From the current point of view, if you want to talk about "real robots", then the work of "Mobile Suit Gundam" is almost absolutely impossible to bypass. It's just that from the current point of view, this "Mobile Suit Gundam" seems to be really getting out of the super category, after all, in the theatrical version of "Mobile Suit Gundam NT" released some time ago, there is really such a thing as "Soul Gundam". Therefore, we can't help but ask, where can there be the most real real robot works? For this kind of question, the editor's answer is naturally "yes" - but that work is quite ancient.
Mobile Cop is a science fiction novel originally written by renowned manga artist Masami Yuki, which was first serialized in 1988, and was successfully adapted into a TV anime in 1989 in 1989 by the hands of Oshii Mori, the superintendent of oni. Although it is also a robot animation, in fact, the main plot of "Mobile Police" is very different from the various robot animations we are familiar with. According to the plot setting, at the beginning of the 21st century, due to the growing population and other reasons, the Japanese government carried out a large-scale land reclamation project in the sea area of Tokyo Bay, which is the so-called "Babylon Plan". In order to ensure work efficiency, especially to build huge buildings to cope with huge factories, the Japanese side directly developed a large robot "Labor" designed for industrial use. However, with the large number of Labor in use, the crimes it caused also began to occur frequently. In this regard, the police have set up a new department special vehicle second division and equipped it with a patrol police robot "Patlabor" dedicated to the police force. And that's where this story begins.
As mentioned in the title, if you want to compare the authenticity, then even the originator of the real robot work, "Mobile Suit Gundam", is a younger brother in front of "Mobile Cop". After all, from the perspective of the story, the robots in this work are not born for war. It is precisely because of this that in this work the author has set a very complete mechanical category in order to cater to the science fiction worldview of the times.
Unlike Gundam, the work "Mobile Police" mainly describes the near future of the peacetime era, so it is more of a civilian airframe such as agriculture, architecture, luxury collection, firefighting, etc. than the military design of shelling, assault, and land combat. Among them, there are also some suitable for silly boys to snatch after falling out of love, suitable for beautiful girls to sell cuteness, and suitable for being beaten by the special car second branch. And these settings directly show the "peaceful atmosphere" in this work that is different from the war era.
It is precisely because of this that in fact, the robots in the work "Mobile Police" can actually load the hands and feet of various vehicles in the real world, but this is a good reflection of the peaceful and true story atmosphere of this work. In other words, in a way, Mobile Cop is basically the ultimate in "perpetuating reality". It is precisely for this reason that the author does not mix too many self-made elements in the story, at most, it is the background of the development of Tokyo Bay and a large number of science fantasies that are exaggerated according to reality. From this point of view, "Mobile Cop" is definitely a very good science fiction work.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that from the robot itself, the work "Mobile Police" is also the ultimate of the real robot. Just like in terms of power system, according to the setting, the Ingram is driven by electricity, and it is precisely because of this that the power of the Ingram in terms of processing is not as good as that of the body that uses fossil fuels (according to the level of technology at that time). The protagonist side that is the protagonist of the confrontation with those diesel engine bodies often has to consider outsmart, and even the small exaggeration of overloading caused by motor explosion occurs from time to time.
From the mechanical setting, "Mobile Police" is also very good, for example, from the ota machine head that often falls down, we can see a lot of design details, such as controllers, sensors, processors, support structures, transmission structures, actuators and wiring, these details are actually in line with the principles of realistic mechanical design, in the section view of the setting set can also clearly see the traces of considering its structural assembly steps, if you do not understand mechanical common sense, it is difficult to think of this step.
Finally, to sum up, as a robot work, "Mobile Cop" may indeed not have those fierce battles and all kinds of eye-catching skills. But from a real point of view, it is difficult to find a robot work that is better than it. So for readers who are interested in real robots, "Mobile Police" is definitely an animation work that you should not miss!