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well I have started making preliminary notes for Anime Cops: the tabletop campaign
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what kind of anime cops are we talking here
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Small, intentionally diverse team that as a whole is kind of a loose cannon
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so something like You're Under Arrest or Patlabor?
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I'm not familiar with either of those but I'll take a look at them
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I've never actually seen the former but it's pretty well-known
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Patlabor is Anime Mecha Cops
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the longest running manga series ever is also wacky anime cops
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anyway sounds like a fun premise
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Yep. The PCs will be their own division, the "Experimental Active Cooperation Team" or EXACT
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Based on the synopses a little closer to Patlabor than You're Under Arrest but with less mecha (not none, just less)
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even research aside I'd rec Patlabor, it's a lot of fun
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The most direct inspiration being Zero no Kiseki, which could be described as Anime Cops: the JRPG
Demon Woman
I was gonna mention Kochikame but someone beat me to it!
Princess Emily
anime cops are the only good kind of cop
Awe
it is good to have support in this
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unrelated to all that I look at "Patlabor" and want to pronounce it PAT-la-bore
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but apparently it is pat-LA-bur
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and I am not sure where it is available to be watched
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anyway, today was mostly broad setting details such as the central city's name (Daybreak City), government, a couple key features (but there will be more)
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and probably most importantly one of the reasons magic-ish combat skills are a thing
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(basically, there's a kind of energy-capacitive mineral)
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(when heated, it can be used to start fires, etc.)