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Oh no! Not another post on Mouretsu Pirates. Oh, yes I have come back to this because I have feeling that my last post was confusing. I commented on how Marika and the crew of the Bentenmaru did not feel like real pirates because how they were legal and what not. I am going to expand this to Include Ironbread and Quartz Christie because they were also in the employ of a government. 

Someone pointed out to me that Ironbread at the end was basically inviting Marika and the pirates with Letters of Marque to come to vaster seas. But to me him and Quartz Christie are no better than the "pirates" in the employ of the Sea of the Morningstar government. It was pretty much left open to us to interpret what him and Quartz Christie actually do. My interpretation was that the Bentenmaru, Quartz Christie, and Ironbread were all considered military units in a technical sense. If their respective governments needed them in times of emergency they would have to answer that call or see their "Pirating License" revoked. 

The Letters of Marque make it very easy for the Planetary government of the Sea of the Morning Star to have readily available Military units without actually having to pay most of the cost of having a military. This is ground in even deeper when Misa mentions that the Galactic Empire is sense endorses the pirates. Hell the Galactic Empire has recognized and endorsed pirates of its own. At least that is what I took from the discussion that happened in the conference room of the Pirate's Nest. 

Yes, I have returned to make even more comments that no one will care about on a show that no one has watched. This time I want to talk about Mouretsu Pirates or as Crunchyroll called it Bodacious Space Pirates. This should be more tame than the last one did on Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam. 

When I first started watching this show I very excited. Don't get me wrong, I watched it until the end because it was still entertaining. But it still left me with the idea that something was missing. I couldn't figure out what was missing until the last the couple of episodes and then it hit me like a sack of bricks being thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge. It was the fact that I never really considered Marika Kato and the crew of the Bentenmaru as real pirates because of the fact that they were given jobs. 

Even though she occasionally went off and did jobs not given to her by the Harold Lloyd Insurance Union it was never quite what I expected. I could never imagine a pirate being for hire like that and I don't think I want too. I am still to fond of my romantic notions of pirates.They were the freest of free because they were never under control of one group of people. Pirates to me are the law breakers. They were the outlaws that tried to steal stuff and when someone else got in the way they were cut down. Pirates should never Obey the law because then they are no longer pirates 

Yes, I know in traditional history pirates were actually used by numerous countries when fighting wars and what not. But those were privateers and they were in the employ governments. The main difference between a privateer and a pirate are that pirates mostly take orders from no one. They attacked ships of types. 

In Mouretsu Pirates it was a lot different. The pirates were given Letters of Marque and they were technically considered part of the Military. Marika Kato and the Bentenmaru worked for the Harold Lloyd Insurance Union and were hired by clients to do certain things. Most of it was staging fake raid on Luxury Liners to entertain the people on broad. 

This to me fly in the face of what a pirate is and does. Pirates did not like to listen to anyone. They were opposed to most authority figures unless in times of great emergency. Quartz Christie at the end of the show was more like a pirate than the Bentenmaru even though she was technically in the employ of the Galactic Empire. Most of what she was doing was against the wishes of the Empires as can be seen by the fact that the Queen requested Ironbread to come and get her.