad's numerous '90s Hobby Japan magazines was awesome, but I also recall how I liked the detective work in it, and- looking back- it was more of a human police drama rather than a police-piloting-giant-robots movie. And, you guys are right- from what I recall- that the technology represented in this film wasn't too far outside the realm of possibility as far as things like land-reclamation projects; or how the Patlabors aren't super-agile, immune to inertia, and don't use beam sabers and plasma cannons- they kept it near-future by using scaled-up shotguns & revolver pistols. (The Internet was still in its commercial-use infancy when this movie was made, right?)
Oh, and ditto on the zombie-monster moments with the pilot-less Labors.
Oh, BTW, I liked this DAPDX.
...hurt to say that.
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CollectionDX Staff
My Exhibit "A" on near-future giant robots: the remote-controlled T-45 Enryu ("Rescue-dragon").
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Oh, BTW, I thought the purpose of the Babylon Project was to build a sea wall around major populated areas [in Japan, at least] to preserve them from rising ocean levels due to global warming?
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CollectionDX Staff
Oh I bet it hurt.
-Andrew.
We did mention the sea wall, but I thought the point of the sea wall was to make it easier to reclaim land. It was sort of not well explained. Maybe I got that part wrong?
-J
Coincidentally I was home sick yesterday and threw this in. Being too ill to read sub I watched the dubbed and they mentioned when the bridge connecting the sections was complete, along with the tides, it would allow them to control pollution and cleaning of the bay. Kinda like what they've done on the Thames or around Venice.
http://www.shadowsend.com
FYI Bandai Visual did release a cheaper standalone DVD without all the extras.
Amazon.com link
That’s a recent remaster/redub version actually.
I can't remember what episodes, specifically, that they were in but the two detectives that appear throughout the movies do show up in the television series and, may have shown up, in the ova sequel to the series.
I’m not sure if Matsui’s partner shows up at all in the series, or if Matsui shows up in the 2nd OVA at all. But I can tell you this much: in the TV series, the character is really two dimensional and redundant. The only purpose he serves, plot-wise, is to do a little detective work when the other characters are too tied up to do it or it’s out of their league. Truth be told, it’s more interesting watching the main characters try to figure things out themselves.