

Patlabor: The TV Series
1989-10-11 · 25 min / episode · ★ 7.1
Patlabor: The TV Series is an anime television series, created by Headgear, animated by Sunrise, and based on the Patlabor anime franchise.
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- Creators
- Unavailable
- Production companies
- Studio Deen, SUNRISE, Headgear
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Ended
Top Cast
Mina TominagaNoa Izumi (voice)
Ryusuke OhbayashiCaptain Kiichi Goto (voice)
Toshio FurukawaAsuma Shinohara (voice)
Michihiro IkemizuIsao Ota (voice)
Issei FutamataShinshi Mikiyasu (voice)
Yoshiko SakakibaraCaptain Shinobu Nagumo (voice)
Akio OtsukaSergeant Tsutomu Gomioka (voice)
Daisuke GoriHiromi Yamazaki (voice)
Osamu SakaChief Seitaroh Sakaki (voice)
Shigeru ChibaChief Shigeo Shiba (voice)
Hirotaka SuzuokiRichard Wong ou Utsumi (voice)
Takaya HashiKurosaki (voice)
Keiko YokozawaLieutenant Takeo Kumagami (voice)
Tomomichi NishimuraDetective Takahiro Matsui (voice)Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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