Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.
Episodes
Dirty Pair Flash 3 Episode 5: The Gray Revenger!
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a rule, we're not good at finishing projects. Sooner or later we run out of steam and things just stop happening, and that's the end of THAT, as th...
Dirty Pair Flash Season 3 Episode 4: My Boy In Rose Color
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the outset, we knew that this wouldn't be an easy episode. Our half-remembered recollections of watching it however long ago were, as it turns out,...
Dirty Pair Flash Season 3 Episode 3: The Winners in Summer Colors!
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, we finally did it. We made it to what's probably the worst episode of Dirty Pair FLASH thus far. What makes this episode particularly unsavory? ...
Dirty Pair Flash 3 Episode 2: Pink Sniper
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back, we're still in the final stretch here (only three more episodes to go!) of our Dirty Pair FLASH era. This time we tackle the question of...
Dirty Pair Flash 3 Episode 1: Snow White Chaser!
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You'll never believe it, but we've actually come back to finish off this Project POD for good. Or at least for now. For Dirty Pair FLASH, anyway! That...
Dirty Pair Flash 2 Episode 5: Tokyo Airport Hot Pursuit!
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've done it, we've made it to the end of Dirty Pair Flash 2! Let's dive in and discuss an android assassin, an out-of-control spaceship loaded up wi...
Dirty Pair Flash 2 Episode 4: Sparkling Flower Shop of Love!
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've returned to provide unto you, our listeners, a longer-than-I-remembered discussion about what once was and still might be my favorite episode of...
Dirty Pair Flash 2 Episode 3: Steamy Hot Springs Romantic Tour!
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the hosts' birthday, and we got ourselves a podcast that published on time! Hooray for us!Also, we got the absolute maximum number of weird faces...
Dirty Pair Flash 2 Episode 2 - Mysterious High School Seventeen!
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've done it, we've managed to get an episode out on our two-week cadence again, and doesn't it feel good to be back in the swing of things? Of cours...
Dirty Pair Flash 2 Episode 1 - Tokyo Holiday Network
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to our (hopefully) more regularly scheduled podcast, where we decided that things work better when we do one episode at a time! So, in re...
Dirty Pair FLASH Episodes 5 and 6
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well it isn't pretty (the audio file) but we managed to hold Audacity to task long enough to edit down and publish this, our final episode dealing wit...
Dirty Pair FLASH Episodes 3 and 4
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From a noir revenge tale to being a gamer girl, these two episodes of Dirty Pair FLASH sure do cover a lot of ground, and so do we! Our trip through t...
Dirty Pair FLASH Episodes 1 and 2
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a while, but we've come back after a break to crack open the somewhat curious artefact that is Dirty Pair: FLASH! We also decided now's as g...
OVA Episode 10: No Need to Listen to the Bad Guys! We are Space Truckers!
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It wouldn't be the end of a series if we didn't provide an extra-long episode, and it wouldn't be the Dirty Pair if they didn't have something interes...
OVA Episode 9: Red Eyes are the Sign of Hell! We Go After the Killing Squad!
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've almost made it to the end of Dirty Pair 2, and what better penultimate episode could there be than yet another of Shinchiro Watanabe's doings? T...
OVA Episode 8: A Girl Who is Well-Preserved for Her Age: Sleeping Beauty!
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I'll level with you: I might have lost the plot a little bit somewhere in here. Digressions abound, which is how you can tell which one of us was driv...
OVA Episode 7: Revenge of the Muscle Lady! Is the Gang Making a Profit from the Spirit of a Woman?
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gosh, it feels like forever since I last did this, but it hasn't been that long, has it? We return and bring in the new year with another cracker of a...
OVA Episode 6: Are You Serious? Shocked at the Beach! Wedding Panic!
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I want to remind everyone that we record these shows all in a batch and in fact recorded this show at the beginning of November, which makes the fact ...
OVA Episode 5: And So, Nobody's Doing it Anymore.
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Side-tracked conversations and Dragon Kung Fu abounds on this, our latest offering to the devoted listeners who are hungry for more tales of the Dirty...
OVA Episode 4: But They’re Only Children! Playing War Games Warrants a Firing Squad?
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weird audio issues abound on this episode (not really, I cleaned a lot of it up) but we soldier on anyway to discuss yet another episode where Kei and...
OVA Episode 3: We're Not Afraid of the Judgment Are We?! The God's Challenge
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this, the spookiest day of the year (it's gonna be 80 degrees here on October 31, that's the scariest thing going), we discuss the spookiest of top...
OVA Episode 2: No Thanks! No Need for a Halloween Party!
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a Halloween full of capers as Kei and Yuri, y'know, fight crime or whatever. I don't know if they even really mean to fight crime, they're too bu...
OVA Episode 1: Prison Uprising! Or We hate People with Grudges
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You wanted it, we also wanted it, we said this post was going to be on Cohost but hey, whaddaya know, it's on our own blog now because RIP to Cohost: ...
Special Presentation - Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, we've finally come to the end of the road for Kei and Yuri, or at least the Kei and Yuri who don't wear matching uniforms. Flight 005 Conspiracy...
Special Presentation - Dirty Pair: The Movie
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's our lowest bitrate yet as we once again go long on Dirty Pair: The Movie or Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N as it was known in the United States (als...
Special Presentation - Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We'll get to the true second season of Dirty Pair eventually, but first we need to take a look at these OAVs and Feature Films, starting with 1985's A...
Episode 26: R-Really? For Beautiful Women, "Cannon" is the Keyword to Escape!
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We've done it, you've done it, everyone's done it. We made it to the end of the 1985 (plus two in 1987) classic sci-fi animated series Dirty Pair. We'...
Episode 25: What? The Boy in the Mansion is a Terminator!
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
25 episodes into this podcast run and I discover that I can put custom thumbnails for each episode. Well, better late than never, I guess!We careen to...
Episode 24: Are You Serious? A Condo is a Dangerous Place to Live!
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We come to you now with a bit of a long one but in fairness, in fairness, they're all long ones from here on out. But here on out isn't that far away,...
Episode 23: Uncertainty, Our Magnificent Revenge!
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome, everyone, to the second-ever podcast that I had to export at a lower bitrate in order to get the file size low enough to upload to this free ...
Episode 22: We Did It! 463 People Reappear!
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It had to happen sooner or later. Eventually, there was going to be an episode of Dirty Pair that we just couldn't manage to talk about for an hour. T...
Episode 21: No Way! 463 People Disappeared?
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our podcast project hurtles towards its inevitable conclusion, as we encounter a mysterious ghost ship that ought to have 463 people on it, but doesn'...
Episode 20: Nostalgic Blues Make a Killer Soundtrack
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I don't know how I manage to keep getting these out on time, but here we are yet again for another episode of Project P.O.D! This time, we're talking ...
Episode 19: An Unjustified Lover's Grudge. Let Me Love You Without Revenge!
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another day, another podcast about that one episode of Dirty Pair where a dude seeks revenge because someone broke his sex doll. You know how it is.Lo...
Episode 18: Pardon Us! Trouble's on the Run, So We're Coming Through!
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Yuletide cannot stop this podcast, because I worked ahead for a change and uploaded it all ahead of time like a responsible show-runner, running a...
Episode 17: Come out, Come out, Assassin!
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CW: Suicide, sexual assaultIt isn't their usual fare, but sometimes some heavy things happen in Dirty Pair so we're warning you ahead of time: yes, so...
Episode 16: Leave It to Us! The 3WA is a Wonderful Job!
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've made it, everyone, to episode 16, and only now do we truly begin to understand how far afield we can wander. I mean, it's probably not that far ...
Episode 15: Dig Here, Meow Meow! Happiness Comes at the End!
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All right, so here we are once again with a weird little tale about an old man who's searching for treasure in a hidden temple. Was he led there by a ...
Episode 14: The Vault or the Vote? A Murderous Day for a Speech
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Something strange was in the air when we recorded this episode that starts with a bang, if a bang is an incredibly racist caricature. Sorry, everyone,...
Episode 13: What's This? Our Supple Skin is a Mess!
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oh ho ho, what's this? What's THIS? A spooky episode of Dirty Pair, just in time for the spooky season of Hallowe'en. We couldn't have planned it bett...
Episode 12: The Little Dictator! Let Sleeping Top Secrets Lie
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A strange energy is in the air during this recording as we get back to the business of talking about Dirty Pair. And what better way for us to knock t...
Episode 11: Ho ho ho, Dresses and Men Should Always be Brand New!
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We near the halfway point of this podcasting venture with a splendid little episode about being overworked, the damage that can do to your relationshi...
Episode 10: What? We're Heinous Kidnappers!
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here we are once again for another episode of Dirty Pair, and this time we spend a lot of time being angry about monarchies in general and one specifi...
Episode 9: Hire Us! Beautiful Bodyguards Are a Better Deal
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shucks howdy pardn'r, welcome to this here podcast 'bout that there Dirty Pair. This time we travel to a mysterious planet full of Sergio Leone tropes...
Episode 8: Gotta Do It! Love is What Makes a Woman Explode
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oh wow, oh wow do we have an episode this time. It's got everything you could want in it: an audio clip from a different show, the most oblique refere...
Episode 7: Love is Everything. Risk Your Life to Elope!
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've made it to episode 7, which means we've made it to The Episode You Probably Heard About. In celebration, we've prepared our longest discussion y...
Episode 6: Lots of Danger, Lots of Decoys
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We return once more, or perhaps we don't and this podcast is merely a decoy! The only way to know for sure is to listen to see if this podcast explode...
Episode 5: Criados' Heartbeat!
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You might think that I was on vacation and sat down in the midst of this to edit together this podcast and you'd be RIGHT. Coming in as hot as it's ev...
Episode 4: The Case Smells Like Cheesecake and Death
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'll not sugarcoat it: we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about throwing an apple core into the trash in this episode. It's good talk, thou...
Episode 3: Go Ahead, Fall In Love! Love is Russian Roulette
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You there, what day is it? Why, it's new Project P.O.D. Day! The day where we deliver unto you the final episode from our first marathon recording ses...
Episode 2: Do Lovely Angels Prefer Chest Hair?
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When your first episode involves teleporting a spaceship into a building to destroy a computer hell-bent on ending humanity, there's only one directio...
Episode 1: We'll Teach You How to Kill a Computer!
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Now that episode 0 is out of the way, it's time to get things started. We begin our watch-along project in earnest and jump into the first episode of ...
Episode 0: A Brief History of Dirty Pair
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every journey starts with a single step, and every podcast starts with an episode 0 that you technically recorded after episode 1 but let's not get ta...