Dirty Pair: The Movie (Dirty Pair: Project Eden)

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Japanese: ダーティペア the Movie

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 14, 1987

Producers: Atelier Musa, Streamline Pictures

Licensors: ADV Films, Nozomi Entertainment

Studios: Sunrise

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Duration: 1 hr. 21 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.14¹ (scored by 4,140 users)

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Ranked: #3895²

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Popularity: #6221

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Agerna is a planet rich in Vizorium, the one mineral necessary to space travel. So when a series of mysterious attacks on mining operations has the governments of the world pointing fingers and blaming each other, the World Welfare & Works Association naturally sends in their top agents to investigate. But are the lovely angels up to the task of stopping a mad scientist bent on taking a long dormant alien race to its final evolutionary form? Throw in a thief who's hunting a bottle of World War II-vintage wine and it's a safe bet that nobody on the planet is safe. It's more chaos, more mayhem and even more destruction than ever before as the Dirty Pair take on their wildest case yet!

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kei

Main

Tonguu, Kyouko
Japanese

Yuri

Main

Shimazu, Saeko
Japanese

Carson, Carson D.

Main

Mori, Katsuji
Japanese

Bruno

Supporting

Nishio, Toku
Japanese

Boss

Supporting

Iizuka, Shouzou
Japanese

Seisan Iinchou

Supporting

Terashima, Mikio
Japanese

Chief Manager

Supporting

Kobayashi, Osamu
Japanese

Wattsman

Supporting

Otsuka, Chikao
Japanese

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Macek, Carl

Producer, ADR Director

Mashimo, Kouichi

Director

Chiba, Kouichi

Sound Director

Hoshiyama, Hiroyuki

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Opening Theme

"Safari Eyes (サファリアイズ-Safari Eyes)" by Miki Matsubara

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Ending Theme

"pas de deux (パ・ド・ドゥ-pas de deux)" by Miki Matsubara

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Jan 18, 2023

c---5

Mixed Feelings

A decent return to form after the disappointing and overly-morose Nolandia Affair, Project Eden is far more in line with the style and tone of the TV series. The plotline is unfortunately too thin to fill out the 80 minute runtime and just doesn't have as much substance as the TV episodes did, but the film makes up for it with an incredible sense of style. Dirty Pair always has fantastic action and the animation here is top-notch. The production design in general is a bit creepier than usual and it almost feels like a Metroid anime in places, and the atmosphere and music are ...

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Dec 29, 2018

glassknuckles

Mixed Feelings

Speaking as a big Dirty Pair fan, it's really amazing how much of disappointment Project Eden is. The animation is smooth, I guess, and the intro, Yuri's impromptu dance (now a famous vaporwave gif), the "over the top" song sequence, and the Streamline dub Wattsman's VA is about all I like about this particular Dirty Pair franchise entry.

Let's start with the bath that results in Kei, Yuri and Carson doing Kill la Kill before that was a thing for most of this movie. While they actually became pretty professional by the end of the TV series, Kei and Yuri are still a ... couple of dimbulbs (and I mean that in the most affectionate way) but even early TV series Kei and Yuri wouldn't take a bath in radioactive abandoned mine water.

But what I don't really like about this movie is that once Carson gets (re) introduced in the mine, the Pair seem to take a backseat in driving the story. Carson leads the Pair around; they tend to respond to him instead of driving the situation themselves and putting the men in the backseat, as is the usual dynamic in the TV series. For a good portion of the film Kei is off with Carson and Yuri has no dialogue as she looks around for them (though the Xenomorph skin she wears is a nice touch). The result of all this is that, crucially, the banter and camaraderie between Kei and Yuri is absent from the majority of this film, producing something rather joyless compared to any episode of the TV series.

What's even more offensive is the cheesy romance angle between Kei and Carson. The TV series Lovely Angels' relationships with men are comically bad and these experiences continually reaffirm the bond between Kei and Yuri. Seeing Kei getting flustered and tsundere with this Carson guy just doesn't sit right with me, it's not what I expect from girls who've been making jokes about oral sex and giving each other their 'leftover' men (25 years before Panty and Stocking did it!). The sexual confidence and savvy dealing with men that characterizes Kei and Yuri is simply not here.

This movie is just not fun or funny, and if this is someone's first exposure to Dirty Pair I would understand why they wouldn't be impressed by it - the movie's Kei and Yuri just feel generic and, crucially, they don't even feel like the main players in their own movie when the staff has given so much attention to Carson and Wattsman. Project Eden is not representative of what makes the Dirty Pair great characters. Kei and Yuri really deserved a rollicking action comedy epic - like many episodes of the TV/OVA series are- instead of this rather dull affair.

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barcaman101

Mixed Feelings

one hour,twenty three minutes of my life that i wont get back,plain and simple thats what this anime is.it starts off reasonably interesting,with humans having colonised space with two planets being the focus of attention as they are the main manufacturers of an essential mineral called Vizorium which is needed as a crutial component to produce the metal that makes space ships.Agerna one of the two planets suddenly has its main production factory attacked by strange creature who feeds on the vizorium and destroys the factory in the process.

Agerna suspects that the creatures came from eden as it is its main competitor.Two females ...

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