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Babes with Bazookas
You never can have too much firepower, or too much cleavage. |
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n the 22nd century humanity perfects a warp drive and colonizes the galaxy. Nothing new there. Well most of these colonies want as much autonomy as possible, but they also want all the benefits of being affiliated with Earth. Again, nothing new. As a result, an organization/business/government bureaucracy (I've never quite gotten a grip on which) called the Worlds Welfare Works Association (WWWA or 3WA) is formed. The 3WA's purpose is to help individuals, organizations, governments, planets, etc. deal with problems that they can't handle on their own. |
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Organizations petition the 3WA for assistance, and if the 3WA's Central Computer accepts the petition, then a fee is set, and a trouble consultant team dispatched upon payment of the fee. Trouble Consultants are individuals and teams trained to be experts in a wide variety of fields, and teams with appropriate skills are assigned to handle any given problem. Kei and Yuri are criminal trouble consultants, that is, they solve crimes. They're one of, if not the best team of criminal trouble consultants the 3WA has. In fact, they've successfully solved every case they've ever been assigned. The Central Computer has code named them, the Lovely Angels. Unfortunately, the Lovely Angels have never had an assignment where SOMETHING didn't go wrong. The Central Computer clears them of wrong doing every time, proclaiming that things would have gotten screwed up no matter who had been assigned to the case. But the trail of corpses, shattered financial empires, and devastated ecosystems has caused the public to give Kei and Yuri a much more commonly used name...The Dirty Pair. |
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Dirty Pair Flash |
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The Dirty Pair, Kei and Yuri -- two scantily clad, but well-armed girls -- have been seeking danger and exitement for over ten years in japanese novels, comics, and currently TV and movies. They are best known for the television series that aired in Japan during 1985 and 1986, the motion pictures and the numerous Original Animation Videos (OAV). The history of the characters date back much further to author Haruka Takachiho's college days -- and to a female wrestling team known as the Beauty Pair.
The Dirty Pair first appeared as a series of stories that ran in SF Magazine in Japan. The stories later became a series of novels released by two different publishers, demonstrating the populariry of the stories. In 1984, Sunrise decided to animate the characters in a television series to be aired in 1985. The Dirty Pair was the second project of Takachiho to be animated by Sunrise Inc. The first was Crusher Joe. |
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Takachiho was allowed to choose the animators for Crusher Joe as he retained rights and control on the project. However, he chose not to watch as carefully over the production. Complete control for Dirty Pair was given to Sunrise because as a weekly television show, there was no way for one person to oversee the entire project.
Because of this there were bound to be chances in the original storyline of the books. For
example, in the Dirty Pair stories Mugi is the last survivor of a planet of vicious, predatory and very intelligent cat-line creatures that are capable of controlling magnetic waves with feeler-like antennae. In the TV episodes, Mug(h)i (Military Utility Generic Higher Intelligence) became a creature specifically designed for the Pair... although he didn't turn out quite as his designers intended. Mug(h)i becomes a comical, oversized caricature that retains intelligence but is cute, too.
A more noticable change is in the attitude of the Pair towards the destruction that seems as inseparabke oart of their nature. In The Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair (Kodansha English Library) Kei and Yuri don't seem to lose a moment's sleep over dropping a space
station on a populated area, but they go into fits over messed hair and borken nails. Quite a chance form the cute-but-still-accident-prone Pair in the TV episodes.
Contrary to populair belief, the Pair appeared in print long before the Curshor Joe movie, where they made there first animated appearance. It is also intresting to note that the relatrionship between the Dirty Pair and Crushor Joe isn't limited to existence in the same universe. In another Takachiho nocel Crusher Joe's father, Dan, and Crusher Joe's partner (then a much younger) Tallos team up with the Pair. Tallos eventually marries Kei and it is implied that Yuri may be Crusher Joe's mother.
Whatever the relationship, the Dirty Pair remain two of the most populair characters in Japanese Animation and it is likely that they will continue to appear in some form or another. (such as Dirty Pair Flash) |
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