Mouretsu Pirates

[NeoSam]

The light novel series Minisuka Uchuu Pirates by Sasamoto Yuichi (author) and Matsumoto Noriyuki (illustrator) will be getting an anime adaptation.

ミニスカ宇宙海賊
Minisuka Uchuu Pirates (Minisuka Uchuu Kaizoku)
Miniskirt Uchuu Pirates

The light novel series is published under the light novel label Asahi Novels (http://comipedia.com/light-novel-label/asahi-novels).
Currently there's 1 volume released of this light novel series, and the second light novel volume will be released on April 20th, 2009.

Covers:


http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1069/32148431.jpg


Author: Sasamoto Yuichi
Illustrator: Matsumoto Noriyuki

[qmeister]

Miniskirt Space Pirates? Seriously? I need to see this.

[jagass]

I want to see that...

[PNGO]

lol This is obviously not ecchi

[qmeister]

I don't care about ecchi or not! They're lady pirates... IN SPACE.

[PNGO]

I don't care about ecchi or not! They're lady pirates... IN SPACE.

And in mini skirts! :heh:

[Xellos-_^]

is the Pirate Captain's name Sara :naughty:

[Vash002]

I like where this is going... However, I don't know anything about it.
Someone can come with a quick summary of the plot or something?
I mean pirates! Space pirates! Space female pirates! Awesome.

[Westlo]

How can this not be full of win?

[demonfang]

How can this not be full of win?

Are space ninjas in it as well? :heh:

[Duo Maxwell]

Hmm....I'd like to know a summary about volume 1, to guess how many episodes this anime will get.

Anyway, Miniskirt Space Pirates? Hell yes.

[Sheba]

Depending on the director and the animation studio, it will be make or break for me.

[Westlo]

Are space ninjas in it as well? :heh:

No idea.. but if not... surely they are saving that for a later volume!

[stormy001_M1A2]

sounds too cheesy....I can't take it seriously....

[Mizuno]

Is there any update on this? It's been half a year.

[Shiroth]

sounds too cheesy....I can't take it seriously....
Why do you need to take it seriously?

Is there any update on this? It's been half a year.
God i hope so.

[Mizuno]

All I know is that there are only 2 volumes of the novels out atm, that's not much material to adapt from...

The 3rd volume is out November 20th.

Volume 2 cover:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6935/m0376713201.jpg

[wavehawk]

Miniskirt.

Space.

Pirates.

.......

...................

...if this somehow becomes a runaway hit--(and it probably will)--I will go to Europe and sabotage their giant cyclotron-thingymajig and cause the end of the world.

[Crontica]

Miniskirt. Space. Pirates..

This could be an epic win in the making or another juice box.

[Midonin]

In spite of the news breaking on April 1st and the craziness of such a thing, this is real. It'll be animated in 2011 by Satelight.

2011 is quite a ways away of course, but I'm sure there'll be plenty more to cause people to call doomsday before then. I, however, will dive into the madness headfirst.

[musume_no_hoshi]

Does this mean it gives the novel more time? So more volumes would be released first?

Reading the summery from ANN really makes me really looking forward to this.

The story centers around a spirited high school girl named Marika. She keeps herself busy with the space yacht club and her part-time job at a high-class retro café. One day, two men suddenly appear and claim to be subordinates of her dead father. They demand that she assume command of the space pirate ship Benten Maru. A privateer ship's compact was made during a war of independence a century ago, and according to that compact, the ship must be inherited by the captain's next direct descendant. Marika finds herself embarking on a new life as a space pirate.

For now, this just sounds like fun. I don't mind an almost all-girls-cast, as long as it's not harem.

[FlareKnight]

Miniskirt. Space. Pirates. Yeah this will turn out great :D.

Quite a ways away though. Will probably have forgotten about it until a few months before it comes out.

[Joojoobees]

According to NeoSam (http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=2972105#post2972105), the title of this anime has changed to Moretsu Uchuu Kaizoku, and broadcast is still expected in 2011. Apparently this was announced by Satelight at the Tokyo Anime Fair.

Image from Moonphase:
http://moonphase.web.infoseek.co.jp/commonCG/taf2010l.jpg

UPDATE: According to this ANN post (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-25/satelight-to-animate-moretsu-pirates-for-tv-in-2011),
Akiman is responsible for the original character designs for the animation, and Starchild Records is handling the music. Tatsuo Sato (Stellvia, Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed, Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars) is directing and supervising the scripts.

[Mizuno]

Space + Satelight, we might be in for a treat visually. Consider they did Macross Frontier... although I don't expect the same budget for this show.

[Westlo]

Saw this on Canyoumoe blog. (http://muhootsaver.tistory.com/1106)

Moretsu Space Pirate is scheduled for 2011 July. -_- Then why the heck did they announce it in 2009?

About damn time.

[Bonta Kun]

OH HELL how did I miss this before?!!

Well looks like I got something totally awesome to look forward to in 2011.

Btw does Moretsu still mean Miniskirt?


Space + Satelight, we might be in for a treat visually. Consider they did Macross Frontier... although I don't expect the same budget for this show.

I'd agree we probably wouldn't see the same budget but honestly I would think this deserves the same if not more cause just going by the premise alone this totally owns Macross Frontier:D

[MisaoFan]

I thought that the anime will be scheduled next spring. Angela is the most likely artist to perform the opening theme since the music was doned by King Records.

[Shiroth]

Space + Satelight, we might be in for a treat visually. Consider they did Macross Frontier... although I don't expect the same budget for this show.
Macross Frontier isn't the only visual treat show Satelight have done. Keeping those in mind, i'm sure this show will deliver with what people want to see.

[Westlo]

I'd agree we probably wouldn't see the same budget but honestly I would think this deserves the same if not more cause just going by the premise alone this totally owns Macross Frontier:D

A lot of the people who did Frontier left to form 8-Bit, Satelite also lost a studio who are now GOHANDS. Don't know how much "talent" they have left...

[ZODDGUTS]

Macross Frontier isn't the only visual treat show Satelight have done. Keeping those in mind, i'm sure this show will deliver with what people want to see.

Satelight isn't all that great they have had alot of production problems with their shows often falling behind even Macross Frontier had some eps that needed to be fix/improved animation wise. Engage Planet Kiss Dum was a disaster all around, Kamichama Karin had awful animation that most people in the official thread here on animesuki were people complaining for how awful the animation was. Heat Guy J needed improvements on DVD, Fairy Tail has been a disappointment animation wise, Kiddy Girl-and was a huge joke. Basquash! had problems as well. There almost as bad as Gonzo was if not even worse.

And as Westlo said most of their talent have left to form their own studios. Not to say they can be replaced but...

[Kunagisa]

I'm just curious how far along the plot would be, since volume 5's releasing on the 19th, that and ... Hanazawa Kana's one of the two announced VA.

[Westlo]

I'm just curious how far along the plot would be, since volume 5's releasing on the 19th, that and ... Hanazawa Kana's one of the two announced VA.

Geez her Moteki is never ending lol, who's the other announced VA?

[Kunagisa]

Geez her Moteki is never ending lol, who's the other announced VA?

Komatsu Mikako, whom most likely is unknown to anyone besides people who have watched Heroman, which also means so far she is continuing her lead role streak as a VA.

[Shiroth]

Komatsu Mikako, whom most likely is unknown to anyone besides people who have watched Heroman, which also means so far she is continuing her lead role streak as a VA.
Glad she has another role so soon. Hopefully it won't be a boy this time, so i can hear some range. :p

[SaintessHeart]

I seriously think that most people here are just for the miniskirts.

That is so wrong! I mean, you guys can't just view girls like that.....ah heck. I am joining in. :heh:

[Westlo]

Glad she has another role so soon. Hopefully it won't be a boy this time, so i can hear some range. :p

But her only role so far has been a girl! :heh:

[totoum]

I seriously think that most people here are just for the miniskirts.


You've got it wrong,every anime these days has girls wearing mininskirts.This has miniskirts..........IN SPACE :D


oh and Tatsuo Sato being involved is a nice personal bonus.So is Hanazawa Kana though since she's in right about everything these days it's less of a bonus.

[nojay]

Looking at the poster art originally on Moonphase the new title is actually "Mo-retsu Uchuu Kaizoku" which I think means "Hard-working Space Pirates" or "Workaholic Space Pirates".

[mentat]

oh and Tatsuo Sato being involved is a nice personal bonus.

x2. Seems like the right man for the job considering the work he's done with Nadesico and Vandread, both character-driven space operas that I enjoyed.

I'm just a little disappointed that we have to wait until July for this.

[billborden]

You've got it wrong,every anime these days has girls wearing mininskirts.This has miniskirts..........IN SPACE :D


No, No, It's the miniskirts on PIRATES that we all want to see, right... :p

[Bonta Kun]

No, No, It's the miniskirts on FEMALE PIRATES IN SPACE that we all want to see, right... :p

fixed;)

And hey by looks of it we have thigh-high boots or socks(altho socks don't say pirate but hell I'd be content with them) as well and that just adds to the win!:D

[billborden]

fixed;)

And hey by looks of it we have thigh-high boots or socks(altho socks don't say pirate but hell I'd be content with them) as well and that just adds to the win!:D

I bow to you greater wisdom :bow:

[drobertbaker]

Volume 3 and 4 covers:

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kawa/semi/sasamoto/pirate/minisuka03m.jpghttp://www.ne.jp/asahi/kawa/semi/sasamoto/pirate/minisuka04m.jpg

MEGANE miniskirt space pirates ... with briefcases!

[frubam]

is the Pirate Captain's name Sara :naughty:

I don't think many people would get this joke Xel ;).

[Sheba]

I don't think many people would get this joke Xel ;).
I did. And I giggled.

[nojay]

Volume 3 and 4 covers:
MEGANE miniskirt space pirates!

Alas according to the third volume's title she's only an apprentice space pirate, and she's cosplaying too -- "コスプレ見習海賊" (although that might not make much difference to you). The fourth volume's title is "漆黒の難破船" which translates as "jet black shipwreck" but Google Translate suggests the more lyrical "Raven Wreck".

[mangatron]

Looking at the poster art originally on Moonphase the new title is actually "Mo-retsu Uchuu Kaizoku" which I think means "Hard-working Space Pirates" or "Workaholic Space Pirates".

Wha? No more Miniskirts?!? That's not what I want to see! I want to see girls strutting around in their miniskirts, not girls working in the Wagnaria restaurant! /joke :heh:

Ahem, regardless.... someone please tell me there's a twintail or a ponytail in this series, that way I can pre-claim her sleep well at night come air time :heh:

None? Guess I'll have the glasses girl then, with that much hair I'm sure I can tie it up into the perfect twintail hehehehe....:heh:

[drobertbaker]

Relax, big guy! Nobody's gonna take your miniskirts away. My theory is:

Moretsu (モーレツ) is a funny word. It originally meant hardworking, workaholic. Back in the 50s, this was a highly admired trait in Japan. Through use as a catchphrase for a very successful advertising campaign, it acquired the meaning of this admiration itself, like "Wow, hardworking!".

So in this context, I think the new title means more like "Wow, Space Pirates". They retain their miniskirts.

[mangatron]

Relax, big guy! Nobody's gonna take your miniskirts away. My theory is:

Moretsu (モーレツ) is a funny word. It originally meant hardworking, workaholic. Back in the 50s, this was a highly admired trait in Japan. Through use as a catchphrase for a very successful advertising campaign, it acquired the meaning of this admiration itself, like "Wow, hardworking!".

So in this context, I think the new title means more like "Wow, Space Pirates". They retain their miniskirts.

Aha, I see. That makes sense considering the little summary posted a page or two back, where one would think like "oh, that girl is a space pirate?" or something. :heh:

[MrTerrorist]

BTW, when will Miniskirts pirates be airing?
I expecting this show to be like Pirates of the Caribbean, in Space, with miniskirts.

[Westlo]

BTW, when will Miniskirts pirates be airing?
I expecting this show to be like Pirates of the Caribbean, in Space, with miniskirts.

http://muhootsaver.tistory.com/1106

Summer 2011.

[totoum]

http://muhootsaver.tistory.com/1106

Summer 2011.

Any updates on this? Since I don't see it on the summer 2011 chart.

[MrTerrorist]

Not sure. Here's an update from the official website.

Kana Hanazawa as Chiaki Kurihara
Mikako Komatsu as Marika Kato

Source (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/)

[Joojoobees]

I guess this isn't making the Summer season after all.

[mangatron]

I guess this isn't making the Summer season after all.

What? Seriously? I know I'm out of the loop these days, but no female pirates wearing miniskirts in the Summer is a crushing blow to my perverted desires heart! Summer is all about baring skin, ah how I lament those lost days of solace....

:heh:

[MrTerrorist]

What? No!
I was promises Miniskirt pirates this summer!
This is an outrage!

[justpassingby]

You guys should probably wait for C80 for announcement, may be it has been cancelled after all :P.

By the way, here is last year C79 PV
1fWrxq5LLAQ

Animation Character Design: Akiman (Turn A Gundam, Street Fighter)

Mechanical Design:
Kawamori Shoji: Gundam, Macross, etc
Suzuki Masahisa: Nadesico: Prince of Darkness, Ariel (another Sasamoto Yuichi's novel)
Teraoka Kenji: Code Geass, Ghost in the Shell
Washio Naohiro: Gundam 00, Heroic Age, Isekai Sekishi Monogatari

Damn Hat :upset:

[MrTerrorist]

You guys should probably wait for C80 for announcement, may be it has been cancelled after all :P.

:frustrated: Don't jinx it! There's no news yet.

[tsunade666]

maybe they move it to later season.

[Wilfriback]

All I know is that there are only 2 volumes of the novels out atm, that's not much material to adapt from...

The 3rd volume is out November 20th.

Volume 2 cover:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6935/m0376713201.jpg
Candy Candy? D: ?

[justpassingby]

From C80, 2012 (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/) it is... :P

http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/images/cut1.jpg http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/images/cut2.jpg
http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/images/cut3.jpg

[Bonta Kun]

Thats a abit of a bummer tbh but better than being cancelled!

Still looking forward to this none the less and looking good!

[mangatron]

I gotta wait next year for my pirate girls in mini-skirts? :(

Well like you said, better than being cancelled :D

[justpassingby]

For a start, the novel describes itself as space opera, but don't expect Legend of Galactic Heroes. And the title has "Pirates" in it, but don't presuppose Captain Marika to go full Captain Jack Sparrow :P . At one point in the novel, you'll be asking, is she's the MC or not :heh:

I'm looking forward to the anime adaptation because, well, the first volume was my first LN that I completed. I thought it was going to be Gundam UC :heh:

[mangatron]

For a start, the novel describes itself as space opera, but don't expect Legend of Galactic Heroes. And the title has "Pirates" in it, but don't presuppose Captain Marika to go full Captain Jack Sparrow :P . At one point in the novel, you'll be asking, is she's the MC or not :heh:

Yeah, I believe you mentioned this earlier in the thead. I won't deny the first part of the title that caught my eye was "mini-skirt", so... yeah :heh:

Female Jack Sparrow lol... I admit that sounds intruiging XD

[MrTerrorist]

Miniskirt Pirates lives! Colonel Roy Mustang would be proud.

[justpassingby]

C80 Mouretsu Space Pirates PV

LlCW9Ebfp2s

The white ship is Odette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Lake) II (白鳥号 - White Swan) owned by Marika's school Space Yacht Club. Together with Bentenmaru and Black Swan, they are parts of Original Seven

The ship has many solar sails, which Marika and her club mates will be repairing IIRC. At the end of the trailer, you can see Bentemaru is performing Superluminal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light) Drive

Yeah, the terms remind me of Treasure Planet :D

[MrTerrorist]

It's.....so.....Beautiful!http://www.laymark.com/i/o/16.gif

[MisaoFan]

Look to see Angela to perform opening theme ! I hope that the artist will be perfect for this show !

[zeniselv]

from the title i assumed this was some ecchi harem or something, but the pv dint show any of that, so i quess i misjudged?(and whats the deal with usagi tsukino in this?)

[justpassingby]

http://i.imgur.com/riyI7s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/riyI7.jpg)
I think this is Marika's mother, Ririka (the change in design from LN to anime is quite bizarre, hard to determine)
A pirate herself, before working at the New Okuhama airport. Marika thought her mother as someone that likes to cosplay because of the pirate attire that Ririka has at home :heh:. Ririka is the one that sew her daughter hat and pirate dress. Sometimes Marika calls her mother, and in some occasions, she'll call her "Ririka-san". In vol 6, Marika saves her mother and the yacht club members


http://i.imgur.com/dU7Lns.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/dU7Ln.jpg)
Chiaki Kurihara, daughter of Kenjo Kurihara (Captain of Barbarossa Pirate). She calls her father ヒゲ親父 = Big Oyaji?/Big Daddy?/Big Boss :heh:, who is also known as Captain Black Beard. She transferred to Marika's school to warn her about the circumstances of the future of Bentenmaru. In last year PV, she shots a flare gun to the customers at Marika's work place, Lamp Cafe, as they are polices and army that come to get Marika. She hates it when Marika and the other call her 'Chiaki-chan". During her introduction at the class, Marika blushes as she regards Chiaki a "Bijin" (belle), and at one event at the simulator room, Marika trips and Chiaki catches her. Marika said to herself that her heart is beating fast, even though they are both girls. Nope they is no implied yuri relation in this novel, except the club President and Vice President

http://i.imgur.com/HKFfgs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/HKFfg.jpg)
Misa Grandwood. The ship doctor. Ririka and Cain call her "The Blood-soaked Doctor". She also acts as consultant to Marika. In vol 2, when Marika speaks humbly in front of Princess Serenity and regards herself as a 'still learning" Captain, Misa is somewhat upset and said that Marika is a good captain to lead the Benten Maru

http://i.imgur.com/Vj4Xgs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/Vj4Xg.jpg)
Cain McDougal. The ship helmsman. He infiltrates Marika's school as her class room teacher and adviser to the yacht club. Together with Misa, they invite Marika to be the new captain, as they pass the news of the death of Gonzaemon to Ririka and Marika. They then drink wine, (Ririka permits Marika as it was a special occasion) He is the first Benten Maru crew to make appearances in vol 1 prologue as Mr Nice Guy in a Nice Suit with a classic pocket watch (as seen in last year PV)

http://i.imgur.com/06g6Zs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/06g6Z.jpg)
Glewell Serenity. The 7th Imperial Princess of Serenity Royal Family. An acquaintance to Marika's father. Making her appearance in vol 2, she smuggles herself into Benten Maru cargo bay. She seeks their help to search for the Golden Ghost Ship. Marika calls her a "Princess that likes to smuggles herself" because of several occasions :heh:. Her sister also transfers to Marika's school

http://i.imgur.com/x5mVds.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/x5mVd.jpg)
百眼 = Hyakume = Hundred Eyes. In charge of Information Analysis and Radar of Benten Maru

http://i.imgur.com/VotpTs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/VotpT.jpg)
Schnitzer. He is a Battle Cyborg in charge of ...battle :P. A similar character was in ARIEL, one of Sasamoto Yuuichi's earlier work

http://i.imgur.com/dAEAcs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/dAEAc.jpg)
Courier. She controls the electrical weaponry of Benten Maru.

http://i.imgur.com/UtsbPs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/UtsbP.jpg)
三代目 = Sandaime = The Third. His headband is a dead giveaway. He is in charge of Benten Maru's engine.

http://i.imgur.com/Qmj1Ts.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/Qmj1T.jpg)
Ruka. The navigator. She wears black cloak and possesses a crystal ball.

.....In short, they all become younger as compared to their LN counterparts http://www.laymark.com/i/o/03.gif. And I'm going to keep Marika's character for a while. Nothing grandiose, but still enjoyable, like other main characters from Yuuichi's novel, which are also females.

In vol 1, Marika is the captain only in the epilogue and the prologue. The main story takes place 6 months before the prologue. Volume 1 main story ends with Chiaki's father saving the club members who navigate the Odette II, where Marika is in charge of communication and the yacht club president, Jenny, at the captain's seat.

That's all from me,as I can't spoil too much in a non-novel thread, and I don't think I can contribute much if there is one (need to reread for details), because of my study and works

I just hope the adaptation will not fall short, just like many novel-to-anime adaptation we have nowadays. And also, I hope the "2012" that Satelight promises won't be "see you in 2012 Comiket" :heh:

[Dark Wing]

http://i.imgur.com/riyI7s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/riyI7.jpg)
I think this is Marika's mother, Ririka (the change in design from LN to anime is quite bizarre, hard to determine)
A pirate herself, before working at the New Okuhama airport. Marika thought her mother as someone that likes to cosplay because of the pirate attire that Ririka has at home :heh:. Ririka is the one that sew her daughter hat and pirate dress. Sometimes Marika calls her mother, and in some occasions, she'll call her "Ririka-san". In vol 6, Marika saves her mother and the yacht club members


http://i.imgur.com/dU7Lns.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/dU7Ln.jpg)
Chiaki Kurihara, daughter of Kenjo Kurihara (Captain of Barbarossa Pirate). She calls her father ヒゲ親父 = Big Oyaji?/Big Daddy?/Big Boss :heh:, who is also known as Captain Black Beard. She transferred to Marika's school to warn her about the circumstances of the future of Bentenmaru. In last year PV, she shots a flare gun to the customers at Marika's work place, Lamp Cafe, as they are polices and army that come to get Marika. She hates it when Marika and the other call her 'Chiaki-chan". During her introduction at the class, Marika blushes as she regards Chiaki a "Bijin" (belle), and at one event at the simulator room, Marika trips and Chiaki catches her. Marika said to herself that her heart is beating fast, even though they are both girls. Nope they is no implied yuri relation in this novel, except the club President and Vice President

http://i.imgur.com/HKFfgs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/HKFfg.jpg)
Misa Grandwood. The ship doctor. Ririka and Cain call her "The Blood-soaked Doctor". She also acts as consultant to Marika. In vol 2, when Marika speaks humbly in front of Princess Serenity and regards herself as a 'still learning" Captain, Misa is somewhat upset and said that Marika is a good captain to lead the Benten Maru

http://i.imgur.com/Vj4Xgs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/Vj4Xg.jpg)
Cain McDougal. The ship helmsman. He infiltrates Marika's school as her class room teacher and adviser to the yacht club. Together with Misa, they invite Marika to be the new captain, as they pass the news of the death of Gonzaemon to Ririka and Marika. They then drink wine, (Ririka permits Marika as it was a special occasion) He is the first Benten Maru crew to make appearances in vol 1 prologue as Mr Nice Guy in a Nice Suit with a classic pocket watch (as seen in last year PV)

http://i.imgur.com/06g6Zs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/06g6Z.jpg)
Glewell Serenity. The 7th Imperial Princess of Serenity Royal Family. An acquaintance to Marika's father. Making her appearance in vol 2, she smuggles herself into Benten Maru cargo bay. She seeks their help to search for the Golden Ghost Ship. Marika calls her a "Princess that likes to smuggles herself" because of several occasions :heh:. Her sister also transfers to Marika's school

http://i.imgur.com/x5mVds.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/x5mVd.jpg)
三代目 = Sandaime = The Third. His headband is a dead giveaway. He is in charge of Benten Maru's engine.

http://i.imgur.com/VotpTs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/VotpT.jpg)
Schnitzer. He is a Battle Cyborg in charge of ...battle :P. A similar character was in ARIEL, one of Sasamoto Yuuichi's earlier work

http://i.imgur.com/dAEAcs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/dAEAc.jpg)
Courier. She controls the electrical weaponry of Benten Maru.

http://i.imgur.com/UtsbPs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/UtsbP.jpg)
百眼 = Hyakume = Hundred Eyes. In charge of Information Analysis and Radar of Benten Maru

http://i.imgur.com/Qmj1Ts.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/Qmj1T.jpg)
Ruka. The navigator. She wears black cloak and possesses a crystal ball.

.....In short, they all become younger as compared to their LN counterparts http://www.laymark.com/i/o/03.gif. And I'm going to keep Marika's character for a while. Nothing grandiose, but still enjoyable, like other main characters from Yuuichi's novel, which are also females.

In vol 1, Marika is the captain only in the epilogue and the prologue. The main story takes place 6 months before the prologue. Volume 1 main story ends with Chiaki's father saving the club members who navigate the Odette II, where Marika is in charge of communication and the yacht club president, Jenny, at the captain's seat.

That's all from me,as I can't spoil too much in a non-novel thread, and I don't think I can contribute much if there is one (need to reread for details), because of my study and works

I just hope the adaptation will not fall short, just like many novel-to-anime adaptation we have nowadays. And also, I hope the "2012" that Satelight promises won't be "see you in 2012 Comiket" :heh:

Sounds interesting and it seems like a very colorful cast...I look forward to watching and I checked it's NOT a harem.

[mangatron]

... I checked it's NOT a harem.

Oh no! Really? Consider this series dropped. /jk

*runs*
:heh:

But I'm really liking the spaceships. Ah, I'm getting that spacfaring urge again...:D

[Crimson Cloud]

I look forward to watching and I checked it's NOT a harem.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x99/Rodimus_Cloud/thumbsUp.jpg

[DangerMouse]

Can't wait, I miss space adventure shows!

Gorgeous trailer, love the character designs and especially the coloring, stunning ship CG, those space scenes are going to look sooo good (like in the trailer).

Thanks a lot for the character rundown justpassingby!

[justpassingby]

Duh,I forgot that my laptop has bluetooth :uhoh: :heh:

Guess who is who :heh:


http://i.imgur.com/j59I1l.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/j59I1.jpg)


http://i.imgur.com/KfMQUl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/KfMQU.jpg)

[AdamEndless9]

Additional casting has been announced: http://0taku.livedoor.biz/archives/3953641.html

[tsunade666]

when will this be aired? it's been such a long wait <.<

[mangatron]

when will this be aired? it's been such a long wait <.<

It's at the top of this page :heh: 2012, I say no later than the Spring 2012 season.

[AdamEndless9]

A new key visual and it appears that it will broadcast in January: Link (http://0taku.livedoor.biz/archives/3966783.html)
Site link: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/

[DangerMouse]

Awesome, still looking forward to this! Finally an airdate :)

But January? Glad it's relatively soon but I hope that doesn't mean it'll only be a short 12/13 eps after this long wait, that'd be a bit of a letdown, I'm hoping for something in the 26 ep range so it can be a bigger adventure story and also since space scifi is so rare these days.

[justpassingby]

Nice. And I never thought that the word "Bodacious" will be used for an anime title :heh:

And the casts are

Katou Marika: Komatsu Mikako
Chiaki Kurihara: Kanazawa Hana
Endou Mami: Omigawa Chiaki (Marika's friend that work together at Lamp)
Glewell Serenity: Tomatsu Haruka
Katou Ririka: Kaida Yuko
Misa Grandwood: Itou Shizuka
Cain McDougal: Matsukaze Masaya
Hyakume: Fujiwara Keiji
Courier: Horie Yui
Schnitzer: Miyaki Kenta
Ruka: Mizuhara Kaoru
Sandaime: Matsuoka Yoshitsugu
Narration: Koyama Rikiya

Recently bought another work by Sasamoto Yuuichi, "星のダンスを見においで (http://asahi-novels.com/detail/index.php?IDX=19&LIST=kikan)"
(Let's go and see the Star Dance). The opening scene is quite similar to Miniskirt Space Pirates, where ships are coming out to/from Galaxy Corridor

[Bonta Kun]

Nice. And I never thought that the word "Bodacious" will be used for an anime title :heh:

And the casts are

Katou Marika: Komatsu Mikako
Chiaki Kurihara: Kanazawa Hana
Endou Mami: Omigawa Chiaki (Marika's friend that work together at Lamp)
Glewell Serenity: Tomatsu Haruka
Katou Ririka: Kaida Yuko
Misa Grandwood: Itou Shizuka
Cain McDougal: Matsukaze Masaya
Hyakume: Fujiwara Keiji
Courier: Horie Yui
Schnitzer: Miyaki Kenta
Ruka: Mizuhara Kaoru
Sandaime: Matsuoka Yoshitsugu
Narration: Koyama Rikiya

Recently bought another work by Sasamoto Yuuichi, "星のダンスを見においで (http://asahi-novels.com/detail/index.php?IDX=19&LIST=kikan)"
(Let's go and see the Star Dance). The opening scene is quite similar to Miniskirt Space Pirates, where ships are coming out to/from Galaxy Corridor

That's a pretty great VA line up, looking forward to this much more now.

The New Year couldn't come quicker!:p

[justpassingby]

There is going to be a Pre-Air Event on December 11th at Ikejiri Oohashi 2.5D (Ticket 1000Yen). Director and casts will be attending, and new PV and details about theme songs will be revealed. And according to the official site, there is a possibility for the casts to change. Source (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/event.html)

Edit:

With the announced casts are the same, here are the new ones, (official site (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/) updated as October 21st)

Grunhilde Serenity: Kanemoto Hisako
Jenny Dolittle: Satou Rina
Rin Lambretta: Hikasa Youko :D
Belinda Percy: Mimori Suzuko
Astor Alhanko: Yasuno Kiyono
Izumi Yunomoto: Uchida Maaya
Kobayashi Wakako (?):Nomura Kanako
April Lambert: Tatsumi Yuiko
Lily Bell: Satou Minami
Uchida Maki: Akaki Chinatsu
Ursula Abramov: Nishi Asuka
Sasha Staples (?): Takamori Natsumi
Yotoff Schiffsydow: Ono Atsuji
Ai Hoshimiya: Ayano Ai
Yayoi Yoshitomi: Nanjyou Yoshino
Natalia Glennorth: Ise Mariya
Shou: Yasumoto Hiroki
Jenny is the 3rd year student and the president of the Space Yacht Club, while Rin (2nd year) is the VP. They are supposed to be in love with each other :uhoh::heh:

All the above spellings are my take. The official one will probably be different :P
Novel vol 7 (http://asahi-novels.com/detail/index.php?IDX=185) will be on sale November 18th

Edit: According to someone who reviewed vol 6 at amazon jp, the person claimed to be of 60 years old. So yeah, the show is supposed to be less in the fanservice department, but the story may not be for everyone. Was LOGH was for everyone? :D

[justpassingby]

There was a special message (short interview) from Sasamoto regarding the anime Source (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/comment01.html)

- Sasamoto anticipation is bigger than anxiety regarding this anime
- The author didn't involve in the selection of seiyuu. He let Satou (director) to do as he likes, but in return "Please make it an interesting story"
though in the 1st novel, there is a description of Marika's voice, which it changed from "baritone to a lively, lisping soprano". This happened when Marika announced the arrival of Bentenmaru to hijack the luxury ship, Princess Apricot, through the PA system :heh:
there are several original characters for the anime, noticeably Kobayashi Wakako (this is from Sasamoto's twitter
- When asked about the concept and theme of Miniskirt Space Pirates, he originally intended to write "A decent Space Story", but if "A decent Space Story" alone, it will become too hard and no one will follow. "Put in high school girl and let them wear pirates suit, and it became soft and reader will be able to follow （笑） (lol)"
- Look forward to the anime

Edit:
http://i.imgur.com/rumCvs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/rumCv.jpg) http://i.imgur.com/Mh3AYs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/Mh3AY.jpg)

http://i.imgur.com/uUR7es.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/uUR7e.jpg)

Rin Lambretta:
At the start of the story, she was a 2nd year student and the Vice President of Space Yacht Club. After Jenny left, she became the President. During middle school, she hold a criminal record of cracking/hacking. She is in charge of Odette II Electrical weaponry

Jenny Dolittle
President of Space Yacht Club. After graduate, she was forced into a marriage by her family. On the wedding day, while wearing the wedding dress, she escaped in a Reconnaissance Aircraft to Bentenmaru. She later enrolled into a Space University

[Midonin]

January, eh? My pirate-mania should be winding down around that time, but this'll help keep it wound for a few months more.

[justpassingby]

Kawamori Shouji of Macross, Eureka 7, 0083 etc fame did the design for Odette II. At first, it only has 3-parts sails, before it increased to six, and ended with nine. He enjoyed designing it link (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/comment01.html)

I think he refers to Odette II's solar sails, which loosely resemble IKAROS' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS)s solar sail

http://i.imgur.com/9WNwCl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/9WNwC.jpg)

[Triple_R]

Just now checking up on upcoming Winter 2011 shows.

This will be either extremely good, or a fun mess. Hard to imagine how the fusion of miniskirts, space action, and pirates, could create anything else.

So I'm definitely looking forward to it.

[MisaoFan]

I always think that Angela is doing opening theme. I just hope that my dream for this will become true !

[ykf566]

Is there a male protagonist or anything equivalent?

Dark Wing mentioned it's not harem which is surprising, but given its seemingly large female cast i'm still abit skeptical. Would be nice if there was some yuri in it too.

[MisaoFan]

Is there a male protagonist or anything equivalent?

Dark Wing mentioned it's not harem which is surprising, but given its seemingly large female cast i'm still abit skeptical. Would be nice if there was some yuri in it too.

There's not male protagonist in this series.

[justpassingby]

Sasamoto always uses female character as the MC. Though there are instances such as 裏山の宇宙船 (http://asahi-novels.com/detail/index.php?IDX=18&LIST=kikan) and 妖精作戦 (http://www.tsogen.co.jp/np/author/1744) where there are male MCs, but the female MCs are more important :heh:
If one is to pick which male has more page-times in the MouPai novels, it will be Cain McDougal
He even "dueled to the death" with Marika in vol 1 prologue :heh:
The main site (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/) background images has been updated for quite a time, in case no one notices. Aside from the main casts, I couldn't determine which girl is who, well except probably the first two from the right (Jennie, Rin) and the last one (that would be Mami)
http://i.imgur.com/H8NHe.jpg

So we already know Odette II and Bentenmaru. Looking forward to Barbarossa (Chiaki's father's ship) For a ship that means "Red Beard" in Italian, how did the captain ended up as "Black Beard" :heh:. Sure bring back the memories of Siegfried from LOGH ;_;
Barbarossa saved Odette II at the end of vol 1 where Jenny was at the captain seat while Marika was in charge of Communication.
there is an alien in Black Beard's crew that survived the War for Independence 100+ years ago where the Original Seven were sanctioned by the Galactic Empire and given the privateers licenses

Would be nice if there was some yuri in it too.

Well, a page before the picture here (http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=3823021#post3823021), both Jenny and Rin did kissed lip to lip with passion, which frozen Marika who came in late to the bridge:eyespin:

[Kaisos Erranon]

I love space anime, and this is the only one we've had since, what, Gurren Lagann? :heh:

Looking forward to this one.

[justpassingby]

^ I think there are space anime post TTGL like Space Cake, Cobra, etc. But not many of them took place in Tau Ceti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti) like Mouretsu Pirates. Those who familiar with Asimov's Foundation novels and Wing Commander games would probably remember that location

[Dark Wing]

Is there a male protagonist or anything equivalent?

Dark Wing mentioned it's not harem which is surprising, but given its seemingly large female cast i'm still abit skeptical. Would be nice if there was some yuri in it too.

Nope no male leads at all...Also an all female cast does not always equal harem. The summery from ANN posted on the top of the second page in this thread even tells you what story is about. A young girl who inherits her dads space ship.

The story centers around a spirited high school girl named Marika. She keeps herself busy with the space yacht club and her part-time job at a high-class retro café. One day, two men suddenly appear and claim to be subordinates of her dead father. They demand that she assume command of the space pirate ship Benten Maru. A privateer ship's compact was made during a war of independence a century ago, and according to that compact, the ship must be inherited by the captain's next direct descendant. Marika finds herself embarking on a new life as a space pirate.

[ykf566]

Nope no male leads at all...Also an all female cast does not always equal harem. The summery from ANN posted on the top of the second page in this thread even tells you what story is about. A young girl who inherits her dads space ship.

Well if there was a male lead, given its seemingly large female cast it most likely would have been harem, which was why i asked. Pleasantly surprised its not, and just that alone has me interested

[justpassingby]

The director, Satou Tatsuo had experiences in directing anime with female MC/large female casts and involving space/mecha. I personally recommend Uchuu no Stellvia and Nadesico.

In fact, he is the chief director for Rinne no Lagrange (http://lag-rin.com/) scheduled for January next year

Edit

http://asahi-novels.com/uploads/t-top-185-1320743729.jpg
Title: Miniskirt Space Pirates 7: The Pallid Skull Star

The Empire Information Unit requested Marika and Bentemaru to infiltrate and investigate Skull Star, the pirate hideout at the frontier. Is the Information Unit's intention is to exterminate them, or the vast treasure that they possess....?
Edit II
Washio Naohiro (Link 1 (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B7%B2%E5%B0%BE%E7%9B%B4%E5%BA%83), Link 2 (http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~kiwi/)) is in charge of designing (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/comment01.html) Bentenmaru. He said he is a novice (yeah right :P), and he hoped with the Mouretsu Pirates anime, the fans for SF will increase
Washio also did novel illustrations for Japanese and Japanese-translated English SF novels

Edit III
vol 7 is delayed to November 25th :(

Edit IV:
I just noticed the Skull with a Biwa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biwa)sign at Benten Maru's hull. The 丸 "Maru" can be used as a suffix to ship's name Link (http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/maru.html), so the ship name is to honor the goddess Benten (http://www.seiyaku.com/reference/seven/shichifukujin.html#benten). The seven crews + Princess Gleewell probably refers to the goddess' eight hands, with Marika as the head :P

Edit V
Newtype. Here hoping someone will deliver HQ version :D

http://i.imgur.com/Uui0r.jpg

[Stevie_Nix]

All the talk about it not possibly being a harem series due to the lack of a male lead ignores the the fact that only guys can have one.

Either way I am really glad it doesn't look its going to be a harem series but a SciFi action one. Though if we do get some Yuri I'll be happy.

[Stevie_Nix]

Awesome, still looking forward to this! Finally an airdate :)

But January? Glad it's relatively soon but I hope that doesn't mean it'll only be a short 12/13 eps after this long wait, that'd be a bit of a letdown, I'm hoping for something in the 26 ep range so it can be a bigger adventure story and also since space scifi is so rare these days.

I wonder, if this is being based off of light novels, maybe 12/13 might be a natural break point. I do agree I would hope it goes longer. Or at the very least it is successful that there will be sequels to cover later novels.

Speaking of which, I wonder why space SciFi anime series has become rare these days? I can't remember one, at least one that is not mostly a mecha series, off hand for the last 4-5 years. Nanoha is partly space SciFi, but its mostly a magical girl/mecha series hybrid.

[Kaisos Erranon]

Speaking of which, I wonder why space SciFi anime series has become rare these days?

They don't sell. Same reason we don't have fantasy adventure anime anymore in spite of the number of ongoing manga under that genre.

[justpassingby]

Quoting this guy

Moretsu (モーレツ) is a funny word. It originally meant hardworking, workaholic. Back in the 50s, this was a highly admired trait in Japan. Through use as a catchphrase for a very successful advertising campaign, it acquired the meaning of this admiration itself, like "Wow, hardworking!".

So in this context, I think the new title means more like "Wow, Space Pirates". They retain their miniskirts.

When the title "Mouretsu" was first introduced, I read at some random Japanese website that it is "Oyaji Kusai no Title" (Smell like old fart title). Even at Yaraon blog which I took the Newtype image, there is a similar comment. Hope the casts and staffs will not be dispirited in case if the anime does not perform well.

With 2 cour length , we may get anime original episodes :bow:

[Ithekro]

Well there is the Space Battleship Yamato remake next year. And the CGi Harlock film.

[Kaioshin Sama]

So I guess this is the only way they can even attempt to get space opera back on TV eh? :heh: Are they sure they have enough attractive females though?



Speaking of which, I wonder why space SciFi anime series has become rare these days? I can't remember one, at least one that is not mostly a mecha series, off hand for the last 4-5 years. Nanoha is partly space SciFi, but its mostly a magical girl/mecha series hybrid.

Because as Kaisos Erranon points out they are sadly kind of a risk in todays kind of crappy, shallow taste, lowest common denominator anime market (which is slightly improving in terms of variety with the recent season but apparently still all too quick to mine the Light Novel hit list for hopes of finding something that can be a hit as an anime since very few studios can make anything from scratch anymore let alone a hit) so unless you add a hook/gimmick that's popular with todays otaku...like say cute attractive female characters out the wazoo, a school setting, and/or mecha you're probably just throwing good money after bad and very few if any people are going to be paying attention. It's really sad but anime productions, but for a few studios with lots of capital to burn, are sort of struggling to distinguish themselves from the Light Novel/Visual Novel market (something it existed long before I might add and should have no reason to be so unabashedly beholden to for source material) and what's popular there lately and I'm still not sure it can break free and be it's own thing again. At least not right now.

[justpassingby]

So apparently today (11-11-11) is Mikako Komatsu (Marika) and Chiaki Omigawa (Mami) birthday. From Moretsu and Satou twitter. It looks like there is going to be an announcement for both Mouretsu and Rinne no Lagrange at their official site at 17:00

Happy birthday to both of them. I enjoyed Joey (Heroman) and Hotori (SoreMachi), and them working with many of my favorite seiyuu in Mouretsu is indeed a welcome :D

Edit: Might as well mention this first. Like LOGH, there is going to be narration to help further the story. The novel is averagely thick because of the explanations. And yeah, expect some high school cliches like transfer student, clubs activities etc. Although it is categorized as Space Opera anime, I hope people will not take this series overly serious like LOGH or expecting ship battle every seconds, because you may be dissapointed :heh:, though the author did say that he let the director to do as he likes

Eidt II:
There is going to be an event on November 27th Link (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/event2.html)
Title: Satou Tatsuo Produces! Mouretsu Uchuu Kaizoku vs Rinne no Lagrange in Shinjuku Loft Plus One

http://i.imgur.com/LSUcF.jpg

[Spartanz1170]

So cheesy, yet a show i would take a second look at....

[justpassingby]

Post dubbing commentary by Komatsu Mikako and Hanazawa Kana [Link (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/ar.html)]

http://i.imgur.com/z2t2J.jpg

According to Mouretsu Pirates Twitter, captainMARIKA (http://twitter.com/#!/captainMARIKA)there are going to be 3 events. First two have been posted in previous posts while the third one is that there will be a screening up to episode 5 at the end of December :twitch:

遣る気満々だなおい :P

[Transitions]

wow!! I would like found forums in spanish whit information so detailed, about premieres well has advantages know and learn english, xD

when I have a chance I read manga

[justpassingby]

Hmm. Details regarding the screening [Link (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/event3.html)]

Date: December 22nd
Time: Floor Opening: 1830 Screening: 1900 - 2200
Location: Shinjuku Wald 9 (http://wald9.com/index.html)

Komatsu Mikako and Omigawa Chiaki will be cosplaying their respective character. Besides Satou, there is going to be more guests (I guess it must be Sasamoto, duh. They didn't premier screening Gundam UC without inviting Fukui)

5 episodes huh? I think they're going to finish vol 1. I can't hardly wait 2ch and Japanese anime blogs' reactions :heh:.

Can we at least have an official trailer with voice acting included? I just can't imagine Marika's voice if Mikako is going to sound like Kotori from Zexal. And I hope the main casts on the Newtype spread a page before will not sound like guys :heh:, because the headline was "Handsome Girls of the New Era" :uhoh:

[MisaoFan]

I just wait that angela will perform the opening theme because it really fit with this anime. I can't imagine a opening theme of Moretsu without angela !

[justpassingby]

From Akiman's twitter. [Link (http://twitter.com/#!/akiman7)]
http://i.imgur.com/h6bKwl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/h6bKw.jpg)

Edit: Saw Part I of Loft Plus One Event :D. Great PV with new scenes, and Mikako's Character song was used. I literally went "すげえええええ" when Odette II opened it's Solar Sails. Oh and we got a quick shot of Marika with the saber. If I'm hearing this correctly, the anime will follow up to 3rd volume, and then will go original route (?).
Mouretsu Pirates will start the earliest on January 7th on MBS and Tokyo MX, with other channel on later dates. Some images that I saved from the streaming. Sorry for the shitty quality :P

http://i.imgur.com/Lpo4sl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/Lpo4sl.jpg) - "茉莉香 いきまああああす!!"

http://i.imgur.com/dbkwNl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/dbkwN.jpg)
http://i.imgur.com/Hugpyl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/Hugpy.jpg)
http://i.imgur.com/gcquxl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/gcqux.jpg)I mistook Sandaime as Hyakume, and vice versa. Sorry. The man in a suite on the second row should be Shou
http://i.imgur.com/KQ5TPl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/KQ5TP.jpg)
From left:
Natalia, Yayoi, Ai, Sasha, Ursula, Maki, Lily, April, Kobayashi, Izumi, Aster, Belinda, Rin, Jenny

Edit: Added pictures from moca (http://moca-news.net/article/20111128/201111281854a/01/)

http://i.imgur.com/5RLhm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/dr7db.jpg

[justpassingby]

For those who can view it Latest PV (http://www.b-ch.com/ttl/pv_list.php?ttl_c=10&mvc=3_23389_0_0)

Marika's Image Song is titled "Black Holy". More details during Winter Comiket 81

And...
From 死語辞典 (http://wiki.livedoor.jp/s2healing/d/%A5%E2%A1%BC%A5%EC%A5%C4) Dictionary of Obsolete Word, and Weblio (http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%84%E7%A4%BE%E5%9 3%A1)

Example of usage:
猛烈社員
読み方：もうれつしゃいん、モーレツしゃいん
モーレツ社員 とも書く
（名詞） gung-ho organization (corporate) man (woman); go-getter worker; hard-driving worker; workaholic employee




To put it short, モーレツ was used by Maruzen Petrochemical, (now Cosmo Oil) for their commercial in 1969, and that one catchphrase has been used until it "died"
Oh, and "猛烈" can also mean "violent", "vehement", "rage" :heh:

See the connection between "Mouretsu" and "Mini-skirt"? :P

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Edit: Youtube

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[winhlp32]

PV looks great, has that old-school quality to it.

[Tempester]

This could be good. I haven't seen much non-mecha space opera other than Cowboy Bebop and the first Captain Harlock TV series, but it's nice to see a new entry in a genre that's out of the ordinary for recent anime.

I wonder if anyone else noticed that when the name of the series showed up in the PV, there was an English subtext that read "Bodacious Space Pirates". I assume that that's the official English title. That's quite a funny title to say out loud.

[NorthernFallout]

Saw PV. Had never heard about it. I need this about now-ish. Tickled my sci-fi nerves bad and it's been long since I watch a space opera anime.

[D-KLAC]

seeing that trailer more space pirates this is female captain yea any guess she might expy anime version or bit doing of captain marvelous?

cause i've been feel vibes she could be shout-out expy another take of captain marvelous?

[Utsuro no Hako]

Bodacious ... sorry, I'm sticking with Miniskirt.

[4Tran]

I wonder if anyone else noticed that when the name of the series showed up in the PV, there was an English subtext that read "Bodacious Space Pirates". I assume that that's the official English title. That's quite a funny title to say out loud.

Bodacious ... sorry, I'm sticking with Miniskirt.
The original title of Miniskirt Space Pirates is better than the new one.

My hopes are a bit deflated after seeing the PV. It's just not as fun or fresh or audacious as I hoped. There's more of the standard otaku fetish moments than I would have liked to have seen. Really, it looks more like an updated Angel Links than anything else.

[LordEmbok]

The original title of Miniskirt Space Pirates is better than the new one.

My hopes are a bit deflated after seeing the PV. It's just not as fun or fresh or audacious as I hoped. There's more of the standard otaku fetish moments than I would have liked to have seen. Really, it looks more like an updated Angel Links than anything else.

Uh. What? Could you list all of the standard otaku fetish moments? This was pretty much as tasteful as anyone could have possibly hoped for.

[4Tran]

Uh. What? Could you list all of the standard otaku fetish moments? This was pretty much as tasteful as anyone could have possibly hoped for.
I'm talking about things like the school life bit and the maid outfits and the nimble little ship. In and of themselves, they're completely harmless, but it means that the show itself is going to be limited in ways that we've probably seen a lot of. Instead of a show about awesome pirate adventures in miniskirts, the show seems more about telling the same old otaku-favored stories with the space pirate stuff serving as a backdrop.

[Stevie_Nix]

I'm talking about things like the school life bit and the maid outfits and the nimble little ship. In and of themselves, they're completely harmless, but it means that the show itself is going to be limited in ways that we've probably seen a lot of. Instead of a show about awesome pirate adventures in miniskirts, the show seems more about telling the same old otaku-favored stories with the space pirate stuff serving as a backdrop.

I think the school life bit and the maid cafe was simply to show what our heroine was doing before she left to have awesome pirate adventures in miniskirts. Its quite clear she was learning to become a space pilot so of course its going to show her kicking ass in a space fighter. I have not read the LN but I am sure that its going to be less otaku-favored then you fear. Hell if nothing else its going to be old school otaku-favored.

[ars89]

PV looked good. Lol why did they change the english title.

[4Tran]

I think the school life bit and the maid cafe was simply to show what our heroine was doing before she left to have awesome pirate adventures in miniskirts.
I caught that, but it's as much how those elements were portrayed as much as what was portrayed that gives the otaku vibes. I didn't catch all the girls in their school uniforms at first, but that's a bad sign as well.

I have not read the LN but I am sure that its going to be less otaku-favored then you fear. Hell if nothing else its going to be old school otaku-favored.
I'm not quite convinced, but I do have hope for this show.

PV looked good. Lol why did they change the english title.
For some inexplicable reason, they changed the Japanese title as well.

[totoum]

I caught that, but it's as much how those elements were portrayed as much as what was portrayed that gives the otaku vibes. I didn't catch all the girls in their school uniforms at first, but that's a bad sign as well.

I think the original title is pretty much a givaway that it's otaku anime,I hope this will be something like stein gate:an otaku anime that goes beyond just "otaku pandering"

[Utsuro no Hako]

I think the original title is pretty much a givaway that it's otaku anime,I hope this will be something like stein gate:an otaku anime that goes beyond just "otaku pandering"

I'm hoping this will be something like Ben-to -- pure dumb fun dialed up to eleven.

[xizro345]

I was interested since the original announcement ages ago, and the trailer didn't change my opinion. I think it's better to judge once actual episodes air.

[Kaioshin Sama]

I'd honestly settle for a fun romp and thrill ride of a show cause those types of shows are well.....fun. However, why do I get the sense that the actual show will mostly be like the first 30 seconds of the trailer and that maybe we'll get an episode that showcases what we saw in the rest of the trailer once a month tops?

Probably cause at this point after series like Guilty Crown, Star Driver, No. 6....just all the sci-fi series recently that have gone horribly wrong very quickly by using their premises to incredibly poor effect I'm just starting to expect a fake out every time I see a female teen dominated cast. It's almost like studios are now cleverly trying to lure in people like me that are into space opera and sci-fi shows with the vague promise of intrigue and action only to substitute it out for school life style plot lines and characterization at a moments notice. Shows like that of late and genre blends like this have made me kind of distrusting of the actual intent of what otherwise look like sci-fi series. Probably going to be screening this one for a months worth of episodes and depending on whether it uses it's sci-fi/space opera setting well or just choses to slum it with done to death school life otaku pandering stuff I'll make my choice.

By the way if I never see another maid uniform in an otherwise unrelated setting again I'll be much more confident in the shows that I am watching. It's almost kind of become a badge of honor for these bait and switch type shows (again not sure that this is going to be one of them, I'm merely thinking it could be) as well as a warning sign to watch out for. Also I've noted that this trend has also drawn me into a sort of agreement with 4Tran here who is also noticing the same thing of late and voicing the same concern in this thread. We are far from 2 people that often see eye to eye so that kind of assures me that it's not just something I'm imagining either.

[xizro345]

I'd wish people would stop judging shows (or have expectations on them) using the dreaded term "otaku pandering". What I'm interested in is to see if the plot has some semblance of internal consistency and the pacing can keep up with the somewhat silly premise. Most of the potential complaints may be valid as well (once the show airs it'll be clear) but they have, in my opinion, a sort of "moralistic" streak I personally don't agree with.
Also, neither Star Driver nor GC can be considered sci-fi shows at all. And I don't plan to consider this show as well until I see an actual episode.

[Kaioshin Sama]

I'd wish people would stop judging shows (or have expectations on them) using the dreaded term "otaku pandering". What I'm interested in is to see if the plot has some semblance of internal consistency and the pacing can keep up with the somewhat silly premise. Most of the potential complaints may be valid as well (once the show airs it'll be clear) but they have, in my opinion, a sort of "moralistic" streak I personally don't agree with.
Also, neither Star Driver nor GC can be considered sci-fi shows at all. And I don't plan to consider this show as well until I see an actual episode.

It's not a moralistic streak, it's just being weary of being frequently misled as to the true focus of shows of late and no longer knowing what to expect as a result. Also I don't consider it a dreaded term either, too me otaku pandering has really become a legitimate issue in anime of late cause it forces writers to work things into shows that otherwise have no business being there and it often leads to entire plot lines, character arcs or even entire shows crashing down upon themselves as they run out of time for what they may have been really trying to do or to just go all over the place and meander themselves into a corner because they've been forced to focus on irrelevant love triangles, beach episodes, school related silliness and random moments of cosplay that contribute absolutely nothing to the show itself other than a requisite quota of otaku in-jokes that apparently need to be there in order for these people to consider buying the Blu-Rays.

It's just really concerning of late and I really have no patience left in me for it to happen to another show I should probably find interesting or at least fun to watch. Maybe if I cared even the slightest about these things that otaku in Japan seem to find consistently riveting or if there was ever any effort to deviate or put a new spin on them it'd be fine, but I think if I did have an interest in these tropes even then I'd still probably be tired of seeing them in like every other show by now. Meh...just gotta cross my fingers, this really should be a show I end up interested in so the ball is purely in Satelite's court here.

[Stevie_Nix]

I'd wish people would stop judging shows (or have expectations on them) using the dreaded term "otaku pandering". What I'm interested in is to see if the plot has some semblance of internal consistency and the pacing can keep up with the somewhat silly premise.

I rather agree with xizro345, I really wish people would stop with the "otaku pandering" cries based on PV of shows alone, or at least until someone who read the original light novels weights in. While yes people that worry that a show called Miniskirt Uchuu Pirates might turn into an otaku wank fest have a valid point. Hell I worry that the it will degrade into a load of pointless, plot-less fanservice too considering the name, but can we please wait until the show starts airing. I am honestly not expecting a hard or deep SciFi setting from this show, but some nice SciFi based space action and characterization. Hell I think there might be the slice of life stuff people are worrying about. But its going to be slice of life about a Japanese high school girl who captains a space pirate ship!

Maybe its because we have different expectations for what makes a good anime, but I am rather interested in this series, actually more so since the PV. And I hope it will surprise and please the people that worry about it being pandering.

Lets give this show a chance and if it sucks, we can drop it and hope for better next time.

[xizro345]

It's not a moralistic streak, it's just being weary of being frequently misled as to the true focus of shows of late and no longer knowing what to expect as a result.


It sounds moralistic to me. I tend to judge shows on their own merits, not on the demographics they're aimed at. Despite strongly hating in general harem-type shows for example I enjoyed stuff like Infinite Stratos, otaku-pandering or not.


It's just really concerning of late and I really have no patience left in me for it to happen to another show I should probably find interesting or at least fun to watch. Maybe if I cared even the slightest about these things that otaku in Japan seem to find consistently riveting or if there was ever any effort to deviate or put a new spin on them it'd be fine, but I think if I did have an interest in these tropes even then I'd still probably be tired of seeing them in like every other show by now. Meh...just gotta cross my fingers, this really should be a show I end up interested in so the ball is purely in Satelite's court here.

Aside the fact that I'd rather avoid using the term "otaku" as I still use in the original, negative meaning, most of the issues you highlight are simply bad writing. I really don't care about the reason, bad writing is still bad writing and I don't plan to go on a rampage on the reasons behind it. If Pirates fails in my eyes it'll be its own fault, not because of the Evil Industry Practices behind it.
Aside that the trailer was pretty much light on fanservice so that's a good sign.

I am honestly not expecting a hard or deep SciFi setting from this show, but some nice SciFi based space action and characterization. Hell I think there might be the slice of life stuff people are worrying about. But its going to be slice of life about a Japanese high school girl who captains a space pirate ship!

My thougths exactly. Also I generally like Tatsuo Sato's works. Well except the horrible, horrible Nadesico movie.

[Kaioshin Sama]

Why do people continually fail to understand the difference between a projection of expectations and concerns and a full on assessment and pre-judgement of an unaired series? :confused:

Also funny you should mention Prince of Darkness xizro because that Nadesico movie is a good old-school example of what goes wrong when you try to pander too much and allow your plot to meander as a result, though it had other issues as well like totally scrapping the characterization and tone of the series original cast for whatever the heck that was supposed to be in the movie that claimed it was Akito and co. If I recall one of the other big things they tried to do with that movie was give Ruri the spotlight and turn her into this goddess like character since she was a breakout character in the TV series and as a result they basically made her into this total Mary Sue character that everybody borderline worshipped and was in awe of and she had maybe a fraction of the personality and wit that the TV series character had. As a result they kind of destroyed what was initially charming about her character and dragged down the whole movie.

That's another issue I've been having with anime of late, this push to create what I've come to call "goddess characters" at the expense of plotting and consistent characterization (there's one in motion right now in Inori Yuzuriha from Guilty Crown if you need an example) to be merchandised towards otaku and otherwise, but that's another issue for another situation entirely. I'll just say that maybe if shows were the same length that they were back in the 80's and 90's (26-50 episodes) this wouldn't even be an issue because then you could do all these little panders and still have time to tell your story and develop the characters, but now time for stories to be told in TV anime has become incredibly tight and any time used on doing these things I've mentioned can come back to haunt a show.

[xizro345]

Why do people continually fail to understand the difference between a projection of expectations and concerns and a full on assessment and pre-judgement of an unaired series? :confused:

That's because I usually don't have expectations. I pick series on general synopsis, the trailer (but not always) but I refrain to get "hyped"/"angry" until I actually see the series. Also it was a more general discussion since I don't like the abuse of the terms "moe" and "otaku-pandering" I see in English communities, that comes of blasting a series before the actual airing, like in this case.

[4Tran]

Let me clarify my position. Unlike Kaioshin, I don't necessarily have a problem with otaku shows or otaku pandering. In moderate doses, these elements can make a show entertaining. Indeed, the main reason I paid any attention to this show is because it was audacious enough to have the word "miniskirt" in its title. That promises that the creators won't take themselves very seriously and that they will try to stuff the show with amusing adventures. Any otaku-centric elements that contribute to the show's premise and general feel are acceptable and even welcome.

What I find troubling is when elements are introduced that seem to detract from the central appeal of a show. And this is what I'm referring to when I commented about the "otaku fetish" in the PV. I've seen a lot of shows that go down this road of trying to appeal to otaku using methods that don't work very well with the rest of what they're trying to do. This approach also tends to have the side effect of limiting the stories to the same ho-hum scenarios like those found in all sorts of less interesting shows. The current prime example of this today is Ben-To - it was a fun show that's become a lot less fun since it stopped adhering to its strong points.

Also, neither Star Driver nor GC can be considered sci-fi shows at all. And I don't plan to consider this show as well until I see an actual episode.
I can see purists objecting to those shows being labelled as science fiction, but sci-fi seems to work pretty well.

[Utsuro no Hako]

Surely a question of genre doesn't constitute spoilers, so if anyone's read the books they could tell us where the series fit on a scale of 0 (K-on) to 10 (Captain Harlock).

[justpassingby]

Otaku Pandering
I stopped reading right there. What makes you think there is going to be "Kaioshin-sama-pandering" or "Foreigner-pandering" in the first place? Or may be I'm just forgetting here is a English community site :rolleyes:

Well, part of EP 1 can be viewed immediately after the event this coming Sunday. If it follows the novel, you'll get to see the scene with Marika and "Mr Nice Guy" clashing swords (The trailer even contained the lines from the Prologue) . Following episodes until they are done with Novel Vol 1 will showcase the events in Marika's life before she finally on the captain seat. But the trailer did show characters that only came in vol 2.
There, I spoiled it already :p

These are some of the negative reactions from 2ch and Japanese blogs

-古臭い
- Mouretsu will compete with Rinne to become the worst anime of 2012 wwww
- Give me Stellvia 2 or Nadesico S2
- I want to see ARIEL reanimated and/or Yousei Sakusen animated instead
- Crossbone Vanguard!!!!
- If this sells more than 5000 copies I'll quit being anime otaku アニヲタ

Whether these are trolls or serious, reading those comments from so callled "Otaku" is somewhat easier on me than comments in English community like "Stop pandering to Otakus"

Also, linking this person, Fukushima Masami [JP wiki (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E5%B3%B6%E6%AD%A3%E5%AE%9F)], [wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masami_Fukushima)] because Sasamoto honors him in vol 4

Surely a question of genre doesn't constitute spoilers, so if anyone's read the books they could tell us where the series fit on a scale of 0 (K-on) to 10 (Captain Harlock).I say the lowest is 5 and the highest is 7 (my opinion entirely). Haven't read vol 7 yet, but since there is no clear Big, Bad guy (neither the Empire nor the planets that the Empire absorbed ), the books can be summarized as "Daily life of a Pirate Captain who goes chasing Ghost Ship for a Princess, "Saving her mother and club mates", "Go meeting the backwater Pirates Guild", "Dealing with falling grades" etc.

[Stevie_Nix]

Let me clarify my position. Unlike Kaioshin, I don't necessarily have a problem with otaku shows or otaku pandering. In moderate doses, these elements can make a show entertaining. Indeed, the main reason I paid any attention to this show is because it was audacious enough to have the word "miniskirt" in its title. That promises that the creators won't take themselves very seriously and that they will try to stuff the show with amusing adventures. Any otaku-centric elements that contribute to the show's premise and general feel are acceptable and even welcome.

I would like to say you put how I feel about "otaku" elements quite succinctly. When used correctly, they really do help improve the show. Also I kind of agree this series might be getting the attention if not for its unusual name.


What I find troubling is when elements are introduced that seem to detract from the central appeal of a show. And this is what I'm referring to when I commented about the "otaku fetish" in the PV.

I think the "otaku fetish" bits are part of the PV to simply draw the otaku in for episode 01, not a statement of what the show is truly going to be about. Sure our heroine starts out being a school girl and working in a maid cafe as an after school job, nothing really usual, but then she becomes a space pirate!


I can see purists objecting to those shows being labelled as science fiction, but sci-fi seems to work pretty well.

I kind of like the term Soft SciFi myself for not not very hard SciFi shows. I always kind of view SciFi and Fantasy as a spectrum and soft SciFi is the middle region where the two start blending.


Well, part of EP 1 can be viewed immediately after the event this coming Sunday. If it follows the novel, you'll get to see the scene with Marika and "Mr Nice Guy" clashing swords. Following episodes until they are done with Novel Vol 1 will showcase the events in Marika's life before she finally on the captain seat. But the trailer did show characters that only come in vol 2.
There, I spoiled it already :p


Him, so you predict that at least most of the first half of the season will be about Marika's background before she became captain? I that could work. Hell I am really loving Chihayafuru and the first four episodes was mostly about her elementary school years and how she came to love karuta. I wonder, how well known are the light novels? I wonder if they might front load more action just to attract people that haven't read it.

[Kaioshin Sama]

Surely a question of genre doesn't constitute spoilers, so if anyone's read the books they could tell us where the series fit on a scale of 0 (K-on) to 10 (Captain Harlock).

I support this idea completely. I'd be more than happy to defer to somebody that knows the score here.

[totoum]

I support this idea completely. I'd be more than happy to defer to somebody that knows the score here.

Hasn't it been said earlier in the thread that the anime would be departing from the novel and go with anime original stuff?
So I'm not sure if novel knowledge would really help

[Reckoner]

The CG in that trailer looks positively awful.

The characters don't look like the sort that would keep me entertained.

I don't think this show has anything going for it. Will watch 1 episode, then probably toss it into the trash.

[justpassingby]

Him, so you predict that at least most of the first half of the season will be about Marika's background before she became captain? I that could work. .

The premier on December 22nd at Shinjuku Wald 9 will show 5 episodes. So I say those episodes are volume 1. This is going to be 2 cour show (if nothing goes wrong). At least we can see Marika get "addicted" to shooting :heh:.

From the interview with HanaKana, she commented how "cool" her character is (Chiaki) for spouting jargon. She also mentioned that this anime is about Marika growing up. So yeah, don't tell I didn't warned people earlier. :)

Also, reading comments from the web, I say this novel is a love letter for those who has been following Sasamoto works since 1984. (Yousei Sakusen, ARIEL, Hoshi kara kita Mono", "Hoshi no Dance wo Mi Ni Oide" being obvious). Oh, they also blamed him and Satou for the change in title :heh:. May be because those two are the people who were born and raised during the "Mouretsu" period

[Kaioshin Sama]

The CG in that trailer looks positively awful.

The characters don't look like the sort that would keep me entertained.

I don't think this show has anything going for it. Will watch 1 episode, then probably toss it into the trash.

Err welcome to Satellite space combat animation without the budget that made Macross Frontier kind of work.

[Stevie_Nix]

Also, reading comments from the web, I say this novel is a love letter for those who has been following Sasamoto works since 1984. (Yousei Sakusen, ARIEL, Hoshi kara kita Mono", "Hoshi no Dance wo Mi Ni Oide" being obvious). Oh, they also blamed him and Satou for the change in title :heh:. May be because those two are the people who were born and raised during the "Mouretsu" period

So this series is really targeted towards more old school anime fans? Interesting.

[justpassingby]

Saw the A Part

It was Chapter 1 of vol 1. Many dialogues were cut, and the transitions from one scene to another were quite poor

There was no information regarding the theme songs （╬ಠ益ಠ)

Well at least the segment with the seiyuus was fun ヽ(*´∀｀)ﾉ

Edit: Higher resolution images of the PV

http://i.imgur.com/X9RxSs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/X9RxS.jpg) http://i.imgur.com/6X0U0s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/6X0U0.jpg)

Source: Interview with Satou by 2.5d [Link (http://2-5-d.jp/topic/20111210/)]

Edit: You can stream it on Nico Nico now

Edit 12/22: OP and ED Songs will be done by Momoiro Clover Z
OP: 「猛烈宇宙交響曲・第七楽章『無限の愛』」 - Mouretsu Uchuu Koukyoukyoku Dai 7 Gakushou, Mugen no Ai
ED: LOST CHILD

Official site (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/top.html) has been updated

[ars89]

Momoiro Clover Z will be doing the OP and the ED

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-12-22/momoiro-clover-z-to-sing-for-bodacious-space-pirates

[GenjiChan]

Is this a shoujo anime? Is there a male lead? If not, I'll pass.

[justpassingby]

^No. And no. But who knows how the story will progress after they finish adapting the first 3 volumes.

After the segment with the Director, seiyuu, and Momoclo, there was a back stage interview with Satou. It was regarding a continuation to "Something". When the interview asked whether they will be a sequel for that "Something", Satou repeat the answer he gave years ago: Impossible. And yes, that "something" is Nadesico. You can watch it at NicoNico

On topic, 1st Episode title: 海賊、罷り通る (Pirates, Unchallenged/Passing Through)

Quoting from 2ch who claimed to go to last night event

行ってきた
良くも悪くも小説通りって感じ
絵面的に地味だったり原作読んでないと分かりづらかったり
でも丁寧に作られてるし、動く白鳥号とあの世界を綺麗な絵で見れて嬉しい
前情報なしで行ったから、個人的に副部長がアイオリアだったことが気になった
PVに合わせてモモクロのOP曲流れたけど意外と合ってて良かった

[Midonin]

Let's make this showy.

[justpassingby]

Let's make this showy.

Will ex-Megadeath, Marty Friedman be able to up the music score? [Source (http://natalie.mu/music/news/61722)] :D :cool:

[Shimapan]

According to this page, it will have 26 episodes:
http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-5640.html

全２６話（MX 1/7 25:00）

[Midonin]

Will ex-Megadeath, Marty Friedman be able to up the music score? [Source (http://natalie.mu/music/news/61722)] :D :cool:
Ah, that's where I recognize the name from. Kiva.

[justpassingby]

dmiQCzCVlGU

Ahh, so that's how he is involved (skip to the 1.42) :heh:

Edit: Asahi Novels C81 goods for Mouretsu Pirates. There is going to be a collaboration poster with Rinne no Lagrange too :D
http://i.imgur.com/ET8W3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/L0oqD.jpg

Mouretsu Pirates Official Fanbook

[dr_marronflower]

Hmmm...

No harem.
No male lead.
Space Pirates.

Great. Im in.
Now I have two series to watch foward in the new season.

I only hope that they give us an healthy dose of yuri in the anime version. ;)

[justpassingby]

:uhoh: That was funny :heh:. PV version should be today at official site. Also manga (https://twitter.com/#!/ASAHINOVELS/status/151590653627875328)in planning. It looks like "Miniskirt" and "Mouretsu" are almost different entity, and the manga project refers to "Miniskirt"

Edit: Latest PV (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/special/movie.html)

Edit: Youtube

CNXTTV9iJNo
According to Satou's twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/seitenhyohyo/status/151910714431377408), this is not the OP scene

[konart]

Pirates in space,now this is really something new.Man,i cant wait!Somewhat this reminds me of Vandread..

dude...
Captain Harlock says NO

[Kaioshin Sama]

:uhoh: That was funny :heh:. PV version should be today at official site. Also manga (https://twitter.com/#!/ASAHINOVELS/status/151590653627875328)in planning. It looks like "Miniskirt" and "Mouretsu" are almost different entity, and the manga project refers to "Miniskirt"

Edit: Latest PV (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/special/movie.html)

Edit: Youtube

CNXTTV9iJNo
According to Satou's twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/seitenhyohyo/status/151910714431377408), this is not the OP scene

Well based on the trailer this looks like the more promising project from Satelight compared to Symphogear (aside from that theme song), but watch it turn out the opposite somehow and I end up preferring Symphogear in the end. Still not 100% sure what to expect from either of them since pretty much every Satelight anime to date has left me disappointed on some level so I'll just leave my expectations where they are, kind of low but open to anything that stands out among the two shows.

[Kismet-chan]

I wish the characters designs were more like the source material. The main character looks so... I can't explain it. I see her face and I just go "no :/". Hanazawa doesn't help things, either.

[Stevie_Nix]

:uhoh: That was funny :heh:. PV version should be today at official site. Also manga (https://twitter.com/#!/ASAHINOVELS/status/151590653627875328)in planning. It looks like "Miniskirt" and "Mouretsu" are almost different entity, and the manga project refers to "Miniskirt"

Edit: Latest PV (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/special/movie.html)[/SPOILER]

Edit: Youtube

CNXTTV9iJNo
According to Satou's twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/seitenhyohyo/status/151910714431377408), this is not the OP scene

So I wonder what the actual OP is going to be like. Anyway this look really fun.

Well based on the trailer this looks like the more promising project from Satelight compared to Symphogear... I'll just leave my expectations where they are, kind of low but open to anything that stands out among the two shows.

I will admit I am not going in expecting either series to be a "great" anime, but so far both look fun.

[justpassingby]

Jewel seed? :P
http://i.imgur.com/SJGB3.jpg

Joshing aside,

I wish the characters designs were more like the source material. The main character looks so... I can't explain it. I see her face and I just go "no :/". Hanazawa doesn't help things, either.
I'm okay with the character designs, make it easier to not appear in Megami or Nyantype :P. How many of you realized the animation character designer is the same as Idolmaster Xenoglossia?

Well based on the trailer this looks like the more promising project from Satelight compared to Symphogear (aside from that theme song), but watch it turn out the opposite somehow and I end up preferring Symphogear in the end. Still not 100% sure what to expect from either of them since pretty much every Satelight anime to date has left me disappointed on some level so I'll just leave my expectations where they are, kind of low but open to anything that stands out among the two shows.
[/SPOILER]
I will admit I am not going in expecting either series to be a "great" anime, but so far both look fun.


Well for me, if what 2ch said was true about 3 volumes in 5 episodes, that I have to "bear" it, and look forward for the original contents. Satou did said in the interview with 2.5d that he wrote the story of Marika's growing up. So if that is not your kind of tea, and you're following "3 episodes rule", might as well drop this.

Also, reading the official character page, Marika is described as "Good character with good grades. She has many friends due to her cheerful personality." Oh, and don't forget "She was living normally until" part :p

According to vol 1, her grades are "mostly A, with B and C can be count". So uhh, if you hated "Goddess" character, you might as well dropped this too. If anything, the story will go according to Stellvia style, where Marika, like Shipon, was already a "good character with good grades". The differences are that Marika's already good with piloting, but don't have a normal family unlike Shapon (no father, and Marika even being serious for not having a little brother it's funny :heh:).

I'll try to translate whatever on LagRin and Pirates page before the series start next week :D

Edit: Looking at NicoNico's comment, I loled at the lyrics "Hoshi no Kodomo kimi wo mamori tsudzukeru yo!" = "Star's Child will continue to protect you" :heh:

[Stevie_Nix]

Jewel seed? :P

So the ultimate fight will be vis Nanoha and Company? Best Ending EVER!


I'm okay with the character designs, make it easier to not appear in Megami or Nyantype :P. How many of you realized the animation character designer is the same as Idolmaster Xenoglossia?

I don't see anything wrong with the character designs, I think they are quite nice actually.


Well for me, if what 2ch said was true about 3 volumes in 5 episodes, that I have to "bear" it, and look forward for the original contents. Satou did said in the interview with 2.5d that he wrote the story of Marika's growing up. So if that is not your kind of tea, and you're following "3 episodes rule", might as well drop this.

Well normally I try to give a series 4 episodes myself. Anyway, as long as its not boring, I don't think I will mind the series starting out covering Marika's childhood.


Also, reading the official character page, Marika is described as "Good character with good grades. She has many friends due to her cheerful personality." Oh, and don't forget "She was living normally until" part :p

According to vol 1, her grades are "mostly A, with B and C can be count". So uhh, if you hated "Goddess" character, you might as well dropped this too. If anything, the story will go according to Stellvia style, where Marika, like Shipon, was already a "good character with good grades". The differences are that Marika's already good with piloting, but don't have a normal family unlike Shapon (no father, and Marika even being serious for not having a little brother it's funny :heh:).

Well I rather liked Stellvia, and I liked Shipon too so I think I am good. The only reason I might hate it if for some reason she is in inexplicably awesome at everything without effort or trying.

Also thanks for the translation efforts of the official websites.

[justpassingby]

^When I said "I'm going to bear it" for 5 episodes, I meant to bear with anything that are going to be cut from the novel. For example, part regarding Marika's grades was a dialog between Misa and Kane who breached the Yacht Club computer record, before following Marika to the Lamp. Kane said this is not his first time going to a retro cafe, as he went with one of the Serenity's family member before (Gleewel and Grunhilde's mother perhaps? And those are some of the many scenes that were cut during A part. Regarding "Be awesome without trying", well she is trying to become the captain of ship full of older people :P

....Eh, you guys do realize that A part can still be view at NicoNico right?

[Ithekro]

But will she earn the right to fly the Skull and Crossbones?

[Stevie_Nix]

^When I said "I'm going to bear it" for 5 episodes, I meant to bear with anything that are going to be cut from the novel. For example...

Oh I miss understood you, sorry. I wonder why they are going through so much so quickly.

[justpassingby]

Might as well post some fan arts, can't expect from Magazine. Heck, last 2 issues of Newtype..... Including these two (one from Matsumoto's [LN Artist] twitter friend, while the other one from NicoNiCo)I have 3 :D

http://i.imgur.com/NCmSEs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/NCmSE.jpg) http://i.imgur.com/pwxuEs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/pwxuE.jpg)

Edit:

Kane commented how excellent Marika was as a waitress, but in the novel, Marika did tripped and that made Kane and Misa worried about Marika being their captain. Though, Misa did said how nice it is to see Marika wearing Captain uniform

During the dinner scene, Marika did took a sip of the wine. On her planet, under 16 is not allowed to drink alchohol, but Ririka allowed it as it was a "special occasion". And what's with Kane smiling to Marika in the anime? :frustrated:


So I hope Satou will not do too many "damages" to the characters :bow:
Here hoping to a fanart of Stan Lee requesting a refill for coffee Jasmine Tea :D

[darkchibi07]

Now this is pretty bodacious!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-29/crunchyroll-to-stream-moretsu-pirates-tv-anime

[Midonin]

I love living in the future.

[tsunade666]

wow! I didn't expect that. It won't look like a fan service infested one and actually a decent one.

btw

I didn't read the synopsis/info or any spoilers about it so it's really a surprise.

[darkchibi07]

Now VERY bodacious!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-29/sentai-filmworks-adds-moretsu-pirates-tv-anime

[MisaoFan]

Sentai Filmworks will brought this one ! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-29/sentai-filmworks-adds-moretsu-pirates-tv-anime)

[Lord of Fire]

Something tells me this is either going to be REALLY good or REALLY bad, if both Crunchy and Sentai want (and got) it. Either way, it's definitely piqued my interest now (though I was already quite curious).

[Stevie_Nix]

Now this is pretty bodacious!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-29/crunchyroll-to-stream-moretsu-pirates-tv-anime

I was actually surprised that CR announced this so early due to them seeming to wait until the last minute the last few seasons to announce series. Anyway I am really exited about this.:D

Sentai Filmworks will brought this one ! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-29/sentai-filmworks-adds-moretsu-pirates-tv-anime)

The article about Sentai licensing Moretsu Pirates says it will get a TV release too. So does that mean Anime Network or what?

Something tells me this is either going to be REALLY good or REALLY bad, if both Crunchy and Sentai want (and got) it. Either way, it's definitely piqued my interest now (though I was already quite curious).

I am hoping for REALLY good.:p I guess the main worry by fans of the LN is how well the adapt it.

By the way, this might have been answered before, but was there ever a reason why the anime was delayed so long?

[Kaioshin Sama]

Count me as someone who vastly prefers the title Bodacious Space Pirates (Babes) to Miniskirt Space Pirates.

[Stevie_Nix]

Count me as someone who vastly prefers the title Bodacious Space Pirates (Babes) to Miniskirt Space Pirates.

True, Bodacious Space Pirates does seem less likely to give potential viewers the wrong idea. Still Moretsu Pirates is probably for the best.

[Dop]

I think i like the title 'Bodacious Space Pirates' because it has the word 'Bodacious' in it. Dude!

The trailer looked entertaining enough, but I'm reserving judgment until I've seen some.
It could be good, or it could be crap, but if it's crap, it could be entertainingly crap and thus still fun to watch.

[Ithekro]

Now, with that title, and somewhat off rock music, the Pink hair, reminds me of something for my childhood.


JEM.


I am disturbed by that.

[Bonta Kun]

I think i like the title 'Bodacious Space Pirates' because it has the word 'Bodacious' in it. Dude!

The trailer looked entertaining enough, but I'm reserving judgment until I've seen some.
It could be good, or it could be crap, but if it's crap, it could be entertainingly crap and thus still fun to watch.

yea prefer Bodacious Space Pirates myself, fact it's got "Bodacious" is grat but then theres also "Space Pirate" which is better than simply Pirate:D

Still looking forward to this, looks like it might be good but if not then "entertaining crap" I will most likely find it:p

[Master_Yoma]

So this is licensed and if CR that a new one

[Kyuu]

Something tells me this is either going to be REALLY good or REALLY bad, if both Crunchy and Sentai want (and got) it. Either way, it's definitely piqued my interest now (though I was already quite curious).

The hopes are indeed very high on this one. Not often -- in fact -- very rare for me to pay attention to a series - before it even comes out. Usually, I allow a series to have been broadcast by several episodes before I give it any attention.

Count me as someone who vastly prefers the title Bodacious Space Pirates (Babes) to Miniskirt Space Pirates.

"Bodacious" is way too bombastic of a word to use as a title though.

[MrTerrorist]

I just went to Japanese wikipedia and it turns out, Hyadain wrote the OP song. So not only is Martin Friedman involve in this song but Hyadain as well.

[Kaioshin Sama]

I just went to Japanese wikipedia and it turns out, Hyadain wrote the OP song. So not only is Martin Friedman involve in this song but Hyadain as well.

He's not performing it though right? Right?! :uhoh:

[MrTerrorist]

Nope, Hyadain wrote the song and that's it.

[justpassingby]

By the way, this might have been answered before, but was there ever a reason why the anime was delayed so long?

IIRC, during the LOFT Plus One event, Satou said the post recording interview (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3862617&postcount=107)was in March. 2ch said the anime was slated for Fall airing, but got delayed due to the quake.
So the production was from last year, and planning was the year before. No use of complaining shitty CG went the money probably went to the Frontier movie and/or the new Aquarion. I wonder what was Satelight thinking when they decide to animate this? Try to latch to Satou's old fame? Sasamoto? (younger novel reader would probably never heard of him)? or the Seiyuu?:rolleyes:

[Stevie_Nix]

Thanks for the answer justpassingby.

[ElizLestrad]

Anyone know if theres a site for this up with decriptions of the characters? I checked Wikipedia, Anime Encyclopedia, etc but can't find anything. I was trying to find out if one of the characters in the PVs was a "hero" or a villian. Even the wiki page for the manga didnt have character descriptions...

[MisaoFan]

Anyone know if theres a site for this up with decriptions of the characters? I checked Wikipedia, Anime Encyclopedia, etc but can't find anything. I was trying to find out if one of the characters in the PVs was a "hero" or a villian. Even the wiki page for the manga didnt have character descriptions...

Check out this (http://starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/character/). If you can't understand Japanese, use Google Translate but it wasn't always necessary.

[justpassingby]

1aF34dfRwPI
I want that book

Anyone know if theres a site for this up with decriptions of the characters? I checked Wikipedia, Anime Encyclopedia, etc but can't find anything. I was trying to find out if one of the characters in the PVs was a "hero" or a villian. Even the wiki page for the manga didnt have character descriptions...
This site (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kawa/semi/sasamoto/pirate/miniska.html)has the characters and when did they appear in the novels

[ElizLestrad]

@MisaoFan
That was actually the first site I visited, but unfortunately they did the character section as pictures so the descriptions of who the characters are dont translate.

@JustPassingBy
Thanks for the tip, but Googletranslate unbelievably butchers the translations on the pages translating the names down to their meanings and not the actual name, making it impossible to locate the character I'm looking for (Chiaki Kurihara).


Ah well...I might just have to wait for someone to update the wiki page. I'm just debating wether I want to watch it and be disappointed if they go with her as the/an antagonist or just pass if by. Ive seen to many anime where they overuse the two cliches I hate most in anime

1) An antagonist thats the same age as the villian or just happens to go to the same school.
2) Best friend turns villian.

Id just read the manga, but from the stuff Ive read they've changed A LOT between the manga and the anime. That and B&N doesnt carry it.

[DangerMouse]

Looking forward to this finally starting. :)

[justpassingby]

I was planning to wait for more characters and the mechanics section to appear, but eh? Are the staffs themselves are less enthusiast about this show? Or they're "We've waited long enough, we can still wait some more"? :heh:

But here goes. From the anime Characters (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/character/)page (My literal + liberal translation, not official)


http://i.imgur.com/RpVI6l.gif (http://i.imgur.com/RpVI6.gif)
Katou Marika (Komatsu Mikako)
First year student of Hakuhou Girls Academy at Umi no Akehoshi. She is a member of the Yacht Club.
Marika was a normal high school girl with positive attitude and good grades, but suddenly one day
she was requested to become the Captain for pirate ship Benten Maru. She has many friends due to her
cheerful character.

http://i.imgur.com/umeNXl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/umeNX.gif)
Chiaki Kurihara (Hanazawa Kana)
Mysterious girl who transfers into Hakuhou Girls Academy from the branch school at Umi no Morihoshi.
For some reasons she can manipulate computer as weapons and other things, and she knew a lot regarding the state
of the pirates.

http://i.imgur.com/5mGIzl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/5mGIz.gif)
Endou Mami (Omigawa Chiaki)
Marika's classmate. Mami is not a member of the Yacht Club, but she works part-time together with Marika
at Lamp Cafe after school. For Marika, Mami is a friend that sooth the mind when being together.

http://i.imgur.com/V3Hvyl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/V3Hvy.gif)
Glewell Serenity (Tomatsu Haruka)
The 7th Imperial Princess of Serenity Planet Commonwealth royal family. A clarion person with great motility,
but being raised as a princess, she is estranged to daily routines.

http://i.imgur.com/xsxZbl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/xsxZb.gif)
Grunhilde Serenity (Kanemoto Hisako)
The 8th Imperial Princess of Serenity Planet Commonwealth royal family and Glewell's younger sister.

http://i.imgur.com/0deKxl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/0deKx.gif)
Kane McDougal (Matsukaze Masaya)
He foisted into Hakuhou Girls Academy as one of the teaching staff and adviser to the Yacht Club. His true
identity is Benten Maru's helmsman. Together with Misa, he guides Marika as she's learning to become the captain.

http://i.imgur.com/isUSIl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/isUSI.gif)
Misa Grandwood (Itou Shizuka)
She infiltrated Hakuhou Girls Academmy as the infirmary doctor. Misa is a veteran who worked as the ship doctor from
the time Ririka was active, and now trains Marika in preparing her to become the captain.

http://i.imgur.com/qvOnKl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/qvOnK.gif)
Coorie (Horie Yui)
Officer for Benten Maru's electronic warfare and communication. Coorie likes snacks and always has something
in her mouth

http://i.imgur.com/1TvWbl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/1TvWb.gif)
Luka (Mizuhara Kaoru)
Benten Maru's navigator. She has a habit holding up her cystall ball radar and muttering "I can see it......."

http://i.imgur.com/aFZnYl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/aFZnY.gif)
Sandaime (Matsuoka Yoshitsugu)
Benten Maru's engineer and in charge of damages control. A reliable mechanic man with great skills.

http://i.imgur.com/gT7nGl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/gT7nG.gif)
Schnitzer (Miyake Kenta)
A combat cyborg who leads Benten Maru's battles.

http://i.imgur.com/PnTtgl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/PnTtg.gif)
Hyakume (Fujiwara Keiji)
Officer for Benten Maru's Radar/Sensor system. He is also responsible for Information Gathering and Analysis

http://i.imgur.com/klDefl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/klDef.gif)
Katou Ririka (Kaida Yuko)
Marika's mother. She was the legendary woman pirate, "Blaster Ririka", before parting with Gonzaemon and works as Control
Officer at New Okuhama Airport while raising Marika alone. Though Ririka herself told her daughter that she was a pirate,
being approached by the Benten Maru due to Gonzaemon's death, the truth became evident.

http://i.imgur.com/QtJSEl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/QtJSE.gif)
Jenny Dolittle (Satou Rina)
President of the Yacht Club and 3rd year student of Hakuhou Girls Academy. She is the daughter to President of a major
interstellar Transportation company

http://i.imgur.com/fRidUl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/fRidU.gif)
Rin Lambretta (Hikasa Youko)
Vice President of Yacht Club and 2nd year student of Hakuhou Girls Academy. During her time in middle school, she was put
under probation because of her criminal record of cracking

Oh lordy, imgur file name for Chiaki :heh:
Looking forward for OP and ED songs, and their sequence. Here hoping for "歩く系" or "走る系" :D

Also, have some illustrations from the LN author, Matsumoto Noriyuki.

http://i.imgur.com/vqUR0s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/vqUR0.jpg) http://i.imgur.com/iLQW3s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/iLQW3.jpg)


Edit: I couldn't stream it, but judging by the caps at 2chan, the ED is "歩く系", just like Rinne :heh:

[tsunade666]

^ the spaceship reminds me of vandread

EDIT:

Without clicking the image. It reminds me of strike witches with that post and not noticing it's a spaceship. And after clicking the spaceship. It reminds me of the mobile armor in gundam seed.

[justpassingby]

Saw the 1st episode. They did cut the history part during the dinner. Oh well, better leave it to Kiritsugu Emiya to narrate them :heh:
And what's with the "Kawaii"? Marika was supposed to say "Bijin" Totally not lesbian
Plus point for the staffs because they managed to make the part at the Lamp funnier than it should.
I'm already seeing people saying how boring this episode and this series going to be. Good for me then :P

[Midonin]

モ(バイ)レツ - It works. Though if the title had stayed "Miniskirt", I wouldn't have minded. A little bit of ridiculousness is the oil that keeps anime novel. That said, I've found my angle for this show before it even started. If Symphogear occupies the tail end of the slot, then this shows occupies the start. Now all I need is an anime that combines the themes of Americana, drug metaphors and space exploration. Not necessarily in that order.

Now, onto actual content. That was a pretty interesting first episode. Not a whole lot of pirating done, being mostly exposition, but what exposition there was was presented in an interesting way, and the show's created a nice semi-futuristic world, with technology similar to ours, just a little fancier and even more touchscreeny. But for every group of pirates, there's a Basco somewhere in their wings. And I'm still waiting to see if this crew has a Donny.

Really, I'm going to get all I can out of this angle.

[justpassingby]

More from Noriyuki in commemoration with the anime. He's drawing his characters but in Mouretsu style

http://i.imgur.com/26mx0s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/26mx0.jpg)

[NeoChan]

This anime reminds me of old 70s anime.

[Stevie_Nix]

Just saw the Crunchyroll simulcast. Damn that was great. I can honestly say it was everything I expected it to be.

[spawnofthejudge]

I'm hooked. Was interested all the way through, and now sad that I must wait a week.

[Utsuro no Hako]

A slow start, but the series is supposed to be 26 episodes so they can afford to have actual exposition instead of jumping straight into the action.

I'm guessing the letters of marque are the only things keeping the war from officially ending and the governments on both sides are trying to stop Marika from becoming the new captain.

The subs said Marika's the captain's only daughter -- is that a clue?

[Haak]

Why is it that as soon as I saw her walking in, I knew she'd be voiced by Hanazawa Kana? :heh:

This was actually surprisingly more entertaining than I'd thought it would be. I wasn't intending on watching this but I will now.

[Sackett]

Obligatory:

pW3bREIGw94

Obviously in this alternate world Roy Mustang did indeed become Fuhrer and instituted a dress code that was handed down as a holy tradition, even extending to female officers in space.

Actually I watched this without any clue what it was, just happened to see that there was an episode 1 out and decided to check it out blind.

It was... interesting. The character design made me think that it would be horribly cheesy and bad. The awful over-the-top "pirate clothes" of course, but also the school girl outfits and character designs were also... I don't know... off somehow. Cheap. Not as smooth as it should be.

However... once you get past all that:

1: The plot is not bad. A war of independence supported by privateers (the "pirates" are actually privateers, not pirates), some kind of inheritance laws govern inheriting privateers. A main character who has a missing father is revealed to be a special person. Dangerous events force her out of her normal world into a big adventure. Some pretty basic plot lines there but actually executed rather well.

2: The science so far isn't bad. Knowledge of basic space physics such as aerobraking and so forth demonstrated. Which is encouraging. Also, the "everyday technology" was incredibly cool, and you can actually conceive of these things happening in the near future. I happen to know Microsoft is working on some of that stuff right now.

3: Most important the characters are already being established in the first episode. The main character is still a blank slate so far, but that's normal. Other characters are being established. But to me the big clue that there might be something worth watching here was Mami.

Mami is the best friend of the main character in her normal life. Usually such a minor character would get hardly any characterization, and is soon left behind as the main characters move on to more interesting things. Yet with just a few lines and a couple scenes they've already fleshed out this minor character as someone interesting. Enough that I'm actually hoping Mami get to go along on the big adventure with her friend the main character. She'd make for some good comic relief.

Is this going to be the great anime of 2012, with deep philosophical insights like Madoka was last year?

No. But it does look like it might be a fun show. Although I suppose it could still run off the rails. Approved to watch the second episode. Hopefully it will turn out to be fun, even if it's a bit silly.

I also can't help but laugh at the English title "Bodacious Space Pirates" I can't decide if it's worse than "Miniskirt Space Pirates" or not.

[MrTerrorist]

I'm glad to know my expectations of this show was correct. A great sci-fi anime and a tribute to old space opera animes.

I got hooked with the 1st episode, the characters are interesting and the story has potential. Can't wait for next week!

[Dextro]

I'm glad to know my expectations of this show was correct. A great sci-fi anime and a tribute to old space opera animes.

I got hooked with the 1st episode, the characters are interesting and the story has potential. Can't wait for next week!

Now that you mention it I did get a felling of some of the older space opera shows and it was damn good.

Still not sure if we'll get anything amazing out of this but as long as it's entertaining I'm on board.

[DangerMouse]

I was planning to wait for more characters and the mechanics section to appear, but eh? Are the staffs themselves are less enthusiast about this show? Or they're "We've waited long enough, we can still wait some more"? :heh:

But here goes. From the anime Characters (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/character/)page (My literal + liberal translation, not official)


http://i.imgur.com/RpVI6l.gif (http://i.imgur.com/RpVI6.gif)
Katou Marika (Komatsu Mikako)
First year student of Hakuhou Girls Academy at Umi no Akehoshi. She is a member of the Yacht Club.
Marika was a normal high school girl with positive attitude and good grades, but suddenly one day
she was requested to become the Captain for pirate ship Benten Maru. She has many friends due to her
cheerful character.

http://i.imgur.com/umeNXl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/umeNX.gif)
Chiaki Kurihara (Hanazawa Kana)
Mysterious girl who transfers into Hakuhou Girls Academy from the branch school at Umi no Morihoshi.
For some reasons she can manipulate computer as weapons and other things, and she knew a lot regarding the state
of the pirates.

http://i.imgur.com/5mGIzl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/5mGIz.gif)
Endou Mami (Omigawa Chiaki)
Marika's classmate. Mami is not a member of the Yacht Club, but she works part-time together with Marika
at Lamp Cafe after school. For Marika, Mami is a friend that sooth the mind when being together.

http://i.imgur.com/V3Hvyl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/V3Hvy.gif)
Glewell Serenity (Tomatsu Haruka)
The 7th Imperial Princess of Serenity Planet Commonwealth royal family. A clarion person with great motility,
but being raised as a princess, she is estranged to daily routines.

http://i.imgur.com/xsxZbl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/xsxZb.gif)
Grunhilde Serenity (Kanemoto Hisako)
The 8th Imperial Princess of Serenity Planet Commonwealth royal family and Glewell's younger sister.

http://i.imgur.com/0deKxl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/0deKx.gif)
Kane McDougal (Matsukaze Masaya)
He foisted into Hakuhou Girls Academy as one of the teaching staff and adviser to the Yacht Club. His true
identity is Benten Maru's helmsman. Together with Misa, he guides Marika as she's learning to become the captain.

http://i.imgur.com/isUSIl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/isUSI.gif)
Misa Grandwood (Itou Shizuka)
She infiltrated Hakuhou Girls Academmy as the infirmary doctor. Misa is a veteran who worked as the ship doctor from
the time Ririka was active, and now trains Marika in preparing her to become the captain.

http://i.imgur.com/qvOnKl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/qvOnK.gif)
Coorie (Horie Yui)
Officer for Benten Maru's electronic warfare and communication. Coorie likes snacks and always has something
in her mouth

http://i.imgur.com/1TvWbl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/1TvWb.gif)
Luka (Mizuhara Kaoru)
Benten Maru's navigator. She has a habit holding up her cystall ball radar and muttering "I can see it......."

http://i.imgur.com/aFZnYl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/aFZnY.gif)
Sandaime (Matsuoka Yoshitsugu)
Benten Maru's engineer and in charge of damages control. A reliable mechanic man with great skills.

http://i.imgur.com/gT7nGl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/gT7nG.gif)
Schnitzer (Miyake Kenta)
A combat cyborg who leads Benten Maru's battles.

http://i.imgur.com/PnTtgl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/PnTtg.gif)
Hyakume (Fujiwara Keiji)
Officer for Benten Maru's Radar/Sensor system. He is also responsible for Information Gathering and Analysis

http://i.imgur.com/klDefl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/klDef.gif)
Katou Ririka (Kaida Yuko)
Marika's mother. She was the legendary woman pirate, "Blaster Ririka", before parting with Gonzaemon and works as Control
Officer at New Okuhama Airport while raising Marika alone. Though Ririka herself told her daughter that she was a pirate,
being approached by the Benten Maru due to Gonzaemon's death, the truth became evident.

http://i.imgur.com/QtJSEl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/QtJSE.gif)
Jenny Dolittle (Satou Rina)
President of the Yacht Club and 3rd year student of Hakuhou Girls Academy. She is the daughter to President of a major
interstellar Transportation company

http://i.imgur.com/fRidUl.gif (http://i.imgur.com/fRidU.gif)
Rin Lambretta (Hikasa Youko)
Vice President of Yacht Club and 2nd year student of Hakuhou Girls Academy. During her time in middle school, she was put
under probation because of her criminal record of cracking

Oh lordy, imgur file name for Chiaki :heh:
Looking forward for OP and ED songs, and their sequence. Here hoping for "歩く系" or "走る系" :D

Also, have some illustrations from the LN author, Matsumoto Noriyuki.

http://i.imgur.com/vqUR0s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/vqUR0.jpg) http://i.imgur.com/iLQW3s.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/iLQW3.jpg)


Edit: I couldn't stream it, but judging by the caps at 2chan, the ED is "歩く系", just like Rinne :heh:

Thank you for the rundown of the characters!

I'm glad to know my expectations of this show was correct. A great sci-fi anime and a tribute to old space opera animes.

I got hooked with the 1st episode, the characters are interesting and the story has potential. Can't wait for next week!

Awesome, was totally looking forward to it for this. :) Can't wait to watch.

A slow start, but the series is supposed to be 26 episodes so they can afford to have actual exposition instead of jumping straight into the action.

I'm guessing the letters of marque are the only things keeping the war from officially ending and the governments on both sides are trying to stop Marika from becoming the new captain.

The subs said Marika's the captain's only daughter -- is that a clue?

So freaking glad this is getting a full 26 so it can be a bigger story and adventure and they can build the scifi setting like this.

[Dark Wing]

It was everything I expected and them some!

OP and ED was amazing!

[xizro345]

Ever since its announcement I was interested and the first episode delivered completely for me. As long as Sato doesn't lay a single hand on the script I think it'll be fine.

[philip72]

Obligatory:

Obviously in this alternate world Roy Mustang did indeed become Fuhrer and instituted a dress code that was handed down as a holy tradition, even extending to female officers in space.

Wow! was the dub for Mustangs voice ever ugly, maybe I won't buy the series after all..



I really quite enjoyed episode 1; and MarikaxKurihara seems pretty shippable, so visits to pixiv will be even more titillating in a week or so.

[ShiroiRyu]

Fuck yeah OP and ED !
For the story, so good !
When the full OP/ED please ? :D (because it's the same group)

[00Coyote]

I can't comment too much on this show yet, it seems interesting, with some pleasant character design, loving the MC long spiky hair. I wasn't expecting too much, but it was entertaining.

[totoum]

That was quite fun.There is definatly a bit of an oldschool feel to it.

My brain tells me I should be hating all the CG but yet for some reason it works,I really like the show's looks.

I also really liked the main character and I feel that's strongly due to Komatsu Mikako's performance, first time I hear her.

Definatly looking forward to more

[Dark Wing]

I'm already seeing people saying how boring this episode and this series going to be. Good for me then :P

Agreed man kids these days...The same stuff that happened with Horizon too always with action should be right out the gates stuff...I mean why can't they all just let the story build.

Yea let them chock on their words with the plot really kicks in...:D

[DangerMouse]

That was a lot of fun.

Oh man you guys were right with early feedback on the ep, this felt like exactly what I've been missing and hoping it would be, that bit of oldschool but updated, big scifi action adventure show with top notch modern visuals, we haven't even gotten to space yet and I was locked in by the natural pacing and nicely realized scifi setting and tech for the setting and quickly likeable characters. Marika pulled off being the MC quite well in the premiere and I love her design.

Really loved the music track that opened the episode! Nice supporting background music for the light stuff, loved the bits of more noticeable music throughout and towards the end, can't wait to hear the bigger tracks as we go forward. Like ShioiRyu, really got into the up-beat OP/ED.

I felt the old school when the thugs in suits all showed up with that music playing which was great and I couldn't help but laugh and smile at it. And the shootout with Chiaki eying the fake and cut to Ririka, who I also really liked and had a cool design, in a military uniform was a nice tease of the next stage of the show. Plus the preview teasing we're about to hit the space stuff..

Man I miss shows like this.

This (obviously potentially since we'll see once they get into space and get the real space action but with how like-ably they handled one of the hardest parts I'm quite hopeful) and Last Exile: GnF have finally delivered the action adventures we used to get a lot more often, feels great getting two of these in back-to-back seasons.

Wow! was the dub for Mustangs voice ever ugly, maybe I won't buy the series after all..

Hmmm...I'll just let that one pass for crazy talk or that you're someone who never saw more of FMA in dubbed form since english dubbed Mustang is badass.

[Midonin]

Yea let them chock on their words with the plot really kicks in...:D
This isn't a competition. I'm not really sure how you can be "right" in watching a show.

[Saber Cherry]

I was not really sure what to expect, but came out very impressed. The character art reminds me of Full Metal Panic. I guess the overall feel is reminiscent of FMP and Nadesico, and I loved both of them. Eagerly awaiting episode 2!

Also... the transfer student, and her entrance, were very Madoka-ish.

[Dark Wing]

This isn't a competition. I'm not really sure how you can be "right" in watching a show.

Maybe I am getting a little too worked up about all the complaining for what seems to be no other reason but to complain.



Also... the transfer student, and her entrance, were very Madoka-ish.

Seriously? I really don't know why people keep coming back to this one scene and comparing it to Madoka? :confused:

The mysterious transfer student plot device thing has been done to death in anime for decades...:heh:

[DangerMouse]

I was not really sure what to expect, but came out very impressed. The character art reminds me of Full Metal Panic. I guess the overall feel is reminiscent of FMP and Nadesico, and I loved both of them. Eagerly awaiting episode 2!

Also... the transfer student, and her entrance, were very Madoka-ish.

Yeah I liked it, I wonder if it was the sharpness of the designs. Director is the guy who directed Nadesico too according to the staff list, not surprised it definitely felt like a really skilled long time director did this, feels he's still got that oldschool scifi love.

[justpassingby]

Yea let them chock on their words with the plot really kicks in...:D
While I'm happy for your optimism, don't diss others for what they like/watch. Me myself won't probably be happy with the adapted parts when the staffs are done with them.


The subs said Marika's the captain's only daughter -- is that a clue?
Clue for?
Marika is the only daughter. One of the part they skipped during the dinner is when Marika said if she becomes the captain, then her child will be the next in line as Marika doesn't have a little brother. Misa asked Ririka if Marika is really her daughter, because she's already planning ahead :uhoh: :heh:
And my my, did Black Beard reached the Fountain of Youth or something? :eyespin:
http://i.imgur.com/CQl6x.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1WLnJ.jpg

[DangerMouse]

justpassingby: Hmm, if I remember correctly haven't they already warned manga readers of changes?

Agreed man kids these days...The same stuff that happened with Horizon too always with action should be right out the gates stuff...I mean why can't they all just let the story build.

Yea let them chock on their words with the plot really kicks in...:D

Didn't really like Horizon so far (but I'll probably give it another go due to liking shows that kind of scale) with that lead and the ridiculous fanservicey designs getting in the way of the potentially great setting and large scale story since the storyline prior to it airing certainly had me with different expectations of the character art rather than fanservice fest but I totally agree with this. It's like if a show doesn't blow it's load spoiling every plot thread and type of action it's got within the first ep or fanservice all over the place... nothing's allowed to start from the beginning and build anymore.

This isn't a competition. I'm not really sure how you can be "right" in watching a show.

That's true but still boring after one ep even with the obvious teases of action and things to come like in this ep in both the OP and towards the end of the ep and that preview (just look at the OP of this show and all the different space locations and big ship scenes), we've just scratched the surface of the big action adventure part.


Clue for?
Marika is the only daughter. One of the part they skipped during the dinner is when Marika said if she becomes the captain, then her child will be the next in line as Marika doesn't has a little brother. Misa asked Ririka if Marika is really her daughter, because she's already planning ahead :uhoh: :heh:

LOL.

Ririka was great.


And my my, did Black Beard reached the Fountain of Youth or something? :eyespin:
http://i.imgur.com/CQl6x.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1WLnJ.jpg

Cool design.

[Saber Cherry]

Seriously? I really don't know why people keep coming back to this one scene and comparing it to Madoka? :confused:

The mysterious transfer student plot device thing has been done to death in anime for decades...:heh:

Must be the hair color :) Seriously though, the transfer student's demeanor (aside from when she ate dessert) and attitude toward the heroine (seemingly resentful yet protective at once) are very similar. Far more so than any other mysterious transfer student events I've watched.

[Utsuro no Hako]

Clue for?
Marika is the only daughter. One of the part they skipped during the dinner is when Marika said if she becomes the captain, then her child will be the next in line as Marika doesn't have a little brother. Misa asked Ririka if Marika is really her daughter, because she's already planning ahead :uhoh: :heh:

Clue as in "only daughter" isn't the same as "only child." The way it was phrased in the episode left open the possibility that Marika has a brother who's being passed over for some reason, but from your description it sounds like an oversight in the script rather than a clue.

[Archon_Wing]

Well, that wasn't much of a first episode, too much slow stuff and girls eating desserts that really falls under the cute girls doing cute things that I don't really want yet. It'd be better in the middle. Also, the OP is terribad.

Plusses included the BGM and no crappy fanservice despite the title. Oohh, tasteful?

However, it does have a kuudereish glasses chick voiced by KanaHana and that's enough to convince me to stay as they'll probably get into the action. :D

Episode 1 gets a 6/10; better than expected.

[Kaioshin Sama]

Well that was about as slow moving an opener as you can get, but ultimately pretty amusing, then again maybe that's just low expectations taking hold. Still the cast gives a good impression in the first episode by at least being likeable and amusing in their interactions and I kind of like the idea of piracy being a sort of legacy thing with Marika's mother being a legendary pirate hero and Marika being asked to follow in her footsteps. I could do without maid cafes and schools in my space pirate anime, but alas I'm well aware of the era we live in now and will probably have to be willing to make some concessions since this is after all based on a light novel.

Where I won't make a concession though is the opening. Hyadain should never be allowed to do another anime theme ever again because I swear to god they all just sound like horrendously off key noise and lack any rhythm and musicality. It's like Ali Projects second coming with this guy...just really atrociously awful...thankfully it can be skipped though.

Stand out character was probably Chiaki. Something about characters that are just so stoic and always seems to get some sort of grand entrance gets me chuckling. I can see Marika being a fun character in the future too with her sort of ditzy but earnest and energetic attitude that kind of reminds me of Noriko from Gunbuster!

Now what we need is for plot relevant stuff to start happening and consistently for about a month, which is something a lot of shows have struggled with of late I've found....especially ones based on light novels. Just start and keep up with the content, keep it amusing and fun and we'll have a nice little winter show on our hands. This first episode unfortunately doesn't give me the best of hopes that interesting stuff is going to start happening any time soon though. It's one thing to have a slow stretch after about a month, but too have a slow opener where almost nothing happens except some vague introductions to the back story...that's a warning bell that will have to be silenced in the follow up and quickly at that.

[JaLooNz]

This seems to be a keeper for the new seasons. Quite refreshing to see a show with some plot potential in a long while, with the last being Space Pirate Cobra...

[Silverwyrm]

Went into this show clueless, like what I have seen so far. Looks like it will be fun!

[DragoonKain3]

Chiaki stole the show for me. I've always preferred HanaKana in a stoic role, and that one piece serafuku complete with zettai ryouiki, on top of eyeglasses and long black hair? Hit almost every moe element I have. Makes her character definitely to be the most mysterious of the lot, especially since she has the same last name as another pirate in ED. Which begs the question, if Chiaki is the daughter of a rival pirate, why save her at all?

Only question is, will the show provide even a smattering of shippy material to keep me interested? Scanning the OP/ED shows no candidates unfortunately. :heh:

[Midonin]

This is a show that would naturally have plenty of ships in it.

[LoweGear]

This is a show that would naturally have plenty of ships in it.

.... I see what you did there. :uhoh:

As to this ep... LEGAL PIRATES and IT'S TIME FOR PIRACY! I do believe I'll be following this for a while.

Also, Chiaki's reaction to the parfait was :love:

[Kyuu]

I don't like how Marika is a clueless pink haired stereotype. But whatever. Chiaki alone made up for that. :D

[blewin]

quite an interesting anime. I really want to know how pirates can be legal. How can it work in this universe?

now let's hope the main lead doesn't disappoint. I hate it when a person who should be a normal person with average knowledge suddenly knows the trade of something that he hasn't come across before, and actually get to excel in it.

[Endless Soul]

I didn't really know what to expect from this show. Seems OK, but I'll definitely keep watching if only for calm, cool, collected, long-dark-haired, bespectacled, Chiaki.

Endless "Time for Piracy" Soul

[serenade_beta]

Ah, Joey-kyun, you're cosplaying again!

The character designs convinced me to try out this series and it turned out to be fairly good. Not really sure where it plans to go so far, but the atmosphere was good.
Feels a bit "old", but when "new" means to have 2ch/otaku language with otaku-pleasing girls everywhere, then yeah, go "old".

[DangerMouse]

Huh I liked how Marika actually didn't feel particularly clueless or brainless and she actually displayed brains in the simulator just as much as skill for stuff like piloting and watching and intelligently using various information gauges and using the information so I didn't think she came off as clueless or a hothead who doesn't think, except for with the thugs in the suits at the end for the comedy.

and no crappy fanservice despite the title. Oohh, tasteful?

Liked that too, was quite pleasantly surprised. Only thing I could have done without perhaps would have been with her working somewhere other than a maid cafe but they were surprisingly understated and quite tame with it and actually made it come off as a cafe and less of being there just for camera to show the maid outfits.

The thug scene was pretty amusing and liked the moment where her friend popped up and shuffled/flashed over to Chiaki to take her order lol. Chiaki's moment with the desert was pretty funny. Marika was my favorite in the premiere though.

quite an interesting anime. I really want to know how pirates can be legal. How can it work in this universe?

now let's hope the main lead doesn't disappoint. I hate it when a person who should be a normal person with average knowledge suddenly knows the trade of something that he hasn't come across before, and actually get to excel in it.

Speaking of this I liked that the creators naturally developed it to give her a time where at least she was able to do some researching (for a non-coincidental reason for a change too) which I liked so she'll at least have a reason to know at least a little bit about it, as you said I kind of hope she doesn't just "get" how the ship works best and instead hope they have to teach her a bit about the ship and how their piracy works.

[Kyuu]

quite an interesting anime. I really want to know how pirates can be legal. How can it work in this universe?

Look up the history on "Privateers". This is something I managed to pick up from... I believe... Civilization III. There was a unit called the "Privateer"; and with it, a player was able to attack other ships without war declaration. In an essence, it was "legalized pirating" in order to disrupt trade of rival nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer

And what do you know -- in that Wiki entry... the first thing I noticed ASAP: "Letter of Marque". Thus, likely the inspiration for this story. I feel cool now. :cool:

So, now, the notion of "pirating" isn't as evil as the current media makes it out to be. What a load of bullcrap the MPAA and RIAA has been.

[Kismet-chan]

I have not watched the episode itself yet, but I saw the OP and ED. The ED is kind of forgettable to me, but definitely not bad. It sounds kind of refreshing, actually. The OP on the other hand... was godly. o_O I was NOT expecting all of that. Honestly, lol. (And Hyadain's music composition is quite apparent; I can definitely hear a bit of his style in there.)

[Kagayaki]

Wow, this episode had reasonably-well-grounded characters and a almost-sort-of-believable setting when I was expecting an explosion of pantyshots, Gainaxing, and insane troll gibberish. I can see myself becoming a hardcore Marika fan as the show goes on. Chiaki seems targeted at fans of HanaKana's Kuroneko voice, which I'm not complaining about. I have confidence she'll get more development soon. The direction of the "action sequence" in this episode sucked hard though. It would probably be more accurate to call it the "inaction sequence with flashing lights". The OP was the second worst part of the show after that.

I like the slowness though. It's my opinion that the best part of pirate movies isn't the piracy, but rather the pirates themselves, who are often unique and very colorful characters. The actual act of piracy ("swashbuckling"), on the other hand is pretty much the same whether you do it via land, sea, air, or space, with burly sailors, Orlando Bloom, or miniskirted schoolgirls. So I'm glad that this show is developing characters and trying to explain the setting in the first episode rather than doing some cheesy piratey action sequence and fanservice explosion like I feared.

I now plan to watch this all the way to the end. (Disclaimer: My anime watching plans are about as accurate as weather forecasts.)

[DangerMouse]

This, I actually really enjoyed the "slowness" and real introduction and getting to know the world and characters. So glad the show was actually the thoughtful type and not the panty-flashes all over the place type it could have been.

I hope I'm not giving them a pass (guess we'll see next episode looking at that packed preview) but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt since the rest of the show looked so good and it feels fitting with the touch of oldschool and say pretty sure they purposefully obscured showing the action shootout scene this one time and just hinted at it with the beam blasts since Marika didn't get to really see it either keeping her head down and closing her eyes and covering her ears and keep up Marika's atmosphere and give next time a little more as Marika starts seeing it by starting understated before breaking out next ep which doesn't really happen anymore.

This chief animation director is no stranger to awesome action so hopefully that's the case and it's no wonder the show looks good (and hopefully will continue to when we get to the action), this guy was the chief animation director on the gorgeously animated Big O, and worked as animation director on various episodes or parts of Bebop, Mai-hime, Inuyasha, Trigun: Badlands Rumble, the Bebop Movie, and even an ep of Tiger & Bunny and more.

[justpassingby]

...
This thread was only 12 pages long. People should go through it if they wanted to know what this show is about.

Or, I can just repeat it here so people can actually consider if this anime will meet their expectation or not: This anime is revolving around the premise of "Marika growing up". The director wrote that, and the casts know it.

Source:

ヒロイン茉莉香の描き方ですね。小説の方だと狂言回し、振り回される側として描かれていますけど、アニメは 主人公ということで、彼女の成長を軸に26本書いてます From interview with 2.5 d (http://2-5-d.jp/topic/20111210/)

Other source: Nico Video. (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16405387) Skip to the part with the Benten Maru's casts. Itou Shizuka (Misa) said apart of Marika's growth, this is also about nurturing Mikako Komatsu
HanaKana said to look forward to Chiaki and Marika's friendship [source (http://moca-news.net/article/20111118/201111181627a/01/)] (last line of the interview)
So if you guys came for your favorite seiyuu or character archetype ( that is not Marika+Mikako) to grab the screen time, probably you'll be disappointed

Which begs the question, if Chiaki is the daughter of a rival pirate, why save her at all?

Only question is, will the show provide even a smattering of shippy material to keep me interested? Scanning the OP/ED shows no candidates unfortunately. :heh:
They're not rival. And sorry, no male childhood friends for you to ship the the main girls with. All of the male are either geezers or adults. This is not a romance novel for a start. You have better chance of shipping Rin and Jenny...oh wait :heh:


Edit:
http://i.imgur.com/gRE07.jpg

[DangerMouse]

...
This thread was only 12 pages long. People should go through it if they wanted to know what this show is about.

Or, I can just repeat it here so people can actually consider if this anime will meet their expectation or not: This anime is revolving around the premise of "Marika growing up". The director wrote that, and the casts know it.

Source:
From interview with 2.5 d (http://2-5-d.jp/topic/20111210/)

Other source: Nico Video. (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16405387) Skip to the part with the Benten Maru's casts. Itou Shizuka (Misa) said apart of Marika's growth, this is also about nurturing Mikako Komatsu
HanaKana said to look forward to Chiaki and Marika's friendship [source (http://moca-news.net/article/20111118/201111181627a/01/)] (last line of the interview)
So if you guys came for your favorite seiyuu or character archetype to grab the screen time that is not Marika+Mikako, probably you'll be disappointed


They're not rival. And sorry, no male childhood friends for you to ship the the main girls with. All of the male are either geezers or adults. This is not a romance novels for a start. You have better chance of shipping Rin and Jenny...oh wait :heh:


As I said earlier in the topic so glad this is the case, so nice and refreshing like this first episode, good to have a new straight up space scifi "coming of age" adventure I miss these. (To go with Last Exile, two in back-to-back seasons no less even, after such a drought!).


Edit:
http://i.imgur.com/gRE07.jpg

Big Oyaji as a nickname for Black Beard? Hehe, sounds like that could be amusing. :D

[FlareKnight]

Well not a bad first episode. Didn't really get into the OP's song though, so may just skip that going forward.

This is one time I can't blame the lead for going all "ehhh" on us. I mean just drop a bomb that her father is dead, was a pirate captain, and now she is in line to take over....Maybe she should have drank the wine :heh:.

Don't know this dead captain, but my sympathies. If everyone can just drink and laugh about it...yeah rough times.

Still seems like it could be pretty interesting with how much time they are putting into the setting.

[BaKaBaKaOtaKu]

does this show have yuri in it?

[Kyuu]

does this show have yuri in it?

I sure hope not. That'd ruin this series and take away the adventurous focus of the series.

[xizro345]

Doesn't look it has. Who is the main screenwriter, by the way, if anyone knows?

[Kazu-kun]

I sure hope not. That'd ruin this series and take away the adventurous focus of the series.

I think it has a bit between Jenny and Rin though, or so I heard.

[MrTerrorist]

Something interesting i remembered.
Misa mentions Marika is Gonzaemon's eldest child. So it appears Marika has some younger siblings. I wonder if we will meet them in anime?

[justpassingby]

Something interesting i remembered.
Misa mentions Marika is Gonzaemon's eldest child. So it appears Marika has some younger siblings. I wonder if we will meet them in anime?

Eh? While the anime line is the same as the novel "長子" (eldest child), but rereading some pages after that, Marika actually said she doesn't have any siblings "兄弟" (pg 56)
Or may be the director has something different in mind that can be used after finish adapting vol 3.

[ookamigirl]

Hmm... this one looks pretty interesting.
Space pirates and future, nice!
I'll be watching it.

[MrTerrorist]

Eh? While the anime line is the same as the novel "長子" (eldest child), but rereading some pages after that, Marika actually said she doesn't have any siblings "兄弟" (pg 56)
Or may be the director has something different in mind that can be used after finish adapting vol 3.

It could mean Gonzaemon had others kids with someone else instead of his wife, Marika's mother.

[Dark Wing]

quite an interesting anime. I really want to know how pirates can be legal. How can it work in this universe?

A privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Which the anime talked about during the intro.

Simply put they are mercenaries hired to do the dirty work for whatever government they are working for stealing enemy goods, sinking ships, etc...

The practice became out lawed in the end of the 18th century when many of the privateer who didn't get paid for their work started turning on the governments who under paid them.

[Kanon]

With a title like "Space pirates in miniskirt", I expected the worst, but it was surprisingly good. It does have that "old" anime feel which nowadays feels fresh. I'm not completely sold on it yet since I'm not entirely sure which direction the show will take, but this first episode definitely piqued my interest. It seems like it could really be "Harlock in miniskirt".

[totoum]

With a title like "Space pirates in miniskirt", I expected the worst, but it was surprisingly good.

Well the anime staff did change the title and took out the "miniskirt skirt" part.

And hell that title would seem inapropriate when I see Chiaki's outfit in the ED :heh:

[klare]

an entertaining 1st eps, looks like this one will not be too serious

Chiaki looks better in her school uniform...

[Kirarakim]

I would never have checked this out based on the title but after reading some good reviews I didn't want to miss out.

The first episode jumped around too much for me but it has potential: I am getting vibes of female friendship and adventure (not a bad combination). So far Chiaki is my favorite of the girls. I guess I just like those cool & collected types.

[tsunade666]

wow! episode 1 isn't what I expect. Also her her. It sounded more masculine which is good but it doesn't fit first on her looks but the choice of voice is good.