| Dirty Pair | |
 Cover of the novel showing the two protagonists Yuri (left) and Kei (right) and their Coeurl sidekick | |
| ダーティペア (Dāti Pea) | |
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| Genre | |
| Novel series | |
| Written by | Haruka Takachiho |
| Illustrated by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
| Published by | Hayakawa Publishing |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Hayakawa Bunko JA |
| Original run | May 1980 – December 2018 |
| Volumes | 9 |
| Anime television series | |
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| Produced by |
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| Music by | Toshiyuki Kimori |
| Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | NNS (NTV) |
| Original run | July 15, 1985 – December 26, 1985 |
| Episodes | 24 + 2 OVA |
| Original video animation | |
| Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia | |
| Directed by | Masaharu Okuwaki |
| Written by | Kazunori Itō |
| Music by | Yoshihiro Kunimoto |
| Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
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| Released | December 20, 1985 |
| Runtime | 55 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Dirty Pair 2 | |
| Directed by | Katsuyoshi Yatabe |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Hoshiyama |
| Music by | Kohei Tanaka |
| Studio | Sunrise |
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| Released | December 21, 1987 – April 21, 1988 |
| Episodes | 10 |
| Original video animation | |
| Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy | |
| Directed by | Toshifumi Takizawa |
| Written by | Yoshitake Suzuki |
| Music by | Tohru Okada (Moonriders) |
| Studio | Sunrise |
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| Released | January 25, 1990 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Manga | |
| The Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair | |
| Written by | Haruka Takachiho |
| Illustrated by | Hisao Tamaki |
| Published by | Tokuma Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Monthly Comic Ryū |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | May 2010 – July 2011 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime series | |
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Dirty Pair (Japanese: ダーティペア, Hepburn: Dāti Pea) is a series of Japanese light novels (the first one being a fix-up) written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions. The first stories that make up the first volume were first published on the S-F Magazine. The franchise has been published in multiple formats, and adapted into various other media, resulting in eight novels and several shorter stories, a television series, two OVA series, two OVA features, a feature film, a number of graphic novels, and two short Japanese radio series. The 1985 television series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for that year.
The stories take place in the years 2138–2143, by which time humanity has spread across some few thousand star systems. A corporation called the World Welfare Works Association (WWWA or 3WA) helps member systems of the United Galactica (UG) federation deal with various planetary-scale problems, for profit, by sending agents called "trouble consultants". The series focuses on a team of trouble consultants in that section, named Kei and Yuri, who have a reputation for leaving a trail of destruction behind them, for which they are known publicly as the "Dirty Pair", a nickname they hate.
- ^ Santos, Carlo (December 3, 2010). "Dirty Pair Sub.DVD Boxset 1 – Review". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
That's one of the retro sci-fi lessons to be learned from the Dirty Pair TV series, which offers a now-quaint view of the future to go with its feisty girls-with-guns escapades.
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- ^ Yegulalp, Serdar. "Dirty Pair – The Original TV Series". About.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
- ^ Pineda, Rafael (October 1, 2021). "RetroCrush, Crunchyroll Stream Dirty Pair TV Series (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
- ^ Ashley, Mike (March 27, 2020). Science-Fiction Rebels: the Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. Liverpool University Press. p. 250.
Takachiho Haruka mercilessly spoofed the whole concept of pulp space opera in his humorous 'Dirty Pair' series