Here you will find links to just about every Patlabor website on the web plus some other related sites and pages. You might note that a lot of these fan Patlabor websites haven't been updated in many years, which isn't too surprising, but rather disheartening to see. With Yahoo! closing Geocities in October 2009, many of the older (and better) Patlabor fan sites have disappeared. If you know of any more sites which aren't listed here, please email me the details so I can put a link up to them.

Official Sites

Patweb (Japanese Language Only)
Bandai Visual's official web site for their Patlabor goods including the 2010 Blu-ray releases. The site contains information for Blu-ray and DVD releases, synopses for all of the Patlabor anime and information on selected non-Bandai Visual Patlabor products. The site also has a link to Bandai Visual's Patlabor Twitter feed.

WXIII Patlabor the movie 3 (Japanese Language Only)
Bandai Visual's official web site for the movie. Contains synopsis for the film, and characters and staff profiles. Also has information on all the other anime versions of Patlabor including synopsis, and characters and staff profiles for each series and film.

Mamoru Oshii Official Site (Japanese Language Only)
The official website of director Mamoru Oshii. It contains a history of his work, and a message board.

Masami Yuuki Official Site (Japanese Language Only)
The official website of manga artist Masami Yuuki.

Angels: Takada Akemi Official Website (Japanese Language Only)
The official site for Akemi Takada, character designer for Patlabor. He site contains an art gallery, her profile, links, news and information about her works.

Kazunori Ito (Japanese Language Only)
An archived version of Kazunori Ito's official website which he no longer updates. Ito wrote the screenplays for the first Patlabor OVA series and the first two movies as well as numerous TV and New OVA Series. It contains a list of his works, a diary, links and his profile.

Kenji Kawai
The official English language site for Kenji Kawai, the composer of the Patlabor soundtracks. The site has a listing of the equipment he uses, as well as a list of upcoming soundtracks he has produced.

Production I.G
Official English language site for Production I.G. Formally Tatsunoko I.G, this company produces high quality animated TV series, OVAs, and movies. They animated the first two Patlabor films and "Minipato".

Sunrise
Official English language site for Sunrise, the studio that produced the Patlabor TV series. Sunrise is most famous for their long running Gundam series. They produce many other shows, mostly science fiction anime.

Abilit - Mobile Police Patlabor Pachinko Website (Japanese Language Only)
Official site Pachinko game maker Abilit's Patlabor game which was released in May 2007. Contains downloads and a rundown of the game.

Manga (USA) and Manga (UK)
Official sites for Manga, the company that used to distribute the first two Patlabor films in English in the UK and USA.

Madman (Australia) and Madman (New Zealand)
Official sites for Madman Entertainment, Australia's fastest growing independent video distributor. The company distributes the first two Patlabor films and previously released the third film and Minipato in English in Australia and New Zealand.

Image Entertainment
While Bandai Visual USA, the US division of Bandai Visual/Emotion who released the Patlabor movies and series in Japan, has left the US market permanently, the first two Patlabor movies they re-released on Bandai Visual USA's video label Honneamise in 2006 are still being distributed by Image Entertainment.

Beez Entertainment Europe
Official site for the European division of Bandai Entrainment. The UK division of the company released the first two Patlabor movies in the UK during 2006, but are seemingly no long available from most online UK retailers.

Shonen Sunday - Patlabor (Japanese Language Only)
A mini site about the Patlabor manga on Shonen Sunday's official website.

Viz Media
Official site for Viz who published the first two Patlabor graphic novels in English.

Patlabor Fansites in English

Patlabor: Condition Green
The first new English language Patlabor site I've seen in nearly two years. Run by a girl calling herself Sailor Lum, there's some music from the series and her own fan art on there at the moment, and it looks as if there's more to come.

Hanger Number 2: Patlabor the Mobile Police
A website which contains general information on Patlabor, character and staff information, a gallery, and information on model kits and CDs (Note: the CDs mentioned on this website are Taiwanese bootlegs).

Welcome to Special Vehicle Second Command (SV2)
A website by a guy named Ben Cheng, which contains character profiles, Original OVA (Early Days) list and synopses, New OVA (P-Series) title lists, CD and artbook info. Like a lot of Patlabor websites, this was created many years ago and hasn't been updated for a long time.

Patlabor Pagoda!
A small unfinished site which currently contains info on the characters and story.

MAHQ - Mobile Police Patlabor
This site contains comprehensive Labor profiles from all of the Patlabor series.

the DECk : otaku : patlabor
A mini-site containing information on all version of the anime, character profiles and a sceencap gallery. I had this site up on the links page a couple years back, but it disappeared. Luckily I've discovered the new URL.

Patlabor Fansites in Japanese

Patlabor.org (Japanese Language Only)
Contains general info on Patlabor, the history behind the production of Patlabor and a message board.

Special Vehicle Section 2 - Maintenance's Computer Room (Japanese Language Only)
I'm not too sure if my shonky translation of the website's name is correct, but anyway it's a great little site which contains a Labors database, info on computer games, manga and book info, CD soundtrack info, pictures and info on various merchandise (phone cards, models etc), and a section on the weird "Super Deformed" Patlabor anime short that apparently appeared in a SD Gundam movie.

Patlabor Mailing List (Japanese Language Only)
As it sounds. This is the site where you sign up. It also contains a message board.

Reclaimed Land Club (Japanese Language Only)
Really, really shonky translation of this site's name, so forgive me. This seems to be a site where Patlabor fans in Japan can organise to meet up with each other. It also contains a chat room and links. The site map with the gifs of the Patlabor cast peering through doors is rather cute.

Neji Neji Dan (Japanese Language Only)
A fantastic site all about Labors. There's just about everything on this site that anyone would need to know about them including timelines, articles and best of all, the webmasters wonderful renderings of all of the Labors which not only appear in the manga and anime, but also his impressions of those only mentioned in obscure Patlabor reference books.

Schaft Enterprises Japan (Japanese Language Only)
A great site which contains tons of info including TV broadcast dates, LD and video lists and Labor specifications.

Bide One's Time (Japanese Language Only)
A fan art site which contains quite a few Patlabor pieces, mostly done using MS Paint.

World of P (Japanese Language Only)
A fan website which contains a Patlabor section full of animated gif icons and some rather good flash animation.

Studio Kurume (Japanese Language Only)
This site has a gallery of images from the anime, pictures of cels and original drawings, photos of locations, fan fiction and a list of music from each scene from the Early Days OVA series.

Patlabor Cafe (Japanese Language Only)
This site has some fan art and includes a message board and links page.

Spring Planet (Japanese Language Only)
This website seems to be partly a doujinshi circle website and has fan art, a list of doujinshi the circle has published including covers, a couple of rather cute games, a blog and message board.

Patlabor Fansites in Chinese

Patlabor - The Moblie Police
A Canadian Patlabor webpage in Chinese mostly, but there a couple pages in English. It contains character profiles, lyrics to songs, TV episode synopses, movie synopses, a gallery, soundtrack listing (partly romanised in English), and links (in English).

Patlabor Fansites in French

SV2 Patlabor Database (French Language Only)
An excellent and comprehensive Labor, vehicle and character Database.

Patlabor Fansites in Italian

Patlabor World - SOGNI Di GUNDAM (Italian Language Only)
Contains Labor specs in a rundown of the Patlabor story and a section of the characters.

Panchi Worlds of Manga & Anime - Patlabor
Contains an overview of the series in both English and Italian as well as a look at the Italian video releases of the series. Unfortunately the links to the two galleries are broken.

Other Patlabor related webpages in English

The Basset Hound
A very comprehensive site about Mamoru Oshii’s works including novels, manga, live action films as well all of his anime.

Anime Lyrics - Patlabor
Song lyrics for all the songs appearing in most of the anime versions of Patlabor in English and romanised Japanese.

AnimeLab.com - Patlabor
Five pages of Patlabor Pictures.

Anime Galleries dot Net - Home > Patlabor Mobile Police
A gallery of Patlabor Pictures.

Anime Wallpapers - Patlabor
Four wallpapers for your PC.

Yahoo! Groups : patlaborclub
A popular Patlabor mailing list.

Yahoo! Groups : MPPatlaborML
Another Patlabor mailing list.

Shoujo-Ai Archive: Patlabor Fanfiction
This site contains two lesbian fan fiction stories. Content possibly not suitable for viewing at work.

Fanfiction.net - Patlabor
Contains a whole heap of Patlabor fan fiction.

Anime News Network - Buried Treasure: Patlabor TV & OAVs
Justin Sevakis' fairly extensive review of the TV series and both OVA series for his regular column "Buried Treasure" from May 2008. The only quibble I have is that there are some factual errors regarding availability. There are no hour long compilations of the OVA or TV series (and never have been), and the TV and OVA series were (and still are) in print in Japan as individual box sets. Also Sevakis claims that the New OVA Series is called the "V-Files" in Japan. Um, no... Where the hell did he get that idea from?

EX: The Online World of Anime & Manga - Mobile Police Patlabor
A review of the first issue of Viz's English adaptation of the Patlabor manga.

Robot Factory - Caz Patlabor Models
Contains a gallery of fully built and painted 1/35 scale Bandai Patlabor models.

SHIFT | 066 | PATLABOR THE MOVIE 3
A Japanese online magazine in English that includes an interview with Tori-miki about his screenplay for "WXIII Patlabor the Movie 3".

Nausicaa.net - Miyazaki vs Oshii around Patlabor 2
An English translation of an interview with Mamoru Oshii and animator Hayao Miyazaki from Animage magazine, Volume 184 (October 1993 issue).

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