Manga Thoughts: Dirty Pair

When I first watched the Dirty Pair anime, it was with a “finally” sense of satisfaction. The science fiction “girls with guns” title had caught my eye years before then in the common currency of online references as I started watching anime, back when it was a little too easy to fall into the self-pitying mood “anything everyone else has already seen won’t be shown by my university’s anime club”; there was also the problem Dirty Pair was only available “fansubbed,” and in those final analog days seeing those mythical tapes seemed a matter of ingratiating yourself with “the right people” I didn’t have the courage to ask about (although the digital era that followed did have its own problems). More than that, perhaps, the most notable work of fanfiction to feature Dirty Pair’s main characters ran up against the “anime MSTings” I also got to reading to seem a terrifying exercise in “self-insertion” wish fulfilment... After all of that, though, it has been a while since I finished watching the anime, given there’s always something else to get around to.
( Something else to get around to )