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*** Mouretsu Pirates Starring Shinji Ikari ***

Mouretsu Pirates is one of those easy Sunday afternoon shows. Watching Marika shoot around the galaxy in a miniskirt and a smile is a lot of fun. So why when making the film did they decide to replace the main character with a dreary, dickless little shit? Kanata Mugen hates his daddy, lives by high morals, and loves nothing more than a good frown. This archetype ringing any bells? He barges his way into the show and finds himself surrounded and pampered by cute girls. This self-insert hero fantasy would be bad enough as a sideplot, but the omnipresent ... barnacle manages to squeeze his way into every fucking scene adding nothing but irritation and gloom. KILL HIM!

Aside from this show ruining character the movie adds nothing to the franchise. The animation quality has dropped since the series, the story seems drawn out and simplified at the same time, the Sci-fi elements are unimaginative, and rather than make new music they rehashed the old Momoclo song.

If you liked the series avoid the film.

Ars Nova is a pathetic, delusional, self-insert fantasy written by and for people who would be much better off aiming low. Here's the story line from a similar series: an ugly, boring, stinking gamer finds himself no longer having to concern himself with the tedious things in life (such as bathing) and is forced to spend every second of every day playing a computer game. In so doing he becomes everyone's hero and gets all the chicks. Like that series, whilst watching Ars Nova you are expected to supplant your own boring and probably depressing existence with the lead character's. Gunzou Chihaya is a skinny ... and completely uninteresting teenage boy who finds himself as the only human being able to control an alien battleship that for some reason is also a (barely pubescent) hot chick. This gives him the power to defy all authority and basically do whatever he wants. What he wishes to do is become a hero of all the girls who dry-wretched at his odour back in highschool, so he goes off to fight the armada of alien battleships that is currently attacking Earth. It is of no surprise that each of these ships is also a hot chick, some being unable to resist him.

There is little point discussing details such as animation quality and sound because the basic premise of someone like that being given that kind of power and acting in that sort of way is so absurd that it is hard to watch without wanting to defenestrate your TV. And everything is geared towards selling this fap. The alien ships have artificial intelligence and are designed to function on their own, yet they want him as their captain to order them around. And there's even a crew added to his ship whose only purpose is to gasp at his courage, be awed by his tactical genius, and basically boost him up to being some kind of Captain fucking Stupendous. And this is all done without him doing a single thing even remotely interesting or likeable, let alone endearing to the point of obsession.

Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova seems to be nothing more than a loser's desperate wish to gain admiration and respect. Rather than shows like this, maybe you should try starting with soap.