You're Under Arrest (1996) · review
Surpassed my expectation!!! This is a good anime by itself and even better for classic TV standard. So If you are feeling nostalgic and want to sit down and enjoy a slow burn 90's TV anime, this could be the one on your list. At first I thought this is just a motor fun's wet dream type of anime that I don't really care about, and the classic old TV cartoon format with self contained episodes really didn't help. And since the protagonists are two female buddy cops but set in Japan* this is probably going to be a stay true to the reality boring genericslice of life or an unrealistic over the top boring slice of life anime , so I have thought...
But in fact this is a slow burn character driven show, each characters have their own quirks and they are likable, believable, and relatable, and everyone severed a purpose even for those who only showed up a few episodes that are interesting and still contribute to progress the story, and be honest they are the one who break the normal formula and stirring the water to keep the story going. The downside of focusing the story on female traffic police in Japan is there aren't many big cases but when there is one it feels really matter, and again this is a character driven show although the development is slow but it is there, and it paid off when it is matter.
*Japan female "cops" weren't real cops (not sure if it is still the same today but back then there were no female cops), only female served in frontline were traffic police who served primarily as a hospitality role which can be shown by their not action ready uniform... good old sexism... which also explained how the back story of the character Futaba Aoi came to be before she joined the traffic police department.