Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.

We'll get to the true second season of Dirty Pair eventually, but first we need to take a look at these OAVs and Feature Films, starting with 1985's Affair of Nolandia , an experiment in a harder science fiction and more adult content (not that kind of adult, for the most part. The mature kind). A brand-new Lovely Angel with brand-new character designs takes the stage! Artificial esper kids! Corpo...

We've done it, you've done it, everyone's done it. We made it to the end of the 1985 (plus two in 1987) classic sci-fi animated series Dirty Pair . We've done it with a special longer-than-usual episode for you since it's the last one we'll be doing for a little while. And what an episode it is! This one's got it all: big guns, cool fights, giant explosions, and above all, some real quality yearni...

25 episodes into this podcast run and I discover that I can put custom thumbnails for each episode. Well, better late than never, I guess! We careen towards the end of our time with the original run of Dirty Pair (plus two OVA episodes!) with this episode that maybe, y'know, has more subtext than previous episodes. Is it the freedom afforded by being an OVA episode? Is it us reading what we want t...

We come to you now with a bit of a long one but in fairness, in fairness , they're all long ones from here on out. But here on out isn't that far away, because this is the final episode of the Dirty Pair 's 1985 televised run! Sure, sure, there's a couple of OVA episodes that get released in '87, and yeah, there's that Affair of Nolandia special and Dirty Pair: Project Eden , the movie from which...

Welcome, everyone, to the second-ever podcast that I had to export at a lower bitrate in order to get the file size low enough to upload to this free tier of podcasting service! Pull up a chair and have a listen to an elegant assassination attempt, a long con, a romantic pursuit, and a dramatic comeuppance! It's no wonder we spent so long talking about it, this (the penultimate episode of Dirty Pa...

It had to happen sooner or later. Eventually, there was going to be an episode of Dirty Pair that we just couldn't manage to talk about for an hour. This, the second half of a two-part tale, is that episode. It's nothing wrong with the episode itself, mind you, it's just that things happen so fast in this episode that it's hard to really latch onto anything and digress for an hour. My memory of re...

Our podcast project hurtles towards its inevitable conclusion, as we encounter a mysterious ghost ship that ought to have 463 people on it, but doesn't. Incidentally, why 463 people? It's such a specific number. We don't talk about that, but we do talk about proper commercial break timing, the appropriateness of using one's Natural Talents to cheer up a child (don't do it), and the disgusting dome...

I don't know how I manage to keep getting these out on time, but here we are yet again for another episode of Project P.O.D! This time, we're talking about Captain Haddock, an assassin who has one last job to do, an ice cream magnate, and the creamiest gal. Kei and Yuri spend this episode either being completely in sync with each other or verbally sparring, so you know it's my absolute favorite ki...

Another day, another podcast about that one episode of Dirty Pair where a dude seeks revenge because someone broke his sex doll. You know how it is. Look, maybe you could argue that this episode is also about Kei and Yuri doing cool commando shit and fighting a warlord and his army. I'll allow that such an episode, or at least parts of it, exist here. But also there's the whole plot where a rich g...

The Yuletide cannot stop this podcast, because I worked ahead for a change and uploaded it all ahead of time like a responsible show-runner, running a show that is largely for my own amusement. I also probably spent a little too much time too close to my mic, and so some of the audio is uh, less pristine than I'd like it, but I also only have so much time to spend on this stuff. Episode 18 is all...

CW: Suicide, sexual assault It isn't their usual fare, but sometimes some heavy things happen in Dirty Pair so we're warning you ahead of time: yes, someone kills himself and yes, there is an extremely uncomfortable scene between Kei and an assailant that reminds us that 1980s culture was in fact full of this kind of misogyny and assault-as-flirting(maybe? Don't know why they depicted it this way...

We've made it, everyone, to episode 16, and only now do we truly begin to understand how far afield we can wander. I mean, it's probably not that far of a walk from Dirty Pair to GI Joe but it's not a quick stroll, that's for sure. We also have trouble with pronunciation, and I left it in the podcast instead of editing it out because it's important to know that words are Difficult Sometimes and th...

All right, so here we are once again with a weird little tale about an old man who's searching for treasure in a hidden temple. Was he led there by a legend? Archaeology? Probably the second one, but Kei and Yuri are here to help him survive whatever traps the place might have in store, along with whatever his disgruntled former assistant throws at him (an assault helicopter, as it turns out). We...

Something strange was in the air when we recorded this episode that starts with a bang, if a bang is an incredibly racist caricature. Sorry, everyone, the 1980s happened in this episode. But once you... get... past.. that... part.... (ugh, feels awful to type) we get into a thrilling heist and an episode that moves at breakneck speed. You want a scene full of exposition? Go somewhere else, it's al...

Oh ho ho, what's this? What's THIS? A spooky episode of Dirty Pair , just in time for the spooky season of Hallowe'en. We couldn't have planned it better, and in fact did not plan it at all. But you, dear listener, are the beneficiary of this lack of planning that turned out for the best anyway. Come closer, and listen to the tale of giant space slugs (mollusks), a Shoggoth, Kei's star turn as Cap...

A strange energy is in the air during this recording as we get back to the business of talking about Dirty Pair. And what better way for us to knock the rust off of our somewhat atrophied podcasting muscles than to tackle a story of love, loss, and desperation. And a hyper-intelligent Nazi mouse. Really it's mostly about the Nazi mouse. I mean, if you ran into something like that you'd probably ta...

We near the halfway point of this podcasting venture with a splendid little episode about being overworked, the damage that can do to your relationships, and the importance of vacation. Also, the cops are shit - it wasn't until doing this podcast that I realized how poorly they do their job throughout this series, but it sure has become a recurring theme. Kei and Yuri hate kids, love parties, tole...

Here we are once again for another episode of Dirty Pair , and this time we spend a lot of time being angry about monarchies in general and one specific prince, whom Kei and Yuri have to get back to his homeworld before a dastardly drug-dealing duke puts his divine right to rule to the ultimate test. Do things go smoothly? Of course they don't. Does Yuri get a face-full of Kei's ass? You bet she d...

Shucks howdy pardn'r, welcome to this here podcast 'bout that there Dirty Pair. This time we travel to a mysterious planet full of Sergio Leone tropes to watch as the Lovely Angels turn their prodigious skills towards resolving a conflict between warring crime families who threaten to disrupt the production of a powerful energy source! Everything goes totally according to plan, for sure, and nobod...

Oh wow, oh wow do we have an episode this time. It's got everything you could want in it: an audio clip from a different show, the most oblique reference to Sincere Engineer that I could think of at the time, and far more discussion of Metal Gear than I remember having, but I guess that sneaks up on you. You wanna know what makes a woman explode? Don't we all. Does this episode of Dirty Pair answe...

We've made it to episode 7, which means we've made it to The Episode You Probably Heard About. In celebration, we've prepared our longest discussion yet on just what makes this episode stand out from every other episode of Dirty Pair thus far (and moving forward, honestly). Kei and Yuri do a cool dance, there's a song about hamburgers, someone does an Interstellar on purpose , and above all, we fi...

We return once more, or perhaps we don't and this podcast is merely a decoy! The only way to know for sure is to listen to see if this podcast explodes at some point, that's the real one! Things get complicated for the Lovely Angels as they encounter a childhood friend while on a dangerous mission to lead some pirates astray and maybe deliver some kinda prism stone to some other kinda wild-looking...

You might think that I was on vacation and sat down in the midst of this to edit together this podcast and you'd be RIGHT. Coming in as hot as it's ever come in, episode 5 contains another brief Gundam digression, some tips on the building and painting of plastic models, and, of course, a whole lot of talk about Criados and the heartbeat of Criados. How determined is Kei to go on a date (Very Dete...

I'll not sugarcoat it: we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about throwing an apple core into the trash in this episode. It's good talk, though, so I won't hear any complaints. If apple cores going into trash cans isn't your thing, however, never fear! We also talk about thumb wrestling, cheesecake, gender reveals, and the ethics of biotech. Well, sort of, anyway. In context. Oh, and don'...

You there, what day is it? Why, it's new Project P.O.D. Day! The day where we deliver unto you the final episode from our first marathon recording session, which means that this one took a little extra time to edit because there were a lot more protracted silences as we attempted to hold onto our scattered thoughts and not just say UHHHHHH a lot (we failed). But we persevered, and have delivered u...