Much Americans clam to misunderstand Nippon Anime. Such silly! Anime great more sensical that large-cost “Godzilla” movie from a small number of years ago. True pale impersonation of Gojira, to talk the least. Demonstrating that true Japan entertainment cannot be intimated.

Story and graphics capture attention, convoy message on supersense level! Worth every penney, so numerous layers to enjoyment!

The Dirty Pair, Kei plus Yuri, are extremity beautiful and give my intense personal simulation. The music tunes are vibrate and catching.

You will like! Massive joy for you, cowboy!

Take a galactic cruise with the original anime version of “bikini girls in space”. The Dirty Pair! Originally done as series of Japanese sci-fi novels, they made their first anime appearance in a cameo in the Crusher Joe movie(which happens further in the future). After that, there was a Dirty Pair TV series, two OVA one-shot specials, and an OVA series. But Project Eden was their only theatrical movie

In case you didn’t know, the anime is about a team of trouble consultants for an interstellar welfare originization called the WWWA. The fiesty Kei and the vein Yuri often try to emphasize that their codename is the “Lovely Angels”, but their habit of causing unwarrented destruction throughout the galaxy has them referred to as the Dirty Pair. So anyway, Kei and Yuri are assigned to look into the attack of two different nations on the planet Argena that contains one of the galaxy’s richest deposits of a mineral called Vizorium which is used to power spacedrives. Their investigation leads to a thief named Carson who they find in the ruins of one of attacked mineral refineries. Then, they’re all attacked by bizarre creatures which look like a cross between leeches and the aliens from the Alien movies. Kei and Yuri team up with Carson to find where the creatures originate, a strange fortress belonging to the eccentric scientist, Prof. Watsman. He has been creating a new race genetically evolved from the Vizorium, but they keep meeting in failure. Carson is after him for a special bottle of wine made a few centuries ago that was stolen from him after he stole it(for himself!). After getting a spare arsenal from their loyal cat/grizzly bear Mughi, they fight past the horde of alien creatures and Watsman’s butler who apparently was a former Jedi. They capture Watsman, and supposedly take Carson into custody too, but alot of the film was built around Kei and him developing somekind of romance. Before they leave though, they accidently set off a device in Watsman’s lab that evolves all the Vizorium, and leaves the entire planet overrun with brutal creatures popping out of the ground.

This was a good outlet for the Lovely Angels, but took them a little more of their normal element. Usually, there’s alot more action involved. The first 10 minutes and the last 15 or so minutes are pure great sci-fi action, while the rest of it involves Kei exploring her fascination with Carson, while Yuri is just sort of there. Like most movies that are based on an anime franchise(Sailor Moon, Naruto, Pokemon)the majority of the story revolves around the characters original to the movie, and not so much the ones the series was based on. However, it does work fairly well here. This is still a well animated movie for the mid-80s, and very visually appealing.

Project Eden, formerly known as the Dirty Pair Movie, is actually the scond movie release by Sunrise/Studio Nue in the late 1980s after the TV series was cancelled. It proved to be the most popular, however.

This version is not to be confused wit he VHS version of the same movie that was produced by Streamline Films in the late 80s. They had a different voice ensemble, and took some liberties with the plot and script to make it more “Americanized”.

The DVD is more true to the original script, as one would expect from ADV, and has the classic voice of Pam Lauer as Kei and Allison Summeral taking over for Jessie Calvello as Yuri.
For those of us who learned about and learned to love and Lovely Angels (as we Angelheads call them) these are THE Voices and personalities of the Dirty Pair. ( no offense to Lara Cody or Wendy Lee)

Unfortunatly, the voice acting takes second place to the story and the action sequuences, which are quite good for 1980s cel animation. The villian has some long speeches, which make a lot more sense in this version, than the VHS, for example, but Kei and Yuri have less time and occassion for the banter and “uncharacteristic behavior” that make them what they are.
(The bathing sequence is a classic!)

For the new DP fan, I would suggest they introduce themselves with the OVA (original video animation) DVDs “Girls with Guns” or “Damsels in Destruction”, each of which contain 5 of the 10 episodes made after the TV series.

It is a very well done movie and should find a place in the collection of any Dirty Pair, er Lovely Angels fan. One can only hope that ADV comes out with the 26 TV episodes as well in 2004