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There're some Mamoru Oshii book lists on the Internet, but they don't have detailed explanations about the contents. My Mamoru Oshii book collection is far from complete, but I'd like to write some short summaries for each of those books.
I apologize in advance for grammatical errors and misinformation.
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title: 機動警察パトレイバー30周年展 MEMORIAL BOOKLET
機動警察パトレイバー30周年展 MEMORIAL BOOKLET featuring OVA-PATLABOR THE MOVIE
(Patlabor 30th Exhibition Catalogue)
(Patlabor 3oth Exhibition Catalogue featuring Patlabor the Movie)
release: 12/23/2018, 08/07/2019
publisher: GENCO
[contents]
normal booklet
Patlabor series's history
from preproduction to the OVA
Patlabor the Movie
TV and New OVA
Patlabor 2 the Movie
WXIII
the Manga
Minipato and REBOOT
novels
booklet featuring Patlabor the Movie
Patlabor series's history
from preproduction to the OVA
the Movie
[review]
These are catalogs of a Patlabor Exhibition. They contain rare data like Akemi Takada's early character board. If you don't have "完全設定資料集", I recommend these catalogs.
They also contain the imageboards of the first movie's climax. As some Patlabor fans already know, the final battle sequence is pretty different from Oshii's first draft. Other Headgear members said that Oshii's original ending was too anti-climatic, so he accepted their ideas.
The beautiful illustrations of merchandise are contained as well.
The concept photo page of the 31st catalog tells an interesting tip about the first movie:
When they did location hunting in the rivers of Tokyo, Kazunori Ito declared the "three promises" for the movie.
1. We will make straightforward entertainment.
2. We will focus on Noa and Asuma's story
3. We will show a battle between labor and labor
In the interview of this brochure (and some other books,) Ito says that he suddenly made up those promises at that moment. Oshii didn't know such promises until that. Ito declared them to control Oshii. He was known as an uncontrollable cult director, so Ito worried that he might make something like Angel's Egg again.
(Ito's "three promises" scene is included in a promotion video called かわら版.)
The P1 version also includes the canceled ep1 storyboard written by Mamoru Oshii. He ignored the basic premise and Izubuchi's design in that storyboard, so other members rejected it. It shows that Oshii already had images like P2 and some other episodes. The same storyboard is included in OVA&TVA Archives too.
