Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.

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 episode without uploading the audio file! I'm really out of it!

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 of the Pair as they do their level best to bring a con artist to justice and get their just reward: a fancy dinner together at Trois Poires. I don't have to try any harder with this podcast description because it's my birthday!See you next time.

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 happens at a prestigious girls' boarding school when you're seventeen (or pretending to be? It's unclear). We had a good time talking about this and you're sure to have a good time hearing about it. I should warn you all up front that there is discussion of multiple suicides in this one (it comes with the whole ghost story territory, I'm afraid), so if you are at all sensitive to such things, you are forewarned. Next episode doesn't have any of that in it, just a weird conman and a lovely dream. I'd say more about it, but that would ruin the point of the next episode!

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 with one another and also probably kiss. Also, meet Touma, who is here to be punched sometimes and is good at computers. Also, meet the 90s, which somehow takes a step back from the 80s when it comes to trans rep in this series.Also, John Miur? And the greatest ED to ever grace anything, ever.Our next episode will go up in two weeks, which is the cadence we've been sticking to all along. Definitely have never missed an episode, no siree.

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 does, and it wraps everything up as well as you can wrap a thing up in six episodes. Also, it turns out we liked this season! Another win for giving things a second chance, I guess. Dirty Pair FLASH season 1: it's better than you remember it being!Next up: the season that we remembered liking a lot! I've just watched the first episode in preparation for our imminent recording session for this season, and I gotta say: It's good! Please look forward to us going back to the one episode per podcast format, maybe. It'll be a surprise to you, and to us, when we record! Who can say what we'll decide to do?

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. 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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?