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The Patlabor EZY anime project that was announced in 2017 will come out in 2026. A new key visual for it shows the Ingram Plus model under a dark sky with birds flying in the background. [Thanks, AIR!]

J.C. Staff will be producing the animation while GAZEN works on the CG. GENCO will be producing the project. J.C. Staff is an animation studio that has worked on shows like The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, The Familiar of Zero, Shokugeki no Soma, Azumanga Daioh, and the A Certain Magical Index franchise. It did not work on the original Patlabor OVAs or ONA.

Kenji Kawai will return as the composer for Patlabor EZY. It will also feature Yutaka Izubuchi (who was the mechanical designer for Patlabor) as the director, as well as Kazunori Itou (Patlabor the Mobile Police) working on the script. So even though there is a new animation studio working on it, many of the main creative staff are Patlabor veterans.

Patlabor is a sci-fi franchise that consists of a manga, TV series, OVAs, movies, a light novel, and more. It takes place in a futuristic vision of Japan in which companies use giant robots (Labors) to do work like construction. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police employs Patlabors in place of patrol cars in order to fight crime and deal with Labor-related incidents. Though Noa Izumi—a Labor otaku—is the main character, everyone in Division 2 gets some time in the spotlight.

Patlabor EZY will come out in 2026. More information will appear in the future in regards to this project. Zoids x Patlabor: Code Name B.U.D.D.Y. will be available first. This manga series will come out in Fall 2024.

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The crossover between Mobile Police Patlabor and Zoids will continue with a new manga serialization. Takara Tomy has revealed that it is working with Patlabor's creator group Headgear to produce a new manga adaptation of the crossover. It will be available in Fall 2024 with the title Zoids X Patlabor: Code Name B.U.D.D.Y.

The companies have also revealed the key staff working on this new project, and most of them had previously worked on the Patlabor series. The character designer Akemi Takada and scenario writer Kazunori Ito had worked on the original Patlabor anime, and the mechanical designer Hidetaka Denjin made the AV-98 Ingram Moderoid model kit boxart. This will be the first involvement in both Zoids and Patlabor franchises for the manga artist Naoto Tsushima, who had mostly worked on Transformers manga titles.

Takara Tomy first revealed the crossover between Zoids and Patlabor in 2023 to mark the respective 40th and 35th anniversaries of both franchises. The company revealed a special model kit featuring the Metropolitan Police Force version of the Hunter Wolf, which it eventually released in June 2024.

The new manga Zoids X Patlabor: Code Name B.U.D.D.Y. will be available in the Fall season of 2024.

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