Oshii Mamoru’s Patlabor 2: Terror, Theatricality, and Exceptions That Prove the Rule

Figure 2.

This statuary evokes Angkor-Thom in Cambodia. It is a sculpture of the Buddhist bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (in Japanese, Kannon), who was identified with compassion and attending to the cries of the suffering. He refused to leave this world until all sentient beings had been freed from the illusion of samsara.