Dirty Pair
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Cover of the novel showing the two protagonists
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ダーティペア (Dāti Pea) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Science fiction |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Haruka Takachiho |
| Illustrated by | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko |
| Published by | Hayakawa Publishing |
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| Demographic | Male |
| Original run | May 1980 – October 2007 |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Norio Kashima Toshifumi Takizawa |
| Produced by | Norio Hatsukawa Takayuki Yoshii |
| Music by | Toshiyuki Kimori |
| Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
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| Original network | Nippon TV |
| Original run | July 15, 1985 – December 26, 1985 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Original video animation | |
| 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 | 57 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Original Dirty Pair | |
| Directed by | Masayoshi Tanidabe |
| 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 | |
| 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 | 61 minutes |
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Dirty Pair (Japanese: ダーティペア Hepburn: Dāti Pea?) is a series of sci-fi comedy light novels written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions. The franchise has bounced across multiple formats and production companies, resulting in (so far) eight novels and a few 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 2138-43, 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".
Kei and Yuri are the two members of Trouble Consultant team 234, code named "Lovely Angels". Almost every mission they are involved with ends up in disaster, but not failure (they'll catch the crook, but a city may be destroyed in the process), and thus they are more generally known as the "Dirty Pair", a nickname they hate. They are always cleared of any wrongdoing by the 3WA's Central Computer because the extreme collateral damage is never actually their fault (though their mere presence has been known to make things worse). In some but not all continuities, they have joint ESP powers, usually limited to precognition. This talent was the reason they were recruited in the first place.
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