feat: patabor early days

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+title = "Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days (1989)"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-05-06T22:38:00+02:00
+categories = ["brainrot"]
+draft = false
+weight = 10
+primary_menu = "brain-rot-patlabor"
+abstract = "My review of the OAV"
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+    weight = 3001
+    identifier = "mobile-police-patlabor-the-early-days-1989"
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+    post = " OAV series"
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+_Mobile Police Patlabor_ is a 7 episodes long OAV series which serves as an introduction to the more widely known movies.
+The subtitle (_The Early Days_) says it all, as it depicts the humble beginnings of Special Vehicles Unit 2 (SV2), which we will follow in the later installments.
+Think: the first few episodes of _The Wire_.
+We see how they are preparing their base of operation, how they receive their Labors, and so on.
+And that's pretty much all that's here.
+No grand ideas (like in _Movie Two_), not even an attempt at those.
+All we see is how the Unit starts and their first few cases.
+
+It's only this, but it never sets up itself to be anything more.
+Not everything needs to be full of difficult questions and even harder answers.
+_Early Days_ on its own is cool if you're deeply into Mecha, but I am not.
+For me, this OAV is _only_ an addition to the Movies.
+
+But it changed how I look at the first movie.
+I was not sure what it actually was all about.
+Was it pro-technology?
+Was it a warning?
+Well, the opening here is a love song sung by one of the pilots towards her Patlabor (named Alfons).
+Yep, it seems Patlabor was techno-fetishist all along.
+Nothing here prepares us for _Movie 2_, but it makes the first movie better.
+
+{{< rating 3.75 "patlabor-early-days.jpg" >}}
+Cover
+{{< /rating >}}
+
+The seven episodes here are, in order:
+
+-   the start of SV2, and we get to know Noa (who is one of the main characters in _Movie 1_),
+-   mission to protect the mayor,
+-   underwater monster story (sic!),
+-   hostage situation,
+-   ghost story (sic! again) while the unit is on vacation (with mandatory hot spring scenes),
+-   the plot of second movie, but without the smart parts,
+-   a long chase scene.
+
+It's all light-hearted and more often than not a bit goofy.
+
+Technically, this is a very pretty anime,
+The movies follow the style we see here, with bigger budgets though.
+But what we see here is a great, old-school animation.
+OAVs tend to look better than TV series, and this one is no exception.
+
+My gripes with the OAV  are more with my expectations than with the _Early Days_ themselves.
+It fulfills its aspiration to be a nice, short series.
+Nothing here even points towards bigger ambitions.
+But I saw it after _Palabor 2: Movie_ which was intelligent up to a fault.
+And even though I deeply enjoyed every minute, it's not what I came for.
+
+So, if you liked _Movie 1_ and want more - sure, this series gets my thumbs up (and therefore rating).
+But if the _Movie 2_ floored you but left hungry, don't expect this series to come anywhere that level of ambition nor quality.
+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-early-days-1.jpg" "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160423/mediaviewer/rm3156868353/" >}}
+We've got regular mecha fights!
+{{< /img-c >}}
diff --git a/content/brain-rot/anime/patlabor/patlabor-2-the-movie.md b/content/brain-rot/anime/patlabor/patlabor-2-the-movie.md
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 Ok, this one is a difficult movie to write about.
diff --git a/content/brain-rot/anime/patlabor/patlabor-the-movie.md b/content/brain-rot/anime/patlabor/patlabor-the-movie.md
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 date = 2024-04-11T21:01:00+02:00
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 There was a time when _Patlabor_ was an established name.