The pirate
ship Silver Fox is destroyed in an attack by a mysterious ship that’s been
targeting pirates. Marika and the bridge crew discuss the situation, and since
the Bentenmaru is due to get its licence renewed and Marika wants that out of
the way before finals, they decide to go after these so-called ‘pirate
hunters’. While driving Marika home afterwards, Misa asks her what Ririka’s up
to these days, but she doesn’t know, and the latter is away a lot ever since
she got her licence to operate large ships…
At the Yacht
Club, Marika has been made president now that Lynn’s about to graduate (she’s
even gotten a recommendation to Space University, so she’ll get to be with her
girlfriend), even though she thinks Sasha, the vice-president, should have been
given the position. Unfortunately, the club is apparently run through tyranny
of the majority, so she’s stuck with it.
In order to
effectively go up against the pirate hunters, Marika devised the trick of
having the Bentenmaru guide another pirate ship, the Big Catch, although the
captain agreed to Show’s request that he ask for an escort only reluctantly.
During the trip, the bridge crew ponder aloud the implications of two pirate
ships working together, and what it could lead to. Although nowhere near the
200 ships active during Sea of the Morningstar’s war of independence, there are
still 50-60 pirate ships around, almost all heavily-armed, military-class
ships. The Galactic Empire and Stellar Alliance allow them to exist because
they operate independently, but if they united they’d have the power to become
their own nation and wouldn’t need Letters of Marque to exist. Since they’re an
independent lot, however, what are the odds that will happen…
The pirate
hunter appears and proves to be impossibly agile for such a large ship, quickly
taking out the Big Catch. Then another large, mysterious ship appears.
Summary
Oh jeez,
don’t tell me Ririka is the pirate
hunter. Sure, we’ve seen enough of the latter’s head to know she has white
hair, but that’s what hair dye is for. Then again, I can’t imagine any reason
why dying her hair would be necessary. Yeah, logic dictates that that’s a red
herring, but part of me thinks this is all part of the grand plan that is
clearly afoot. Except, the pirate hunter seems to be actually destroying the ships it attacks, but maybe they’re against
whatever’s being planned, and Show’s in on it.
*Checks
episode 21* OK, so the hooded man seems to have brown hair, and the guy
standing on top of the second mystery ship has black hair, but hey, hair dye.
Again kinda flimsy since it begs the question of why there’s any need to dye hair, but I guess I’m too wedded
with tying what’s going on to my ‘Gonzaemon is alive’ theory. Except now it
looks like he isn’t looking to retire but to become King of the Pirates (sorry,
Luffy) and figured it would be better if he wasn’t connected to a particular
ship. Or something.
Really,
though, having him be alive seems to make the most sense. Sure, they could introduce a new character, but
it’s a bit late in the show to bring in someone in whole cloth. Plus, Gonzaemon’s
been built up so much through those who knew him talking about him, and mentions
of how much Marika is just like him – they just dropped another one of those
this episode, no less. ‘Actually, he’s been alive the whole time’ actually
seems to make sense after the amount of build-up he’s had. And if he’s alive it
might mean there’s still a chance to address the elephant in the room – if he
was alive until at least shortly before the first episode, why did he never
visit his family?
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