| Patlabor: The New Files | |
 Cover of the first volume of the DVD release ofPatlabor: The New Files | |
| 機動警察パトレイバー2 (Kidō Keisatsu Patoreibaa Tsū) | |
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| Genre | Comedy,Mecha,Police |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Naoyuki Yoshinaga |
| Written by | Kazunori Itō |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | November 22, 1990 – April 23, 1992 |
| Episodes | 16(List of episodes) |
Patlabor: The New Files, known in Japan asPatlabor the Mobile Police 2 (機動警察パトレイバー2), is a Japanese original video animation series based on thePatlaboranimefranchise. These episodes take place at several points between episodes ofPatlabor: The TV Series and after the latter's final episode. The OVA episodes also feature the conclusion of the Griffon story arc.
Four episodes ofThe New Files series serve as the finale for the Griffin arc of the television series. The rest of the series mainly consists of side stories that take place during or after the TV show.
The episodes were released as OVAs alongside the TV series onLaserdisc and VHS fromBandai Visual from November 22, 1990 to June 6, 1992.[1][2] They were later released on DVD on August 25, 2000, and on Blu-ray on September 24, 2010.[3][4] Central Park Media licensed theNew Files series and released them on subtitled VHS under the U.S. Manga Corps label. They later released one DVD volume with English audio before releasing a box set containing all 16 episodes.[5] Only four[a] episodes of the series were dubbed; the rest were subtitled only.Maiden Japan has relicensed the OVA series, and released the series on Blu-ray and DVD on February 17, 2015.[6] All of the episodes were included in thePatlabor the Mobile Police - Complete Collection boxset also released by Maiden Japan on 6 January 2019.[7]
