Robot Girls Z (2014)

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Dirty Pair, Go Nagai, Robot Girls Z

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/robot-girls-z

A friend recovering from a nasty flu like thing came over last night in a mood for cheesy anime with lots of destruction[1]. Robot Girls Z COME ON DOWN!

The premise[2] of Robot Girls Z is to take the classic Go Nagai giant robots – Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and Grendizer to begin with – of 1970s anime and apply the usual moe anthropomorphism to turn them into cute girls.

Dirty Pair (1987): That Little Girl is Older Than Us. The Preservation Was a Success?! Sleeping Beauty!

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Dirty Pair

Kei and Yuri – Nozomi Cover Art – Episodes 23 – 26

Despite a real Idiot Ball moment in the second act episode 8 That Little Girl is Older Than Us. The Preservation Was a Success?! Sleeping Beauty is a great Dirty Pair OAV episode.

Sleeping Beauty opens with a space liner emblazoned with a White Swan emblem cruising through space. Dr Gray Nea[1] gets a drink from a waiter as masked, armed men burst into the lounge with gas grenades. Dr Nea flees to a stateroom to rescue his daughter Tia as she plays with a plushy[2].

As they leave the room a chip falls from the plushy under a vent in the wall at floor level. Tia sees this, Dr Nea does not.

Dirty Pair (1987): Revenge of the Muscle Lady! Is a Woman’s Spirit the Beauty of the Ring?

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Dirty Pair

Nozomi Cover Art – Dirty Pair OAV Series

Episode 7 Revenge of the Muscle Lady! Is a Woman’s Spirit the Beauty of the Ring? is a welcome return to form for the Dirty Pair OAVs. It is a solidly constructed episode that’s also a lot of fun to watch[1].

Muscle Lady opens with Kei in an arena fight with an over muscled moron called Mad Bull. I strongly suspect that the design of the arena, a framework with dangling chains and weaponry, was inspired by Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome[2]. Yuri is watching from the stands of an arena big enough to make the “underground” status of this fight claimed by Mad Bull dubious.

Dirty Pair (1987): Are You Serious? Shocked at the Beach! Wedding Panic!

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Dirty Pair

Nozomi Cover Art – Dirty Pair OAV Series

When I decided to watch the Dirty Pair OAVs in a run for diversion before I reviewed them I really didn’t expect four weak episodes in a row. Fortunately episode 6 Are You Serious? Shocked at the Beach! Wedding Panic! is the last of these; they get better from here. Honest.

Kei and Yuri are on a cruise liner to Sargilco Island when Yuri gets hit on by a handsome dude. Yuri is unimpressed and more or less tells him to take a hike. The Lovely Angels have been sent to the island to infiltrate a counterfeiting operation run by the Casteno Family, who also more or less run the island.

Dirty Pair (1987): And so, Nobody’s Doing It Anymore

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Dirty Pair

Nozomi Cover Art – Dirty Pair OAV Series

Continuing with the run of weak Dirty Pair OAV episodes we come to episode 5 And so, Nobody’s Doing It Anymore.

There’s some great world building in this episode. Pity about the rest of it.

Once again And so, Nobody’s Doing It Anymore revisits a theme of an earlier episode, in this case the gambling theme of Go Ahead, Fall in Love! Love is Russian Roulette. However where Russian Roulette was a fun caper, And so, Nobody’s Doing It Anymore is a rather more tedious affair of the Lovely Angels sent to retrieve the number one trouble consultant who has fallen into the bad habit of gambling.