#bodacious space pirates
commission from pax
sequel of this
[https://pixivallesey.tumblr.com/post/162551702837/07-03-2017-commission-from-pax-characters-from]
characters from モーレツ宇宙海賊(eng name is Bodacious Space Pirates)
blonde is スカーレット・サイファ
black hair is 加藤梨理香
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It’s been a while! New flat, new job, new end of the country…but while I have a little spare time, I want to talk about Bodacious Space Pirates.
Bodacious Space Pirates was an unexpected find for me. I was trawling through TV Tropes and their lists of past anime seasons, attempting to track down a) something new, b) something well-written, and c) something that wasn’t sexist. Benevolent sexism runs rife in a lot of popular anime, and more than once I have got into a well-reviewed series to find female characters relegated to the backburner or constantly lagging behind their male compatriots in terms of ability and storyline.
However – once in a blue moon you find something that hits all of your buttons AND that you haven’t already seen at least five times, and I had no idea that Bodacious Space Pirates even existed.
The anime tells the story of Marika Kato, a teenage girl who inherits spaceship and a captaincy from her deceased father – and not just any captaincy. Her ship, the Bentenmaru, is a pirate ship.
Marika has big boots to fill and the determination and intelligence to do it – but she also has a mother that will teach her how to shoot a gun, and a crew that wants her to succeed, and a school club that works together to teach her how electronic warfare works in the modern age of piracy.
Bodacious Space Pirates, above all, is a story about women supporting each other and forging solid friendships. They work through their own emotional arcs and kick ass and work on their skills and always, always, find new challenges to take head on. There aren’t any romantic entanglements to distract Marika from her adventures; instead, she makes new friends and grows into a resourceful and mature young woman.
The sole romantic relationship that takes centre stage is between two of Marika’s female classmates: Lynn, a talented hacker and vice-president of the space yacht club; and Jenny, former president of the space yacht club and aspiring business-woman. Both of these characters eschew most of the typical stereotypes, Jenny in particular – when her kidnappers attempt to force her into a political marriage, she looks up, eyes wide, beautiful in her white wedding dress…and then she reaches down, grabs the gun she has strapped to her leg, fights her way out and steals a spaceship.
This anime has heart and intelligence in spades – its female characters dream big and work for those dreams; they treasure their friendships; they are funny and ridiculous and badass and sweet; they teach and support each other; they have the utmost respect for each other.
And they never, ever, come second-best to a man.
