Patlabor: The TV Series (1989)
Patlabor: The TV Series is an anime television series, created by Headgear, animated by Sunrise, and based on the Patlabor anime franchise.
- Mamoru Oshii
- Kazunori Ito
- Yutaka Izubuchi
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Episode 1 - Ingram Activated
Release Date: 1989-10-11SV2 is going to get new AV 98 ingrams soon. Asuma and Ota go to Shinohara Heavy Industries to get it. Noa also heads there to take her labor aptitude test. When someone steals the ingram, Noa goes to save it.
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Episode 2 - Kanuka Has Come
Release Date: 1989-10-11Kanuka comes to Japan from America. She participates in a labor combat tournament. Noa and the gang also compete in it.
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Episode 3 - This Is SV2
Release Date: 1989-11-01Noa must adapt to living in SV2.
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Episode 4 - Head to the Mountain of Mystery!
Release Date: 1989-11-08A monster is seen somewhere in the forest. The police sends SV2 to go capture the monster.
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Episode 5 - Runaway Labor X-10
Release Date: 1989-11-15Runaway Labor X-10 is loose in the forest. Division 2 is sent to go stop it.
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Episode 6 - The Tower: SOS
Release Date: 1989-11-22Tower 1 of Tower City gets on fire. Division 1 and 2 go to stop it and save the people in the fire.
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Episode 7 - Glorious Type 97 Modified
Release Date: 1989-11-29The new 97 model is visiting Division 2.
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Episode 8 - Elusive Green
Release Date: 1989-12-06Noa, Asuma, and Hiromi are sent to investigate on a tree. People believe that there is curse on the tree.
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Episode 9 - Red Labor Landing
Release Date: 1989-12-13Noa and Asuma are sent to investigate on a terrorist who is gonna steal a red labor, a military labor.
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Episode 10 - Eve's Trap
Release Date: 1989-12-20Kanuka's grandma from Hawaii visits Tokyo for Christmas. Then she suddenly disappears. The only clue to find her is "The Christmas of 50 years ago". When they try to find her, they are called off to duty.
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Episode 11 - Eve's Terror
Release Date: 1989-12-27Kanuka's grandma is still missing. Shinshi and some guy is sent to go find her. Kanuka uses Ota's labor to help Noa in the mission.
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Episode 12 - Ohta's One Troubled Afternoon
Release Date: 1990-01-10Ota is having an arranged marriage. Noa and the gang helps Ota out on his dates.
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Episode 13 - Gently, Your Highness
Release Date: 1990-01-17A prince from the desert joins Division 2 for a couple of days so he can establish a labor team at his homeland. A sniper is out to kill the prince, so Division 2 goes to stop him.
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Episode 14 - You Win
Release Date: 1990-01-24Goto takes Division 2 out to drink in order for them to get to know each other more.
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Episode 15 - The Whale That Sang a Song
Release Date: 1990-01-31An endangered humpback whale enters the Tokyo Bay. The city and Division 2 try to get the whale to leave the bay and go back to the ocean.
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Episode 16 - The Unit Crosses the Sea
Release Date: 1990-02-07Noa's hometown is having a winter festival and Division 2 is helping out. They also try to help out a boy named Satoru who hates labors.
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Episode 17 - Target, Chief Goto
Release Date: 1990-02-14Goto starts to act very strangely lately. Also, there are a lot of random attacks coming at Goto. Could these attacks have anything to do why Goto is acting strangely?
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Episode 18 - I Love Noa-sempai
Release Date: 1990-02-21A famous entertainer named Kana is joining Division 2 for one week. Everybody is trying to teach Kana how to pilot a labor. A crime gang tries to kidnap Kana so they can get one of Division 2's ingrams. However, they accidently steal Noa. Now, they have to save Noa without having to give the gang one of their ingrams.
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Episode 19 - Shadow in Geo-Front
Release Date: 1990-02-28A terrorist implants a bomb in Geo-City. Division 2 go to disarm the bomb. Kanuka goes on the mission with Noa instead of Ota.
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Episode 20 - Movement in the Dark
Release Date: 1990-03-07Noa and Asuma get into a fight concerning Asuma's personal life. When Division 2 get's assigned a special mission, Asuma is sent to Hajioji to pick up Unit 3.
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Episode 21 - Phantom Again
Release Date: 1990-03-14Asuma heads to Hajioji to get back Unit 3. He now heads to the battle. However, in the meantime, Noa and Ota are getting their butts kicked by the enemy.
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Episode 22 - Labor and Flower
Release Date: 1990-03-21Noa and Kanuka meet up with some old guy and shows them his labor collection. He also gets training on how to pilot a labor from them. The old guy's friend owns a very powerful labor, but that's it. And he doesn't know how to pilot it. Later, the old man and his friend fight with their labors. Who will win, the old man with some piloting skills with a weak labor or his friend with no piloting skills with a powerful labor?
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Episode 23 - Kanuka's Report
Release Date: 1990-04-04Kanuka is now leaving Division 2 and going back home to America. Asuma, Ota, and the others decide to throw her a farewell party. Noa is sent to spy on Kanuka. When the guys finish setting up the party, they come across Kanuka's reports on Division 2 and decide to read them.
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Episode 24 - Farewell, Kanuka
Release Date: 1990-04-11Kanuka is heading back to America. However, there is a hijacker trying to hijack the plane Kanuka is riding on. How is Kanuka going to stop this, and without her gun?
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Episode 25 - Storm of Spring
Release Date: 1990-04-18Shinshi takes control of Kanuka's position in Division 2. However, he is really bad at it. Then, he is offered a new job. Will Shinshi stay with Division 2 or will he take the new job? And how is his wife going to react?
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Episode 26 - I'm Takeo Kumagami
Release Date: 1990-04-25Takeo Kumagami now joins Division 2. Noa is worried that Goto will reassign positions and that Takeo will take her place as the pilot for Unit 1.
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Episode 27 - A Calling Voice in the Dark
Release Date: 1990-05-02SV2 now owns this old mansion. While they work on the mansion, everyone starts to see ghosts.
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Episode 28 - Suspicious Duo
Release Date: 1990-05-09Noa and Asuma meet Utsumi and Bud in an arcade. Utsumi is giving Bud a new special labor called the Griffon. Bud will use it to fight Noa in the future.
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Episode 29 - SV2 Wiped Out!
Release Date: 1990-05-23SV2 orders their lunch from Shanghai Restraunt, as usual. But they never get it. They intend to find out why and won't work until they get their food.
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Episode 30 - Griffon Was Here!
Release Date: 1990-05-30Utsumi plans to unveil the Griffon to the public. Meanwhile, H.Q. wants to put in more divisions, so they will get rid of the ingrams and replace them with a bunch of economy models, but the decision isn't final yet.
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Episode 31 - Tragedy in Rain
Release Date: 1990-06-06Division 2 is on duty at the International Labor Show. Asuma takes Noa's movement disk to test out the new economy model. But then, the Griffon is unleashed. He beats up Asuma and Ota. Noa enters the fight after getting her disk back, but the Griffon retreats since it was raining.
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Episode 32 - Reunion
Release Date: 1990-06-13The Griffon has crashed and Noa is relieved. However, the Griffon is being fixed up. Kanuka comes back to Tokyo and temporarily takes control of command of Machine 1.
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Episode 33 - Hounds of SCHAFT
Release Date: 1990-06-20Noa and the gang that the Griffon didn't really crash, the crash was faked. SCHAFT must not let Utsumi get to Tokyo, but he gets there. Noa must prepare for the fight against the Griffon.
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Episode 34 - The Battle of the Gate
Release Date: 1990-06-27Noa and Alphonse begin the fight with Bud and the Griffon. Noa is given a rifle to use but she can't use it because there are stupid people in the way. She tries using it like a sword but it didn't work out.
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Episode 35 - Griffon Down
Release Date: 1990-07-04Noa and Alphonse continue her fight with the Griffon. But the Griffon gets away in order for Utsumi to escape. Kanuka must go back to America.
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Episode 36 - Noa's Adventures
Release Date: 1990-07-11Division 2 goes to stay by the mountains for a week for training. While out buying dinner, Noa finds 20,000 yen and goes to find where the money came from all by herself.
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Episode 37 - Safety on Sales
Release Date: 1990-07-18Division 2 must get the Patlabor Insurance to cover for the cars they destroyed.
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Episode 38 - Underground Labyrinth Case
Release Date: 1990-07-25Something is out stealing stuff from Division 2. It appears to come from an old tunnel. Ota and Shinshi go to check it out. When Division 2 loses contact with them, Noa, Asuma, Hiromi, and Takeo go to find them.
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Episode 39 - Mass Production Plan
Release Date: 1990-08-01Shinohara Industries has finished the new production model of a police labor. Noa, Ota, and Gomioka tests them. What will they think of them?
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Episode 40 - Shore Watch Out Order
Release Date: 1990-08-08People claim to have seen some kind of monster on the beach. Division 2 investigates this.
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Episode 41 - Save the Terrorists
Release Date: 1990-08-15Division 2 must save 2 very lousy terrorists that set off a bomb in the wrong place.
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Episode 42 - Return of the Men
Release Date: 1990-08-22Three old terrorists team up to steal some money.
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Episode 43 - Working Ladies
Release Date: 1990-08-29Momoko Sakurayama is interviewing Noa for "The Working Girl" show. Meanwhile, a sick man steals a labor in order to commit suicide.
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Episode 44 - CLAT Forever
Release Date: 1990-09-05Shige is being sent to New York. However, he gets hurt before he goes and has a dream that he is in New York working with CLAT.
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Episode 45 - Freedom to Choose a Job
Release Date: 1990-09-12Noa is offered to become a pilot for a Helldiver. While Noa tries to make her decision, she must stop a criminal without Alphonse.
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Episode 46 - It's Name, Zero
Release Date: 1990-09-19SV2 gets a new patlabor model called the Zero. It is superior to the ingram. After messing up during a mission, Noa is worried that she will lose Alphonse.
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Episode 47 - Condition Green
Release Date: 1990-09-26Noa goes back to her hometown and sees the grave of her dog Alphonse. Asuma goes to get her when a terrorist comes. Division 1 and 2 must find the terrorist without using weapons since it would cause a fire.