I'm so happy I get to talk about this, we start the first real review of the year, Dirty Pair Project Eden.
The feature starts with Kei and Yuri stopping a smuggling operation of a substance called Vizorium, a necessary ore for space travel, with Yuri's delayed arrival the younger smuggler gets away while Kei and Yuri arrest the other with copious amounts of collateral damage.
The mining operations on Agerna are being disrupted by xenomorph like creatures created by a mad scientist named Dr Wattsman who believes that he can revive the species locked within the Vizorium substance but is no closer to succeeding.
Kei and Yuri are sent to investigate the labs, running into the smuggler from earlier named Carson, as they learn more from Carson about Dr Wattsman, it's left to the three of them to stop the evil genius, even if Wattsman does end up mistaking the three as his creation.
Right off the bat, the effort made for this feature is astounding, this released in 1986, and while I did have the luxury of HD quality, that doesn't take away from the sheer amount of effort each animator went through for Dirty Pair's sci fi world, aesthetic and soundtrack.
The story on the other hand, isn't anything special, Wattsman does mix bumbling and intimidating quite well but the actual Dirty Pair seem to stumble their way through the campaign, it doesn't help that Carson has a habit of taking the edge off the Dirty Pair's bad ass reputation and plenty of very dated 80s writing can very often make some scenes not so fun to watch, the climax more than makes up for it though.
Dub is pretty solid at least.
Final Verdict: Gorgeous looking for any sci fi anime fan but very dated writing can make this tough to get through.
Dirty Pair Project Eden
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