7/10
Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia
29 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This hour long OVA sees the return of the Lovely Angels Yuri and Kei; AKA 'The Dirty Pair'. They are still working for 3WA leaving a trail of destruction behind them. This story opens with a plane crashing when the pilots hallucinate as they attempt to land… somehow it appears to be connected to our heroines' search for a missing girl. Shortly afterwards the woman who hired them is murdered and it is clear the authorities would rather they forgot about the case. Inevitably they don't and as they head to the remote area the girl is believed to be they start having strange and frightening visions; it is difficult for them, and us, to know what is real. When they eventually find her it looks like she doesn't want to be taken back and as she is the one causing the illusions they can't force her. They then appear to leave but soon return to confront the authorities and end up spending the second half of the story chasing the man they have exposed as the villain when they learnt the girls strange secret.

Fans of the earlier series will no doubt enjoy this too although to my mind it wasn't quite as good. This is largely because it felt like two different stories; one involving the girls searching for a girl and having strange hallucinations and the other involving a chase through a city leaving a trail of destruction. The creators clearly took advantage of the fact that this was not meant for TV broadcast by including some fairly gratuitous nudity during the girls' hallucinations… on the plus side the level of destruction is increased too! The animation is on a par with the earlier series and the English dub was decent enough… although it did take a little while to get used to after watching the earlier series subtitled. Overall I'd recommend this to fans of the series but if you haven't watched the series I'd recommend watching it before you sit down to watch this as no time is wasted introducing the characters.
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