History Anime / SpacePirateMito

In reality, Mito is the galaxy's most infamous space pirate with enough guts to outshine a supernova. She is also a three foot tall childlike alien - yet all she really wants is to be called "Mom". When the Galactic Patrol follows her to Earth, Aoi is pulled into an intergalactic goose chase that brings him to all corners of the universe, along with the first working Earth mom to carry a pulse rifle.

* WhipItGood:
** Mito's hair ribbons can be used as a pair of whips, and the ''Chunagon'' has a similar weapon.
** Evil Queen Hikari is another whip user.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Mito (but only in appearance).
* ActionMom: Can't get more action-y than a space pirate.

* AlphaBitch: Kafuko, multiclassing into RichBitch. She becomes more of a LovableAlphaBitch as the series continues.
* ArmCannon: Sabu carries one, as do most Galaxy Patrol mooks.

* BondingOverMissingParents: Mitsuki and Aoi, though Aoi doesn't know it.
* BrainUploading: Aoi's grandmother Kodo.

* ChangelingFantasy: Although it's more of a changeling nightmare.

* CuteBruiser: Mito.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Mito and Ranban get pretty chummy once the main conflict of the first series is over. [[spoiler:Ranban even takes responsibility for training Aoi.]]

* DualAgeModes: Effectively Mito, with her Mail Suits.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Backfires on Mito.

* GiantWaistRibbon: Mito wears a bow so large that its tails have little bows on them.

* HeroicSacrifice: Mito in the climax of the second series.
* HiddenBackupPrince: Played straight despite Mito's attempts to prevent it.

* LaserBlade: Mito and Ranban use these. Ranban is surprised that Aoi can use one as well, an early indication that he's MoreThanMeetsTheEye.

* LensFlare: Shows up a lot in the first episode, mostly in the train station scenes. Later episodes tone it down a bit.

* LoveableRogue: Mito and her crew.

* PirateGirl: The title character, along with several other members of her crew.
* PowerLimiter: [[spoiler:Aoi's amulet/bracelet]] turns out to be one.

* RebelliousPrincess: [[spoiler: Mito]]

* SpacePirate: Mito and her crew.
* SpacePolice: The Galactic Patrol.
* ThirdLawOfGenderBending / SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Aoi spends most of the second series in a girl's school uniform.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Cats?]]: Masatsuki is deathly afraid of cats, a phobia Ranban notes he inherited from his father.

* BerserkButton: Mito has two: Threatening Aoi and dissing her beloved Kagero. The Nenga siblings manage to hit both in the first episode by attacking Aoi and Mito while they are paying their respects at Kagero's gravesite.

* AdultFear: Mito's worst moments come when Aoi is in the hands of the Galactic Patrol.

* NotSoDifferent: Mutsuki and Aoi.

* InTheBlood: The Galactic Patrol tries to arrest Aoi. His crime? Being the son of a notorious space pirate.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: A variation. When the Galactic Patrol is looking for Aoi, they announce his "crimes" to the general populace, hoping to flush him out. In order, this includes [[InTheBlood being the son]] of a wanted SpacePirate, seducing women, being a ten-foot monster (and apparently a [[GripingAboutGremlins gremlin]]), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking disrespecting his parents]], since he injured his mother and ran away. Hearing the announcement, his classmates ask if it's true, and Aoi replies, "It's true," but stops short, leading his friends to have {{Imagine Spot}}s based on the more outlandish claims. (He really meant the last one, though the first -- and arguably the second -- are also true).

Both seasons are available on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} and Nozomi.

The series was released in English by Creator/MediaBlasters, though with a 5-year gap between the releases of the two seasons. While an English dub was produced for the first season, Media-Blasters opted to release the second season sub-only, due to the changes in the anime market over that time period. Both seasons are available on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.

* ConspicuousCG: Most sequences with the larger spaceships.

** One early eyecatch has Masatsuki declare, "Nee-san, my tears won't stop!", which is a riff on the OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchphrase of ''Manga/OniisamaE''.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The First Queen Hikari, BigBad of the second series, is totally bonkers and her reign is described as an age of fear. Her more sympathetic successor, [[spoiler:Aoi steps down and sets up a democracy]].

In reality, Mito is the galaxy's most dangerous pirate with enough guts to outshine a supernova. She's a three foot tall childlike alien- yet all she really wants is to be called "Mom". When the Galactic Patrol follows her to Earth, Aoi is pulled into an intergalactic goose chase that brings him to all corners of the universe, along with the first working mom to carry a pulse rifle.

* SinsOfOurFathers: Early on, it's stated that Aoi is as a matter of law guilty of his mother's crimes.

* SecondEpisodeMorning: Played with. Mito, caught climbing out of her [[PoweredArmor Mom suit]] by Aoi, at the very end of the first episode, tries to climb back in at the beginning of the ''second'' episode and assure her son that what he saw was just a dream. The two of them laugh it off until she realizes that her non-human crewmates are still hanging around. With no other choice, she shows him her true self (an alien that looks like a 3rd grader), causing Aoi to faint. The very next scene shows Aoi [[CatapultNightmare waking up screaming]] and deciding that he must have dreamt the previous scene. Until his house is destroyed by a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant version of his mom that suddenly takes to the air]]. Aoi flees, is hit by a hearse, and then [[DreamWithinADream wakes up screaming again]], this time for real. He hears his mom's voice from the other room, but when he sees her in her true form again, he leaps back into bed, hoping that this, too, is AllJustADream. ([[CaptainObvious It's not.]])

* WhipItGood: Mito's hair ribbons can be used as a pair of whips, and the ''Chunagon'' has a similar weapon.

* BondingOverMissingParents: Mitsuke and Aoi, though Aoi doesn't know it.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Mito and Ranban get pretty chummy once the main conflict of the first series is over.

The series was released in English by Creator/MediaBlasters, though with a 5-year gap between the releases of the two seasons. While an English dub was produced for the first season, Media-Blasters opted to release the second season sub-only, due to the changes in the anime market over that time period. Both seasons are available on Website\{{Crunchyroll}}.

* NotSoDifferent: Mutsuke and Aoi

* SacredFirstKiss: Weaponized. Mutsuke kisses Aoi to make his body stabilize as male long enough for him to use the royal sword to defeat Ranban. (Alas, it doesn't stick.)

The series was released in English by Creator/MediaBlasters, though with a 5-year gap between the releases of the two seasons. While an English dub was produced for the first season, Media-Blasters opted to release the second season sub-only, due to the changes in the anime market over that time period.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Mito (but only in appearance)
* ActionMom: Can't get more action-y than a space pirate
* AdjectiveNounFred

* BrainUploading: Aoi's grandmother Kodo
* ChangelingFantasy: though it's more of a changeling nightmare

* FirstLawOfGenderBending: Poor [[spoiler:Aoi. his gender becomes unstable (long story about BizarreAlienBiology) at the end of the first series leaving him outwardly female, which is not helped when his mom steps aside and has him crowned queen of the Galaxy. The last episode ends with Aoi running away to look for a way to become a boy again but this seems to be forgotten at the start of the next series and the only one to even mention it is the AxCrazy Hikari. It's implied that Aoi's devotion to her role as queen at the end of the penultimate episode fixes her permanently as there's no suggestion of her turning back at the end of the series.]]

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The First Queen Hikari, BigBad of the second series, is totally bonkers and her reign is described as an age of fear. Her more sympathetic successor [[spoiler:Aoi steps down and sets up a democracy]].
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Mito's cutesy oversized glasses and her HighClassGlass

* HilarityEnsues: after [[spoiler: Queen Aoi's]] advisers trick her into naming a small town in Japan the capital of the galaxy.

* IfItsYouItsOK: Mutsuke, on multiple levels: Since Aoi's the son of a space pirate and an earthling [[spoiler: and becomes a girl]] she's got a few things to get past.

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** One of Masatsuki's trumped up charges against Aoi is he [[{{Film/Gremlins}} will multiply if you get him wet and turn evil if you feed him after midnight]]
** The dub throws in references to ''GhostInTheShell'', and the visual references to StarTrek and StarWars are perhaps inevitable.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Mito.

* BerserkButton: Mito has two: Threatening Aoi and dissing her beloved Kagero. The Nenga siblings manage to do both in the first episode by attacking Aoi and Mito while they are paying their respects at Kagero's gravesite.

* FirstLawOfGenderBending: Poor [[spoiler:Aoi. his gender becomes unstable (long story about BizarreAlienBiology) at the end of the first series leaving him outwardly female, which is not helped when his mom steps aside and has him crowned queen of the Galaxy. The last episode ends with him running away to look for a way to become a boy again, but this seems to be promptly forgotten at the start of the next series. The only one to even bring the the idea up is the AxCrazy Hikari. It's implied that Aoi's devotion to her role as queen at the end of the penultimate episode fixes her permanently as there's no suggestion of her turning back at the end of the series.]]

* GenderBender: [[spoiler: At the end of the first series, Aoi learns about the BizarreAlienBiology of his mother's species when his own gender becomes unstable but manages to remain male just long enough to save the day before reverting to female and remaining female for the second series.]]

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: A variation. When the Galactic Patrol is looking for Aoi, they announce his "crimes" to the general populace, hoping to flush him out. In order, this includes being the son of a wanted SpacePirate, seducing women, being a ten-foot monster (and apparently a [[GripingAboutGremlins gremlin]]), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking disrespecting his parents]], since he injured his mother and ran away. Hearing the announcement, his classmates ask if it's true, and Aoi replies, "It's true," but stops short, leading his friends to have {{Imagine Spot}}s based on the more outlandish claims. (He really meant the last one, though the first -- and arguably the second -- are also true).

* [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Sexism]]: Against Ranban. [[spoiler: Excused (if not truly justified) in that only someone with a determinate gender (male or female0 can wield the royal sword.]]