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'''''Bodacious Space Pirates''''' (also known as ''Môretsu'' (Go-getter) ''Space Pirates'') is a 2012 anime based on the novels, ''Miniskirt Space Pirates'' by Yûichi Sasamoto.
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The anime can be watched legally at [http://www.crunchyroll.com/bodacious-space-pirates Crunchyroll] and [http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Bodacious-Space-Pirates/Watch The Anime Network.]
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* [[Ace Custom]]: The ''Bentenmaru'' is highly modified but could be considered to zigzagging this trope as while the Electronic Warfare suite is highly advanced the engines are so old that one of them just barely works much of the time.
* [[Ace Pilot]]: Kane McDougal, ''Bentenmaru'''s helmsman and Marika's new substitute teacher. Marika manages to impress him.
** Ai Hoshimiya, new member of the Space Yacht Club and rookie pilot. In episode 21 Ai star-navigates by sight after her dinghy's electronics are knocked out. She also saves the Bentenmaru by {{spoiler|predicting the wind currents to help them shoot down the enemy.}}
* [[Action Girl]]: Jenny Dolittle {{spoiler|in her wedding gown}}
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: "Legal pirates" seems ridiculous, until you hit [[That Other Wiki|the history books]] about [[Privateer|Privateers]].
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: Averted! It's not a perfect depiction of weapon handling by any means, but the characters display trigger discipline, weapons are unloaded prior to firing, and safety gear is employed during training.
* [[Beach Episode]]: Subverted in episode 6. Marika and Mami start the episode getting ready to go to the beach... only for Misa and Kane to pick Marika up for completing all the paperwork necessary for the letter of marque.
** They finally give us one in episode 20, but it's completely free of fan service. Well, save for a load of shots of [[Heroic Build|Kane in a speedo]]. And a few shots of the girls' swimsuit clad behinds. [[Squick|Including tiny little Ai]].
* [[Beergasm]]: Or more accurately, Winegasm.
* [[Beam Spam]]: The ''Bentenmaru'' fires off a particularly impressive spread in Episode 9. This being the type of show it is, though, they're ''communications'' lasers.
** They do it for real in ep 10.
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* [[BFG]]: Ririka's gun range practice with Marika
* [[BFS]]: Warships employed by the Galactic Empire and its vassal-states, the ''Corback''-class destroyers and ''Talbot''-class battleships, tend to resemble gigantic blades with engines stuck on the end. It seems to be an intimidation method
** ''Maracot''-class battleships (''Queen Serendipity'' and ''Jabberwocky'') are [[Dual
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The climax of Episode 21 has a bunch of these turn up in a row. First {{spoiler|an aircraft looking to kill Marika appears and attacks the racers indiscriminately as they don't know which dingy is hers, she saves everyone by identifying herself while Chiaki leads the racers away. ''Then'' the race organiser appears in a dingy almost identical to Marika's, she gets shot down but the ''Bentenmaru'' drops into the atmosphere and puts the ship between Marika and her would be assassins and pick her up. ''Then'' just as the crew realises they can't manuver well enough to take out the aircraft [[Badass Adorable|Ai]] returns in her dingy to help them use the wind to shoot down the enemy.}}
* [[Boarding Party]]: ''Bentenmaru'' deploys something that looks out of ''[[
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: ''Both'' Ririka and Misa.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The book Marika read during the pirate scene of episode 6? The script of the episode itself, complete with the same subtitle. (Though it use the name of the [[Light Novel]]).
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: When the {{spoiler|second raid on the ''Princess Apricot'' doesn't go as smoothly as expected, the Captain suggests that maybe the crew has taken ill and been replaced by trainees}}. This is dismissed as a ridiculous idea.
** Of course, it helped that Show at the insurance company had {{spoiler|warned the captain of the ''Princess Apricot'' that Marika's regular crew were all sick.}}
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Chiaki is basically [[Ore no Imouto ga Konna
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Marika: ''Saa! Kaizoku no jikan da!'' (It's time for some piracy!)
** This seems to be a general pirate/Kato [[Catch Phrase]] as it's also used by [[Retired Badass|"Blaster" Ririka]] in a flashback and Chiaki when she covers for Marika.
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** The naval warships shown in the series look like massive blades.
* [[Cosplay]]: The Girl's Yacht Club perform their pirating role in episode 16 in various cosplay costumes, provided by Mami. While it does surprise the guests of the ship they're pirating, it doesn't seem to affect the job too much, although Marika is clearly uncomfortable with the lack of seriousness the costumes present.
** Specifically they have: an [[Our Angels Are Different|Angel]], [[Anime Chinese Girl]] (who's blonde...), [[The Cheerleader]], a [[Cowboy|Cowgirl]], [[Cute Monster Girl]]/[[Kaiju]], [[Cute Witch]]/[[Dark Magical Girl]], [[Fair Cop]], [[Fair Folk]], a [[Horny Devil]], [[Naughty Nun]], [[Night Nurse]], [[Playboy Bunny]] and [[An Officer and
** Episode 18 adds {{spoiler|Chiaki}} as a [[Miko]]
** And Jenny uses {{spoiler|her wedding gown}} as a cosplay costume.
* [[Dangerously
** In episode 14, Gruier buys a business suit for Marika in an attempt to disguise her while they're trying find a replacement crew while the original is recuperating in a hospital. Marika [[Hypocritical Humor|laments that its skirt is so short]], and Gruier immediately points out that pants on the ''Bentenmaru'' captain is completely unacceptable. Yay for [[Fan Service]].
** Episode 20 shows the the school uniform is [[media:
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Episode 21 starts to hint at this with the attack on Marika's escort plane during the race, and in episode 22 ships really start getting attacked and destroyed out of the blue, unlike earlier episodes where almost no one died or even had their ship disabled, aside from the Lightning 11 in the first arc/few episodes.
* [[Designer Babies]]: {{spoiler|Evidently the entire Serenity Royal Family is this.}}
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* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Misa, the school nurse/medic aboard the ''Bentenmaru''. In episode 8, after arriving at the airport, both Marika and Gruier have a physically exhausted look on their faces. A short flashback then shows that they were screaming the entire drive there due to Misa driving really fast.
* [[The Empire]]: The Galactic Empire, the most powerful faction in the series. Surprisingly, despite being an expansionist force that conquer other star systems, the Empire is rather benevolent to the planets they ruled, allowing them the right to self-rule and have their own defense force in exchange those planets swear allegiance to the Empire and their forces becoming a part of the Empire's forces. {{spoiler|The Empire was the reason the War of Independence ended because their fleets were ten times bigger and overwhelm both the Federation and Alliance fleets.}}
* [[
* [[Evolving Credits]]: The ending for episode 9 is different from the previous episodes.
** Episode 14's end credits reflects the modifications Mami makes to Marika's pirate uniform. In addition, the Serenity princesses are also shown walking alongside Marika, Chiaki, and Mami.
* [[Expy]]: Marika and Chiaki are commonly compared to [[Star Trek
** Princess Gruier Serenity is first introduced [http://myanimelist.net/character/49879/Gruier_Serenity in a white gown] and as being a member of the Serenity royal family, and is later reintroduced in the same episode as a junior high school student in a [[Sailor Fuku]] [http://avvesione.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/mouretsu_pirates-08-gruier-princess_serenity-school_uniform-smile.jpg with her hair done up in twin odango with pigtails]. Now, [[Sailor Moon
*** As if that wasn't enough, Gruier's little sister Grunhilde, who greatly resembles her, starts wearing the exact same haristyle when she later joins the same middle school.
**** This was probably intended as a reference to ''Sailor Moon'''s 20th anniversary.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: The "Revolutionaries" in episode 18 fail to notice that the ''Bentenmaru'' has docked and they've been boarded until {{spoiler|Chiaki starts shooting off her rifle and brings down a chandelier that's right above them while giving them a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]!}}
* [[Food Porn]]: Marika's chocolate parfait. Ririka's cooking also gets some inordinate attention. Episode 9: the melon.
* [[Funny Afro]]: Show, the agent at the insurance company.
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Chiaki really objects to Marika or Mami adding [[Japanese Honorifics|-chan]] to her name. It doesn't stop them from doing it constantly.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The series uses the English word "sailing" in place of "episode".
* [[Is This Thing On?]]: This happens almost word for word when Marika raids the ''Princess Apricot'', causing her to get flustered and botch her intro. {{spoiler|Becomes a [[Running Gag]] as in episode 16 it happens again when she raids the same liner with the Yacht club members}}
* [[Large Ham]]: Show, the guy at the insurance company. Kenjo Kurihara comes close, and Chiaki lapses into this during Pirate raids.
** Kane does this when he shows back up at school as their coach in episode 20. To the point that Marika wonders why he's speaking in a normal tone at the end when he's simply piloting the Bentenmaru
* [[Latex Space Suit]]: The female students wear them on their cruise. Kane notes that the guy who provided them must've done so on purpose. A more realistic one appears in the intro, and the ''Bentenmaru'''s own stock are about as un-latexy as you can get, resembling [[Mini
** The one Marika wears in ep 12 is quite flattering, as is Misa's.
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Ririka, when she first joined the crew of Bentenmaru. Fortunately, she got better.
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** {{spoiler|Grunhilde later in episode 13}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: Marika has one when she's wearing her pirate outfit, and Ai Hoshimiya wears one with a hint of cat ears on hers.
* [[
** Chiaki does this as well in the beginning of episode 10, in a very [[Large Ham]] type fashion while filling in for Marika.
** Jenny does it in episode 17, but it isn't very convincing.
* [[Non
** That scene makes more sense when you realize that Japanese history contains many pirates, but Japan never had any equivalent of privateers.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The regular crew of the Bentenmaru, confined in a hospital under quarantine, has that look/attitude as they hurriedly scramble to come up with an impromptu manual for the Girls Yacht club for the ship after Marika decides to use them in episode 15 for a pirate raid.
** Robert Dolittle in episode 18 when {{spoiler|Marika plays his phone recording.}}
** Pretty much every single pirate in episode 22 has that look on their face at various points in time when a huge ship starts attacking them out of nowhere, including the Bentenmaru's crew.
* [[Only in It For
** It's also an easy way for the pirates to maintain a high rate of raids so the Letter of Marque doesn't expire.
* [[Odango Hair]]: Gruier and Grunhilde after being enrolled in Hakuho Academy
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Marika before she is recruited as a pirate.
* [[Paper
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Inverted, as Ririka apparently left Gonzaemon herself, probably wishing a quieter life for Marika.
* [[Pirate Girl]]: Marika {{spoiler|and Chiaki.}}
* [[Privateer]]: The pirate ship ''Bentenmaru'' is operating under a Letter of Marque, given to it during the War of Independence.
* [[Playful Hacker]]: Lynn Lambretta and Courier. And Hyakume is no slouch, either.
* [[Plot
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Hugh & Dolittle Interstellar Trading Company has its own fleet of naval warships. It's worth noting that presently, Lloyds of London is preparing its own small escort fleet, and the East India Company had its own private navy.
* [[Punch Clock Hero]]: In a literal version of this, Misa refuses to allow Marika or Gruier to stay on the bridge for longer than 8 hours a day due to child labor laws.
* [[Romantic Two
** In episode 19, it gets more blatant from Gruier.
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* [[Running Gag]]: Absolutely no one at all listens to Chiaki's embarrassed requests to stop calling her [[Japanese Honorifics|"Chiaki-Chan".]]
** Marika making a certain shout when she is surprised, best transcribed as "'''!!!'''"
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: {{spoiler|Jenny and Lynn. They actually kiss in episode 17, and cue the girls' cute [[Squee]].}}
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: When Chiaki questions Marika's decision to take the job {{spoiler|to save Jenny from an [[Arranged Marriage]]}} even though it could be dangerous and may cost her pirating license this is part of her justification for doing so, the other parts being [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|she is the ''Bentenmaru's'' captain]] and [[Rule of Fun|it sounds like fun]].
** The ''real'' reason is that Marika's friend Jenny {{spoiler|is in deep trouble, needs help, and can't wait.}} You '''don't''' turn your back on your friends.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: It's stated at the end of episode 18 that {{spoiler|Jenny's uncle}} will most likely escape prosecution and keep his job despite being exposed as a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] because of this.
* [[Shout
** [
** One of the Space Yacht members name is Syoko '''Kobayashimaru'''. Anyone familiar with her surname knows it's a reference to the famous [[Unwinnable Training Simulation|Kobayashi Maru]] test from ''[[
*** Made even better since the Kobayashi Maru and Syoko Kobayashimaru are both from [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090525034152/memoryalpha/en/images/4/41/Kobayashi_Maru_data.jpg the Tau Ceti system].
** Jenny's "Fools!" message from episode 5 is a nod to the first episode of ''[[
*** Her surname is also a reference to [
** The challenge and response used by Ririka and the pirates in the first episode is the first line of the theme song for ''[[
** The Original Seven privateers, of which ''Hakuchou/Odette II and Bentenmaru'' are survivors, are a nod to seven privateers paid for by George Washington during the Revolutionary War; while none of them survived, they were the first ships of what would become the United States Navy.
** The Bentenmaru gets much of her work from the [[Harold Lloyd]] Insurance company, a play on real life Lloyd's and the silent movie star.
** Princess Gruier Serenity's [[Odango]] hairstyle is a homage to another well known [[Sailor Moon
** The first passenger liner that Marika pirated was named the "''Princess Apricot''", obviously a reference to "[[Super Mario Bros
*** "Princess Apricot" is also a character from the Wii game ''[[Little
** The emblem on the ''Bentenmaru'' marines' uniform is a hockey mask with crossed bones, a fairly obvious send-up to the ''[[
** In the third major arc of the show, we encounter the hospital ship ''Ben Casey'', named after the eponymous main character in a famous '60s medical drama.
** Also, before they were sidelined by the quarantine, ''Bentenmaru'' was supposed to raid the liner ''Queen Esmeralda'', a shout out to an OVA continuing the Harlock Saga.
* [[Solar
* [[Space Pirates]]: The main premise of the series.
* [[Space Fighter]]: {{spoiler|Jenny}} grabs one, and later transfers its registration to Marika.
* [[
** Justified since Mami never goes into space and Chiaki is most likely doing jobs with the Barbossa.
* [[Squee]]: The Marika's class girls' reaction when [[Ace Pilot|Kane]] [[Biseinen|McDougal]] shows up as a substitute teacher and Chiaki Kurihara as a [[New Transfer Student]].
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* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: In one episode, Chiaki claims to only be at the cafe where Marika works for the parfait, until Mami mentions Marika's name, which causes Chiaki to stumble/choke a little bit.
* [[Techno Babble]]: Oh yes, lots of it regarding space travel. For the most part it's correct, too.
** Could also be considered a case of [[Shown Their Work]] since most of the tactics and strategies shown regarding space combat and orbital mechanics are spot-on, technically speaking.
* [[Technology Porn]]
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Several examples:
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* [[Unusual User Interface]]: The [[Holographic Terminal|Holographic Terminals]] are par for the course, but some controls are based on a row of mixing desk faders.
* [[Uterine Replicator]]: {{spoiler|This is essentially how the entire Serenity Royal Family is born, from one aboard the Serenity Ghost Ship.}}
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episode 22. {{spoiler|Any semblance of a [[Slice of Life]] show about [[Space Pirate|Space Pirates]] is blown away, along with the ''Big Catch'''s fighters - who, incidentally, give us our first confirmed onscreen deaths.}}
* [[Wham! Line]]: Episode 16.
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* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: Asked pretty much word for word by one of the yacht club members in episode 15. Answer: it fires the Bentenmaru's main guns.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: {{spoiler|Gruier invokes this on ''herself'' in the denouement of the ghost ship arc; she planned on destroying the [[Uterine Replicator]], but hadn't quite realised that there was an unborn baby in the tank. She doesn't take the idea of being an unknowing murderer very well.}}
* [[White
* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: Several character designs were [http://i.imgur.com/lbaMF.jpg heavily altered] between the novels and the animated series.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120623085729/http://starchild.fm/post/en/325/Chiaki+Kurihara.html Chiaki] in her school uniform, [http://starchild.fm/post/en/326/Mami+Endo.html Mami] and [http://starchild.fm/post/en/324/Marika+Kato.html Marika] in their maid outfits.
** Also [http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/character.php?id=36769 Lynn]
** Chiaki misses on the vaunted S grade only by having a [[Hime Cut]] instead of required [[Girlish Pigtails|twintails]].
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