Studio GENCO is making major anime waves at the
Annecy International Animation Film Festival currently underway in France. First, a poster for a
Pluto anime adaptation was spotted and then Taro Maki, President of GENCO confirmed that the company is working on a new
Patlabor anime via Twitter. The
Patlabor project is apparently titled
Patlabor EZY according to the poster.
The text on the
Patlabor EZY poster provides a series description:
"With the rapidly accelerating development of hyper-technology, a humanoid-type machine called "Labor" is being used in every field of industry. However, it has created the new social menace of "Labor" crime. In order to curb such crimes from happening one after another, the Metropolitan Police Department has established a special department. the "Special Vehicle Section No.2". It consists of company of patrol "Labor" known as Patlabor."
Below, we have the
Pluto poster as well. Unconfirmed reports state that GENCO is collaboration with Studio MAPPA and that the anime will consist of 8 episodes.
ABOUT PLUTO
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol’s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders—the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.
ABOUT PATLABOR
In the future, advanced robotics has created heavy robots ("labors") for use in a variety of functions: construction, fire-fighting, military, and more. However, though the robots are only machines, their operators are also only human—and humans sometimes turn to crime. Since a heavy labor unit can be a dangerous weapon, the police of the future are set to fight fire with fire, using advanced patrol labor units, "patlabors." This is the story of the Second Special Vehicles Division, a motley crew of patlabor policemen and women doing their best to fight crime and live a normal life.