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A series of Science Fiction light novels by Haruka Takachiho, with illustrations by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, initially published in 1977.Beginning in the year 2160, the stories follow the adventures of members of "Crusher Conference", an organization of people who perform dangerous tasks for a fee.The series was adapted into a short (1 volume) manga series (illustrated by Fujihiko Hosono) in 1979, an animated film released in 1983, and two OVA short features released in 1989. The manga was published in English by Studio Ironcat in 2000, and the anime was released in English by Animeigo in 1997note sources are unclear, but maybe the English-subtitled version didn't arrive until 2000. (There was also a heavily-cut dub-only version of the movie released in 1988, titled Crushers, by Jim Terry Productionsnote the same Jim Terry who earlier had produced Force Five.) The light novels remain untranslated.Like Marcoss and Dougram, the anime also made a few contributions to Battletech. These are much less well known due to mostly not being Humongous Mecha.
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Gatling Good
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Gatling Good: Talos' Arm Cannon is a gatling-type gun (and as expected it's pretty destructive).
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Heroes "R" Us
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Heroes "R" Us: The Crusher Organization. The apparent difference between it and the World Welfare Works Association is that the Crushers lean more towards being Private Military Contractors.
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Ghost Ship
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Ghost Ship: In the manga, Joe's team is hired to find a retrieve a freighter called St. Germi, which disappeared en route to its destination and since then seems to be traveling at random, leading to rumors that it's a ghost ship. In a way, it really is — the ship is being controlled by a psychic energy being, which was attracted to the ore on board the ship, because that kind of ore acts like a drug to it.
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Space Pirates
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Space Pirates: Some of the antagonists.
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Publicity Stunt
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Publicity Stunt: The Ice Prison has Joe hired to rescue political prisoners trapped in an asteroid prison in a decaying orbit. Then it turns out that the President Evil doesn't really want to rescue the prisoners, he just wants to be seen trying to save them for propaganda points, while arranging for them to die anyway in a manner he can blame on the Crushers.
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Chicken Walker: The Ostall (better known as the Locust).
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Human Popsicle
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Human Popsicle: The plot of the movie begins with Joe being hired to transport a cryogenically-preserved person.
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Little Guy, Big Buddy
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Little Guy, Big Buddy: During the parts of the movie where they're separated from the other half of the team, Ricky and Talos.
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Arm Cannon
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Arm Cannon: Talos has a machine gun hidden under his prosthetic left hand.
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Rebellious Princess
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Rebellious Princess: Alfin ran away from her kingdom home to become a Crusher.
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Spy Speak
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Spy Speak: A sign/countersign exchange comes up repeatedly in the second OVA. Specifically, one person asks for water, and the other person is supposed to say that they don't have any, but do have a specific alternative beverage. Of course, The Heavy does not knows about this and when the Major carrying the Weapon of Mass Destruction MacGuffin asks him for a glass of water after he says he came here on orders of the President to rescue her, he turns to a nearby goon and tells him to fetch some water and gives himself away.
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Asteroid Miners
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Asteroid Miners: The first OVA, The Ice Prison, involves an ice asteroid that was placed in orbit around a planet and used as a Hellhole Prison for political dissidents (and when the local President Evil decided it was best to get rid of them, his government faked an accident that turned the asteroid's orbit fatally unstable to justify blowing it to smithereens). Joe mentions in passing while his Crusher team tries to figure out how to fix the asteroid's orbit that this kind of mining is an occasional step for terraforming planets.
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Small Girl, Big Gun
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Small Boy, Big Gun: At one point in the movie, Ricky takes down some enemies with a shoulder-wielded assault cannon bigger than he is.
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Cyborg
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Cyborg: Talos. The first OVA ("The Ice Prison") has Ricky being cheeky (because the Crusher Conference is cutting their vacation short) by saying that all Talos needs is a change of oil and away he goes, but the rest of the team needs to rest.
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Slippery Swimsuit
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Slippery Swimsuit: Ricky's first scene in the OVAs has him accidentally pull off Alfin's bikini top. Nothing is shown to the audience.
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Weapon of Mass Destruction
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Weapon of Mass Destruction: The second OVA centers around the Crushers being sent to destroy one as part of the peace process between two nations. The job is given to the Crushers because there's a faction of the military that wants to use the weapon and end the war with the obliteration of the enemy instead of accepting a diplomatic resolution, and the since the client doesn't know who he can trust in his own government, he has to contract the job out to a neutral third party.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: In the movie, there's a scene at a drive-in theater where the film being shown features Kei, Yuri, and Mugi (whose character designs are much more like the ones in the original novels than in any later version of Dirty Pair, because the novels' illustrator Yasuhiko Yoshikazu was the character designer for the Crusher Joe movie); counts as a Continuity Nod. note  In the light novels' case since the Dirty Pair anime is an Alternate Continuity
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Alfin is a Rebellious Princess that decided to become a Crusher, and as a result she is very good at piloting a star-fighter, driving an Awesome Personnel Carrier, and is a crack shot with guns, grenades and rocket launchers.
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Crossover
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Crossover: The prequel story Doruroi no Arashi covers the same events as Dirty Pair no Dairansen.
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Robot Buddy: Dongo. Picture R2-D2 who does some occasional porn reading.
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