I Should Be Sleeping

It's half past midnight, and I'm cooped up in a small, sweaty room with a pencil-moustached toddlercon wearing a plushie-sized Marisa hat. I'm sugar-crashing too, and I haven't gotten anything to eat but chips and Monster. So, instead of sleeping, of course I'll be writing about the thing I've been doing the most, third to watching Touhou PVs and playing eroge - Mouretsu Pirates.

Mouretsu Pirates: Pirates has the same kind of starting point as Symphogear: eye-wateringly horrible, coming off as Star Trek with schoolgirls. However, contrary to Nymphogear, which plummets into the unwatchable a couple of times each episode, Pirates manages to be perfect.
How does it do that, you might ask? By taking a 180 from what could have risked being a fuck-science-fuck-logic-we're-G-Gundam trainwreck of a plot (like Nymphogear happens to be moving towards) and instead focuses on the storytelling, the characters and the details of the universe, actually showing surprising knowledge of many things, such as zero gravity and practical as well as theoretic ballistics - yes, you can avoid a lot of recoil from a rifle if you fire it from the waist, Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde fame fired a Browning Automatic from the waist. However, the weapons design is marred by a lens at the muzzle, ruining an otherwise reasonable explanation of the rifles being plasma weapons that generate the blowback by the force of the reaction and not as much the projectile itself... wait, I think I might be rambling. FYI, weapons and psychology are my logical sinkholes - all coherent discussion vanishes at the chance to discuss anti-material rifles or post-Jungian archetypal psychotherapy.
Back on track - Pirates also shows quite a bit of focus in avoiding clichés - no male main character, no missing father (he's already dead, he's already dead), no giant fucking mecha, no mecha for female-fronted shows that would break the illusion of mecha being manly powered armors, no cheaply constructed cardboard plots, and most importantly, it strikes a leisurely pace and introduces us to a universe with a past, yes, but also full of individual, interesting characters that aren't just a plot device. Mouretsu Pirates gives us a space opera with a lovingly constructed setting, interesting characters, a smooth presentation, great pacing, solid visuals and a huge load of fanservice for us sci-fi/weapons geeks out there.
90/100. Go for it, goddammit. Why the Master Sparking fuck would you refuse?