Patlabor revolver reload

Source: Patlabor: The Movie

[@derpnip]

I understand that they wanted to show the sheer size of the round and the revolver but getting out to manually load it is probably the funniest part of this scene.

[@throwawwy53]

tank crews load shells into the gun too, this is like that but with a revolving chamber nothing funny about a man doing his job

[@GravitasZero]

@@throwawwy53depends on the tank, and this here is a mech… Also the guys in the tank aren’t stepping out of the tank to front load the rounds 😂

[@throwawwy53]

@@GravitasZeroit's close enough, and this is powered by the rule of cool. I'd assume in an actual combat situation the mech will have infantry to assist it and help reload, combined arms and all that. But in the scene it's alone and just got a quiet moment so the pilot decides to reload on his own.

[@derpnip]

@@throwawwy53 yeah usually while still inside the tank.

[@midshipman8654]

@@throwawwy53yah, but they usually do that INSIDE THE TANK.

[@Anon-jg7uj]

The idea that an advanced humanoid robot using a giant revolver will never not be funny.

[@traphimawari7760]

It's a simple loading mechanism, doesn't require that much moving parts compared to if it was direct blowback, in fact if you think about it most auto loading tank turrets are actually just huge revolvers with more chambers for each round usually surrounding the turret which is why when you see a tank with an auto loader get destroyed the turret flies up in the air because the munition around it blows up as well. Inconvenient for when it gets hit but it's a very easy mechanism to mass produce which is why Russia has a lot of t-90 tanks.

[@ultrajd]

Japanese police aside from the SRT to this day still use revolvers.

[@patrickfrost9405]

​@@traphimawari7760 T-90's? Lmao, not anymore.

[@Anon-jg7uj]

@@traphimawari7760 Still funny for me. It's that juxtaposition of advanced and 'primitive' that tickles my funny bone.

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

They also use giant shotgun 🎉

[@Gatlinggunman]

You might be fresh, but you'll never be as fresh as having factory wood grips on your Mech-sized Smith and Wesson Model 19.

[@lemonycactus8687]

Being nitpicky here but this has more features in common with a Python rather than a M19, save for the push button cylinder release rather than a pull

[@Gatlinggunman]

@lemonycactus8687 "Smython" is the term I think they use. Colt Python barrel on a 19's frame. Popular in police shooting competitions. Colt made a better barrel, but S&W had the far superior internals for double-action shooting. Plus, the wood grips are more in line with the factory Smith's than what you got from first-generation Pythons.

[@TheKingOfHeartsIV]

dang he really got the best of both worlds. We need S&W and Colt to do a collaboration and combine these features onto a superior revolver. Edit: Hopefully Colt will stop S&W from adding a hillary hole key lock, though

[@SomeGuy_Somewhere]

I like how not only is it a manually reloaded revolver, but it's a near 1/1 of a normal sized revolver all the way down to wooden pistol grips that probably took a whole tree to carve.

[@user-dy9fx7kg7c]

Literally a cannon

[@32BitJunkie]

Hand cannon

[@dooggo-1402]

To sum up the reason why Giant Robots have this reloading technique in Patlabor. The Ingram Series are Police-Use Machines, they aren't designed with the intent and mind of actually firing their gun unless absolutely necessary, even then, the Ingram Series aren't made for fighting against Human Criminals, that's normal polices job (Though there are times where that does happen anyways), they're made with the intent of combating rogue labors hand-to-hand to prevent environmental or building damage, mainly construction Mechs that got cockpit snatched by a angry guy. Firing these guns can lead to incidental environmental damage to buildings, things that the Ingram Series were actively made to prevent and its successor, the Peacekeeper was actively made to do better. In the case that the Ingram did run out of ammo where it was in the absolute necessary, the Ingram would quite literally throw the Revolver to standby Operatives on the Ground that would handle the reloading instead of the Pilot doing that job.

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

That explains a lot It's still so impractical that it accidentally turns into comedy

[@jeffthebaptist3602]

Yeah their main weapon is shock baton designed to shut down a mechs electrical system.

[@sluggie1018]

@@jeffthebaptist3602 why can't they have a taser or maybe an electric net kind of projectile. close combat sounds like it could always have a risk of having damages and these robots look very expensive.

[@dooggo-1402]

​@@lorenzocassaro3054 That's sort of the point of the Patlabor Franchise in the first place, its sort of a comedic satire of not only the Mecha Genre but the Mech Genre as a whole, and it does it by turning up the realism by 11. It's quite literally quoted in Patlabor 2, that if a Labor encounters a Battle Tank, close both of your eyes, because you can do nothing against one.

[@TrickyMellow]

​​@@dooggo-1402I didn't watch patlabor. What about military Labor tho? Can't they at least take down a tank? I've heard military Labor are in combined arm.

[@TANDORA__]

In real life in Japan, regular police officers still use revolvers. Furthermore, one of the loaded balls is a blank for intimidation. The reason for this is to avoid putting too much force in the hands of one individual, the police officer, and because there are very few situations in Japan in which a gun is required. In this context, you can understand why the robot is equipped with a revolver instead of an automatic handgun, and why the robot's arm cannot be used to load bullets. The inconvenient specifications of the robot are an obstacle to prevent the police, a public authority, from going out of control. It may be difficult for non-Japanese to understand this particular situation, but knowing this context will enhance your enjoyment of the PATLABOR anime.

[@Marsheh2]

thank you. as someone who lives in the U.S. where gun rights is a controversial topic, i thought it was silly why the pilot had to escape their mech to reload it by hand. but it makes sense with the context

[@RealNotallGaming]

thank you to make clear that people need to leave at home the western mentality when we talk about japan ^^

[@kinajardine9009]

In addition, those revolvers are tethered to the officer's belt, so it's even harder to try and steal an officer's weapon.

[@formosa_shounen]

people lazy af these days, most of them don't even curious to find out the design reason and culture inside, just sitting there and start talking shit about it.

[@RealNotallGaming]

@@formosa_shounen headshot 🤣👏

[@possibly8180]

I like how the ingram's upper body doesn't stay level when it kneels. The lineart wasn't lying, those shins are long lmao

[@walcalr01]

I completely forgot this was a thing in it and they didn't have speedloaders. It's crazy when you think they had shotguns too 🤯

[@markshinderu2607]

I think they just police They probably don't want to frequently use anti-aircraft shells to suppress incidents.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Not just shotguns. *There's the occasional Minigun. Ohta LOVES those.*

[@mikeb5063]

One would think they could add a ammo tube to the left wrist that loads rounds into the revolver so the pilot can stay under armor

[@illitero]

​@@mikeb5063a few of the top comments here do an excellent job of explaining why firepower is inhibited, including reloads being handled by the support crew. Ultimately: they're police units, not military units. I don't mean to "um akshewally" at you, I just find it interesting since it didn't really click with me until reading those explanations just now

[@swordimpulse07]

A speedloader with all those rounds would be extremely heavy and difficult to lift

[@PotentialNrgy]

This is how we will reload the mechs in Helldivers 2

[@oscarlove4394]

that'd actually be cool though, you know to encourage teamwork and all. i remember playing natural selection 2, iirc human mech's where stronger than the alien quivalent, not because they where directly stronger but because they could get ammo refils and repairs from teammates much easier than alien's could.

[@y0urd0g]

It would be better than reloading the mechs in the first Helldivers. "calling in a new mech"

[@umbrellashotgunman]

To sum up the explanations; it’s a police robot designed specifically to subdue lone unarmed construction bots piloted by disgruntled workers/drunk students/etc. via smacking them with an EMP stick or wrestling them into submission, with the revolver reload being deliberately inefficient for basically political reasons, since it’s only meant to be used in the rare occasions you need to actually shoot a construction bot from range. Even in-universe they’re shown to be completely useless (or at least woefully outmatched) against anything with actual armor/guns (like a Soviet spider tank from the TV show). Also, for what it’s worth, the original manga/TV show was an action comedy, with the movies (where this clip is from) being more of a dark and gritty take. tl;dr: This is a mecha intentionally designed to fight only Killdozers and nothing else.

[@hafirenggayuda]

Yeah, more like police drama with mecha, put more focus on daily citizen life than military. Anyway, I remember when I was a child I get disappointed that this show lack robot action, but I get hooked by the story and characters. Then when the serious plot happen, I actually want it to over soon, because I want the police team enjoy their boring but peaceful life

[@alberthwang2900]

IIRC, most of the time PATLABOR ends up using their batons instead of their revolver cannons. There's even a great scene where it's demonstrated that a good PATLABOR pilot can do judo throws and locks using the Ingram. And when most of what you end up dealing with are guys driving glorified forklifts, that's enough. Too bad the PATLABOR team is in a mecha series, which means that they WILL end up going up against berserk military mechs. . .

[@CyclingNeko]

They always get criticized by the people and the reporter tend to make it worst. You just taking a break from your work, reporter will report you as wasting tax money. You shoot your revolver for target practice, wasting tax money. You stop a criminal in a labor, people scream at you "tax theft!" when you break something.

[@deco02]

Patlabor, the special vehicle units serving as police forces in urban areas, avoids employing heavy weaponry to minimize civilian casualties. The TV series even depicts them being charged for damaging civilian vehicles during operations and attempting to get their insurance to cover the repair costs. But you can still see some heavy weaponry design like Helldiver (official military labor, piloted by Tamaki Fuwa, a friend of Shinobu.)

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Gotta admire these technical animated works, Patlabor and its no-mecha contemporary You're Under Arrest!. Wish newer anime and even Western animation bring these styles of storytelling and detailed nuance back.

[@papersparrow899]

So the pilot has to reload the revolver, by grabbing the bullets and putting them on the gigantic revolver,wow. Edit: 2 years later, I stand corrected.

[@ethanspaziani1070]

Yes BULLETS

[@Johnnywilsonforever]

It's a police mecha so most of the time they don't need to use weapons, and most of the time the pilots don't reload by themselves, they have assistance from the support team on the ground, in this movie this is an emergency situation so they do what they can given the situation.

[@sloomdayer2747]

That seems incredibly inefficient.

[@mrbones_7420]

@@sloomdayer2747 mamoru oshii made patlabor to spite gundam by making it as realistic as possible to show how clumsy and awkward mechs would be like irl

[@MarkiusFox]

@@mrbones_7420 And I love it for that.

[@BernardGarcon]

I like the detail of each of the bullets showing the primers having been struck before emptying the chambers with a little dot from the hammer.

[@illitero]

Attention to detail is _the thing_ that makes Patlabor so great for me ❤

[@simeinoko]

パトレイバーはパトレイバー世界の住人ですら「本当はパトレイバー部隊なんて必要無い」という常識を持ってるという前提で構築されているので、例えばモビルスーツが役に立つ物として成立しているのが前提で高性能や最高効率を求めている世界観のガンダム等とは違うんだよね。パトレイバーはパトレイバーの為に最適化された世界には住んでいない悲しい存在なのだ

[@truko5039]

it makes some sense, they are designed for policing action instead of military force. If you think about it, when operating in a policing duty, you would try to de-escalate most situations and if all avenues of non destructive force are exhausted, then deadly force would be used, and most the labor they go up against are civilian vehicles it would make sense that you would only need 1 or 2 of those massive cannon rounds at most. Also, they operate in pairs and have a support team near by anyways. This is a extreme circumstance that they find themselves in.

[@noodlelova3]

All this design does is endanger the officers life. If you know anything about police officer deaths. You would know that many were killed by being rushed while reloading revolvers. This is an absolute nightmare of a design.

[@hawaianmobster1579]

​@@noodlelova3the point is, here they almost would never had the need to reload the gun of a mecha because in most situatons there is no need, in this case this is a really unusual situation the find themselves in

[@darkwraithcovenantindustries]

Americabrained bruh. Cops in Japan don't need guns. @@noodlelova3

[@Yojimbo61]

​@@noodlelova3they're in Japan not the USA

[@invinitezero]

​@@noodlelova3mostly they are dealing with worker labor there's no way civilian has gun that size anyway.

[@boi5499]

*reloads comically large revolver cutely*

[@jmssun]

People thought this manual loading is funny.. but remember Headgear is comprised of the best mecha minds of the 80s and 90s… these creative titans have build worlds, written stories, designed mechanics, imagined futures that still influence us today.. they designed the gun loading mechanism that way on purpose.. Although the world was taken place in (then) future, with giant robots roaming around like trucks, but the story is still fundamentally about regular Japanese cops and people around them.. the weaponry equipped in Japanese police forces are never powerful nor advanced, because the society never demanded that.. remember Japanese cops were still chasing people on foot or bicycle not so long ago.. that fact was just as ridiculous, but was just what the society needed If manual loading was funny, the show even went further and have the cops write reports on shooting even one bullet at all.. or need to cut down on usage because of the budget cuts these cumbersome weapons are tools to tell stories of bureaucracy, to highten tensions, to differentiate cops from military, to define weaponry generation and evolution, and most of all, to tell great stories

[@demoth]

the reasoning behind the limitation is explain pretty well in the show. it a police labor so they didnt load it up with advance tech to prevent excessive force and for civ to not fear the mechs. there are tons of military grade labor in the show that are ridiculously powerful.

A friend of mine watched this scene and thought "No way they gonna manually reload the gun, right?, RIGHT?" When he saw it happen, he wanted to flip some tables around him

[@lupusumbra8676]

The idea of a humanoid mech or Mecha using a simple Revolver design while funny, makes a lot of sense. Simplicity of weapons design like a Revolver mean less malfunctions whilst in combat roles. Now the pilot needing to get out just to reload the damn thing is also funny, but wow, is it dumb.

[@cringewithminish2815]

It's a mech. The index finger has more moving parts than a heavy machine gun. It's not a reliability thing. Also, modern semiautos are as reliable if not MORE reliable than a revolver. Revolvers are SUPER complex firearms that require clock like lockwork on the inside... Take the side plate off one and see for yourself. Something like a glock 19 has less moving parts.

[@EdBern]

It's so cute how Noa has to get out of Alphonse just to reload his gun.

[@GabAssbreaker]

Finally someone who actually watched the show.

[@EdBern]

​@@GabAssbreakeri love patlabor!

[@kyshibe]

I love giant robots reloading giant robot-sized guns whose shells are practically artillery, gotta be one of my favorite genres

[@arinurhandi]

The uniform is so cool. Nice design

[@bunderlemu7802]

The uniform got visual upgrade in the second movie. You should watch it; highly recommended!

[@daveinthemicrowave]

This is so comically silly ,i love it.

[@mob797]

Why is Ingram equipped with a revolver? Why are the revolver rounds fired by Ingram hollow-point rounds? If you have such questions, I urge you to watch the anime of the same series called "Mini-Pato. You will see what the original author thought about Ingram and his armament and how he settled on the settings. (This comment is a machine translation, sorry if there are any oddities!)

[@GhostOfDamned]

A whole rainforest went into that handle

[@markshinderu2607]

I think it's a police robot, and Japanese police rarely use guns to stop incidents (and bullets the size of anti-aircraft guns are probably expensive).

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Guess me watching Johnny Johnson's top-break revolvers video recommended me this. Seems silly out of context, the idea of demandingly reloading a mecha gun like this, but seriously, I advice people to read up on a sizable amount of Japanese police procedures and also watch the Patlabor animes from The Early Days OVA and Movies 1 (where this very scene comes from) and 2 continuity, plus the TV Series and New Files continuity (yes, it's one of those great anime franchises with separate worldlines, like Ghost in the Shell and Fullmetal Alchemist). You won't regret ever checking/binging the heck out of them, that I mostly promise.

[@commentdouchery2838]

Has advanced prevision to fire a giant revolver, yet doesn't have delicacy to replace its own rounds.

[@FMDad-dm5qo]

Future HKS needs to make them some mech-sized speedloaders - that’s actually what I assumed we’d see

[@lavito_gerason]

its sad that thay did not make a speed loader for this :(

[@tmplblck]

You’d think with all this technology they’d at least have moon clips.

[@DaniG._.German]

A mecha using a revolver is funny. The pilot has to leave the cockpit to reload, this is *CINEMA!!!*

[@BamesNond4882]

That is why having a magazine-fed pistol with spare mags is more efficient than a revolver that has to be manually reloaded.

[@delta_d9091]

I think it was made on purpose, since those revolver ammo are comparable to tank shell. It also acts as a limite: The Ingram is a Police Labor after all, and in The Patlabor universe, there aren't that many crime where they need a gun. The military labors might have better weaponry without the need of manual reloading. Need to check that fact tought

[@Lehr-km5be]

@@delta_d9091 Yeah those shells were 37mm in caliber. But still having to get out of the mech to reload the damn thing does look like a major design flaw to me - sure you may not need that revolver too often but if you do need to reload that in a "combat" situation it is pretty much impossible.

[@hippoace]

Lets talk about cost benefits wrt research development.... in police robot context the gun is rarely used. thus to spend money on developing the recoil mechanism on a patlabor pistol is not really worth it. upscaling a revolver to 37mm is probably cheaper, less moving parts.

[@hippoace]

​@@delta_d9091yeah the military labors have autocannons and missiles like those of a ifv or tank. its the military they have the needs and cash for development. the police...well not so much...hence the shotgun is also pump action.

[@aaronluisdelacruz4212]

​@@Lehr-km5bethere's actually a team that handle things like to reload the gun. Also, a Revolver is a better choice since it doesn't have the same jamming problem like magazines of semi auto pistols.

[@chickenmaster2134]

According to imfdb, the weapon he's reloading is a 37mm revolver cannon.

[@RazgrizDavion81]

the pilot is a girl

[@kutter_ttl6786]

Even though the official diameter is 37mm, that looks bigger. Noa doesn't have the biggest hands, but the diameter looks like it's closer to 50-60mm.

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

​@@kutter_ttl6786 basically the same as 86 eighty six , the guns are 50mm for the goliaths but the size of the cannon suggest that the diameter is higher lol

[@michaelandreipalon359]

She. Noa Izumi is actually a female officer with a slightly confusing androgynous appearance (and also personality, if one knows the Patlabor franchise well).

[@mrcoolize]

This scene always seemed odd to me the revolver and the robot seemed much much bigger before he got out of it. Its like they got instantly shrinked in my perception

[@KaptinScuzgob]

love how the scale of it changes every time the camera cuts

[@usernamedkjahstill5003]

Stupidest concept around. The revolver is awesome we should look a little bit more stylized as it belong to a giant effing robot. They're that advanced in technology and yet you as the pilot of an armored vehicle still have to manually load a revolver by getting out of your safety is insane

[@Sergeant_Tofu]

Love how 90's anime adores guns.

[@smokeybanjoboy]

Titan: Pilot, I'm running out of rounds. Now I know that sounds bad due to there being 3 Pyros, 10 North stars, and 25 Ions. But I need you to get out and reload my weapon. Pilot: *Quietly places Wingman to the side of their head*

[@justyuyun1557]

Imagine turning a 75mm howitzer into a S&W revolver gun .

[@pktrainerpk5supersus459]

this is why beltfed and or drones or robots that only function has to load for you

[@leonel1982]

You'd think they'd have speed loaders so the operator wouldn't have to leave the cockpit

[@otakuattacku8885]

it's deliberate, they're public servants, each bullet must be loaded with intent to kill and each shot must take a life to save a life. This is a very rare occurance where the officer is isolated (patlabors work in pairs) and up against multiple mechs.

[@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly]

​@@otakuattacku8885getting out of the cockpit and doing it manually will get more Innocents killed and let more criminals cause havoc and escape. This anime is stupid and no amount of "morals" is going to change that.

[@possibly8180]

​@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kellysome characters within the anime would agree with you lol

[@otakuattacku8885]

​@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly yeah well, that's how we do it in real life in asia. Because we have robust gun laws that means the average police officer is never going to be in a situation that can't be resolved by more than 6 bullets.

[@Ushio01]

@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly If the police need to reload a 37mm hand cannon to deal with criminals something has gone very, very wrong lol.

[@randomenvelope]

Having to come out of the mech to reload a revolver 1 by 1 is hilarious

[@jor1469]

Bro was strapped with that American freedom black revolver.

[@grimtygranule5125]

Someone else commented how the robot cant reload usings its arms by design. But what are you gonna do if you cant reload? Just brutally crush the people???? Jesus christ they did not think about it.

[@Mtaalas]

It's not about making sense, it's about being weird and wonderful!

[@Mitsurugi2424]

Crazy that not only does it use a giant revolver, but you have to get out and manually reload it.

[@kentaroukamakiri5384]

Military labor is equipped with firearms that do not require a trigger pull; Patrol Labor is equipped with this ridiculous revolver due to various legal ties. People arguing without knowing those backgrounds are funny.

[@Iffy350]

The head reminds me of that one Valkyrie from a Playstation Macross game.

[@frontrowattheshitshow8849]

The funniest thing to me is that they didn’t have a way to reload the weapon without exiting the giant robot lol

[@NickDavisAltworld]

Remember, these are effectively artillery cannons in the shape of a revolver (likely for a load mechanism). And just like cannons in the field of battle, they have a limited magazine, or have to be reloaded after each shot. Also, consider this is a mecha anime, eh?

[@ninjarmy]

do they not make speed loaders in that size

[@drill_fiend1097]

Revolver must be using tank HEAT rounds lmfao

[@wolfy9898]

It's funny because there are people who keep saying that revolvers are effective.

[@randomstranger_3]

NOW THAT'S what you call a HAND CANNON.

[@DSRT888]

I would've watched him load every single round.

[@oijimmy9434]

She's a girl

[@DSRT888]

@@oijimmy9434 nigga

[@hangonsapto2338]

Thats Noah, you human !

[@darkwraithcovenantindustries]

Americans can't imagine a world in which cops use their weapons as a last resort and rarely fire guns or even use them at all.

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

Very ironic for people who lives in a country who polices the whole world.

[@r.connor9280]

It's because we don't have a magazine fed stun gun yet.

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

you be surprised that here in southeast asia cops are fighting terrorist and even conducting arrest on terrorist leader though those leaders have ben killed. That's why we want our police to be similar with US. They should least carry more weaponry in case sidearms arent viable anymore

[@r.connor9280]

@@joshuajoaquin5099 I'm starting to like the Philippines more and more

[@darkwraithcovenantindustries]

Be careful what you wish for my friend. In the USA Police are trained to shoot first and ask questions later. They kill little kids on accident all the time. They are very corrupt here especially in the poor parts of the country, and will lie cheat and steal your money via a policy called civil forfeiture. @@joshuajoaquin5099

[@MLFreese]

Anime logic: Design a mech suit with expensive, complex, humanlike hands, only to use those hands to grip a comically oversized revolver. In real life, it would have no arms, and there would be weapons mounted directly where the "shoulders" mount. Pretty much like a combat helicopter cockpit with legs. I think Tank Police had a more believable premise, but Patlabor gets extra points for cool factor.

[@WendiGonerLH]

Literally just a sized up Smith and Wesson 629

[@bigsyrup8567]

Back in my day, giant robots had SOVL!

[@PaRadaRada]

That pause wasn’t for the plot, it was her realizing how stupid this reload system is for a mech weapon

[@tedjomuljono3052]

the pilot is a woman

[@Dark_Matter_001]

ここでコメントする人の多くが、何故この世界ではこういうものなんだという理解がないのか不思議に感じる

[@simeinoko]

これだけの高性能ロボットが成立しているテクノロジーがある一方で何故リロードはこんなにもアナログなのかとリアリティラインにズレを感じるからでしょうね。日本の警察やパトレイバーという作品の知識無くこのクリップだけ観たら仕方ないかもしれません

[@ganpla]

低予算(パトレイバーの整備費が)なんだから無茶言うな。

[@GldnClaw]

Just like the other comments have said, nearly all the people who watch this are unfamiliar with the mechanics of the world.

[@r4zi3lgintoro65]

damn now I need to watch full series

[@arsetothem]

this is why u dont use giant revolvers on a giant robots. unless you have a giant bullet reloader made for it.

[@theusher2893]

When your tech R/D budget is great but your weapons R/D budget is nonexistent

[@iznogood4895]

One of the reason whyJ9 Griffon is more advanced, it's gun is semiautomatic and has clips to reload.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

But even then, that thing gets way too overengineered.

[@possibly8180]

​@@michaelandreipalon359inhuman levels of dexterity too

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@possibly8180 And the awesomely impractical ability of flight a la the Gundams. At least the amphibious element that replaces it in The New Files is more practical.

[@Scott.E.H]

I find it hilarious how it's not even what you'd expect, it's just a massively enlarged regular handgun. Nothing futuristic or fancy.

[@lemeres2478]

I don't necessarily have a problem with it not having any realistic plan for reloading in a fight. These are meant for civilian environments, so they aren't focused on ranged combat (Since you don't want your cops blasting these tank shells around). Still, if you are going to all that effort... just give them two guns. Double your loaded ammo capacity. IT is the classic pirate technique.

[@lord_scrubington]

Character: Casually walks out of suit to slowly reload a large gun Music BalababaBalLABAbAbAlLEBAHPOWWW

[@deathbunny1718]

i mean the speed you can get off a revolver would be a lot more then an autoloading tank so i can see the apeal, plus from how much movement and how dynamic the shots are anything else would break.

[@newyou6210]

Invents mechs, didnt know about magazines.

[@khhnator]

everybody laughing about the revolver. but remember that they are cops not soldiers. this is a world where there is a very large amount of larger construction mechs going around. this mec job is literally police pursuits but with mecs rather than cars. having the equivalent to a tank main gun is already WAAAAAAAAY to much for their job

[@mrbigglezworth42]

He has to exit the mech, to pull out the shells, to manually load them into the revolver. It's a good thing nothing is happening because that would be incredibly inconvenient.

[@MrRipper557]

Love how after a gun fight and one of the oddest reloads I have ever seen in a mech he just casually walks to slowly reload the pistol

[@fancy-payne]

>he

[@miahjere7414]

As I know, they do also have a short gun..... The scene of reload during the battle:

[@knightshousegames]

Manages to overcome the technological hurdles to handle accurate bipedal ambulation Can't figure out a speed loader.

[@billbaggins7355]

There is no reason that they couldn't have made a speed loader that the suit could manipulate with a hand.

[@imhigh.933]

Mfers who thought the idea to give a Advanced heavily technological Robot a Revolver, WHERE THE PILOT has to MANUALLY load literal hydroflask cylinder shaped Bullets each time it runs out of ammo…

[@SquishyZoran]

I’m not sure how I got here but is there anyway I can get the music? It’s awesome!

[@N0P3Sugar]

seems unproductive and dangerous way of reloading! plus those are like 75mm hand cannon ammo so heavy if you load it one by one outside that mecha.

[@Lordoftherobe]

How reloading the senator feels like in helldiver's 2

[@kloa4219]

it looks cool to see himans interacting with machinery and their environment, screw the nerds complaining about this

[@Nod0nFire]

This hurts my brain…why did we bother giving the mech fingers if it can’t even reload a revolver?? Just give it a gun arm!?

[@michaelwestmoreland2530]

Insert nostalgic comment here.

[@supertoast4946]

Damn, if only guns, ammo, and military-grade war machines could be integrated. Whelp, better step outside and lug these heavy-ass bullets one at a time.

[@JaCKal_646f67]

BIG IRON ON HIS HIP🔥🔥🥶🥶

[@EXMachina.]

Reason why any weapon that doesn't use magazine are very impractical on a Mech, it doesn't have the same dexterity of a human hand.

[@BlizzJaster]

I have one of these for my normal, human-sized revolver.

[@Vekren]

He has to exit his mobile suit to reload?!.... mobile suit gunsam colonies are cutting their budget.

[@rdubayoo]

There's an Awesome* pilot from the Battletech universe watching in this in the future and laughing himself half to death. *An Awesome mech uses 3 Particle Projection Cannons, which are powerful directed energy weapons that DO NOT NEED TO BE RELOADED EVER

[@A10N50]

This seems like a very impractical design if you have to leave the safety of your mech to reload the gun

[@Case16710]

Remember, it’s faster to DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING than to reload.

[@dlobelow760]

It's strange seeing Japan be smart with their gun laws. IDK about anything else

[@creadgrey4089]

I just love how the comments on this video are people saying this is stupid and people criticizing the US police force when they don't know anything about it

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Believe me, such misguided comments against the Patlabor and You're Under Arrest! animes are pretty much insulting not only to the manga/shows and their makers, but also to their passionate fanbases. Ohta is still a madcap, though.

[@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly]

The idea of standardized manual reloading is an insult to the mech genre, technology, and human progress in general. God forbid they put an ammo belt on it or pouches/mounted mags for "pop out" ammo so the mech itself can reload.

[@StrikeNoir105E]

@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly I mean, in California people are bringing back ancient reloading and firing techniques like crank handles just to be able to shoot weapons in "law-compliant" ways. If a place's laws are inane enough, they can stall and prevent technological implementation, and in the case of the Japanese Police they still use revolvers to this day due to their own police gun culture and laws to ensure police officers aren't armed to the teeth. Not having autoloaders of any kind on a police mech makes sense in such context.

[@dooggo-1402]

@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly The reason why Patlabor is like this, is because its a satirical more realistic take on the Mecha Genre as a whole set in the late 90s to early 2000s, of course, it can be a bit inconsistent, but Patlabor is as realistic as you'll get with the Mecha Genre. And also just to clarify this like the 100th time, this Mech is designed with the intent of hand-to-hand combat against other Mechs, mostly bipedal forklifters to prevent mitigate as much urban destruction. Any misdirected use with a 39mm Revolver Cannon can literally result in building getting destroyed and that'll result in the Special Vehicles Division having to go to the insurance company. This isn't like Gundam or let alone Mechwarrior where a 100 Ton Mech can fly up to 200 feet up in the air and suffer just a little bit of repercussions when it comes crashing down to the ground. The ARL-99 Helldivers in this series are quite notable for having their legs break when they launch from planes high up in the air even though they're using a parachute system, even then, the ARL-99 Helldivers are laughably bad in the series for being very maintenance heavy. Mechs that appear in the Late Patlabor after the Ingrams have been retired do end up using magazine-based Pistols, though its generally unknown how efficient those guns are and whether or not that those Mechs throw their Pistols to support team to reload for them.

[@kalacaptain4818]

always found it weird how meticulous and detailed the guns in anime are, while meanwhile american cartoons and TV (only country on earth with free and general firearm ownership) regularly fuck up basic stuff like charging handles.

[@MrSaturn012]

I keep a gerbil in my shirt pocket for the same reason

[@nicholas.n.8892]

This is the mech equivalent of a shoe-load...

[@lilbladeknight]

Such good quality; if I wanna watch this where do I begin?

[@gasfrommyanusi0i594]

in the future. we manually reload.