Patlabor: The TV Series

Patlabor: The TV Series

1989
7.2
1 Seasons
Comedy Animation Action & Adventure

Patlabor: The TV Series is an anime television series, created by Headgear, animated by Sunrise, and based on the Patlabor anime franchise.

Season

Episodes

Episode 1
Ep 1

Ingram Activated

SV2 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.

Episode 2
Ep 2

Kanuka Has Come

Kanuka comes to Japan from America. She participates in a labor combat tournament. Noa and the gang also compete in it.

Episode 3
Ep 3

This Is SV2

Noa must adapt to living in SV2.

Episode 4
Ep 4

Head to the Mountain of Mystery!

A monster is seen somewhere in the forest. The police sends SV2 to go capture the monster.

Episode 5
Ep 5

Runaway Labor X-10

Runaway Labor X-10 is loose in the forest. Division 2 is sent to go stop it.

Episode 6
Ep 6

The Tower: SOS

Tower 1 of Tower City gets on fire. Division 1 and 2 go to stop it and save the people in the fire.

Episode 7
Ep 7

Glorious Type 97 Modified

The new 97 model is visiting Division 2.

Episode 8
Ep 8

Elusive Green

Noa, Asuma, and Hiromi are sent to investigate on a tree. People believe that there is curse on the tree.

Episode 9
Ep 9

Red Labor Landing

Noa and Asuma are sent to investigate on a terrorist who is gonna steal a red labor, a military labor.

Episode 10
Ep 10

Eve's Trap

Kanuka'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.

Episode 11
Ep 11

Eve's Terror

Kanuka'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.

Episode 12
Ep 12

Ohta's One Troubled Afternoon

Ota is having an arranged marriage. Noa and the gang helps Ota out on his dates.

Episode 13
Ep 13

Gently, Your Highness

A 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.

Episode 14
Ep 14

You Win

Goto takes Division 2 out to drink in order for them to get to know each other more.

Episode 15
Ep 15

The Whale That Sang a Song

An 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.

Episode 16
Ep 16

The Unit Crosses the Sea

Noa'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.

Episode 17
Ep 17

Target, Chief Goto

Goto 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?

Episode 18
Ep 18

I Love Noa-sempai

A 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.

Episode 19
Ep 19

Shadow in Geo-Front

A terrorist implants a bomb in Geo-City. Division 2 go to disarm the bomb. Kanuka goes on the mission with Noa instead of Ota.

Episode 20
Ep 20

Movement in the Dark

Noa 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.

Episode 21
Ep 21

Phantom Again

Asuma 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.

Episode 22
Ep 22

Labor and Flower

Noa 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?

Episode 23
Ep 23

Kanuka's Report

Kanuka 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.

Episode 24
Ep 24

Farewell, Kanuka

Kanuka 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?

Episode 25
Ep 25

Storm of Spring

Shinshi 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?

Episode 26
Ep 26

I'm Takeo Kumagami

Takeo 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.

Episode 27
Ep 27

A Calling Voice in the Dark

SV2 now owns this old mansion. While they work on the mansion, everyone starts to see ghosts.

Episode 28
Ep 28

Suspicious Duo

Noa 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.

Episode 29
Ep 29

SV2 Wiped Out!

SV2 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.

Episode 30
Ep 30

Griffon Was Here!

Utsumi 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.

Episode 31
Ep 31

Tragedy in Rain

Division 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.

Episode 32
Ep 32

Reunion

The 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.

Episode 33
Ep 33

Hounds of SCHAFT

Noa 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.

Episode 34
Ep 34

The Battle of the Gate

Noa 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.

Episode 35
Ep 35

Griffon Down

Noa 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.

Episode 36
Ep 36

Noa's Adventures

Division 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.

Episode 37
Ep 37

Safety on Sales

Division 2 must get the Patlabor Insurance to cover for the cars they destroyed.

Episode 38
Ep 38

Underground Labyrinth Case

Something 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.

Episode 39
Ep 39

Mass Production Plan

Shinohara Industries has finished the new production model of a police labor. Noa, Ota, and Gomioka tests them. What will they think of them?

Episode 40
Ep 40

Shore Watch Out Order

People claim to have seen some kind of monster on the beach. Division 2 investigates this.

Episode 41
Ep 41

Save the Terrorists

Division 2 must save 2 very lousy terrorists that set off a bomb in the wrong place.

Episode 42
Ep 42

Return of the Men

Three old terrorists team up to steal some money.

Episode 43
Ep 43

Working Ladies

Momoko Sakurayama is interviewing Noa for "The Working Girl" show. Meanwhile, a sick man steals a labor in order to commit suicide.

Episode 44
Ep 44

CLAT Forever

Shige 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.

Episode 45
Ep 45

Freedom to Choose a Job

Noa is offered to become a pilot for a Helldiver. While Noa tries to make her decision, she must stop a criminal without Alphonse.

Episode 46
Ep 46

It's Name, Zero

SV2 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.

Episode 47
Ep 47

Condition Green

Noa 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.

Cast

Mina Tominaga

Mina Tominaga

Noa Izumi (voice)

Ryusuke Ohbayashi

Ryusuke Ohbayashi

Captain Kiichi Goto (voice)

Toshio Furukawa

Toshio Furukawa

Asuma Shinohara (voice)

Michihiro Ikemizu

Michihiro Ikemizu

Isao Ota (voice)

Issei Futamata

Issei Futamata

Shinshi Mikiyasu (voice)

Yoshiko Sakakibara

Yoshiko Sakakibara

Captain Shinobu Nagumo (voice)

Akio Otsuka

Akio Otsuka

Sergeant Tsutomu Gomioka (voice)

Daisuke Gori

Daisuke Gori

Hiromi Yamazaki (voice)

Osamu Saka

Osamu Saka

Chief Seitaroh Sakaki (voice)

Shigeru Chiba

Shigeru Chiba

Chief Shigeo Shiba (voice)