Welcome back, we're still in the final stretch here (only three more episodes to go!) of our Dirty Pair FLASH era. This time we tackle the question of a young assassin making her debut kill on the main stage of history, as they say. And you know what? She fucks it up! She's bad at it! This episode of Dirty Pair FLASH is kinda bad too!

But hey, it ain't all rain and thunder. There's a few moments here and there, the lightning in that rain.

But mostly it's bad.

Come back next time for our next episode where we tackle our next... maybe also bad.... episode of Dirty Pair FLASH 3! Dirty Pair FLASH 3: It ain't great, but we promised to finish the series, damn it.

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You'll never believe it, but we've actually come back to finish off this Project POD for good. Or at least for now. For Dirty Pair FLASH, anyway! That's right, here it is, the first of five hot new episodes about the final five episodes of the Dirty Pair FLASH OVA series. Have I always capitalized FLASH like that in these descriptions? I don't know and there's no way to ever find out for sure.

Anyway, Kei gets the spotlight in this episode as she learns how to raise a baby on the side of a mountain, while Yuri gets to play with all the new toys that the Pair acquired after blowing up the Lovely Angel at the end of the second series. That includes a brand new dang ol' Lovely Angel! It looks cool as hell! Let's all agree that this rules. The rest of the episode is all very straightforward. Twists? Turns? Not necessary, there's guns and explosions now. Did we enjoy it? Probably more than we expected!

Am I dreading next episode? Maybe just a little, but maybe it's not so bad? The only way to find out is to tune in next time (in two weeks, heavens, hells, and various other planes allowing) and listen!

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We've done it, we've made it to the end of Dirty Pair Flash 2! Let's dive in and discuss an android assassin, an out-of-control spaceship loaded up with high explosives, Yuri's expert piloting skills, and Kei's sharpshooting prowess. We also take some time to talk through the entirety of Flash 2 as a project, what worked for us and what we could perhaps have done without. Will we like it after all? Only one way to find out, and that's to listen to this here podcast!

There's one more season of Dirty Pair Flash to get through before our long labors are finished, and we haven't yet recorded those episodes! That means there's only one way for you to know the status of our final series of episodes, and that's to subscribe to the podcast feed! They'll show up there when they're finished, after all. I guess if you want something a little more granular, you can also follow us on our wretched Bluesky account. We'll see you probably sometime in September when we kick things off with the first episode of Dirty Pair Flash 3!

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We've returned to provide unto you, our listeners, a longer-than-I-remembered discussion about what once was and still might be my favorite episode of Dirty Pair FLASH! Honestly I'm amazed that we stayed on topic as much as we did, which doesn't make writing this podcast description any easier. I'm very tired! I didn't sleep last night! Yuri is bisexual! Thanks!

I just tried to publish this episode without uploading the audio file! I'm really out of it!

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It's the hosts' birthday, and we got ourselves a podcast that published on time! Hooray for us!

Also, we got the absolute maximum number of weird faces allowed in a 24 minute OVA, and you can see a good number of them on our wretched bluesky account, because I got carried away while I was editing this podcast. Understandable, I think. This episode dials down the seriousness and dials up the comedy of the Pair as they do their level best to bring a con artist to justice and get their just reward: a fancy dinner together at Trois Poires. I don't have to try any harder with this podcast description because it's my birthday!

See you next time.

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We've done it, we've managed to get an episode out on our two-week cadence again, and doesn't it feel good to be back in the swing of things? Of course it does, don't bother answering that. The second (very good) episode of the second (very good) season of Dirty Pair Flash is full of mystery, monarchs, and music, and Kei and Yuri are here to get to the bottom of whatever the hell it is that happens at a prestigious girls' boarding school when you're seventeen (or pretending to be? It's unclear). We had a good time talking about this and you're sure to have a good time hearing about it.

I should warn you all up front that there is discussion of multiple suicides in this one (it comes with the whole ghost story territory, I'm afraid), so if you are at all sensitive to such things, you are forewarned. Next episode doesn't have any of that in it, just a weird conman and a lovely dream. I'd say more about it, but that would ruin the point of the next episode!

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Welcome back to our (hopefully) more regularly scheduled podcast, where we decided that things work better when we do one episode at a time! So, in recognition of that truth, please enjoy over an hour of us discussing the first episode of our favorite season of Dirty Pair Flash, which sets up the framing device for this season and also re-establishes Kei and Yuri as partners who know how to work with one another and also probably kiss. Also, meet Touma, who is here to be punched sometimes and is good at computers. Also, meet the 90s, which somehow takes a step back from the 80s when it comes to trans rep in this series.

Also, John Miur? And the greatest ED to ever grace anything, ever.

Our next episode will go up in two weeks, which is the cadence we've been sticking to all along. Definitely have never missed an episode, no siree.

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Well it isn't pretty (the audio file) but we managed to hold Audacity to task long enough to edit down and publish this, our final episode dealing with the first series (season?) of Dirty Pair FLASH! It's hella climactic, the stakes are hella high, and the universe at large... doesn't actually care what the man on the television is ranting about. It's some of the best work that this first season does, and it wraps everything up as well as you can wrap a thing up in six episodes. Also, it turns out we liked this season! Another win for giving things a second chance, I guess. Dirty Pair FLASH season 1: it's better than you remember it being!

Next up: the season that we remembered liking a lot! I've just watched the first episode in preparation for our imminent recording session for this season, and I gotta say: It's good! Please look forward to us going back to the one episode per podcast format, maybe. It'll be a surprise to you, and to us, when we record! Who can say what we'll decide to do?

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From a noir revenge tale to being a gamer girl, these two episodes of Dirty Pair FLASH sure do cover a lot of ground, and so do we! Our trip through the first season of Dirty Pair FLASH continues apace as we discuss Twin Peaks, Professor Wattsman, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, circa 1996 or so. I guess we also talk about Dirty Pair FLASH in this one too, somehow.

Also somehow all of my audio clips except the last few disappeared and I didn't have time to find them all and put them back in. I'm sorry, you'll just have to dream of a better world where Audacity wasn't a piece of shit to me.

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It's been a while, but we've come back after a break to crack open the somewhat curious artefact that is Dirty Pair: FLASH! We also decided now's as good a time as any to switch things up and do two episodes of the show in one episode of podcast, because the first and second seasons of FLASH are both short (6 and 5 episodes) and tell an ongoing story, as opposed to the more Mission of the Week format of previous incarnations of Dirty Pair. Does that mean these are longer and more of a pain in my ass to edit? Maybe a little. Does it give me an excuse to switch between the Japanese and English audio tracks when I put in clips from the show? There's only one way to find out!

Dirty Pair FLASH! Maybe it's not as bad as we thought it would be! Give it a listen and find out what we think about all of this nonsense, and then come back in two weeks when we'll tackle episodes 3 and 4 of this little season, Frozen Angel and Sleeping Angel.

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It wouldn't be the end of a series if we didn't provide an extra-long episode, and it wouldn't be the Dirty Pair if they didn't have something interesting to say. This time, we're talking about police corruption in a capitalist system and the only cure for it: collective action! Also, Kei and Yuri get mechs, giant space guns, and, of course, rocket launchers. Not all at once, though, that would be crazy! And, of course, Kei and Yuri demonstrate their knowledge of the various legal systems that coexist in the galaxy.

And, well, that does it for the Dirty Pair! Everyone wave goodbye to the best gals to ever do it out there in the galaxy. It's the last time we'll see Kei and Yuri in this universe, I'm afraid.

But, well, there's another universe. Similar, but not quite the same. And in April, we're going to dive right into it with Dirty Pair: FLASH! Keep an eye on this here podcastin' feed, and we'll let you know what's up soon as we have it figured out and possibly also recorded.

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We've almost made it to the end of Dirty Pair 2, and what better penultimate episode could there be than yet another of Shinchiro Watanabe's doings? This time, we're off to a war-torn jungle planet to learn about the war economy and vengeance! Kei and Yuri are facing down a crooked arms dealer and a squadron of killer commandos, and it's all lavishly animated and appropriately somber in the right places. At some point we stopped keeping track of how many casualties there are in a given episode, but rest assured that for this episode, it's the highest casualty rate that doesn't involve the Pair accidentally blowing up a planet, space station, or major metropolitan area. War is Hell, everyone!

Next time, a much lighter episode to finish off the series, and a run-time that, at this point, really needs to be edited down. Also, it'll be the last episode for Kei and Yuri and this Dirty Pair! Join us at the end of all things, won't you?

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I'll level with you: I might have lost the plot a little bit somewhere in here. Digressions abound, which is how you can tell which one of us was driving the episode recap. It's fine, don't worry about it, this is still guaranteed to be a memorable episode of Project P.O.D. as we take a pilgrimage to the past to solve a 20-year old mystery. Who's responsible for the tragedy of the White Swan? Is cryosleep an acceptable way to preserve one's looks as they age? Have you ever wondered what the publisher of the novel 1984 said upon reading it for the first time?

Weirdly enough, these questions all get answered on this episode of Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D! We're in the endgame now, with just two episodes left before we complete our year-long journey through this frankly incredible anime, and we're so glad that you've stayed with us all this time. Find us on the Wretched Bluesky, here, and say hello or something. We're running out of show and we need to figure out what comes next!

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Gosh, it feels like forever since I last did this, but it hasn't been that long, has it? We return and bring in the new year with another cracker of an episode of the Dirty Pair OVA series! Shinichiro Watanabe returns to the director's seat to walk us through the seedy world of underground fighting, super-steroid use, and long-simmering grudges. You know, the kind of stuff you'd expect.

Unexpected, perhaps, is the colossal muscle woman who drives the action of this episode, yet another example of the 3WA cleaning up its own mess, and another example of Kei having to fight a giant muscle lady (remember when the Pair fought a pair of professional wrestlers over ownership of a cat? I sure do). There's also the requisite amount of Kei and Yuri acting like, well, partners, if you take our meaning. One day those crazy kids will figure it out, I'm sure. Perhaps next episode? I don't remember which one that is, actually. Only one way to find out, and that's to keep subscribed to this here podcast!

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I want to remind everyone that we record these shows all in a batch and in fact recorded this show at the beginning of November, which makes the fact that the American News Media is all talking about an Italian dude named Luigi another one of those weird serendipitous things that sometimes happen with this show, like how our episode about the Halloween episode actually went up around Halloween. Sometimes these things just happen!

Anyway, this episode is all about how many references to other films the show-runners could fit into a 22 minute runtime, and I, your faithful editor, took up the challenge and met them reference for reference (not really (maybe)). There's also a counterfeiting plot (our second of the series!) and Yuri getting married on a fabulous resort island. These two plots are inextricable from one another!

There's also a special bonus announcement from me, the editor, to say that we're taking the holidays off and will be back on January 9th. See you then!

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Side-tracked conversations and Dragon Kung Fu abounds on this, our latest offering to the devoted listeners who are hungry for more tales of the Dirty Pair! We dive into the fifth episode of the Dirty Pair OVA series and answer the important questions of: what the hell is Mughi wearing? Is his code name Kung Fu Dragon or Dragon Kung Fu? What's that hat Kei's got on called, anyway? I promise that we answer all of these questions and a few more that you've forgotten you wanted to know. It's all happening on this, our Thanksgiving (USA) episode of Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.!

Our next episode will be ready and waiting for you on December 12th, just in time for.... something, probably. Not quite Christmas. It'll be great! See you then!

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Weird audio issues abound on this episode (not really, I cleaned a lot of it up) but we soldier on anyway to discuss yet another episode where Kei and Yuri have to deal with some troublesome kids. These kids, however, have a childish obsession with war and access to a weapon that could potentially rip the fabric of space-time asunder! Does this show have something to say about our cultural obsession with violence and the gamification of war affecting our children? You'll have to listen to find out, I guess! I already forget what we said about it, but I'm sure it was tres insightful.

We're onto a new, hopefully less aurally problematic recording session with the next episode, so this is hopefully the last time you'll hear my incredibly out-of-place voice reading over a couple of parts that were crunched beyond all salvation for whatever reason. I don't know what the hell's going on with that! Hopefully it didn't show up in this next batch of recordings! We'll all find out together on November 28th!

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On this, the spookiest day of the year (it's gonna be 80 degrees here on October 31, that's the scariest thing going), we discuss the spookiest of topics: the true cost of Utopia OOOOOOH BOOOOOOOOO SCAAAAAAAAAARY! We also discuss the lesser known works of Shinchiro Watanabe, as well as everything else that comes up in this particularly stylish episode of Dirty Pair 2. It's full of twists (heads and limbs), turns (missed ones), and not to wrap back to the whole 80 degrees Fahrenheit at the end of October in the goddamn Northeast United States thing, climate disaster!

Our next episode will release, assuming that we don't experience a catastrophic collapse of infrastructure in the meantime, on November 14th. Before then, we'll have recorded a whole other batch of episodes for you all to enjoy in the coming months (again, assuming we survive The Election). Damn, shit's gotten kind of a bummer here at the end. We'll push through it though, and keep making this little podcast because we enjoy it and because we are too committed to the bit at this point to turn back now. See you then!

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It's a Halloween full of capers as Kei and Yuri, y'know, fight crime or whatever. I don't know if they even really mean to fight crime, they're too busy chasing a killer robot, but crime is fought nonetheless! We spend a lot of time talking about Kei and Yuri chasing a killer robot, and make sure to discuss the various threads that are teased from this episode as one would unravel a particularly garish sweater. Did you know there was a show called Bodacious Space Pirates or something like that? I didn't, and you can hear me learn about it in real time! Also something called Cute High Earth Defense Force Club, that's in here too. But it's mostly about Kei and Yuri and spreading their wings all the way on Halloween. What's that mean? I'll leave it to your interpretation.

There are a few moments here where the audio gets real crunchy, probably because the slapdash filter I run to get rid of the A/C noise that permeated this episode got a little carried away. I'm sorry about those crunchy parts, but I promise you it's probably better than hearing the drone of my A/C unit every time I talked. I'll see if I can dial it in a little better next time.

Next time? Oh you're damn right there's a next time! It's all the way on October 31st, and it's all spooky and shit! More podcasting synergy, courtesy of... fortuitous timing, really. Until then, you can follow us and message us on our Wretched Bluesky Account, or rate and review us on your podcasting apps, or what-have-you.

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