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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- The finale of the TV series was kind of abrupt (because it got cancelled, I think), but I liked it better than this. After 11 episodes of sitcom, weirdness, and goof jokes, it's hard to swallow a story more grounded in the day-to-day of the characters' actual job. I also question spending so much time on Kumagami who to the last remains barely characterized. Overall, I'm not too happy with this second OVA and got kind of sick of it by the end. I don't mind not pushing so hard on the robot thing but dropping it pretty much completely after wrapping-up the Griffin storyline made the series feel lopsided. |
| I felt this ep was a little too heavy-handed, especially for an ending. |
There goes my heartache. I'll miss this Patlabor. Now it's time to miss the Patlabor with Oshii as director. And to think that there may still be a rich history in each of the characters after seeing Shinohara's father. Goddamnit. |
| There were couple of good episodes and the comic episodes were still fun but the characters often felt off on them which kinda soured things. And yet again they left the main storyline without ending. Maybe at the time that storyline wasn't finished on the manga which is why they couldn't complete it but even if that was the case then should have just made an original ending instead. They had plenty of episodes to do that. |
| I liked this ova more than the on on television.. 8/10 sad that it's over :'( |
Nanika ga Okashii |
| After the whole TV series-OVA and a good year and a half it might be the right time to rewatch the movies. New Files met my expectations greatly. It gave a completion to the Griffin arc, that even if not the strongest (mainly because of Richard Wong) was asking for some sort of better closure than the nonexistent one it received during the TV series. Actually, the main series wasn't that much cancelled as it did get prolonged twice. It was originally going to cover up until the point Kanuka left, and that was like episode 25 or so. And then, we have the remaining 10 episodes of hilarity. I'd love Patlabor to be endless just for these. No disappointments, I really got what I was looking for and this will remain as one of my favorite entries from the franchise. |
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| Thanks for the journey, Patlabor. Still have the movie timeline to explore, but maybe another day. |
I thought they were going on a date, but nah, just taking her to see the grave of his suicidal brother. |
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| I could watch 200 episodes of these guys but alas. All good things right? |
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| this was a really nice episode. felt like it should have been in the middle of the tv series instead. this ova series mostly felt like mediocre unaired episodes that didn't make it into the tv show. i barely got any of the sense of hanging out with a bunch of fun characters which is what i was watching patlabor for. i didn't have nearly as much fun with this as the tv series. oh well |
| So the dog in the OP really was a bait after all. I was expecting them to adopt a dog mascot this whole time but it never came to be. They did briefly get that cat though, which is in many ways better. |
| Damn, kinda sad we never finished up with the Lieutenant and Richard Wong stuff. Im glad they somehow finished griphon stuff but wished they did more with it. There were some more laughs throughout these eps like the bath ep and some more little callbacks to prior eps. I had an ok time but wished it was handled better. My next endeavor is to watch the movies now. |
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