Patlabor EZY has a "pilot video" coming next month
https://patlabor.tokyo/news/1411/
Looks like it might be full 3DCG animation.
Patlabor EZY
Patlabor EZY has a "pilot video" coming next month
https://patlabor.tokyo/news/1411/
Looks like it might be full 3DCG animation.
>Looks like it might be full 3DCG animation.
This is why it's best to just let things rest
I agree
Who the frick decided that Noa needed bracers?
DENTAL PLAN
These look like trash.
I remember seeing this a long time ago, like holy what the hell. It barely resembles Noah but ontop of that it looks like from really cheap 3DCGI porn or something
Frick off zoomer.
>muh -oomer
go back
>muh
You first.
Which DOA is that from?
She must have been watching a lot of Hokuto No Ken.
Dneunan?
Patlabor 2 should have been the end of the franchise.
But Patlabor 3 was the best entry no contest.
I was going to make this thread but the lead artist being a dude that only does early 2000's style CG is a big nope from me. Izubuchi too busy?
Anyway, I'm just going to now pretend this project isn't happening.
>Looks like it might be full 3DCG animation.
I'm okay with this, in 10 years CG will be recognized as a proper animation medium.
Lol, no.
You’ll be dead by then, calm down
Your untaught zoomer tastes don't count.
See the good thing about this scenario is that your input is irrelevant, you refuse to acknowledge anything other than your small perception of the world but that doesn't mean it's not there.
3DCG WILL get better as more and more artists (specifically japanese) get more proficient at it, it's only natural.
People were saying this 30 years ago
And they were proven right. Now if only japan didn't have such a lucrative videogame industry we'd have much better 3DCG anime, maybe even a separate industry of it.
Even their video game 3D art is bad. Japan doesn’t treat 3D as it’s own medium, they constantly try to make it emulate 2D art and it usually looks ugly. They just don’t get it
(But in this case, that generalization doesn’t seem to apply to EZY)
>Japan doesn’t treat 3D as it’s own medium
Because in general it's not seen as one, people treat it as a "cheaper" option to 2D and that's debatable but it only makes corpos think "well why not try to emulate 2D then?". I think there's enough place for both to coexist.
>Because in general it's not seen as one
3D animation is seen as it’s own medium in any country besides Japan.
Any crab stick opinion you read on /m/ or Cinemaphile saying otherwise is not true
If it truly were its own medium then Disney would be making 2D films alongside 3DCG.
They did do that with the princess and the frog in 2009. But it didn’t make them any money so they stopped
>Even their video game 3D art is bad
You're smoking dicks.
They've been pushing the limits of CG since the 90s. Square Enix is an especially notable example of that, but you also have arc sys works and more recently miHoYo doing amazing work with CG as well.
Square Enix hasn't been pushing shit for ages and they pretty much flipped over and started using Unreal Engine for most of their shit recently.
Mihoyo ain't even Japanese.
I feel like CGI has actually gotten WORSE over time
You say that and yet even the seasonal family comedy slapstick shit crapped out by the usual 3d animation studios in the west actually look like they've finally figured out some new animation tricks.
Or maybe that's just Blender finally not having a shitty user experience.
Blender isn't industry standard.
No but it is free and of pro-grade pedigree, which is the best way for a software to become an industry standard.
But it's not what people in the industry use, even if it's a great tool, there are far better options in the business that make things easier, so Blender being good or not is irrelevant to the medium as a whole.
And you say that but then the Netflix Tekken and Dragon Ball Super movies happen
>animationplebes complaining about CGI as if they have taste
I'm sorry but if you aren't part of the scale model effects master race then you are subhuman filth unfit to post on /m/.
you and your kit engineer "artists" can go to hell
I'm sorry but did I give you permission to reply to me, degenerate?
How do I watch Patlabor? I believe it goes OVA 1, TV, OVA 2, but when are you supposed to watch the movies?
After OVA 1
Ova 1 and movies are one continuity, TV and Ova 2 are another and the manga exist on its own.
Real answers by real /m/en.
production order all day erry day
How the frick is this project still alive?
OVA1 doesn't fit with TV. TV and OVA2 are loose adaptions of the manga.
Production order always. In Patlabor's case, this means OVA1 -> Movie 1 ->TV -> OVA2 -> Movie 2 -> Movie 3
Anything people say about timelines is bullshit and doesn't matter, the canon of Patlabor is loose and the real joy is seeing the way that ideas are examined and played with and grow over the course of the series. It's not like it's bad at any point before the third movie
>It's not like it's bad at any point
I thought Early Days, movie 1, and TV were all pretty bad. Movie 2 and New Files weren't that much better.
At that point you just don't like Patlabor, anon.
>people say about timelines
It's literally printed at the back of the blu ray.
I know, and it doesn't matter. If you watch "timeline 1" and then "timeline 2" you'll have a very confusing and muddled understanding of how patlabor developed.
If someone didn't tell you there where two timelines you wouldn't even notice outside of the first couple introductory episodes. The characters and setting are identical. There is no reason to be confused about any of this other than pure moronation. If you idiots spent more time actually watching anime instead of nitpicking over bullshit you might not be so damn confused all the time.
They'd be confused about Kanuka sometimes turning into a bear and sometimes russian
As much as i find liveaction Kanuka looks beautiful, i still prefer TV Kanuka.
It'd be pretty confusing to watch SV2 meet twice for one thing, and neither of the films, particularly 1, fit with the TV show and OVA2 particularly well.
Watch them in whatever order you like, intersperse OVA1 and OVA2 while you read the script of WXIII in braille for all I care, but it's good to know one's an adaption of the manga trying to do something a little different to the other stuff. People watching at the time they released would've been completely aware of it too. It's not some modern invention.
>It's not some modern invention.
His favourite youtuber said production order, who are you, or the producer of the anime to say otherwise?
Also there was that black robot, the Grotton? It's both in the OVA1 and the TV shows, you can totally tell it's the same.
It's not wrong as such but the problem is it completely ignores original context. I suspect most people picking up Patlabor today aren't spacing out their consumption to match the original production schedule, or reading up on period promos and interviews to learn about new projects in the series in real time relative to their original commencement. Most of us are sitting here smashing out what would've originally aired over half a year in maybe a week or two and with zero interaction with any additional contemporary anything.
It also tends to assume that the contemporary audience had no concept of these things either.
To use an example from a different franchise, I've never seen anyone say that you should watch Star Trek 5 and 6 at the start of season 3 and the end of season 4 of TNG, despite that being roughly where they intersected the original airdates of the TV series. Because that would be fricking moronic, and both audiences and production made them with the intention of continuing one story in the franchise rather than slicing up another. Nothing wrong with watching them that way, but also zero reason to go out of your way to do so today.
So what then is the "best" way to watch Patlabor?
Personally I think you just pick a timeline and go with it. Nothing wrong with hopping around or anything either. I'm a little unusual among fans as far as I can tell for liking TV more than OVA1/the films on the whole because of how much room it has to explore the characters and develop some quite well executed small scale arcs for them.
Hard to go wrong, really. Except with WXIII.
Production order. Or are you too moronic to understand some shitty anime?
>I've never seen anyone say
Because the case in question is probably moronic.
Also, you are confusing chronology with different continuities altogether, and Patlabor is the latter. Events that are in the TV-OVA continuity are not in the other one, like the whole Griffon and Babylon incidents.
Then of course, it's a mostly episodic anime, so no big deal, but the difference is clear, and clearly stated by the authors and on the printed material as well.
>I'm a little unusual among fans as far as I can tell for liking TV more than OVA1/the films on the whole
lol no
>Hard to go wrong, really.
True that.
Anon I think you misunderstood my point. I was making the point that to ignore the different timelines is to ignore production intent. I didn't mean the Trek example as mapping 1:1, it was just illustrative of another case where production order and creative intent diverge.
Point is we agree.
>Point is we agree.
>full 3DCG animation.
Lol
If it's the skippy style of 3dcg then it'll be perfect
>full 3DCG animation.
And I thought CGI fried rice was going overboard
>Looks like it might be full 3DCG animation.
Source: it came to me in a dream
OP here, I was just going off the kid in the preview image being CG too. If that's a foolish assumption I'd be happy to hear it.
Right now it's just an early promo image. You could be right but we won't really know until we get a teaser or something.
Is the live action movie worth checking out?
I dunno. It's basically a remake of the Patlabor 2 movie in live-action BUT framed as a sequel, with the same amount of urban-scenery porn and talking-scenes.
yes, NEXT is great, ignore naysayers
crabsticks are only option tho, but when than stopped anyone
Screenshots from the pilot
Looks very similar to the Reboot which isn't the worst outcome at all. Hopefully the actual 2D character animation is on par with what the Reboot short had. I wonder if its gonna follow the characters from the reboot
Yeah for something going the CG route, reboot was actually pretty good. I could totally live with a series taking after it.
Going to be weird seeing Patlabor with a new cast, which seems to be the direction they're heading in. It's a concept that can totally work with any sufficiently compelling set of characters but it's always been that one set of them.
>it's always been that one set of them.
NEXT worked fine, honestly. Despite them having pretty similar tendencies
Patlabor TNG was more a live action remix of the original than its own distinct thing, I'd argue.
Fair point.
I guess we'll wait and see. At least EZY is out of some part of development hell.
nice trips btw
I'd genuinely just assumed that EZY was another coof casualty, if it was even going to get past that stage anyway.
Yeah I honestly liked the cast of the reboot for what little we got of them, they all felt like Patlabor characters if you get what I mean, especially the male pilot. Only thing was that their designs were a bit bland
Isn't this literally from the reboot?
No, you can tell by the difference in shoulder plates between the Labors
Where did you find these screenshots posted? I remember seeing an article that the pilot was airing but nothing with any pictures
They're from this stream. Timestamped when the Patlabor talk starts
?t=16044
thanks, anon. Had no idea there was a livestream
It could also mean that it's not meant to be a 'vanilla' AV-98. The angle on the lights reminds me a lot of the anime's version of the AV-0. The head looks a little different in side profile too.
a 98 refit would be neat
always wondered why they didn't try that with the python, i liked how it looked more
It's actually nice touch that they updated the lightbar design to what was actually used in late nineties, over carrying over the flying bricks from the '80s
huh. i wonder if the gm-ified shoulders mean that katoki's the one working on designs this time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Generation:_Patlabor
Think I'm going to do it like it says on the back of the box. Original OVA, Movie 1, Movie 3, Movie 2, then TV and The New Files.
Thats what I did, was a fun ride
How will they handle Kanuka? Or just let her sit her ass in America permanently this time? Her voice actress is dead, and i don't think the staff ever accept VA replacement for the characters.
They replaced her for SRW with the lady who did Kiyone in Tenchi. Sayla had voice actor replacements too. It's been long enough to where I think this wouldn't be an issue.
Decent odds that they aren't even using the original SV2 lineup this time around. If that's the case, it'd just be a matter of not having her cameo.
This is a long shot but does anyone know the name of the song that plays during the credits of The 450 Million Year Old Trap?
Sounds similar but not quite. Thank you very much though now I know im looking in the right place
Found it
Easily my favourite song from the original OST
>Page 10
The pilot episode for EZY is supposed to be shown off this month right?
Here's your Patlabor reboot
So I've watched OVA 1, Movie 1, WXIII, and Movie 2. Should I do TV now or New Files?
what does the english wiki page say about New Files, anon?
Watch TV then New Files Satan?
yes tv then new files
but youve already screwed up the proper order so it doesnt really matter now you've ruined the whole franchise now
New Files is a direct continuation of the TV series. As everything Patlabor it's no big deal, but many of the stories start in the TV series.
>manga translations never
actually they've been pretty regular for past year or so
>Shinohara Heavy Industries S.p.A.
Are the scans from the Italian edition?
dunno, but does it matter?
No, just curious because I saw the "S.p.A.", which is the Italian for Inc.
The manga publication was a mess in Italy as well, but at least it was completed.
I lurked a bit and apparently it's a translation from the Italian version
I'm ok with that as long as we get more people to enjoy the patlabor franchise, which has a solid manga counterpart that never gets discussed properly
When I say it was a mess I meant in terms of publication history. It was stopped and changed publisher several times.
Italian translations are usually very good.
>"S.p.A.", which is the Italian for Inc
It's real, everything is SpAgehtti in Italy
There is actually a Ghetti S.p.A.
They sell trucks.
Well to be fair Ghetti is a name so it wae only a matter of time until a mr ghetti nqmed their company after themselves
Where can one find these translations. Been itching to get into patlabor manga outside of the couple English published ones.
mangadex https://mangadex.org/title/ef92e9c2-230d-4ff5-b563-ec80b7015cbc/mobile-police-patlabor
>Page 10
>She cut the ponytail
Sellout.