#BodaciousSpacePirates ep7: there are times when "playing" pirate isn't enough. #anime 

Like when you have a real diplomatic issue on your hand. Or when your
life is on the line. Or when you have someone you're trying to make
respect you.

It looks like reality has hit hard for Marika. I don't have a clue
why a pirate ship would ever send their captain on a recon missue in a
little dinky space ship, perhaps that should have been the tip off
that the opening sequence was a dream. That and it looked like she
was seriously dead to rights.

I'd like to think that even at this leisurely pace, the show's tone is
changing. The show's attitude towards Marka has shifted from awe at
her potential, to a down to business "you better get this right"
demeanor. On top of that, she's getting hammered by her dual duties
of part-time pirate captain and full-time student in high school. I'm
starting to wonder exactly when she'll adjust to increase in
responsibility.

It looks like I was almost wrong about Marika and Chiaki not meeting
for awhile. Chiaki just missed her. It was almost a waste of her
perfectly good excuse of traveling across outer space to taste the
shop's delicious parfaits. That said, what was accomplished was a
sort of passing of the torch.

The crew's attitude annoys me somewhat, but they are professionals
going through the motions so to speak. Even when things go
unexpectedly no one aside from Marka even bats an eye. I didn't quite
catch exactly what was going on during their little raid on the cruise
liner, but I assume that when the little stowaway starts talking in
the next episode, we'll learn a lot more. That whole battle looked
pretty suspicious.

A final note, there's just something awesome and bad as about space
ships equipped with and shaped like blades. I just saw one and
immediately said, "I WANT THAT!"