Marika Kato
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu
The main character. Marika starts off the story as a
schoolgirl who participates in her school's space yacht club and works part-time at a local
Maid Cafe. It soon turns out that she is actually the only daughter of Gonzaemon Kato, captain of the pirate ship
Bentenmaru, and therefore the only person who can take his place (legally). While she's reluctant to take on the role, she does display natural talent for the job and accepts becoming Captain of the
Bentenmaru.
[1]
- Ace Pilot: Marika's first scene shows her piloting an unmanned shuttle from space with considerable skill.
- Guile Hero: Tends to use her tactical prowess to avoid fighting opponents head on.
- Idiot Hair: Most visible when she's in her school uniform.
- The Kirk
- Meido: Marika works part-time at a noir-style high-class Maid Cafe.
- Ordinary High School Student: At the start of the show.
- Pirate Girl: Daughter of the late Captain of the Bentenmaru and it's current Captain.
Tropes relating to Marika's Pirate persona- Action Girl: Takes on "a brave passenger" aboard the Princess Apricot in a sword fight, and wins... kinda.
- Affably Evil: Tells the passengers of the Princess Apricot they won't be harmed so long as they comply with her demands.
- Badass Adorable: When they raid the Princess Apricot Hyakume says the passengers will be really happy as not only do they get to experience a pirate raid, the pirate's captain is a cute girl.
- Badass Cape: One of the many modifications Mami added made the cape on Marika's pirate uniform even more badass looking.
- Badass Longcoat
- Combat Pragmatist: When she loses her duel against Kane she uses a hidden gun to just shoot him instead.
- Cool Hat: de rigueur for a pirate captain, specifically it's a Bicorne.
- Evil Is Hammy: Especially her big speeches during the raid on the Princess Apricot. Chiaki even comments that Marika seems to be getting really into it.
- When she herself poses as Marika in ep. 10, though, she arguably hams it up even more.
- Evil Laugh: In episode 6... well she gives it a a go at least.
- Pimped Out Dress: Thanks to Mami's modifications
Chiaki Kurihara
Introduced as just the
New Transfer Student to Marika's class, Chiaki turns out to be aware of Marika's parentage, and display similar skills in piloting a space ship.
She's actually the daughter of the captain of the pirate ship Barbaroosa.
[2]Ririka Kato
Marika's mother, and a former
Space Pirate herself.
[3]Kane McDougal
Helmsman aboard the
Bentenmaru, and Marika's substitute teacher.
[4]- Ace Pilot
- Bishounen: In his role as a teacher, he teaches a few dozen teenage girls, several of whom notice how pretty he is.
- In Episode 19, after they've learned his identity, several of them demand he teach them how to pilot dinghies. Very loudly and insistently.
- Happily Married: He and Misa pose as a married couple as part of their cover identities at Hakuho Academy.
Misa Grandwood
The medic aboard the
Bentenmaru.
[5]Schnitzer
The
Bentenmaru's weapons officer, a hulking, demonic
cyborg. Not a
Gentle Giant by any means, but much nicer than one might expect from his appearance.
[6]- The Big Guy: Literally and metaphorically.
- Caped Mecha: Cyborg, technically, but apart from that he's got the aesthetic down pat.
- Chest Blaster: Six of 'em, and they're implied to be only part of an extensive suite of built-in weaponry.
- Face of a Thug: Actually looks outright demonic, though when he talks he's fairly polite and soft spoken. He's also shy about being seen by people he doesn't know unless he's working.
- Horned Humanoid: It may be a helmet but he's never seen with it off.
- The Quiet One: Doesn't talk much at all.
Jenny Dolittle
President of the Hakuho Academy Space Yacht Club - and, therefore, captain of the
Odette II. Lynn's lover.
[7].
- The Captain: Acts in this role for the Odette II's cruise. While she doesn't seem to share Marika's tactical talent, she appears a natural at the crew management aspect.
- Club President
- Distressed Damsel: In episode 17 it's revealed she, being forced into an Arranged Marriage by her uncle and Lynn wants to hire the Bentenmaru to rescue her...
- Badass Damsel: Which is rendered moot when she takes a chance to escape by shooting her way to an electronic warfare/recon fighter with a pistol she had hidden under her wedding dress.
- Lipstick Lesbian
- School Idol
- Ojou: Heir to the Dolittle Space Shipping conglomerate.
- Precision F-Strike/Sophisticated as Hell: Her response to Lightening 11's demand for the Odette II's immediate surrender was "Bakame!" which is roughly equivalent to saying "You stupid son of a bitch!" in English, Crunchyroll subtitled it as "Nuts!". Either way it's not language you'd normally hear from an Ojou
- Put on a Bus: Jenny has graduated from Hakuho Academy by Sailing 12.
- Silk Hiding Steel: A pistol to be precise.
Lynn Lambretta
Vice-president of the Space Yacht Club. A troublemaker and skilled hacker. She is also a lesbian and Jenny's lover.
[8]Mami Endo
Marika's friend and co-worker from the
Maid Cafe. The only named character who has never been into space.
[9]Princess Gruier Serenity
A princess who stows away on the
Bentenmaru.
[10]Grunhilde Serenity
Gruier's younger sister.
Coorie
Electronic Warfare.
[11].
Luca
Navigator and Seer.
[12].
San-Daime
Engineer, Damage Control.
[13]Hyakume
Laser Radar, Intel.
[14]Ai Hoshimiya
New member of the Space Yacht Club and is a rookie pilot.
- Ace Pilot: Effortlessly dodges gunfire from Jenny's Evil Uncle ships.
- In episode 20 she dodges out of danger easily when one of the other girls loses control of her yacht in the simulator... which Kane alhad set to replicate the "great red spot" on Jupiter which is home to the strongest winds in the solar system.
- Bob Haircut
- The Danza: Is voiced by Ai Kayano
- Dude Magnet: During the Space Yacht Club's raid on the Princess Apricot out of all the girls, she is the only one being hit on.
- Nice Hat
- Shrinking Violet
