MiniPato: Mobile Police Patlabor Minimum

Name: MiniPato: Mobile Police Patlabor Minimum
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2002-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 12 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Ryusuke Ohbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Shigeru Chiba

Unlike most shows the three episodes are not only totally unrelated to each other but really don't follow a plot as such and are more a light-hearted jibe at both the Patlabor series (TV and films) and other "mecha" Anime. Episode 1 is a brief introduction to the weaponry carried by the Ingram and how it was designed and why it is the way it is. Episode 2 looks at the design and maintenance of the Ingram 98 AV in SVU2 and takes a swipe at the marketing forces behind them (as in merchandising for the series). Episode 3 is the only one to attempt to expand on a very minor point raised in the original TV show and just how SVU2 is actually funded.

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Created By

Mamoru Oshii Kazunori Ito Yutaka Izubuchi Masami Yuki Akemi Takada

Status

Ended

Original Name

ミニパト

First Air Date

March 30, 2002

Last Air Date

April 13, 2002

Seasons

Episodes

Language

Japanese

Production Companies

Production I.G Bandai Visual TFC

Networks

S01E03

The Secret of Special Vehicle Unit 2

Shinobu reports on the main problem with the SV2: food. She tells the story of how the members of the SV2 became addicted to dried Goby. To solve Goby shortages, Gotoh practically turns the fishing and drying of Goby into an industry, and ends up marketing Goby over the internet.

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