Is Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA (Patlabor The Mobile Police: The New Files) is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 1990 by Sunrise Inc.: 16 episodes, about 6.7 hours in total, finished, 7.56/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 6.7 hours for the run, 8 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 16
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 6.7 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 1990
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 7.56/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, comedy, slice of life, detective, episodic, mecha, robots & AI, sci-fi, shounen, violence, workplace
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Mobile Police Patlabor: The New Files; Mobile Police Patlabor - The New Files; Patlabor: The Mobile Police - New Files.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA?
- About 6.7 hours for all 16 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 8 evenings.
- How many episodes does Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA have?
- 16 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA finished?
- Yes, Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA is finished (16 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA good for a group?
- Yes. Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA listed?
- Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: New OVA is on AniList (id 1289) and MyAnimeList (id 1289); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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