Bodacious Space Pirates (also known as Môretsu (Go-getter) Space Pirates) is a 2012 anime based on the novels, Miniskirt Space Pirates by Yûichi Sasamoto. In the far future where space travel has become the norm, Marika Kato is a high school girl living a rather ordinary life as a member of the space yacht club and a part-time job at a high-class retro café. One day, Marika meets subordinates of her recently deceased father who reveal her father was a space pirate. By law, only direct descendants can inherit her father's spaceship, the Bentenmaru, which her father's subordinates ask that she takes over as their new Captain. Thus begins Marika's life as a Space Pirate.