The Dirty Pair finish off the 20th Century...
[ "Wow, that blew up real good! -- Kei-Flash ]
1990
21 January: the soundtrack for the new OVA is released
25 January: the 60-minute OVA, Bouryaku no 005 bin (Conspiracy of Flight 005) is released by Bandai Visual
3 March: Akurou Toshi Kukuru <Kukul, City of Evil> (CJ8, part 2)
August: Dark Horse Comics begins publication of Adam Warren and Toren Smith's A Plague of Angels through November of 1991
1991
January: Ryan Mathews' Big Bang initiates DP fan fiction activity in English on the Internet
1992
Orion Home Video and Streamline Pictures release Affair on Nolandia in English translation
Labor Day weekend (early September): at the World SF Convention in Orlando, Florida, T. declares his feeling that it is time to leave Crusher Joe and the Dirty Pair behind and to devote more effort to his other stories and series
1993
March: the fourth Dirty Pair novel, Daatipea no Daidassou (Great Escape of the Dirty Pair) is published
May - August: After evolving his artistic style and re-designing the characters, Adam Warren begins publication of his solo effort, Sim Hell through Dark Horse
July: final character designs for Dirty Pair Flash are approved
August: in an interview conducted at Anime Expo in California, T. expresses his excitement with a new project involving a re-conception of the Dirty Pair, which he will later describe as a "totally different story"; in addition to the video production, a parallel set of audio "Stereo Dramas" are to be released, employing the same seiyuu and featuring different stories and songs
21 October: the DP Synthesizer Fantasy album is released
1994 Fifteenth anniversary of the creation of the Dirty Pair
21 January: Bandai Visual and VAP begin the release, through 23 June, of six monthly half-hour OVA episodes of Dirty Pair Flash, a story arc set in a recovering post-war Galaxy of 2248
21 February: Streamline Video releases Affair of Nolandia and Project EDEN in English translation through Orion Home Video
1 March: The soundtrack album for the first DP Flash series is released
25 April: the Stereo Drama Tenshi no Kyuusoku (Angels' Holiday) is released
August: the program book for the San Diego ComicCon features Adam Warren's one-shot, "I Honestly Hate You"
15 September: VAP releases the entire set of Classic TV broadcast episodes, the two From Lovely Angels with Love episodes, and the OVA episodes on laserdisc in a boxed set of nine discs called Daatipea no Daikessan <The Dirty Pair's Big Payoff>
21 November: Streamline releases Flight 005 Conspiracy in English translation through Orion Home Video
December: the first Dirty Pair Flash novel, Tenshi no Yuutsu (Angels' Melancholy), is published
1995
1 June: the second series of five half-hour OVA episodes, Dirty Pair Flash 2, begins monthly release through VAP through 1 October
1July: the soundtrack album for the second DP Flash series is released
July - November: Dark Horse publishes Adam Warren's Fatal: But Not Serious
July: Dengeki Comics begins publication of five DP Flash manga stories by Makihara Hisato, which appear in July - September, December, and January of 1996
21 & 28 October: songs from the second DP Flash soundtrack and one of the Stereo Dramas are broadcast in Japan on Hisakawa Aya's radio program, Shiny Night; the host appears on these recordings as Maya, the Lovely Angels' new chief at the WWWA [see program notes for October 14th, 21st, and 28th]
21 December: hard on the heels of its predecessor, the third set of five half-hour OVA episodes, Dirty Pair Flash 3, begins its monthly release through VAP through 25 April 1996
1996
1 February: the soundtrack album for the third DP Flash series is released
March - July: Dengeki Comics publishes five DP Flash manga stories by Oono "Takemaru"
25 April: DP Flash Stereo Drama, Volume 1 is released; Dengeki Comics publishes a compilation of the DP Flash manga by Makihara
1 June: Stereo Drama, Volume 2 is released
1 July: Stereo Drama, Volume 3 is released
25 August: Dengeki Comics publishes a compilation of the DP Flash manga by Oono
1 September: the Dirty Pair FlashVocal Best Collection is released
1997
January: the second Dirty Pair Flash novel, Tenshi no Hohoemi (Angelic Smile) is published
26 March: A CD edition of the soundtrack album for the 1985 Dirty Pair TV series is released
19 December: the fifth Dirty Pair book, Dokusaisha no Isan <Legacy of the Dictator>, is published on the Internet through the Microsoft Network in both Japanese and English; this is now designated as a Side Story
1998
A.D. Vision releases the sixteen Dirty Pair Flash OVA episodes in English translation
May - July: Adam Warren publishes the mini-series, "Start the Violence", with his new character re-design of Kei and Yuri, in Dark Horse Presents #132 - 134
26 August: Dokusaisha no Isan is published in paperback
1999 Twentieth anniversary of the creation of the Dirty Pair
25 May: A.D. Vision begins bimonthly release of the five pairs of OVA episodes from 1987-8 in English translation through January 2000
September 30: the third Dirty Pair Flash novel, Tenshi no Itazura (Angels' Mischief) is published
2000
January: Dark Horse begins publication of a new mini-series by Adam Warren, "Run From the Future", through April
25 January: the Lovely Angels enter the DVD age, as Bandai Emotion releases a re-mastered Project E.D.E.N.
21 July: VAP begins monthly releases of all 24 broadcast Classic TV episodes, the two From Lovely Angels with Love episodes, the ten Classic OVA episodes, and all 16 DPF episodes on remastered discs, at the rate of two a month through 21 April 2001
28 November: ADV reissues DPF Mission 1, as "Angels in Trouble", on DVD
11 December: the Lovely Angels appear on North American television for the first time in any form (I think) as Public Broadcasting System affiliate KTEH in San Jose broadcasts the first four episodes of DPF Mission 1 during a station fund-raiser