Best Police Sci Fi
In the future, advanced robotics has created heavy robots ("labors") for use in a variety of functions: construction, fire-fighting, military, and more. However, though the robots are only machines, their operators are also only human—and humans sometimes turn to crime. Since a heavy labor unit can...
Mobile Police Patlabor: The New Files presents a mature take on the classic mecha anime series. It follows the Special Vehicles Division 2, a Tokyo police unit utilizing Ingram Patrol Labor robots to combat crime and unusual incidents. The show explores themes of military duty, workplace dynamics, a...
Grade schooler Yuuta Tomonaga stumbles upon Deckerd, a humanoid robot under construction by the Japanese police, built to fight advanced forms of crime. Yuuta's constant contact with Deckerd gives the robot a "heart," or personality; when Yuuta is recruited as the "boss" of the "Brave Police" as a r...
Time Trax is a science fiction television program set in 1990s Australia. The show follows police officers who travel to a dystopian parallel universe existing two centuries in the past. They pursue criminals displaced from a future timeline. This series, Lorimar Television’s last original productio...
Sasahara Natsuki is a poor bounty hunter in a world where monsters and humans live together. Most of her cases involve monsters infringing upon the rights of humans, who are protected by law from their generally more powerful neighbors. Being half-human and half cat-beast, Natsuki straddles the two...
Future Police Urashiman follows Ryo, a detective transported from the 1980s to a cyberpunk future. He now works with the futuristic police force, utilizing his vintage perspective to investigate unusual crimes and maintain order. The series blends action, sci-fi, and comedy appealing to fans of retr...
