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The crossover between Mobile Police Patlabor and Zoids will continue with a new manga serialization. Takara Tomy has revealed that it is working with Patlabor‘s creator group Headgear to produce a new manga adaptation of the crossover. It will be available in Fall 2024 with the title Zoids X Patlabor: Code Name B.U.D.D.Y.
The companies have also revealed the key staff members working on this new project, and most of them had previously worked on the Patlabor series. The character designer Akemi Takada and scenario writer Kazunori Ito had worked on the original Patlabor anime, and the mechanical designer Hidetaka Denjin made the AV-98 Ingram Moderoid model kit boxart. This will be the first involvement in both Zoids and Patlabor franchises for the manga artist Naoto Tsushima, who had mostly worked on Transformers manga titles.
Takara Tomy first revealed the crossover between Zoids and Patlabor in 2023 to mark the respective 40th and 35th anniversaries of both franchises. The company revealed a special model kit featuring the Metropolitan Police Force version of the Hunter Wolf, which it eventually released in June 2024.
The new manga Zoids X Patlabor: Code Name B.U.D.D.Y. will be available in the Fall season of 2024.
