Dirty Pair: Project Eden Opening Blu-Ray Quality (Creditless)

[@BlackHaZe262]

Man most of these frames are museum worthy, Kouji Morimoto is amazing.

[@liliencalvel6151]

Opening song sung by the late Miki Matsubara who was as beautiful as her voice. Passed away in 2004 of cervical cancer. A beautiful soul with a tragic ending.

[@gergom.8310]

omg i didn't realize she sang that:0

[@steban5693]

the golden age of anime

[@proximacentaur1654]

The golden age of golden times indeed.

[@romerobjuancarlos]

I know typing this makes you sound like a grumpy old-head, but you can literally count with one hand the amount of openings we've gotten in the last couple of decades that had a sequence half as memorable as this one. Only one show comes to mind off the top of my head and that'd be Mob Psycho 100. I feel like they didn't just make a highlight reel of people posing to a generic song. Voices like Miki's are also rare these days, but that just might be because of the overall homogeneity of the content and the form. I haven't given up on the medium though, the possibility of a "comeback" is always there. The right generation has to align and nurture that drive.

[@AlxBrb]

I am seriously thinking that the knife sequence at 0:44 one of the best transitions of the whole animation history. I mean: 5 scenes in roughly 2 seconds. Jawdropping.

[@ortie_rouge]

Smoothest thing I've seen in years

[@lowintellecttrash6737]

I had to rewatch that sequence because of how beautiful it was

[@shiggydiggy6847]

It just perfectly encapsulates the 1980's aesthetic.

[@MrDigash]

how else after Justice`s 'Neverender'?

[@exejutable5149]

maaannnnnnnn i was thinking the same fucking thingggggg yersterday

[@barrelz8646]

me

[@trcsonic]

This is pure art.

[@MidnightBanshi]

Miki Matsubara did a great job with this opening song also. Such a perfect opening!

[@REXanadu]

Every time I see this intro, I immediately say to myself, "Would be awesome if a James Bond movie opened with this kind of animation - specifically this kind of style, too." However, anime styles have changed so significantly over the past 3 decades I'd be surprised if most available professionals would be able to pull it off. Not through lack of skill mind you - anime has proven time and again it's been improving in more ways than most people think. I just think most current animators would have trouble emulating this kind of style without rigorous amount of attention to detail.

[@galacticfederationambassad4063]

Dirty pair was highly influenced by bond especially in its logo.

[@neilworms2]

Koji Morimoto is still doing work and he's actually done intro's pretty recently in this style. Check out his work on Lupin - Italian Game (he did the opening to it)

[@pyramidblaster9239]

Here you go. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoC2nIh4o7qkgZI

[@AlxBrb]

This intro is a timeless gem.

[@TonyMontana-fu2ez]

That's when you give a full freedom to creator.

[@hierophantpurple5163]

Miki Matsubara did an awesome job with this opening song! I love it!

[@hotelmario510]

How have I _never_ heard of this?!

[@necrojoker6096]

Probably cuz you're an uncultured swine, or 13 years old (maybe both).

[@tiefightergaming2912]

best bond opening ever

[@asadparvez24]

OMG, the details!!

[@obsdmtn4164]

Legendary.

[@RTDon]

Eyegasmic

[@kiryusannagi5171]

Beautiful

[@jubeikibagami4667]

It's so beautiful!

[@thebaron512]

One of my favorite anime movies!

[@decimatorentertainmentstud8523]

This looks amazing!

[@TheKaizokuman]

Miki Matsubara was so amazing.

[@liliencalvel6151]

Girls of the 90's 80's and before that were the best

[@JM_CLARKO]

Probably the best Opening i’ve ever seen in an anime, bummer that the movie was pretty dull tho

[@BattleSaberj]

True

[@Alexia64nb]

On CRT it's so peak ~

[@Rov-Nihil]

like something that should be playing on Abroad in Japan's videos haha!

[@TonyMontana-fu2ez]

1:08 i still think this is John Cena face

[@bacon_warlord]

Yay

[@felixgutierrez993]

Neverender! 💯🔥🔥🔥🤘

[@sundaymaj7727]

G O L D

[@inkermoy]

Wow! I just found out about this box set. Any idea on if these are just upscales or did they actually rescan them in some higher resolution form? I've been waiting for Project Eden forever!

[@el-karasu6070]

I'd assume that it's an actual remaster instead of an upscale. Looks a lot more clean and sharp than the DVD rips floating around KZbin.

[@inkermoy]

@@el-karasu6070 I bought the box set (yeah, could have sailed the high seas, but I'm a fan!) and it's GORGEOUS!

[@YamashitaTsubasa]

Good Lord

[@Hubba404]

Anime openings now: "Let's have some dudes fighting, let's have some explosions too it'll be great!" Anime then: "Think cyberpunk James Bond if it was made by Mœbius!"

[@el-karasu6070]

I think you're being incredibly nitpicky. This opening was for a movie, and was far from the norm since they had the budget to do so. Have you actually seen an anime opening from the 80s, because a lot of them are just as cliched as anime from today.

[@JuanLopez-zo8os]

@@el-karasu6070 90s have better OP and END than post 2005, at least for me

[@KeyleeTamirian]

@@JuanLopez-zo8os Same! I love Dirty Pair Flash 2 Opening a lot.

[@TomsonPRD]

Holy Christ this is on par with a Bond movie opening

[@tiefightergaming2912]

Makes sense since the dirty pa.. I mean lovely angels act similarly to bond, promiscuous agents that often act recklessly

[@idontwannagotowork]

Matenrou no Rasen kaidan Noboru akai kutsuoto Gozen ni-ji no Moondance ni Ukabu machi ga Ayashikatta Silence Kotae no nai doa ni Hanayakana tsume o tate nagara Safari Eyes Sameta hitomi no Shootin' magic Sutekina akumu Uchite ku nara Kyandoru ga moeru Sabaku e Jerasii no nai Kiss of the stranger

[@ashfaq2179]

Miki Matsubara ❤️

[@freddymittler8349]

James Bond intro but it’s anime

[@argonianaccount1876]

There was some special shit floating around back then, or idk. Things, all things were just.......better.?

[@ArseneLupinIIIMrjovoni]

If you mean the overall "look" and "feel" of anime in the early 80s to mid 90s I couldn't agree with you more. Kinda feels like someone slapped you in the face with a rainbow of euphoria XD.More effort and love was put into it movies and television series back then. Drop that +100 experience pionts of almost EVERYTHING being drawn by hand,theres ALOT of easy to miss gems from then that are still sitting around waiting to be found again. Doubt you want anyone giving you reccomendations buy if you haven't already check the Patlabor tv series out along with the three movies. It's a classic you might like depending on your tastes, oh have to add "Ranma 1/2" in there aswell that's a keeper too.Glad to see more people glancing back at stuff like this.😁😆

[@JohnDoe-wc4co]

drawn animation has more heart than cgi. it always will, at least imo

[@020baby]

80s were booming for japan, they had money to waste on experimental projects and risky decisions, so you got a lot of guys that wanted to try their hand at something crazy getting hired and picked up and allowed to create crazy things. Similar thing happened after evangelion but it was more of "Hey, evangelion was popular because it was weird, right?" and everyone trying to shove weird arthouse stuff and philosophy into everything. There seems to be another creativity boom on the horizon with the rise of web gen animators and greater opportunities for animators. (in the opposite reason as the 80s, the industry now needs more staff so it will take what it can get and scout out talent online) We can see some of this coming through with the surge in original risky anime early this year/new decade and more staff realising that bland adaptations of popular work or cute character designs wont cut it anymore.

[@Jekyl99999]

@@020baby "We can see some of this coming through with the surge in original risky anime early this year/new decade" name some names, I'm hungry for some serious non-cute stuff like wolf for children

[@eunaoseibrother467]

@@020baby "There seems to be another creativity boom on the horizon with the rise of web gen animators and greater opportunities for animators(...)" i have bad news for you...

[@BloodyBraces]

This opening is pretty cool but I am a little annoyed none of it connects to the movie in any way

[@Gabriel87100]

The movie itself barely connects to the anime or the OVAs, the dude main character seemed like a bizarre self insert of someone in the staff and the girls are very out of character. It's a pretty chaotic movie, like a mashup of multiple ideas they had but were discontinued along the way with nothing to attach the strings.

[@BloodyBraces]

@@Gabriel87100 fair point

[@BloodyBraces]

@@Gabriel87100 read this again, this is a damn good point

[@AoiHeartStranger]

Both are fucking awesome though.

[@hambuhbuh3720]

this video using for coub and music in coub better

[@Fenris30]

I may be in the minority but I prefer the original Dub to the newer one. The Dialogue sounds so flat in the newer one. Carson actually sounds like a bad ass thief and rogue in the old one. Who says drink and women instead of wine and women?

[@notroyjonesjr2.099]

Virgin Stay with Me vs Chad Safari Eyes

[@mariuspoppFM]

One person needs an eye transplant

[@bryanc7094]

Anime is dead

[@el-karasu6070]

What makes you say that?

[@jashinslayer]

@@el-karasu6070 Look at all the shit that's popular these days. Boku no Hero, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Fire Force, etc. None of them come close the sublime beauty and artistry of sequences like this. The only decent series these days are Jojo and OPM, and while good, they still can't compare to this. Anime has become garbage pandering to otakus and children.

[@KeiOuGi]

@@el-karasu6070 Infantilism

[@el-karasu6070]

@@jashinslayer Sorry, but I really don't agree at all with you. There's nothing wrong with those anime you've mentioned, they are good in their own right. And you seem to be forgetting that they are targetting a different demographic, plus how could you forget that Dirty Pair is a fanservicey anime? There are still tons of good anime out there, you just need to quit being so close-minded.

[@billygattack1866]

@@jashinslayer it's amazing how all the shonen you listed have beautifully animated moments in them. You'd be as big a fool to deny the artistry in scenes like Yutaka Nakamura's Deku vs Todoroki as you would the stunning designs by Koji Morimoto shown here. And if animation quality isn't the problem (which it shouldn't be), maybe stop focusing on boy's cartoons and check out stuff intended for adults?

[@edisonaraujo3474]

Beautiful

[@m.79ss]

Miki matsubara ❤️