Line #7 YMMV/DirtyPair


1	!!Franchise-wide
2	* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/DirtyPair here]].
3	* MagnificentBastard: See [[MagnificentBastard/DirtyPair here]].
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5	!!Light Novel, Anime and Manga adaptations
6	* AccidentalInnuendo: The title could give newcomers the impression that it has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin something to do with women's underwear.]] Or that it might have [[MyGirlIsASlut underlying implications]] about Kei and Yuri themselves, because they're a pair of [[{{Stripperific}} scantily clad]] college-aged girls. For the record, the title was ''intended'' to evoke films like ''Film/DirtyHarry'' and ''Film/TheDirtyDozen''.
7	* AdaptationDisplacement: Most North American fans are mainly familiar with the the series through the various anime and manga adaptation rather than the original novels, even though the novels were licensed in English in the late 2000s.
8	* AlternateSelfShipping: There exists some fanarts pairing the original Lovely Angels with their ''Anime/DirtyPairFlash'' counterparts. Sometimes adding the Adam Warren versions for variety.
9	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
10	** ''Dirty Pair Flash's'' third ending theme (''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vcRWOGdCvU "Looking With the Eyes of the Heart"]]'') is classic 80's rock, on par with such tracks as ''"Say, Yes!"'' and ''"Asu e no Touchdown"'' from ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis''.
11	** The [=TV=] opening [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POBiNhp_hk8 "Russian Roulette"]] is classic 80s rock-pop, with a pretty catchy opening melody.
12	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Joanca. Good transgender representation or a character that didn't age well at all? There's simply no middle ground.
13	* CultClassic: The series is popular in the retro-anime and sci-fi anime circles for offering a great mix of humour, sex appeal from Kei and Yuri and a ''lot'' of action. It even won the ''Magazine/{{Animage}}'' Grand Prix Anime Award of 1985.
14	* FairForItsDay: While the [[BattleBikini uniforms are skimpy]] and there is a lot of MaleGaze that can come off as irksome by today's standards, Kei and Yuri belong to the 1960s-70s "second wave" feminist movement of sex-positivity (they aren't timid housewives in frumpy dresses!). They are smart, beautiful, and highly competent - generally better than any male agent - and always solve the matter at hand, and look good doing it. They can be a little ditzy-acting (and it is ''mostly'' an act), and flirt with guys they find attractive, but don't put up with any harassment. Lilis Joanca also helps as a remarkably positive trans portrayal, especially for the 1980s.
15	* FridgeLogic: Kei and Yuri are supposedly one of the 3WA's most successful teams, yet they destroy damn near anything they come in close proximity to. To quote: "Explosions, infernos, a few thousand casualties here and there... and, incidentally, a solution to every case."
16	* GatewaySeries: In the early '90s, it was one of the first anime to be extensively {{fansub}}bed in English (on VHS tapes), and the first to have {{fanfic}} written about it on the Internet.
17	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series is very popular in the United States, to point where [[https://twitter.com/KaelanRamos/status/1261111729297244161 Project Eden was ranked #1 in Animerica's top seller charts of July 1994]]. It also received its own US comic book adaptation that lasted a decade, and was even referenced in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. The US is also one of the few territories where all animated installments have been dubbed, although this didn't include the TV series until 2021's Kickstarter campaign, due to the M&E tracks being misplaced. Said campaign was funded in only few days and reached all stretch goals.
18	* HilariousInHindsight: TV episode 12 concerns two genetically-engineered, super-intelligent mice who take over WWWA Headquarters, several years before ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''.
19	* IKnewIt: Nobody was shocked when Creator/JessicaCalvello was announced to be reprising her role of Yuri for the 2021 Kickstarter-funded dub of the TV series since she was a regular voice actress for Headline Studios, the company dubbing the show. On the other hand, nobody expected Pamela Lauer Jones to be reprising Kei, since she had been retired for almost 20 years.
20	* LGBTFanbase: The series has a small following among transgender women, due to Lilis Joanca being an incredibly respectful portrayal of a transgender woman character. It also helps that she's a huge badass and gets a genuinely happy ending as well.
21	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
22	** Some fans of the original anime are not too keen on ''Flash''.
23	** The ADV dubs of the movies from 2003 weren't nearly as well-received as the Streamline dubs from a decade earlier, despite being more faithful.
24	* ValuesResonance: The extremely positive portrayal of Lilis Joanca as a transgender woman was almost unheard of back when the episode originally aired, and it still remains as one of the best handled uses of a transgender individual in anime.

Context YMMV / DirtyPair