(L) Mouretsu Pirates

[justpassingby]

Originally Posted by Stevie_Nix

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 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?

[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]

Originally Posted by 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...

Check out this. If you can't understand Japanese, use Google Translate but it wasn't always necessary.

[justpassingby]

I want that book

Originally Posted by 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...

This site 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"?

But here goes. From the anime Characters page (My literal + liberal translation, not official)

Spoiler for Characters:

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.


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.


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.


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.


Grunhilde Serenity (Kanemoto Hisako)
The 8th Imperial Princess of Serenity Planet Commonwealth royal family and Glewell's younger sister.


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.


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.


Coorie (Horie Yui)
Officer for Benten Maru's electronic warfare and communication. Coorie likes snacks and always has something
in her mouth


Luka (Mizuhara Kaoru)
Benten Maru's navigator. She has a habit holding up her cystall ball radar and muttering "I can see it......."


Sandaime (Matsuoka Yoshitsugu)
Benten Maru's engineer and in charge of damages control. A reliable mechanic man with great skills.


Schnitzer (Miyake Kenta)
A combat cyborg who leads Benten Maru's battles.


Hyakume (Fujiwara Keiji)
Officer for Benten Maru's Radar/Sensor system. He is also responsible for Information Gathering and Analysis


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.


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


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
Looking forward for OP and ED songs, and their sequence. Here hoping for "歩く系" or "走る系"

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




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

[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
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]

Spoiler for Mobirates 01 - Pirates (Men of Honor) ~Theme of the Space Pirates~:

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

[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?

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:

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]

Originally Posted by 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!

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.