Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.

As a rule, we're not good at finishing projects. Sooner or later we run out of steam and things just stop happening, and that's the end of THAT, as they say. But by GUMBO, we finished this Project P.O.D! And thank goodness that we got to finish with this episode, and not the last episode, because this episode of Dirty Pair Flash 3 is the best of the bunch, the best single episode, you might say, o...

At the outset, we knew that this wouldn't be an easy episode. Our half-remembered recollections of watching it however long ago were, as it turns out, not enough to adequately prepare for the depths of despair that awaited us in this particular episode. If you wanna listen to two people get real uncomfortable about the premise and happenings of an episode of anime, well gosh you're in luck. How ma...

Well, we finally did it. We made it to what's probably the worst episode of Dirty Pair FLASH thus far. What makes this episode particularly unsavory? Oh, we'll get into that. We'll get into that! Are there a few bright spots in here? We'll get into that, too (not really, sorry). But hey, don't worry dear listeners, because at least it can't get any worse than this, right? Right? Guess there's only...

Welcome back, we're still in the final stretch here (only three more episodes to go!) of our Dirty Pair FLASH era. This time we tackle the question of a young assassin making her debut kill on the main stage of history, as they say. And you know what? She fucks it up! She's bad at it! This episode of Dirty Pair FLASH is kinda bad too! But hey, it ain't all rain and thunder. There's a few moments h...

You'll never believe it, but we've actually come back to finish off this Project POD for good. Or at least for now. For Dirty Pair FLASH, anyway! That's right, here it is, the first of five hot new episodes about the final five episodes of the Dirty Pair FLASH OVA series. Have I always capitalized FLASH like that in these descriptions? I don't know and there's no way to ever find out for sure. Any...

We've done it, we've made it to the end of Dirty Pair Flash 2! Let's dive in and discuss an android assassin, an out-of-control spaceship loaded up with high explosives, Yuri's expert piloting skills, and Kei's sharpshooting prowess. We also take some time to talk through the entirety of Flash 2 as a project, what worked for us and what we could perhaps have done without. Will we like it after all...

We've returned to provide unto you, our listeners, a longer-than-I-remembered discussion about what once was and still might be my favorite episode of Dirty Pair FLASH! Honestly I'm amazed that we stayed on topic as much as we did, which doesn't make writing this podcast description any easier. I'm very tired! I didn't sleep last night! Yuri is bisexual! Thanks! I just tried to publish this episod...

It's the hosts' birthday, and we got ourselves a podcast that published on time! Hooray for us! Also, we got the absolute maximum number of weird faces allowed in a 24 minute OVA, and you can see a good number of them on our wretched bluesky account, because I got carried away while I was editing this podcast. Understandable, I think. This episode dials down the seriousness and dials up the comedy...

We've done it, we've managed to get an episode out on our two-week cadence again, and doesn't it feel good to be back in the swing of things? Of course it does, don't bother answering that. The second (very good) episode of the second (very good) season of Dirty Pair Flash is full of mystery, monarchs, and music, and Kei and Yuri are here to get to the bottom of whatever the hell it is that happen...

Welcome back to our (hopefully) more regularly scheduled podcast, where we decided that things work better when we do one episode at a time! So, in recognition of that truth, please enjoy over an hour of us discussing the first episode of our favorite season of Dirty Pair Flash, which sets up the framing device for this season and also re-establishes Kei and Yuri as partners who know how to work w...

Well it isn't pretty (the audio file) but we managed to hold Audacity to task long enough to edit down and publish this, our final episode dealing with the first series (season?) of Dirty Pair FLASH! It's hella climactic, the stakes are hella high, and the universe at large... doesn't actually care what the man on the television is ranting about. It's some of the best work that this first season d...

From a noir revenge tale to being a gamer girl, these two episodes of Dirty Pair FLASH sure do cover a lot of ground, and so do we! Our trip through the first season of Dirty Pair FLASH continues apace as we discuss Twin Peaks, Professor Wattsman, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, circa 1996 or so. I guess we also talk about Dirty Pair FLASH in this one too, somehow...

It's been a while, but we've come back after a break to crack open the somewhat curious artefact that is Dirty Pair: FLASH! We also decided now's as good a time as any to switch things up and do two episodes of the show in one episode of podcast, because the first and second seasons of FLASH are both short (6 and 5 episodes) and tell an ongoing story, as opposed to the more Mission of the Week for...

It wouldn't be the end of a series if we didn't provide an extra-long episode, and it wouldn't be the Dirty Pair if they didn't have something interesting to say. This time, we're talking about police corruption in a capitalist system and the only cure for it: collective action! Also, Kei and Yuri get mechs, giant space guns, and, of course, rocket launchers. Not all at once, though, that would be...

We've almost made it to the end of Dirty Pair 2, and what better penultimate episode could there be than yet another of Shinchiro Watanabe's doings? This time, we're off to a war-torn jungle planet to learn about the war economy and vengeance! Kei and Yuri are facing down a crooked arms dealer and a squadron of killer commandos, and it's all lavishly animated and appropriately somber in the right...

I'll level with you: I might have lost the plot a little bit somewhere in here. Digressions abound, which is how you can tell which one of us was driving the episode recap. It's fine, don't worry about it, this is still guaranteed to be a memorable episode of Project P.O.D. as we take a pilgrimage to the past to solve a 20-year old mystery. Who's responsible for the tragedy of the White Swan? Is c...

Gosh, it feels like forever since I last did this, but it hasn't been that long, has it? We return and bring in the new year with another cracker of an episode of the Dirty Pair OVA series! Shinichiro Watanabe returns to the director's seat to walk us through the seedy world of underground fighting, super-steroid use, and long-simmering grudges. You know, the kind of stuff you'd expect. Unexpected...

I want to remind everyone that we record these shows all in a batch and in fact recorded this show at the beginning of November, which makes the fact that the American News Media is all talking about an Italian dude named Luigi another one of those weird serendipitous things that sometimes happen with this show, like how our episode about the Halloween episode actually went up around Halloween. So...

Side-tracked conversations and Dragon Kung Fu abounds on this, our latest offering to the devoted listeners who are hungry for more tales of the Dirty Pair! We dive into the fifth episode of the Dirty Pair OVA series and answer the important questions of: what the hell is Mughi wearing? Is his code name Kung Fu Dragon or Dragon Kung Fu? What's that hat Kei's got on called, anyway? I promise that w...

Weird audio issues abound on this episode (not really, I cleaned a lot of it up) but we soldier on anyway to discuss yet another episode where Kei and Yuri have to deal with some troublesome kids. These kids, however, have a childish obsession with war and access to a weapon that could potentially rip the fabric of space-time asunder! Does this show have something to say about our cultural obsessi...

On this, the spookiest day of the year (it's gonna be 80 degrees here on October 31, that's the scariest thing going), we discuss the spookiest of topics: the true cost of Utopia OOOOOOH BOOOOOOOOO SCAAAAAAAAAARY! We also discuss the lesser known works of Shinchiro Watanabe, as well as everything else that comes up in this particularly stylish episode of Dirty Pair 2 . It's full of twists (heads a...

It's a Halloween full of capers as Kei and Yuri, y'know, fight crime or whatever. I don't know if they even really mean to fight crime, they're too busy chasing a killer robot, but crime is fought nonetheless! We spend a lot of time talking about Kei and Yuri chasing a killer robot, and make sure to discuss the various threads that are teased from this episode as one would unravel a particularly g...

You wanted it, we also wanted it, we said this post was going to be on Cohost but hey, whaddaya know, it's on our own blog now because RIP to Cohost: it's the triumphant return of *Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.*! We're coming to you with the fantastic OVA sequel series, known to some as *Dirty Pair 2*. Our first episode deals with our reintroduction to the Pair in "Prison Uprising! Or We hate People...

Well, we've finally come to the end of the road for Kei and Yuri, or at least the Kei and Yuri who don't wear matching uniforms. Flight 005 Conspiracy marks the longest episode we've ever done as well as the final foray into the world of feature-length animations, assuming you only need to be an hour long to be counted as a 'feature.' It's some of the best writing to date and probably the worst en...

It's our lowest bitrate yet as we once again go long on Dirty Pair: The Movie or Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N as it was known in the United States (also where we got the name of our podcast from). It's also our most musical episode yet, because all of the music in this film is incredible and I just HAD to include it. So, y'know, this'll never get monetized but I will put the tracks I played most of...