>>17933202the first ova is wildly inconsistent in terms of tone and overall episode quality. you have fun yet tense episodes like the bomb diffusal one, then whacky randumb shit like the sea monster one, and then half baked detective shit like the last two episodes (which they essentially turned into movie 2 to make the story any decent)
granted there's something of all 3 of those in TV patlabor but it's much more light hearted and comedic in tone. the inclusion of the supernatural shit just boggles my mind though, it just feels so out of place. there's not really a lot of serious stuff in patlabor other than the griffin storyline but imo that was kind of the worst part of patlabor TV. i would hate a patlabor tv show in the tone of the griffin episodes.