I don’t want to make too much of unintentional symbolism, but you’d be hard pressed to find a line that sums up this show better than “Let’s finish this – I have school tomorrow.” Mouretsu Pirates has a lot in common with it’s main character.  Both are likable, attractive, and very […] Read more

What do you know – it’s an episode of “Bodacious Space Pirates” with some actual piracy.  And dare I say, it was almost bodacious. I took my own advice and took in the refined, dignified Mouretsu before spoiling my palate with the intense and visceral Sympogear this week, and I think […] Read more

I really need to reverse the order of my schoolgirl sci-fi Saturday shows, because watching Mouretsu Pirates after Senshogear is like sipping a delicate Sancerre after downing a big tumbler of Talisker single malt… Wait, did Ririka really just say “Live long and prosper?” So, at long last, we have […] Read more

More of the same on this week’s Mouretsu Pirates – some very nice-looking brainy sci-fi slice-of-life that doesn’t do much to quicken the pulse. That’s not to say this was a bad episode.  We did get the interesting nugget of information that privateers are listed in the phone book, and […] Read more

This was the week that Bodacious Space Pirates finally got off the ground, but alas that’s truer in the literal sense than in the dramatic. To be blunt, I don’t really have all that much to say about this series.  It’s unusual to be both so conflicted and so ambivalent […] Read more

My reaction to the second episode of Bodacious Miniskirt Pirates is pretty much the same as to the first – a pretty good anime that isn’t doing anything much to excite me.   I’m seeing two trends emerge a couple of weeks into the Winter 2012 season.  One of them […] Read more