Patlabor: Mobile Police - Anime - AniDB

General overviewMany years ago, one of my friends recommended this series to me. However, I never actually bothered to watch it and forgot about it for a very long time until recently. So well, I have to say I am quite disappointed.Patlabor definitely isn't your typical Mech series, i can go further to say it that the "mechs" they have are over-sized machines. Thus the originality of having mechs in a series and them not actually being that powerful is born. The series relies on dialogue and situations to entertain you rather then flashy battles.I haven't seen anything else besides this 7 part OVA so I'm not sure what happens in other parts of the series, but from what I've seen its was not pretty. The biggest flaw that really broke the anime for me was the inability for them to have one linear story line. They only have 7 episodes and manage to add in a fair share of sea monsters, ghosts AND a military coup d'etat. The only redeeming factor is most of the time the anime doesn't take i...