![]() It is also far too big to be travelling on in the first place. It’sĪn understandable concern Brenten’s super tank literally rips up the very road Thankless task of pleasing a public that would rather see them tankless. Of workplace sexism hilariously sets her apart.ĭominion Tank Police paints a bleak future where aĬrime is committed on average every 36 seconds, yet our “heroes” face the With signature red hair, and while both are equally passionate for theirĪssigned law enforcement vehicle, Leona’s gradually unhinged nature in the face Ozumi can be easily drawn, with both creations coming in the same year, both Parallels between Leona with Patlabor’s Noa ![]() ![]() Making its on-screen debut in the later New Dominion Tank Police OVA.īut that’s for another time. Vehicle, and both are closely tied not just by their creator, with the latter Let’sīe honest here, it’s as iconic as Ghost in the Shell’s Fuchikoma combat Miniature source of the majority of the Dominion franchise’s cover art. Tank Bonaparte and last, but by no means least, criminals Buaku and cover-girlīrenten’s tank comes her own brother, her very own tank creation Bonaparte, the The entry of newly recruited Leona Osaki, the origin of her iconic miniature Than its published parent, largely focused on This four-act OVA is a far more character driven piece Koichi Mashimo, who would go on to create the studio responsible for the. Serving as a prequel to the Masamune Shirow manga series, it was brought to the screen by Heavy hitters such as Fist of the North Star, saw Dominion becomeĪn early benchmark for the west’s initiation into Anime. The western release of the first OVA series in the early 1990s, alongside ![]() The first Dominion Tank Police OVA is one partĬop drama but larger part cop comedy, with an underlying dose of satire for This is the Tank Police, and their world is a strange one, with both the police force and forces of crime vying to be Newport’s dominion. With explosive - and expensive - results. Behind the tanks is a force of frankly weird stereotypes who treat their tanks like brothers but treat the criminals like target practice. Such unpopularity comes not from corruption or issues of racism, but from the very brutal crime-busting methods and tools reluctantly granted by the state: Tanks. In far-future Japan, the city of Newport, comprised of complex, curved cityscape constructs yet tinged by barely breathable air and a crime rate just as suffocating, it falls to the publicly unpopular methods of the Tank Police to stem the tide.
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