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Mouretsu Pirates is an entertaining adventure anime series about space pirates. Its main weakness is a lack of real drama. The pirates do not commit any actual piracy, the bad guys are not so bad, and the space battles are almost bloodless.
The series’ strength is that it goes against the typical shounen style. The protagonist, Katou Marika, is female, smart, and decisive. In fact, almost all the characters are female and all the male character are adults. My favourite secondary character is Coorie.
The producers must be commended for avoiding the easy and obvious fanservice of having miniskirt-wearing teens in zero gravity, much to the disappointed of an the male teen viewers, I’m sure. ;)
Are you watching Bodacious Space Pirates? I am liking the show, even though a ship filled with mini-skirt wearing girls floating in zero G with not a single panty shot seems to be violating the laws of physics.
That, and their unbound long hair doesn’t float. Given that the physics in the rest of the show is surprisingly good, it is either cheap character design, self-censorship, or BD marketing tactics.
