Bodacious Space Pirates Trailer
A trailer for the TV anime Bodacious Space Pirates has beenreleased on Bandai Channel’s streaming service.
Synopsis
High school student Marika lives in a distant galaxy known as Uminoakeboshi. When she isn’t studying she spends her days working at a space yacht club and a retro café. All that changes when two men appear claiming to have been part of a crew of a space pirate ship named Bentenmaru which was owned by her father. It turns out that the ship has to be inherited by the captain’s descendatnts and that means Marika and so she finds herself embarking on a new life in space priacy. Presumably in a mini skirt.
Bodacious Space Pirates (Mōretsu Pirates) is an adaptation of Yuichi Sasamoto’s sci-fi comedy light novel series Mini-Skirt Uchū Kaizoku (Mini-Skirt [Space] Pirates) and it is being animated by Satelight (Aquarion). Sasamoto might be familiar to older anime fans since he wrote the screenplays for 80’s anime Dirty Pair and The Venus Wars.
The show is being directed by Tatsuo Sato who has worked on classics like Cat Soup and Martian Successor Nadesico as director and Azumanga Daioh and Kino’s Journey as planner. The anime featuresh art design from Masahiro Sato who has worked on other titles such as Armitage III, the movie Colorful and House of Five Leaves. Music being handled by Starchild Records who have worked on so many anime from Arakawa Under the Bridge to Evangelion to Toradora and Zan Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei.
The cast includes Mikako Komatsu (Gosick, Heroman, Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing) as Marika Kato, Kana Hanazawa (Angel Beats!, Aquarion Evol, Durarara!!, Steins;Gate) as Chiaki Kurihara, Keiji Fujiwara (Antique Bakery, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Baccano! Nodame Cantabile) as Hyakume
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