Yes I think the style is closer to the manga compared to the previous anime series.

The official site call this "the newest work in the series", but the trailer refers to the puppeteer which is from the 1st manga. It is possibly a reboot but I did not follow the news too closely to be sure.

BTW, just heard about this US$4,800 Nabeshima Porcelain Tachikoma and thought I'd mention it here.

https://yoyoyo.work/en/products

You can check out the making video too.

Special Collaboration PV is out on Youtube.

Thanks! I'll check them out.

Thanks! It looks just like the kind of "Arcade joystick" in my mind. I might just end up buying one.

Thanks for all the replies, sorry I didn't reply to every one but I read them all, keep them coming please!

I am glad to hear joysticks are still popular in some circles.

Some more random thoughts:

I mostly play 4X games or other casual games nowadays where mouse and keyboard suffices or is better suited. The most recent time I spent significant time with a gamepad is Zelda OoT on an emulator. I can probably play that with a joystick I think, but some of its mini-game might need finer control with an analog stick.

Aside from fighting games, I can imagine playing 2D shooters with a joystick. Metroidvania games too, but some of them have functions assigned to so many buttons I'm not sure a joystick has enough.

Thanks, I have to look that up. I think I might have seen them on on line stores but did not look closely to recognize them for what they were. I thought they were for games that doesn't need stick control, like music game or such.

I think they're the one of the ooh no we need to respect our visitors -- sike, blocked! gang

Are you in Europe? Might be a GDPR thing. Yahoo Japan does that as well.

Added Internet Archive link, can you access that?

I do hope this fires off some additional patlabor stuff though

Patlabor EZY part 1 is in Japanese theaters right now and this manga can be considered one of the promotion for it (the story happens between the end of the old manga and the movie).