Dirty Pair

I watched the Dirty Pair movie like, 10 years ago and that gave me a pretty good idea of what the TV series would be like.

The main characters, Kei and Yuri, are the Lovely Angels who work for the World Welfare Work Association or WWWA as "trouble consultants", i.e. hired mercenaries who fix issues for profit. As per the movie, they are also known by their popular name, the "Dirty Pair" because every mission they solve results in huge amounts of collateral damage.

The TV series was a little dissapointing in several respects. For one, it didn't bring out the total awesomeness of the Dirty ... Pair's destructive powers like the movies did - there is no "destruction on a massive scale from a relatively minor mission" (except for the first episode). There is destruction, but nowhere in the scale of what is seen in the movies. The TV episodes are also very short so plot development feels very rushed in most episodes.

The only positive is some additional character development. The episode about Billy Galet (Yuri's old love) was particularly well done, but it was an outlier as the rest of the TV episodes didn't go that deep. If you only watched the TV episodes you'd think Kei and Yuri were "girls" only interested in (1) Men (2) Dating (3) New Clothes (4) Bonuses and (5) Vacations. But in reality both women are much more complex characters than that and it didn't come through in the TV series.

Additionally the animation is very sub par and "flat". It might have been ok in the 1980s or mid 1990s but when you take it into the 2000s it falls far short. The music is mediocre also.

Overall, I am a Dirty Pair fan because the girls are "sassy" trouble consultants and it's always nice to see an anime where the heroines are sexy, good at their jobs and feminine without being overly cutesy. The only drawback is the TV series didn't exploit this fully.

I am hoping that the updated "Dirty Pair Flash" or other OVAs will show the Dirty Pair to their full potential because as "we will fix things but oops we blew up (insert item, equipment, building, structure or planet here) something in the process" idea is a good one. All in all, if they made a live action Dirty Pair movie it would probably be great, if the correct actresses can bring the characters to life. The TV series in itself does not fully live up to its potential plot, character or animation wise.

Dirty Pair (Lovely Angels -- sorry!) is one of those series where each episode is its own standalone story and whilst there are sometimes recurring characters (aside from the main cast), they haven't formed together as part of a larger narrative/story as of episode 17. So if you hate (or love) those as much as I do, factor that in.
Whilst episode seems to explore something new and different, they're never pushing the envelope. Though occasionally, they hit. Just don't think too much about it and let it happen when it does.

Basically, Lovely Angels is very mediocre. It never really takes itself seriously and for good ... reason: the plots are predictable most of the time, the jokes are, the action, and a lot of the characters are seemingly very shallow. This isn't meant to be anything more than cheap entertainment.

This kind of show isn't usually for me; however, around episode 7, and maybe this is just around the time I started paying attention or maybe this episode and its silliness /shocked/ me into paying attention, but around episode 7, Lovely Angels became somewhat of a guilty pleasure. In episode 7, many people are fired into space, and it's done so completely earnestly.
Did the show really become better after that point, or did a couple good moments cloud my judgment? Probably the latter, so I'd avoid it if I were you, but check it out briefly so you can see people's sons, girlfriends, fathers and, yes, secretaries being sent into space one after the other, or, if not for that, then check it out it for my favourite openings.
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