Uchū Ichi no Musekinin Otoko (The Most Irresponsible Man in Space)

Jon Mitchell

Sounds a little like the classic Stainless Steel Rat or Dominic Flandry novels from the golden age of Sci-fi

Gets my vote

Village Idiot

Saw the anime.

This series is a riot.

saffire

It's pretty well known among the older fandom, especially for the OVA series which ends on a major cliffhanger. I would love to read the conclusion.

It's been a while since I read them, but RightStuf's liner notes indicated that several changes were made when animating the series, so being able to see the differences would also be interesting to me.

Travis Butler

@jon-mitchell Not really so much the Stainless Steel Rat books. SSR has deGriz as a very smart protagonist, and a big part of the pleasure (for me, at least) is watching him be clever (even if it's in the 'so sharp you cut yourself' way ^^;;)

Tylor, OTOH... as I said, none of the people he deals with are sure if he's a genius, or an incredibly lucky idiot... and neither is the audience. :) To give an example from an early part of the story:

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yumenokage

I'd like to see this one. I think I could possibly get my dad into it, who doesn't think much of things like manga and anime but is big on space series.

saskir

I think we have already a request thread for this series. But you get my vote nonetheless. Man I wish to see more of this series. And to add to the cliffhanger comment. Even the Manga that came out for this had a serious cliffhanger. It ends in Volume 3 and says for a continuation we should read the LN....

Travis Butler

@saskir Hm... I did a search before posting and caught one side reference in another thread, but no thread for the actual series itself. That said, if there is one, happy to throw my support there!

chrono2x

Coming in quite late, but I loved this anime when it came out and would love to read the light novels now. J-novel printing the old Slayers novels has been a delight, and I would love to see more of these older, but still excellent, series seeing the light of day again.

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