<![endif] Continuing World Of moving pictures and enduring stories. Robots included. #branding Skip to content Home About #access #masthead #header ← Sasami-san and the “live” ED The Fan and the Non-fan in Oreimo → #nav-above Patlabor: A Primer Posted on April 14, 2013 by schneider .entry-meta Labor: a robot specifically designed for construction work. Labors allow dramatic advances in construction, but also in crime. To combat these new Labor crimes, the police created a special unit: The Patrol Labor. And thus, the birth of the Patlabor. What’s Patlabor? It’s a multi-media franchise consisting of anime, manga, and games in the late 80s and early 90s. By far, the anime is the most visible and popular facet of it, spanning a couple of movies, OVAs, and a 47-episode TV series. It was conceived by a core group of creators called Headgear , compos...