Patlabor EZY's File 3 movie opens March 5, and six of our 2,276 OVA entries state a free episode
Our index records 2,276 entries as OVAs. Every page was read on animesphere.app today: six state a free episode, 49 between them. All eight Patlabor entries state none.
By Theo Grange · AnimeSphere staff · August 11, 2026
A trailer for the Patlabor EZY anime has been released. It gives a March 5 opening date for the File 3 movie, along with cast, as reported by Anime News Network.
The eight Patlabor entries on our shelf
Our index carries 8 Patlabor entries. In the order it records them:
- Mobile Police Patlabor, 1988, recorded as an OVA with 7 episodes
- Patlabor the Mobile Police, 1989, a television series with 47 episodes
- Patlabor: The Movie, 1989, a film
- Mobile Police Patlabor: The New Files, 1990, recorded as an OVA with 16 episodes
- Mobile Police Patlabor 2: The Movie, 1993, a film
- Mobile Police Patlabor: WXIII, 2002, a film
- Mobile Police Patlabor REBOOT, 2016, a film
- Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor EZY File 1, 2026, recorded as an OVA with 3 episodes
Three of the eight are recorded as OVAs: the earliest entry from 1988, the newest from 2026, and The New Files from 1990. All eight hold zero rows in our episode index, not one row of any kind, including rows we have demoted. All eight live pages were read on animesphere.app today. Eight of eight returned HTTP 200, and not one of them states a free episode.
What the OVA shelf comes to
Our index records 2,276 entries with a format of OVA, out of 20,473 entries in total. Every one of those 2,276 pages was read on animesphere.app today, the full set rather than a sample: 2,276 of 2,276 returned HTTP 200, with no failures. Six of the 2,276 state a free episode. Between them, those six pages state 49 episodes. One of the six states exactly one free episode. The local database and production agree on this, the same six entries carrying the same per-entry counts in both.
By the year our index records, 615 of the 2,276 are from the 1990s, 602 from the 2010s, 500 from the 2000s, 252 from the 1980s, and 104 from the 2020s. A further 203 carry no year at all.
Robot Carnival, the one we opened
One of the six was opened today. Our index records Robot Carnival as an OVA from 1987, with 9 episodes at a recorded 10 minutes each, and its live page states 1 free episode. That episode is a single video on the channel RetroCrush, which carries a YouTube verified badge. The country list on the row reads Canada and the United States. The video runs 5,479 seconds, which is 91 minutes. Nine episodes at the recorded ten minutes each would come to 90 minutes. YouTube reported the video as playable when it was opened today.