>>23523312
Anime,
the chart was made before the Live series was even a thing. I would ignore the Live series, I had hope from the Army of Mechanic and their Shogun, but in the end their budget was just too low to show any decent mecha action, and what they did spend, they spent it awkwardly.
Not to say the anime series was always good, it does have it share of fillers, but at least the fillers weren't themselves reusing previous plotline from the anime series.
>>23525478
The contradiction in the Patlabor setting, is that a police force shouldn't exist for rare crime done with construction units (instead of passing regulation making obligatory to have wireless/deadman off-switch).
But the series low tech-level and the actual rarity of anything robotic (it should have been cyberpunk) make SV-1 and SV-2 look like a special-force akin to the SWAT or GIGN, raising the expectation. Even if I can't imagine a standard low enough to let Otha enter the force or being allowed to approach a mech.
