Pirate Gundams aren't that far-fetched, it's a glad throwback to Crossbone Gundam, which also featured a certain Jupiter Empire led by an aenigmatic figure trying to conquer Earth. (Sound familiar?)
Crossbone Gundam was pretty ridiculous too! (Also bad and dumb but that's a whole other discussion.)
Noob captains and ragtag crews are always fun. I'm gonna love this.
I feel rather bad for Natola. She's obviously someone who joined the military because her family forced her to and would have been fine with just being a faceless pencil (crayon?) pusher her whole career.
Now, because the guy who makes the duty roster is a vindictive asshole, she's in a situation where even an experienced captain would have a hard time dealing with things.
It'll be interesting to see where it goes as it could make for a decent plot or get really dumb really quick.
After the first two episode, I'm a little unsure of the tone AGE-3 is going for.
We have wacky antics with Crazy Grandpa Flit and Misfit Diva crew on one hand... and on the other the Vagans slaughtering hundreds of people mercilessly while Flit describes them as sub-human animals. Then we have Kio vowing he will murder them all and grow up to be a genocidal madman just like his grandpa (while Flit gives him a "that's my boy" look).
It feels like it's building to a point where Kio will have an encounter with non-soldier Vagans (since soldiers are all we've really seen of Vagans so far) who will shatter this worldview but... this show has been weird as to how it hits certain Gundam plot points.
