If you want to watch Mouretsu Pirates this month with your fellow club members, will this be your first time?
First time watcher.
80.0%
16
Rewatching.
20.0%
4
20 votes
| It's time for the first I<3Y&SA Monthly Spotlight Show of the new year and it's time for some piracy! Each month a new entry will be added to encourage memebers of this club to discover a show they haven't seen, to rewatch an old favorite or to give one a second chance. The shows may be Yuri (implied or explicit), Shoujo Ai or even shows that don't quite qualify for either of those, but we feel our members would like. This January of 2014, the Spotlight is on Mouretsu Pirates! (Bodacious Space Pirates!) What is it?  Don't try this at home, even though it'd make you look really cool. Mouretsu Pirates is a show about Marika Kato, a high school girl whose normal everyday life is turned upside down when she inherits the position of captain for a pirate ship! IN SPAAAAACE! It's an absolute joyful ride and surprisingly a lot smarter than the concept or title may initially lead you to believe. Why should I watch it?  I wasn't prepared to answer this. I didn't even prepare a new joke. I don't think I've ever really mentioned it before or anything, so I doubt any of you would know this but I'm kind of a fan of this show.  EHH!? Ahem, in any case, I guarantee no matter how wide anyone opened their ears, I could fill their heads with reasons I absolutely love this show but I'll try to keep this as brief as I personally can. By the way, I got a few request to do this show next, so don't blame me entirely for using all my aces in the first two hands! Mouretsu Pirates features a cast of strong, independent and capable female characters pulling off extraordinary feats. It's lighthearted in that the drama never gets too intense but you'll still be at the edge of your seat at the peak of action. There's a sense of awareness that the show's concept is over the top but it manages to take it's own content seriously and more importantly, respectfully. Space travel and battles spare no details and they are never dumbed down for the audience. The "piracy" in the show is actually more to do with privateering, showmanship and a bit of political grand standing that is the result of wars no longer being fought by the time our story begins. This is another female dominant casted show, like last month's Saki but unlike Saki, don't expect too much in the ways of fan service. There's some sprinkled in here and there but for a show with the international name "Bodacious Space Pirates" and being adapted by a series of Light Novels called "Miniskirt Pirates", it's surprisingly restrained. No girl in the show is there simply to look at and everyone is shown to be capable at their roles. The Hakuhou Girls Academy all Girls' Yacht Club, of which Marika joins, is actually fully composed of members with a history of skills perfect for any space piracy operation. Mouretsu Pirates is 26 episodes long and very easily divided into movie sized arcs, with some bridging episodes in-between. You'll learn with Marika the secret history of her parents' former profession and learn why she may have been born to take the helm of her late father's ship, the Bentenmaru. You'll learn about what it actually means to be a space pirate and how this whole piracy business all got started. You'll travel with the crew and a royal princess across space in the hunt for a golden ghost ship. You'll go pirating with the Hakuhou Girls Academy Yacht Club and even take a break to do some pod Dingy-racing. If that's not enough, I'll remind you that this is the open universe and you never know what might be lurking out of the shadows next! A Mouretsu Pirates movie will be coming out next month too! Expect Blu-Rays sometime in 2034, I'm estimating. Will there be Yuri?  The most unrealistic part of the show is that this scene never happens in it. Yes. What else to look for? Oh, you want more details? Okay, it's not a Yuri show exactly but it is fairly goggle friendly. I wouldn't call it a selling point but there are plenty of moments I believe will make you gleeful. The character Chiaki certainly has some tsundere traits towards her fellow Yatch Club members and particularly towards Captain Marika, which I am definitely Pirate Shipping. In addition to that, there's a real actual yuri couple! No, really, they kiss! We see it! It's not ambiguous for once, there's an actual relationship between girls. It's also about the only relationship that is confirmed in the show. There's actually just not a lot of time for these kind of things, because you see, it's time . . .  for some piracy! What else to look for? 1.) Quality! From the animation to the sound effects, music, the OP and multiple EDs, Mouretsu Pirates is well crafted and it shows. The results are nothing less than slick. 2.) Early in episode 17, in a conversation Marika calls someone "Senpai". The way she says it, I could listen to on loop for days. 3.) A very large hospital robe, a beanie baby collection, multiple personalities, incredibly vague predictions and a bombshell. Scavenger hunt! So that's this January's Spotlight Show. Use this thread to talk about Mouretsu Pirates (Bodacious Space Pirates) if you wish. It seems like last month's thread had a pretty good flow develop in it, so we're going to take the same approach here. Tell us if you're going to watch the show this month, tell us how you intend to go about watching it and keep us updated as you progress, being mindful of using spoiler tags for people who aren't where you are yet. A good example is I just finished episode 17 here are my thoughts I'd love to see your favorite promo, fan art and videos for the show. Most importantly, have fun with watching with your fellow members! Have suggestions about the Spotlight threads or what shows should be featured in the future? PM me or send me a message on my wall. Previous Spotlights 2013 |
removed-userJun 6, 2014 8:23 PM
| Yeah :D I can't w8 to watch this :D (after all is one of my suggestions). I also found subs in my native language \(^o^)/ And the best thing is... main character - Marika - has the same name as me \(^o^)/ |
| I just finished 1st episode (my marathon's plan went up the spout so it was only 1 episode today :P) Episode make me laugh quite often :D |
AlextashaJan 2, 2014 1:51 AM
| @Juffe, the original Battlestar Galactica from the 70s/80s or the new Battlestar Galactica? ;) I am going to go with the show feels sort of like classic Star Trek, instead of Captain Kirk we have Captain Marika. They both are really cool and get all the ladies… Re-watching and looking forward to finding things I didn’t see the first time. Let’s go get some Bodacious Space Pirate booty… Yes, I went there… ;) |
Alextasha said: So I checked ^^ and of course! I was Mato from Black Rock Shooter, Aoi from Coppelion, Manaka from Nagi no Asukara, Kuroneko from Oreimo :P (not mention Psycho pass and Steins;Gate) She's everywhere these days. Don't get me wrong, I like her voice, but there was a period of a few months where she was in about nearly every anime I watched that time, not on purpose. I needed a little break from her voice, it started to get really annoying. Alextasha said: Episode 3 |
Aclos said: |
| Saki was more popular :P If Pirates weren't spotlight I propably wasn't going watching them now :P (maybe next year :P) Offtop: |
| ^The ending song is one of the best songs I heard in the past 6 months. Alextasha said: Saki was more popular :P Maybe because this one isn't really yuri? I don't mind it being the spotlight, but I was surprised when i saw that it is. |
| Just because of this thread, I'm gonna rewatch this show for the, hmm, 6th time? :3 |
| Just started this today. It's interesting but I have hard time getting into story-driven shows, so it will take me a few episodes to really appreciate what is going on. Episode 1: Episode 2: Momoiro Clover Z everywhere. I like the OP but I am still undecided on the ED. |
TheAyaya said: Episode 1: |
Harr harr! Love the music in mouretsu. :P Can't find my favourite though. D: |
KatsJan 5, 2014 4:54 AM
| What would you do, if you have soooo many thing to do for your classes? Simple! Watch Pirates! xD But only one episode :P Episode 4 I have problem to break into this show. Plot is going slowly but I will w8 for big boom :P And in episode 4 music was fantastic :D (need to find OST :D) |
| Episode 5 Episode 6 |
| Im on Ep 13 now, and its really nice :D (first time watcher) I really like how the plot if flowing, like not too much going on in a short amount of time |
| ooh I look forward to it :3 |
| Man, my neck hurts. Hope I made it by the deadline. Same with the last spotlight, I have marathon'd the whole second half of the series in one sitting. I hope this doesn't turn into a habit. Anyways, here's my wall of text: Good show, good show. Though as was mentioned earlier, it didn't really seem like a super yuri friendly show. This is coming from a guy who watches mostly subtext heavy yuri anime. I can get why you wouldn't pick stuff that everyone's probably seen like YRYR but maybe next should be something with a bit more...punch? Weight? Some term or another. Something like Saki I guess. |
| Finally started this spotlight, really late… procrastinated then became to busy. Re-watched the first 5 episodes. |
| I imagine this is what your face looked like when you found that figurine. :) |
| Re-watched the episodes 6-13. |
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