HIROMI YAMAZAKI

A huge, soft-spoken officer from Okinawa whose size creates the cruelest joke in the entire Labor unit: Hiromi is too big to fit comfortably inside an Ingram cockpit. He instead drives Unit 1's carrier and becomes the steady, kind presence behind Noa and Asuma in the field. Off duty he raises chickens, grows vegetables and helps keep the isolated Section 2 headquarters fed. Patlabor repeatedly gets comedy out of how intimidating Hiromi looks and how completely that appearance fails to match the shy, gentle man underneath.