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Originally Posted by Kaioshin Sama

Spoiler for space:

Eh...light novel space pirating just may not be my thing. I was happy to have a change of pace from like 3 straight episodes of electronic warfare and enjoyed the little sequence of the Bentenmaru crew fleecing the cruise ship, but that brings me to my main issue with the show and that is that it still just completely and utterly lacks tension and things to keep me excited and that there's still just no plot or deeper character drama/interaction to speak of. Some people adore this sort of "slice of life" pace where the emphasis is on a minimum of plot and character development/drama or however you want to put it, but I don't. I just find it a needlessly dull and uninteresting way of conveying a story that typically makes it virtually indistinguishable in feel and tone from other shows with a similar way of telling it's story. Granted they're definitely trying a little more now at least, it's just that the material is still lacking versus what I'd like to be seeing out of a space pirate anime by this point in and Marika is still progressing way WAY too slowly in almost all aspects of her character development for my tastes. Hunter x Hunter has been in exam/trial mode since it started and yet the stakes are regularly more involving, the character interactions and analysis of the situation far deeper and introspective and even the lighter moments seem to carry more of an impact, so I'm not really sure why this show can't be stepping it up a notch as well. Some sort of tension or sense of danger may in fact help, but that still seems episodes off at this rate. To cite another example Legend of The Galactic Heroes had given us a reason to care about both lead characters by now, surrounded them with interesting supporting cast (I can see Pirates is at least trying at this, but so far all of them save for the busty scantily clad chick lack presence) and shown Reinhard's full rise to power at the head of the fleet. There had also been several interesting side stories that had developed and many interesting and enlightening dialogues between the characters. Perhaps it's expecting too much of a light novel based story to get as far as LOGH did in it's first 6 episodes, but it could at least stand to be putting it's foot on the gas a little bit more.

As it stands it's still just not doing it for me and has fallen way behind other shows from this season in terms of my level of interest in it, so I'm going to be putting this show on hold until it appears that some plot and/or character drama or some source of tension and excitement has taken place.

You do realise that if this was an actual standard "slice of life" episode it would have been a beach episode