Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.

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 yearning. Ah yes, settle in friends. If a series has to end, this is the way to end it.But of course, this isn't the end, there's a second series that releases as an OVA and there's a couple of hour long specials, as well as a feature film. We'll be tackling those all in some kind of order that we explain at the end of this podcast, but first we're going to take a break. I would like to take a break! So while we take a break, and try to track down some information about the production of The Affair of Nolandia, feel free to just listen through the series again a few times. We won't keep you waiting long! Our next episode will deal with the first of two specials, The Affair of Nolandia, which takes the series in a different direction both tonally and artistically. Aren't you excited? Well, maintain that excitement until June 6th, which is when we're currently planning on releasing that episode.Thank you to everyone for listening, this has been such a fun thing to do. See you next time!

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 to read into it? Either way, they have a beautiful friendship. Sure, Gooley, that's what it is. Also there's a Terminator, and a laser table, and a VOTOM. Who can ask for more?Our next episode - indeed, the FINAL EPISODE before we take a little break and figure out our next move - will appear in your podcatchers as if by magic on April 18th.

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 this podcast took its own name, but this is the last televised episode! It's Big! It's Important! One might argue I went a little overboard when I edited it, but history will be the judge of me.Also, this is the first episode we recorded since Akira Toriyama passed, so we spend a little time talking about that as well.Anyway, it's a good episode of television, and I'd like to think we earn the longer run-time on this one as well. The next episode, which deals with the first of the two special episodes once included on From the Lovely Angels with Love, will drop on April 4th. You'll love it. I'll love it. Everyone will love it. It'll also be a bit of a long one.

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 Pair's original televised run) episode is packed with all kinds of cool stuff.Give it a watch, then give this a listen, and then marvel at how much we talked about it. Took me ages to edit this one, goodness gracious.

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 recording these episodes is kinda hazy on account of being sick the whole time, but I'm pretty sure next episode we'll more than make up for it.Also we talk about the Affair of Nolandia for a little bit. Think of it as a teaser for when we eventually watch that OVA and record a podcast about it. It'll sound a little something... like this (this being the part where we talk about Affair of Nolandia).Next episode drops March 7th, at which point I need to find time to record more episodes. Until then!

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 domesticity of our favorite intergalactic Trouble Consultants. Also, I'm still sick in this recording, so enjoy thatThe next episode will arrive on schedule and continue to feature my Husky Sick Voice on February 22nd. Until then, you'll just have to draw your own conclusions as to how everyone disappeared off of that spaceship.