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2. Dirty Pair FLASH Episodes 3 and 4
01:14:50||Season 3, Ep. 2From 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. Also somehow all of my audio clips except the last few disappeared and I didn't have time to find them all and put them back in. I'm sorry, you'll just have to dream of a better world where Audacity wasn't a piece of shit to me.
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1. Dirty Pair FLASH Episodes 1 and 2
01:49:28||Season 3, Ep. 1It'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 format of previous incarnations of Dirty Pair. Does that mean these are longer and more of a pain in my ass to edit? Maybe a little. Does it give me an excuse to switch between the Japanese and English audio tracks when I put in clips from the show? There's only one way to find out!Dirty Pair FLASH! Maybe it's not as bad as we thought it would be! Give it a listen and find out what we think about all of this nonsense, and then come back in two weeks when we'll tackle episodes 3 and 4 of this little season, Frozen Angel and Sleeping Angel.10. OVA Episode 10: No Need to Listen to the Bad Guys! We are Space Truckers!
01:30:19||Season 2, Ep. 10It 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 crazy! And, of course, Kei and Yuri demonstrate their knowledge of the various legal systems that coexist in the galaxy.And, well, that does it for the Dirty Pair! Everyone wave goodbye to the best gals to ever do it out there in the galaxy. It's the last time we'll see Kei and Yuri in this universe, I'm afraid.But, well, there's another universe. Similar, but not quite the same. And in April, we're going to dive right into it with Dirty Pair: FLASH! Keep an eye on this here podcastin' feed, and we'll let you know what's up soon as we have it figured out and possibly also recorded.9. OVA Episode 9: Red Eyes are the Sign of Hell! We Go After the Killing Squad!
58:06||Season 2, Ep. 9We'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 places. At some point we stopped keeping track of how many casualties there are in a given episode, but rest assured that for this episode, it's the highest casualty rate that doesn't involve the Pair accidentally blowing up a planet, space station, or major metropolitan area. War is Hell, everyone!Next time, a much lighter episode to finish off the series, and a run-time that, at this point, really needs to be edited down. Also, it'll be the last episode for Kei and Yuri and this Dirty Pair! Join us at the end of all things, won't you?8. OVA Episode 8: A Girl Who is Well-Preserved for Her Age: Sleeping Beauty!
01:03:23||Season 2, Ep. 8I'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 cryosleep an acceptable way to preserve one's looks as they age? Have you ever wondered what the publisher of the novel 1984 said upon reading it for the first time?Weirdly enough, these questions all get answered on this episode of Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D! We're in the endgame now, with just two episodes left before we complete our year-long journey through this frankly incredible anime, and we're so glad that you've stayed with us all this time. Find us on the Wretched Bluesky, here, and say hello or something. We're running out of show and we need to figure out what comes next!7. OVA Episode 7: Revenge of the Muscle Lady! Is the Gang Making a Profit from the Spirit of a Woman?
54:44||Season 2, Ep. 7Gosh, 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, perhaps, is the colossal muscle woman who drives the action of this episode, yet another example of the 3WA cleaning up its own mess, and another example of Kei having to fight a giant muscle lady (remember when the Pair fought a pair of professional wrestlers over ownership of a cat? I sure do). There's also the requisite amount of Kei and Yuri acting like, well, partners, if you take our meaning. One day those crazy kids will figure it out, I'm sure. Perhaps next episode? I don't remember which one that is, actually. Only one way to find out, and that's to keep subscribed to this here podcast!6. OVA Episode 6: Are You Serious? Shocked at the Beach! Wedding Panic!
01:11:27||Season 2, Ep. 6I 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. Sometimes these things just happen!Anyway, this episode is all about how many references to other films the show-runners could fit into a 22 minute runtime, and I, your faithful editor, took up the challenge and met them reference for reference (not really (maybe)). There's also a counterfeiting plot (our second of the series!) and Yuri getting married on a fabulous resort island. These two plots are inextricable from one another! There's also a special bonus announcement from me, the editor, to say that we're taking the holidays off and will be back on January 9th. See you then!