Trivia / Mobile Police Patlabor

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Both the official French and English translations of the manga can still be widely purchased, even though both editions are incomplete in both ends. Only way to read them entirely is either through Japanese or unofficial translations.
• No Export for You: The manga only saw overseas releases in French-speaking territories (with only 18 volumes out of 22), and in the U.S./Canada (licensed by Viz Media in the mid 90s). The NA release, in particular, was discontinued due to low sales and only the first two volumes were released (in both flip-comic format and compilations).
• What Could Have Been: In an interview with Headgear in the book "Stray Dog of Anime", the reason why an anime adaptation of the manga was not done is because they were afraid of getting into legal altercations with Shogakukan, which at the time serialized it in their magazine. The group was concerned that the company could make changes that may clash with the manga.