Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: Reboot

OVA/Movie Timeline:
Patlabor: Early Days
Patlabor: The Mobile Police
Patlabor 2: The Movie
WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3

TV Timeline:
Patlabor: The Mobile Police - On Television
Patlabor: The Mobile Police - The New Files

Reboot Timeline:
Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot

All entries in the ever-expanding "Re" franchise.

Worldbuilding so realistic, well-thought-out, and detailed that you could live in the anime.

Mobile Police Patlabor is a Japanese science fiction media franchise created by Headgear, a group consisting of manga artist Masami Yūki, director Mamoru Oshii, screenwriter Kazunori Itō, mecha designer Yutaka Izubuchi, and character designer Akemi Takada.

The popular franchise includes a manga, a TV series, two OVA series, three feature-length movies, two light novel series, and a short film compilation, named Minipato because of its super deformed (chibi) drawing style. The series has been adapted into video games and licensed products from OST to toys. Patlabor is known for using mecha – designed by Yutaka Izubuchi – not just for police or military purposes, but also for industrial and municipal jobs.

The series is one of the earlier examples of what is called a "media mix" in Japan, where there is no one source material: Multiple forms of media (in Patlabor's case the anime and manga) are worked on at the same time independently of each other.