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Background: Kei and Yuri work for an organization called the Worlds Welfare Works Association (3WA or Three Double-u A). With mankind's rapid expansion into the galaxy his ability to deal with problems has lagged behind. The 3WA exists to provide Trouble Consultants to help solve problems when a planet's local authorities are incapable of handling the situation themselves. The 3WA provides TCs for just about any problem that can come up, from farming and terraforming to computer glitches and accounting to criminal investigations. Kei and Yuri, Trouble Consultant team code name Lovely Angels are criminal Trouble Consultants.
The nickname "Dirty Pair" is a rather unfortunate nom de guerre for the Lovely Angels, based upon their reputation. When a planetary government petitions the 3WA for help, the Association's central computer reviews all available information and selects the TC team most suited to the task; the petitioning government has no say in what team is assigned to them. It happens that every case the Angels have been sent on has turned into a major disaster, in addition to a solution to the case. In every instance the central computer has cleared the Angels of any culpability, lending credence to the duo's frequent cries, "it's not our fault!" Their cases would turn into disasters regardless of the team sent, otherwise the central computer would have pulled their IDs long ago, right? Of course this has no bearing on their public reputation.
Character Biographies:
Kei
Planet of Birth: Niogi; Date of Birth: November 27, 2121
Height: 171cm; Weight: 57kg; Measurements: 85cm-57cm-91cm
Hair: Red; Eyes: Brown; Blood Type: A+
Education: Planet Mezuil University
Code Name: Lovely Angel; Code Number: 234K
Civil Service Number: 101761
Kei is the outgoing half of the team. She listens to rock music, as much for enjoyment as to jab at Yuri's mellower tastes. Her favorite food is cheesecake.
Yuri
Planet of Birth: Yocha; Date of Birth: March 18, 2122
Height: 168cm; Weight: 55kg; Measurements: 84cm-56cm-90cm
Hair: Black; Eyes: Hazel; Blood Type: A+
Education: Planet Mezuil University
Code Name: Lovely Angel; Code Number: 234U
Civil Service Number: 101161
Yuri is the reserved half of the team. She reads gossip magazines and likes jazz and classical music. Her favorite color is lime green.
Note: after checking numerous different sources, I've discovered that even the Japanese can't agree on Kei and Yuri's "vital measurements," so I've used the information that's presented in the Dirty Pair Mook, which matches what's displayed in the first episode of the TV series.
In the Takachiho novellas and Affair of Nolandia, Kei and Yuri together possess a clairvoyant talent that makes them indespensible to the 3WA as criminal Trouble Consultants. When close to a crime scene, they can pick up brief flashes of information about the crime. The information is often very sketchy, just brief images of potential clues that the local law enforcement agencies would never guess. But the information is never wrong.
Most of the animation, with the exception of Affair of Nolandia, simply ignores this aspect of their character. The Smith/Warren comic turns it into a joke, a stunt pulled by the Pair in an attempt to land cushy jobs in the 3WA.
The Pair is very glad they have Mughi. More than once he has flown in with the Lovely Angel to save their butts, dropping off vital equipment and providing air support.
The TV and OAV version is radically different. He's a genetic experiment made specifically for the Lovely Angels. He's just as intelligent, but instead of sleek and vicious, he's a lazy, cute ball of fur that provides technical support and comic relief, as well as being one very comfortable couch. He also has a total phobia of rats.
Her partner was Deidre, and they occasionally worked with the Dirty... uh, Lovely Angels on assignments. Even then, the Pair noticed she seemed a bit flaky. Her personality facets weren't switching correctly.
Finally, as part of a mission, she had to jack into a criminal's psychological profile in order to gain insight on how to catch him. She learned how to become free of her programming, and her personality facets finally fractured. She escaped, killing Deidre and critically injured the Pair. Now, she is a renegade, highly dangerous and with her own agenda.
When the Dirty Pair encountered her again after their fateful last meeting in 3WA, Shasti was manipulating two different terrorist groups aboard a new space pleasure cruiser. Shasti failed to warp out with the experimental warp drive and was left in the void of space. Her words after being picked up by the group who wanted the warp drive stolen: "38 seconds in hard vacuum..." cough up blood here "Those two need to DIE!"
