Dirty Pair has to be the most successful anime of all time.
 

I was thinking, forget about money here, we know that One Piece and Dragon Ball and others had made a lot more money than Dirty Pair. But everything else? What Anime has

A theater movie(1985) I know lots of animes do.
A Tv show? Yes a Lot of Animes have one also.
A OVA series? Again a lot of animes have one.
Dirty Pair did have a video game for the famicom. Again a lot of animes have a video game.

A Manga? Yes most animes start as a manga.
A remake/reboot? Flash may not of been as great as the kick ass 80's series, but it counts.

A book series? I only think Vampire Hunter D has one, that comes to mind.

But the thing that makes Dirty Pair great is a AMERICAN comic book series. How many other animes can lay claim to a AMERICAN comic book series that lasted for about 15 years lol. From 1988-2002? Dang that's a long time.

That is perhaps the one EDGE that makes Dirty Pair the most successful anime of all time. The Mangas, the books, the video games, yes Dirty Pair has that, but not many can claim a AMERICAN comic book series.

Dirty Pair started as the novels, I think?

Off the top of my head: Gall Force, Bubblegum Crisis, Project-Ako all had American comics. Probably some others I'm forgetting too. It was something that was attempted more in the 90s.

I'm no anime expert, but I'm sure there's at least 50+ anime more successful than it worldwide.

Not even remotely close to the most successful. Very popular & influential, sure, but das it.

Didn't know they had American comics. Shock Project-AKO had comics also.

But combine with the other stuff I am sure there lacking something, like a book series or theater movie. And your right, they did start as novels.

I've never seen Dirty Pair, recommendations?

If you like 1980's cartoons and anime, Dirty Pair would be one of my big recommendations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POBiNhp_hk8

Intro to the tv show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DeO40CRyts

Intro to the OVA series. It had a tv show, ova, movies, 3 of em. And a remake in the 1990's which was not good. Of course it also had comics, manga and books.

So the only thing that makes a difference between an anime being the most popular is an American comic, that makes sense.

Fist of the North Star had an American Comic. So did Ninja Scroll.
Hell - Street Fighter has had ongoing comics, a widely respected anime movie, a few actual movies, action figures and even... wait for it... a video game and a few soundtracks! So by this logic Street Fighter takes it!

What's more: they got a remarkably long run out of a story centering around a dirty pair of undies. Gross!

The show was only a little over 30 eps long, it didn’t even last all that long to begin with. Sure it had some movies and OVA’s after but it wasn’t something that made that big an impact.

Shows like

Cowboy Bebop had 26
Neon Genesis Evangelion 26
Didn't Black Lagoon run about 30? With its series total?
Some how Hellsing didn't even make it to 20?
Berserk was also short it seem.
Trigun hit the mark at 26.
Outlaw Star also 26.

Dirty Pair running about 26 seems to be a pretty good run compare to so other top anime, Sure One Piece and Dragon Ball seems to last forever, but not every one can be like em.

Aggretusko has an American comic and if we are talking about ripoffs so did Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

I mean that still doesn't make Dirty Pair to be the most successful anime of all time especially compared to shows like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and Berserk.

Cowboy Bebop did outright copy a episode from Dirty Pair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_pAX89mm7Y

vs
Fall In Love Involuntarily... Love Is Russian Roulette

Cant find the video on youtube sadly. But both teams(Cowboy Bebop and the Dirty Pair) are searching for a gambling chip, that can control computers, info ete and both teams are send to retrieve it. Its the same story lol. Oddly there both episode 3 also. The main difference between them both Is the Bebop team added Faye to the team (Sort of).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mck...J&index=4&t=0s

Found a subtitle Spanish version.

Most of those shows made a far bigger impact.

Also Dirty Pair started in 1986, it was definitely a big 80's show, but by the mid 90's it was pretty much an afterthought.

What about Fist of the north star?

-echo- -echoooo-

Fun fact Dirty Pair was very progressive when it comes to trans characters in the 80s

https://skirtdefenseforce.files.word...15/07/dp32.png

Yeah no one would dare touch that subject in the 80's. BUT Dirty Pair was ahead of its time.

Even Sailor Moon had GLBT characters in the 90s in Japanese version

Yeah, the final season, which I just got on dvd. Men transforming into Women. lol. Which is perhaps the reason it never aired in America until recently.

Astro boy is bigger.

And Neptune and Uranus where in a romantic relationship, which was censored in the US dub

Sailor Moon is my favorite Alabama show.

It had that too.