Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.

When your first episode involves teleporting a spaceship into a building to destroy a computer hell-bent on ending humanity, there's only one direction to go, which is.... directly into space. There's a little more world building, a dash of continuity to keep things clear, and some more references to Star Trek because that worked well last time. The show demonstrates consistency, and we get into a number of important topics such as the proper way to pronounce Nova Grave, the feelings of a supervisor, Kei and Yuri's willingness to fuck with people who annoy them, the consequences of forgetting about Mughi, the Mooks' first appearance, and the fight with Fatman in Metal Gear Solid 2. We also go deep on the most important question of all, which is what exactly Kei and Yuri's stances are on body hair grooming (okay we don't actually go into this one, but with a title like that it's plausible, right?).

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Next episode, the Lovely Angels do Casino Royale, kind of, as we watch episode three: Go Ahead, Fall in Love! Love is Russian Roulette!

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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 the 1985 smash hit (in our hearts), Dirty Pair. Episode 1 is titled "We'll Teach You How to Kill a Computer," and the episode names only get better from here. Was that Kamen Rider we saw? Why is the cast of Star Trek showing up on the screen? Hey, which of the two Lovely Angels has more sex appeal, anyway? We find the answers to these questions (well, most of them) along with some other ones.

Next up is episode 2: Do Lovely Angels Prefer Chest Hair?

I told you the episode names only get better from here.

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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 tangled up in the details here, it's not important. Yet.

What is important is that this is the beginning of Project P.O.D., where two brothers sit down to watch through the classic 1985 anime, Dirty Pair. This first episode, which is the second episode we recorded but the 0th episode in the podcast feed is a brief explanation of what we're doing here (watching an anime and talking about it) and why (we got bored), along with a brief discussion about the origins of the Dirty Pair and its storied history as a series of light novels, an anime, an OVA, a movie, and then another anime that is sort of the same but different.

Also at some point FedEx rings my doorbell and I don't go and get it, but you do hear it in the background. Sorry about that. Also about Aaron's weird right-channel-only audio, I'll try to figure out what to do about that at some point that isn't right now.

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