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  • Accidental Innuendo: The title could give newcomers the impression that it has something to do with women's underwear. Or that it might have underlying implications about Kei and Yuri themselves, because they're a pair of scantily clad college-aged girls. For the record, the title was intended to evoke films like Dirty Harry and The Dirty Dozen.
  • Adaptation Displacement: Most North American fans are mainly familiar with the the series through the various anime and manga adaptation rather than the original novels, even though the novels were licensed in English in the late 2000s.
  • Alternate Self Shipping: There exists some fanarts pairing the original Lovely Angels with their Dirty Pair Flash counterparts. Sometimes adding the Adam Warren versions for variety.
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  • Base-Breaking Character: Joanca. Good transgender representation or a character that didn't age well at all? There's simply no middle ground.
  • Cult Classic: The series is popular in the retro-anime and sci-fi anime circles for offering a great mix of humour, sex appeal from Kei and Yuri and a lot of action. It even won the Animage Grand Prix Anime Award of 1985.
  • Fair for Its Day: While the uniforms are skimpy and there is a lot of Male Gaze that can come off as irksome by today's standards, Kei and Yuri belong to the 1960s-70s "second wave" feminist movement of sex-positivity (they aren't timid housewives in frumpy dresses!). They are smart, beautiful, and highly competent - generally better than any male agent - and always solve the matter at hand, and look good doing it. They can be a little ditzy-acting (and it is mostly an act), and flirt with guys they find attractive, but don't put up with any harassment. Lilis Joanca also helps as a remarkably positive trans portrayal, especially for the 1980s.
  • Fridge Logic: Kei and Yuri are supposedly one of the 3WA's most successful teams, yet they destroy damn near anything they come in close proximity to. To quote: "Explosions, infernos, a few thousand casualties here and there... and, incidentally, a solution to every case."
  • Gateway Series: In the early '90s, it was one of the first anime to be extensively fansubbed in English (on VHS tapes), and the first to have fanfic written about it on the Internet.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series is very popular in the United States, to point where Project Eden was ranked #1 in Animerica's top seller charts of July 1994. It also received its own US comic book adaptation that lasted a decade, and was even referenced in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The US is also one of the few territories where all animated installments have been dubbed, although this didn't include the TV series until 2021's Kickstarter campaign, due to the M&E tracks being misplaced. Said campaign was funded in only few days and reached all stretch goals.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: TV episode 12 concerns two genetically-engineered, super-intelligent mice who take over WWWA Headquarters, several years before Pinky and the Brain.
  • I Knew It!: Nobody was shocked when Jessica Calvello was announced to be reprising her role of Yuri for the 2021 Kickstarter-funded dub of the TV series since she was a regular voice actress for Headline Studios, the company dubbing the show. On the other hand, nobody expected Pamela Lauer Jones to be reprising Kei, since she had been retired for almost 20 years.
  • LGBT Fanbase: The series has a small following among transgender women, due to Lilis Joanca being an incredibly respectful portrayal of a transgender woman character. It also helps that she's a huge badass and gets a genuinely happy ending as well.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
    • Some fans of the original anime are not too keen on Flash.
    • The ADV dubs of the movies from 2003 weren't nearly as well-received as the Streamline dubs from a decade earlier, despite being more faithful.
  • Values Resonance: The extremely positive portrayal of Lilis Joanca as a transgender woman was almost unheard of back when the episode originally aired, and it still remains as one of the best handled uses of a transgender individual in anime.

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