Anime experts please. Help me identify a film!

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Years ago, as a child I watched an anime film on VHS that my parents had accidentally recorded after recording a program on TV.

My most vivid memory of the film is of a scene set in an abandoned post apocalyptic city with a very grey shot of a decayed corpse at a desk in a semi demolished building.

I think there was a battle of some big machines but that s secondary to the main scene I remember.

I am dying to see it again now that I might actually understand it. However various searches of well known anime and asking people who know the subjects they just don't know the scene and the footage I watch of the films just does not fit.

If I remember correctly it looks similar or is in the style if Akira/Ghost in the shell visually.

Any ideas? I have been looking on and off for years
 
It's ringing a vague bell, at a guess given your age I'm guessing it was probably either shown as one of the "late licence" programming block on C4 in about 94-5, or one of few shown on Sci-fi channel.

Can you remember if it was recorded as a late night programme, on satellite or any other details?

I'm wondering if it was possibly Patlabor or Patlabor 2? The first one was I think released in the UK in the early 90's, with the second not long after, and both were regularly on Sci-fi (and I think shown on C4 at one point), and one of them does from memory have a dead guy in an abandoned building (with a lot of construction work going on in parts of the film)
Where the main characters police in a classic sort of detective style, with a team of police using robots in places?


There are a couple more I can remember which might be it (with the dead guy at the desk), but I can't remember the names, I think I even have at least some of the possibles in my DVD collection.
Were there any supernatural monsters, or was it set in a specific time (any uniforms/period weapons?).
 
Is it a film or a series.

Was it in english (probably if on tv)

Any other details do you remember. What kinda battle do you think it was. Mechs like in say mechwarrior games or more like human styled mech/robots with a head and torso etc? Was there a main character if so was it male or female?

Any idea which year you saw it.

http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/tags/post-apocalyptic

Some to have a look at, might jog your memory.
 
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Thanks for the input guys.

As Werewolf suggested, it is likely to be a channel 4 as i am certain my parents didn't know how to hook the VCR up to record satellite, and they were far more likely to leave the VCR running on terrestrial.

This means it must have been from 94-95? Not sure if it was a film or series. It had the feeling of a film, with a certain totality to the ending.

The problem I have is that my memory of it is so vague, that I think I have sort of morphed it with Akira. I have a memory of large robot type things (mechs?) destroying the wasted cityscape fighting each other. Again, I THINK that's correct.

I also have a feeling they did some driving about in bike type things.

The copse in the officeblock/building was what really stuck with me, as i had never seen anything like that before.

I am assuming it was dubbed, as I doubt i would have been bothered to read subtitles.
 
here list of some of the anime that air on 4later.

black magic m88
akira
appleseed
Patlabor
megazone 23
Now and Then, Here and There
Cyber City Oedo 808
Doomed Megalopolis
Angel Cop
Genocyber
Robotech
Neo Tokyo
spriggan
Battle Angel Alita
 
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Sounds like an episode of Cyber City Oedo 808 which was part of the C4's Season. All 3 were shown.
Dubbed with Mangels epic extra swearing. :D

 
Other that match the criteria, but I don't think they were shown on TV, at least not C4.

A Wind Named Amnesia

Wicked City

Monster City Shinjuku

In The Aftermath was on ITV a few time, but was anime/live action Australia film that used footage from Angels Egg.

The Legend of the Four Kings was on C4, but doesn't totally match your criteria.
 
I think Wicked City and Monster city were on TV, I think it was even C4 (either that or sci fi) although that was probably late 90's as I remember recording them and I didn't get a VCR for myself until then.

I found a youtube of the old Manga UK vhs trailers, but it's about 90 minutes long!
It might be worth skipping through and seeing if anything jumps out.


Watching bits of that reminded me of Orguss 2, which I think was on TV, at one point I think various members of the old UK Sci-fi channel board had put together a fairly comprehensive list of anime that had been shown on UK TV (and the channels), but that was about 10 years ago and IIRC the forum got shut down completely/wiped after the rebranding (it got shut down for a while when they realised no one involved in the channel had checked it for months and one users posts all had pornographic images as he'd been hotlinking his sig/avatar from a site that didn't like hotlinks).

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Found a link to a very old webpage with some news about anime on C4 in '95

http://www.animejin.org.uk/news001.htm
News

9th July 1995

Channel 4 Manga season

Having tackled Godzilla movies and Honk Kong action films in the past, Channel 4 are now turning their attention to anime. A selection of recent Manga Entertainment releases will get late night showings, starting with Tokyo Babylon 1 on the 22nd July at 12:20am. The other shows to be aired later are Tokyo Babylon 2, Cyber City Oedo 1 - 3, Devilman 1 & 2 and Doomed Megalopolis 1 - 4.
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http://www.animejin.org.uk/news031.htm
Animejin News - 19th May 1996
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TV roundup

Manga Entertaiment sent me a press release about forthcoming TV screenings of
their films:

Channel 4 will be screening Battle Angel Alita, Judge and the final episodes of
Legend of the 4 Kings from June 1996 in their Saturday night Late License slot.

The BBC have signed up 3 feature films which are scheduled for transmission
some time this year: Wings of Honneamise, Patlabor 1 and Roujin Z. The BBC are
hoping these broadcasts will emulate Akira, which attracted an audience of 1.25
million when it was screened in 1994.

The Sci-Fi Channel (cable and satellite) has been screening episodes of The
Guyver weekly from 21st April, together with Appleseed (28th April), Monster
City (5th May), Space Adventure Cobra (12th May), Lensman (19th May), Venus
Wars (26th May), Golgo 13 (2nd June), Ninja Scroll (9th June), Wind of Amnesia
(16th June), Megazone 23 (23rd June), and Fist of the North Star (7th July)
Click to expand...
 
Doubt its evangelion but it does have huge robots fighting in. Abandoned city there's a fair few with them in so hard to identify it that way. Corpse sitting at desk well if its dead and not doing anything then again it's hard to pinpoint as a lot of anime probably has similar bits in.

So could be a film or a ova if you think it was a contained full story hmm. Probably something from early 90s maybe. I'll try and search a bit more for ya.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/en...=racing&th=robot|robots&th=steampunk&o=rating

Thats a search based on ova/films i think from 1990-1999with genres related to what u mentioned i think. Hopfully might be in that lot.

Fist of the north star was on c4 back then as watched it myself then and is vaugly like what u were mentioing and had bike/vehicles in there was probably a dead body in somewhere.

The World of the talisman (1987)

Any chance its that?
 
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Was a hard one to find out about. I was lucky there was a guy on reddit asking almost what you asked for and some Ppl said that film and he said that was it so took a shot that it might have been ur film.

Looks ok from what I saw on utube. Might give it a watch myself sometime soon.
 
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