Yo, ho, yo, ho, a pirate’s life for me!
Fun Fun Fun
Being a pirate just looks so much fun. First, you get to wear an awesome costume.
You also get to move around the ship on giant transparent slides. Best mode of transport!
Piracy!
I missed this last week, but not only do the people who are robbed get paid back by the insurance companies. The luxury ships themselves pay the pirates to rob them! I can’t imagine that goes over too well with the insurance companies…
I still can’t get over how thrilled these people are to get robbed.
Time Commitments
She’s already struggling to do both school and piracy. Yet she still does her job as a maid? Why? I’m sure piracy pays much better. You can’t do everything Marika. Sometimes you have to give things up.
And how can you be a pirate who doesn’t threaten people?!! That’s the whole point!
Further Thoughts
I hate her makeup. She looks much better without it.
I love how she complains about putting on the pirate costume. This show does have a focus on more practical concerns of piracy.
Needs more Chiaki.
Awesome technology. An actual wind-up pocketwatch that doubles as a holographic email reader. I want one for myself!
I think Marika should just keep her costume on all the time. It looks cool and is so much better than an ordinary school uniform.
Totally! She should just get her school to change its uniforms.
But Draggle! Marika wants to wear that cute maid uniform and serve tea, but I agree you would think robbing people from their riches would make way more money! Especially when you hit up the rich ships…YES! We need more Chiaki-chan and everyone knows she really missed hanging out with Marika.
Slides, epic pocket watches, dreams and horrible makeup! I did laugh every time she complained about having to change from normal clothes to pirate uniform…that would get old very fast xD
Dat loli princess…I guess Marika might have a new “little sister” to watch out for at school since she joins up as “mysterious transfer student/princess”
For the princess, I’m not entirely looking forward to this… Well, I have no idea what they’re planning to do with her, so we’ll see.
Well, OK. It’s more of a slice-of-life/life of a pirate than action or thrills (at least so far). Not terrible, I guess. It’s an average series now. Somewhat enjoyable.
It certainly isn’t the greatest show ever, but I’m still enjoying it.
I have the feeling that Marika gets cuter and more clumsy by the day. Just watch her clueless face in the background while her crew is managing the battle w/o her – http://bit.ly/zRwe08 – . Next time they enter a pirated liner she will trip and fall flat on her face!
I think the ship is designed to show as much of the captain’s leg and miniskirt as possible. Why make a practical design if you don’t have to fight for real? The picture below “Further Thoughts” is actually my favourite from your selection – I love the brown kneesocks and they are a great contrast to that fancy pirate uniform.
If this show becomes K-ON in space it will be just fine for me!
K-ON! is moe, and this isn’t…
Sure it is! Chiaki eating her sundaes, Marika being clumsy… I’d consider that moe.
Yeah, now that she has a crew that knows what it’s doing, it doesn’t seem like the captain’s job is nearly as critical. I’m guessing they’ll get into some tight spots eventually though.
I do like the costume, along with the socks. Just not the makeup, particularly on the lips.
I will agree on the makeup if she starts to wear it on a regular basis (then I’d drop this show) but I didn’t mind it for these few shots. It looked to me more like a young girl trying out this stuff for the first time which I found rather cute.
True, if she only wears it rarely it’s more amusing than anything else. She seems like a quick learner though, so hopefully she’ll figure out she doesn’t need it.
The character development has been good, though. We are getting to know the cast a lot better.
I guess. Although after such consistent character development, we knew the characters pretty well for a while now. It’s not like we’re learning *new* things about them at the moment.