In the future, technology is increasing rapidly, and that has given birth to giant robots called Labors. The name Labors comes from their usefulness in heavy industry. However, this gives the rise to Labor Crimes. This results in the need for a new branch of law enforcement that's equipped with their own Patlabors, and are dedicated to the policing of Labors. One day a bunch of new recruits join Special Vehicle Division 2, and a dragged into a series of crazy adventures.
Noa Izumi is a female police officer and one of the new recruits who ends up joining Special Vehicle Division 2. She loves Patlabors and wants to control one. The other reqruits are Asuma Shinohara who's the son of the head of Shinohara Heavy Industries. A company who makes Labors. Isao Oota, a loose cannon who loves guns. Mikiyasu Shinshi, the lone married man of SV2, and Hiromi Yamazaki, who's the soft-spoken and kind-hearted giant. Other than them you have Kiichi Gotou who's the captain of division 2 of SV2. Seitarou Sakaki who's the head mechanic of SV2. Kanuka Clancy who's a temporary member of SV2 division 2 assigned from NYPD. And last but not least we have Shinobu Nagumo who's the leader of division 1.
The animation in this OVA is ok. Nothing to write home about, but it's not bad either. I would say they played it fairly safe with the animation in this OVA, so that when they needed to step it up they could, but it didn't do anything to make it stand out from other shows at the time.
The music in the OVA was servicable. The music fit the show well and added to the scenes, but it also didn't stand out in any way.
Overall I have to say I enjoyed this OVA. I went into this show fairly blind, so I was not aware that it was a comedy, so that took me a bit by surprise. However I think the comedy worked well in the show. I was afraid it could take away from the more serious moments of the show, but luckily it didn't. If I have any issues with the OVA it would be that there were a lot of things I would have liked for them to dive more into, like the characters could have been fleshed out a bit more, but due to the OVA only being 7 episodes there was limited time to work with. So taking that into concideration I liked this show. It was decently funny, and when it wanted to be serious it could do that without seeming out of place or ruining the show.
