Yo Graham Where's the best place to jump in on DIRTY PAIR? Anime or manga. And which manga or anime? Thanks

Project Eden (DP the movie) is a good place to start watching the anime to see if you like it. You can watch it Here. 

I also like the tv & OAV series (I’m less into the art in Affair of Nolandia & Dirty Pair flash looks awful to me)  Flash is the only DP I would avoid– and the newer manga by Hisao Tamaki is less my scene. 

My all time favorite DP stuff is the Adam Warren comics.  I think they’re all excellent. My favorite 2 books are 

A Plague of Angels–  Set on an O'Neil colony with villains that have downloaded their brains onto plugs so they can switch bodies at will. 

And 

Run From the Future- set in another space station– this time a

a Dyson tree habitat   –where they have to catch 50 criminals in a set amount of time