NOA IZUMI

The cheerful rookie at the center of Patlabor's television series, Noa joins Special Vehicles Section 2 with an almost suspicious amount of affection for giant machines and quickly bonds with Ingram Unit 1, which she names Alphonse. She is one of Division 2's most naturally gifted Labor pilots, but what makes her work as a protagonist is that she is not a hardened action hero. Noa would rather solve a situation without wrecking people or machines, then becomes fiercely competitive the moment somebody threatens her team or challenges what Alphonse can do. Surrounded by louder, stranger personalities, she is often the closest thing Division 2 has to a normal person, which in this unit is saying quite a lot.