Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days
From 1988 to 1989, the seven-episode OVA series were produced by Studio Dean. It is distributed by Bandai Visual and Tohokushinsha Film in Japan and originally Central Park Media and later Maiden Japan in North America. The English dub was produced by Matlin Recording in New York City, New York. The storyline is the start of the Patlabor series, that would be followed by the two Patlabor movies, Patlabor: The Movie and Patlabor 2: The Movie.
The series was released straight to VHS and LaserDisc from April 25, 1988 to June 25, 1989. It was released onto DVD in two volumes on April 20, 2000, and was later re-issued as a box set on May 25, 2007. A Blu-ray box set was released on July 23, 2010.