Dirty Pair

Dirty Pair
Cover of the novel showing the two protagonists and their Coeurl sidekick
ダーティペア (Dāti Pea)
Genre	Girls with guns[1][2] Science fiction comedy[3][4] Space opera[5]
Novel series
Written by	Haruka Takachiho
Illustrated by	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Published by	Hayakawa Publishing
English publisher	NA: Dark Horse Books
Imprint	Hayakawa Bunko JA
Original run	May 1980 – December 2018
Volumes	9 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Toshifumi Takizawa Norio Kashima (#15–24)
Produced by	Norio Hatsukawa Takayuki Yoshii
Music by	Toshiyuki Kimori
Studio	Nippon Sunrise
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
Original network	Nippon TV
Original run	July 15, 1985 – December 26, 1985
Episodes	24 + 2 OVA (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia
Directed by	Masaharu Okuwaki
Written by	Kazunori Itō
Music by	Yoshihiro Kunimoto
Studio	Nippon Sunrise
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
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
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
Released	December 21, 1987 – April 21, 1988
Episodes	10 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy
Directed by	Toshifumi Takizawa
Written by	Yoshitake Suzuki
Music by	Tohru Okada (Moonriders)
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
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	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Magazine	Monthly Comic Ryū
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	May 2010 – July 2011
Volumes	2
Anime series
Project Eden (animated film, 1986) Dirty Pair Flash (OVA series, 16 episodes, 1994–1996)
Anime and manga portal

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.