Dirty Pair Kickstarter anime ends successfully
Right Stuf and Nozomi Entertainment's Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the English dubbed Blu-ray Disc release for the 1985 television anime Dirty Pair ended successfully on Sunday, raising a total of $ 731.406 from 3.303 backers. The campaign funded all the stretch goals.
Both Pamela Lauer and Jessica Calvello will reprise their roles as Kei and Yuri for the new dub.
Right Stuf and Nozomi Entertainment describe the anime:
In the 22nd century humanity may be technologically advanced, but there are still some problems that can only be solved by a couple of women who don't back down from a fight! These are the adventures of Kei and Yuri, two official Trouble Consultants for the World Welfare Works Association (WWWA) who use brains, brawn and looks to solve any problem. They call themselves “lovely angels”, but because their solutions often lead to chaos and mass destruction, the rest of the universe has dubbed them the “dirty couple”!
For Kei and Yuri, no two missions are ever alike. As WWWA's top Trouble Consultants, they do all kinds of chores, like chasing treasures in high-tech ruins, fighting political assassinations, and even avenging the death of… a plaster statue? In the end, only one thing is certain: everything that stands between these two and victory will surely be destroyed!
The project's Kickstarter page states that Right Stuf and Nozomi Entertainment will use 75% of the funds raised for dubbing, production expenses and acquiring rights clearances. The project will use 15% of the funds for the production of materials, supports and packaging; and use 10% of the funds for overheads, working capital, commissions to run the project on the platform, royalties and personnel costs.
RetroCrush and Crunchyroll began airing the anime in the US and Canada on October 1st.
The anime adapts Haruka Takachiho's comic science fiction series of the same name, with illustrations by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. The series began in 1979 and the eighth novel in the series, Dirty Pair no Daichōyaku, was published in 2018 as the first novel in 11 years.
In addition to the television anime, the novels have also inspired an anime film, as well as several American video, manga and comic projects. The title duo made their first appearance in the anime in 1983 in Crusher Joe: The Movie.
