Patlabor: The New Files
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Patlabor: The New Files

“Target...Lock On!”

★ 9.8/10 TMDB Premiered 1990-11-22 1 season 16 eps

Special Vehicles Division 2 is back on duty, along with their Ingram Patrol Labor (Patlabor) robots. Using their courage as well as the Ingrams, Captain Goto's motley crew of officers battle crime in Tokyo city. They also deal with their personal lives, as well as the supernatural.

Last Episode Aired 1992-04-23
S1E16 — All Quiet at the Second Unit

Division 2 are on vacation. Noa is doing some cleaning at home, but can't find a personal item she had since she was a child. She goes to work but can't find it there either. She meets Kumagami there who is writing up a proposal to create two extra Divisions. Ota is also there, dismantling and cleaning his Labor's gun. Kumagami submits her plan to Captain Goto and Shinobu. He tells her that they are already planning something like this and ask if she would be interested in being captain for the third division. She says that she would have to think it over, which surprises both Goto and Shinobu. The next day Kumagami is taking a trip to see some of the new cadets who will eventually form the third division, and asks everyone to come along. Asuma says he and Noa can't and tells them they have something important to do. Despite her protests, Noa goes along with Asuma. Meanwhile the rest of the team arrive at the Police Academy to meet the new cadets. Ota decides to prove that he can take on the new cadets, and surprises everyone by using hand to hand combat instead of a gun. He easily defeats the cadet he's up against. When the team are just about to leave, the cadet that Ota had beaten hands over a bag with an item that a former cadet left behind. Asuma takes Noa to a graveyard. He takes her to the Shinohara family grave. He explains that today is the anniversary of his brother's death and that he committed suicide, perhaps to spite his father. On their way back to the car Asuma spots his father coming towards him. He tells Noa to wait in the car so he can talk to him. Asuma and his father have always been on bad terms.

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Billed Cast
Mina Tominaga
Mina Tominaga
Noa Izumi (Voice)
Toshio Furukawa
Toshio Furukawa
Asuma Shinohara (voice)
Michihiro Ikemizu
Michihiro Ikemizu
Isao Oota (voice)
Osamu Saka
Osamu Saka
Seitarou Sakaki (voice)
Issei Futamata
Issei Futamata
Mikiyasu Shinshi (voice)
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Kiichi Gotou (voice)
Yo Inoue
Kanuka Clancy (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Shinobu Nagumo (voice)
Daisuke Gori
Daisuke Gori
Hiromi Yamazaki (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
Shigeru Chiba
Shigeo Shiba (voice)
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