Miniskirt Pirates

Miniskirt Space Pirates Bodacious Space Pirates
Cover for the first light novel volume, featuring the protagonist, Marika Kato
モーレツ宇宙海賊 / ミニスカ宇宙海賊 (Mōretsu Pairētsu / Minisuka Pairētsu)
Genre	Adventure, Science fiction
Light novel
Miniskirt Space Pirates
Written by	Yūichi Sasamoto
Illustrated by	Noriyuki Matsumoto
Published by	Asahi Shimbun
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Asahi Shimbun Shuppan
Original run	October 2008 – August 2014
Volumes	12
Anime television series
Directed by	Tatsuo Sato
Produced by	Kenjiro Kawato Rei Shimai
Written by	Michiko Itou
Music by	Elements Garden
Studio	Satelight
Licensed by	AUS Hanabee NA Sentai Filmworks UK MVM Films
Original network	Tokyo MX, MBS, tvk
English network	US Anime Network
Original run	January 8, 2012 – June 30, 2012
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Yuichi Sasamoto
Illustrated by	Hiro Tōge
Published by	Asahi Shimbun
Magazine	Nico Nico Asahi Comic Fantasy
Original run	June 2, 2012 – December 3, 2012
Volumes	1
Anime film
Miniskirt Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace
Directed by	Tatsuo Sato
Written by	Tatsuo Sato
Music by	Elements Garden
Studio	Satelight
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Released	February 22, 2014
Runtime	93 minutes
Manga
Abyss of Hyperspace
Written by	Tatsuo Sato
Illustrated by	Chibimaru
Published by	Media Factory
English publisher	NA Seven Seas Entertainment
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Monthly Comic Alive
Original run	December 27, 2013 – September 27, 2014
Volumes	2

Miniskirt Space Pirates (ミニスカ宇宙海賊(パイレーツ), Minisuka Pairētsu) is a Japanese light novel series about space pirates written by Yūichi Sasamoto and published by Asahi Shimbun Shuppan since October 2008. An anime television series adaptation produced by Satelight, under the title Miniskirt Space Pirates モーレツ宇宙海賊(パイレーツ)(Mōretsu Pairētsu), (also known as Bodacious Space Pirates in America) aired in Japan between January 8, 2012 and June 30, 2012. A film adaptation was released in Japanese theaters on February 22, 2014. A web manga adaptation launched on June 2, 2012. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga series for a printed release in North America in August 2015.

The anime version won the 2013 Seiun Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

In the far future where space travel and colonialization have become the norm, humanity has expanded its living space to the far reaches of the known galaxy. One hundred years before the beginning of the series, several colonies, eager to gain their independence, rebelled against their masters in the Stellar Alliance Colony Federation. The government of one of the newly colonized planets, Sea of the Morningstar (うみのあけほし) in the Tau Ceti system, recruited Space Pirates to bolster its fighting forces, legalizing their actions by issuing them letters of marque.

In the midst of this conflict, a Galactic Empire arose and absorbed both the Stellar Alliance and the border worlds, but allowed the colonies to run on an independent government. Despite peace having been achieved, the Space Pirates remain respected figures in Imperial society, even though their activities are now reduced to more legal jobs (like errand running and staging raids for the entertainment of space travellers) in which their knowledge of the system's wild space proves particularly useful. At the time the series begins, their cessation of illegal activities is gradually causing them to pass into local legend.