I forgot who said this but it’s important to watch older anime, after all, its what your favorite modern day mangaka and animators watched when they were young
It honestly cannot be restated enough how beautifully animated this scene is, you can tell a lot of time and effort was put into each frame. To think that all of this was all sketched, drawn, and painted is mind boggling. Unfortunate how uncommon Patlabor discussion is nowadays