Bodacious Space Pirates/Characters
Marika Kato
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu
The main character. Marika starts off the story as a schoolgirl who participates in her school's space yacht club and works part-time at a local Maid Cafe. It soon turns out that she is actually the only daughter of Gonzaemon Kato, captain of the pirate ship Bentenmaru, and therefore the only person who can take his place (legally). While she's reluctant to take on the role, she does display natural talent for the job and accepts becoming Captain of the Bentenmaru. [1]
- Ace Pilot: Marika's first scene shows her piloting an unmanned shuttle from space with considerable skill. (Although it's actually a simulator.)
- Even the Girls Want Her: Be it as an Ordinary High School Student or a Pirate Girl.
- Guile Hero: Tends to use her tactical prowess to avoid fighting opponents head on.
- Idiot Hair: Most visible when she's in her school uniform.
- The Kirk
- Meido: Marika works part-time at a noir-style high-class Maid Cafe.
- Ordinary High School Student: At the start of the show.
- Pirate Girl: Daughter of the late Captain of the Bentenmaru and it's current Captain.
Tropes relating to Marika's Pirate persona
- Action Girl: Takes on "a brave passenger" aboard the Princess Apricot in a sword fight, and wins... kinda.
- Affably Evil: Tells the passengers of the Princess Apricot they won't be harmed so long as they comply with her demands.
- Badass Adorable: When they raid the Princess Apricot Hyakume says the passengers will be really happy as not only do they get to experience a pirate raid, the pirate's captain is a cute girl.
- Badass Cape: One of the many modifications Mami added made the cape on Marika's pirate uniform even more badass looking.
- Badass Longcoat
- Catch Phrase: Saa! Kaizoku no jikan da! (It's time for some piracy!)
- Combat Pragmatist: When she loses her duel against Kane she uses a hidden gun to just shoot him instead.
- Cool Hat: de rigueur for a pirate captain, specifically it's a Bicorne.
- Evil Is Hammy: Especially her big speeches during the raid on the Princess Apricot. Chiaki even comments that Marika seems to be getting really into it.
- When she herself poses as Marika in ep. 10, though, she arguably hams it up even more.
- Evil Laugh: In episode 6... well she gives it a a go at least.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Thanks to Mami's modifications
Chiaki Kurihara
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
Introduced as just the New Transfer Student to Marika's class, Chiaki turns out to be aware of Marika's parentage, and display similar skills in piloting a space ship. She's actually the daughter of the captain of the pirate ship Barbaroosa. [2]
- Ace Pilot: She won the dinghy race after all.
- Catch Phrase: "Don't call me that." In reference to the Insistent Terminology.
- Combat Pragmatist: In Sailing 1, she fires off a low-powered flare to blind the would-be kidnapper, then uses the resulting gunfight to cover her extraction of Marika.
- Defrosting Ice Queen
- Evil Is Hammy: When imitating Marika's pirate persona, she chews the scenery even more than her.
- Foil: To Marika.
- Hime Cut: Her usual hairstyle.
- Insistent Terminology: Hates having -chan being added to her name.
- Luminescent Blush: When eating sweet things, especially chocolate parfait.
- Meganekko
- New Transfer Student
- Pirate Girl
- The Spock
- The Stoic: Except when she encounters a chocolate parfait.
- Sweet Tooth
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
- Tsundere: Type A. Oh, lordy.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A. Misses the grade S only by having a Hime Cut instead of required twintails.
Ririka Kato
Voiced by: Yuko Kaida
Marika's mother, and a former Space Pirate herself. [3]
- Iron Chef: Can cook really well
- Lethal Chef: When she was a pirate. Misa recalls her food and gets shivers from the memories.
- Hot Mom
- Red Baron: "Blaster" Ririka.
- Retired Badass
- Supreme Chef: To the point that her cooking is a regular subject of the series' Food Porn moments.
- In episode 13, Misa mentions that when she first came on board, she was a Lethal Chef.
Kane McDougal
Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze
Helmsman aboard the Bentenmaru, and Marika's substitute teacher. [4]
- Ace Pilot
- Bishounen: In his role as a teacher, he teaches a few dozen teenage girls, several of whom notice how pretty he is.
- In Episode 19, after they've learned his identity, several of them demand he teach them how to pilot dinghies. Very loudly and insistently.
- Happily Married: He and Misa pose as a married couple as part of their cover identities at Hakuho Academy.
Misa Grandwood
Voiced by: Shizuka Ito
The medic aboard the Bentenmaru.[5]
- Drives Like Crazy
- Happily Married: She and Kane pose as a married couple as part of their cover identities at Hakuho Academy.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She really likes her drink.
- The Medic: Presumably.
- Ms. Fanservice: By the show's relatively restrained standards.
- Multicolored Hair
- Number Two: Quite surprisingly for The Medic seems to serve as a Bentenmaru's XO, especially in a crew management aspect.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted for she's pretty kind.
- Stripperiffic: Her outfit when on-board the Bentenmaru. Think "skintight bodysuit with bits cut out of it".
Schnitzer
Voiced by: Kenta Miyake
The Bentenmaru's weapons officer, a hulking, demonic Cyborg. Not a Gentle Giant by any means, but much nicer than one might expect from his appearance. [6]
- The Big Guy: Literally and metaphorically.
- Caped Mecha: Cyborg, technically, but apart from that he's got the aesthetic down pat.
- Chest Blaster: Six of 'em, and they're implied to be only part of an extensive suite of built-in weaponry.
- Face of a Thug: Actually looks outright demonic, though when he talks he's fairly polite and soft spoken. He's also shy about being seen by people he doesn't know unless he's working.
- Horned Humanoid: It may be a helmet but he's never seen with it off.
- The Quiet One: Doesn't talk much at all.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Well, he is a nine-foot-tall cyborg. Also the Bentenmaru's weapons officer.
Jenny Dolittle
Voiced by: Rina Sato.
President of the Hakuho Academy Space Yacht Club - and, therefore, captain of the Odette II. Lynn's lover. [7].
- The Captain: Acts in this role for the Odette II's cruise. While she doesn't seem to share Marika's tactical talent, she appears a natural at the crew management aspect.
- Club President
- Damsel in Distress: In episode 17 it's revealed she, being forced into an Arranged Marriage by her uncle and Lynn wants to hire the Bentenmaru to rescue her...
- Badass Damsel: Which is rendered moot when she takes a chance to escape by shooting her way to an electronic warfare/recon fighter with a pistol she had hidden under her wedding dress.
- Lipstick Lesbian
- School Idol
- Ojou: Heir to the Dolittle Space Shipping conglomerate.
- Precision F-Strike/Sophisticated As Hell: Her response to Lightening 11's demand for the Odette II's immediate surrender was "Bakame!" which is roughly equivalent to saying "You stupid son of a bitch!" in English, Crunchyroll subtitled it as "Nuts!". Either way it's not language you'd normally hear from an Ojou
- Put on a Bus: Jenny has graduated from Hakuho Academy by Sailing 12.
- Silk Hiding Steel: A pistol to be precise.
Lynn Lambretta
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Voiced by:' Youko Hikasa
Vice-president of the Space Yacht Club. A troublemaker and skilled hacker. She is also a lesbian and Jenny's lover. [8]
- Alliterative Name
- Butch Lesbian: Rare example of one being portrayed as attractive and feminine.
- Club President: She takes over after Jenny graduates.
- The Lancer: To Jenny.
- Playful Hacker
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A
Mami Endo
Voiced by: Chiaki Omigawa
Marika's friend and co-worker from the Maid Cafe. The only named character who has never been into space. [9]
- Bob Haircut
- Curtains Match the Window
- The Fashionista: Makes several modifications to Marika's pirate uniform
- Genki Girl
- Meido
Princess Gruier Serenity
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu
A princess who stows away on the Bentenmaru.[10]
- Badass Adorable/Little Miss Badass/Badass Princess: She may not be an Action Girl but the way she addressed the Serenity ships in Episode 9 was pretty badass, especially the threatening way she signed off.
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Gruier: "...Cease fire immediately! Failure to comply will be regarded as treason! That is all! |
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- Expy: Hello, future descendant of Sailor Moon!
- Hair of Gold
- The McCoy: As of the "Hakuoh Pirates" arc, she is falling into this role.
- Odango Hair: Apparently her character design was redone for the anime as a Shout-Out to Sailor Moon.
- Pirate Girl: Though only briefly when Marika lets her borrow the outerwear from her uniform. When Marika suggests the switch one of the other crew members even (jokingly) calls her "The Pirate Queen"
- Rapunzel Hair
- Spell My Name with an "S": Gruelle in the official website but Gruier in the anime.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to her own sister Grunhilde's Tomboy.
Grunhilde Serenity
Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto
Gruier's younger sister.
- Ace Pilot: In episode 21 she came in second in the yacht race, losing only to Chiaki.
- Odango Hair: After entering Hakuoh Academy.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's not afraid to lead her soldiers into battle.
- Badass Princess: Who wears a prince outfit.
- Tomboy Her military uniform resembles more of a prince's take on an old Royal Marines/British Army redcoat uniform.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to her own sister Gruier's Girly Girl.
- Tomboyish Ponytail
Coorie
Voiced by: Yui Horie
Electronic Warfare. [11]
Luca
Voiced by: Kaoru Mizuhara
Navigator and Seer. [12]
San-Daime
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Engineer, Damage Control. [13]
- Real Men Wear Pink: He collects stuffed animals.
- Watch the Paint Job: Goes into a frenzy at the thought of the Yacht Club accidentally breaking Bentenmaru.
Hyakume
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
Laser Radar, Intel. [14]
Ai Hoshimiya
Voiced by: Ai Kayano
New member of the Space Yacht Club and is a rookie pilot.
- Ace Pilot: Effortlessly dodges gunfire from Jenny's Evil Uncle ships.
- In episode 20 she dodges out of danger easily when one of the other girls loses control of her yacht in the simulator... which Kane had set to replicate the "great red spot" on Jupiter which is home to the strongest winds in the solar system.
- In episode 21, after her dinghy's electronics have been knocked out, Ai has no navigation systems. What does she do? Open the hatch and proceed to stellar navigate by sight, without even a sextant.
- Badass Adorable: When she's in at the helm, she's like a moefied Wash.
- Bob Haircut
- The Danza: Is voiced by Ai Kayano
- Dude Magnet: During the Space Yacht Club's raid on the Princess Apricot out of all the girls, she is the only one being hit on.
- Nice Hat
- Shrinking Violet: Appears as this at first, but is slowly starting to come out of her shell.
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