Haruka Takachiho,at a U.s. convention
appearance,once
described the creation of his best-known
work, Dirty
Pair.It's a story that almost seems
apocryphal-by way
of showing courtesy to some foreign guests to
his studio,
Takachiho escorted the visiting group to a
professional
wrestling match, accompanied by his
assistants, Keiko and
Yuriko. When a famous team of wrstlers
appeared onstage,
Takachiho pointed to them and said,"THAT'S
THE BEAUTY
PAIR," and then pointed to his
assistantsand
said,"AND THIS IS THE DIRTY PAIR." And
so anime
history was made.
The anime story that evolved from
Takachiho's off-the-cuff pun is
somethig of a legend by now-Kei and Yuri, two
girls living in a futuristic century, work as
civil servants in a government agency known
as the World Work Welfare Association
(WWWA), a jack-of-all-trades organization
providing services of all types to the
citizens of the galaxy. Yuri is the feminine
of the two-vain and a bit self-centered but a
crack shot with a plasma rifle, while her
partner Kei is a take-no-prisoners powerhouse
of martail skill, unstoppable once she gets
going. Together, this Lethal
Weapon-like team of seemingly mismatched
personalities is more than a match for almost
anything the universe can throw at
them.Unfortunately, as bad luck (and their
own love of heavy ordinance) would have it,
the Pair tend to be exceptionally hard on
anything that stands in their way. This
destruction leads most people to ignore their
offical codename, the Lovely Angels,for a
snide nickname-the Dirty Pair.
First launched in print form in the early
'80s, the story was a winning combination of
science fiction, swashbuckling action,
scantily dressed babes, even Takachiho's love
of wrestling (aside from the DP title, based
on the Beauty Pair, the WWWA is an obvious
reference to the Japan's World Wrestling
Association).
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