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It was a formula for success, and over the
years, one busty pair of gun-toting,
bikini-wearing trouble consultants has proven
to be one of the most malleable concepts in
anie. But just how have the Dirty Pair
adapted themselves to new generations and new
audiences? By changing their look to suit the
times. The first fashion "look" for the
Dirty Pair began with Takachiho's series of
stories in SF Magazine, which were later spun
off into novels.(The best known of the
novels, The Great Adventures of the Dirty
Pair. was translated into English for the
Japanese market as a sort of "teaching aid"
to students trying to learn English.)
Illustated by famed character designer
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the novel versions
of the Dirty Pair were a pair of leggy and
limber hip chicks dressed in skintight silver
hot pants, halter tops and knee-high disco
boots. Kei's hair was styled in a short,
curly crop while Yuri's raven hair fell to
her waist. It was a groovy lok, owing its
Twiggy-like style to the sexy live-action
heroines of he '60s and '70s.
The Pair moved from the printed page to
animation with a cameo appearance in
Yasuhiko's Crusher Joe movie-they are
featured in a movie playing at a drive-in
theater. (The character designs for this
brief sighting were by Yasuhiko, based on his
novel illustrations.) Despite this
"fictional" walk-on the Crusher Joe
story.Takachiho's novelshave featured
crossovers between the two universes in the
form of a team of Crushers workin together
with the pair on a mission and romantic
crossovers (Kei eventually marries a young
Talos, while it's hinted that Yuri may be
Crusher Joe's mother-which means the Dirty
Pair universe comes chronologically befor the
Crusher Joe universe).
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