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Calwings posted...

I sort of have one. The final two arcs and the movie for Bodacious Space Pirates were all anime-original content, and those were honestly the best parts of the anime. I don't know if it was better than where the story would have gone if it stuck to the light novel (because I just generally don't read manga or light novels) but I at least know that it was significantly better than the early part of the series that originally followed the source.

From what I heard some time ago, the anime followed the novel somewhat closely up to volume 3 or 4 (out of 7 volumes available at the time), then diverged at episode 19. Having read up to volume 3 so far, I'd say the novel is pretty slow-paced and feels like it's still in the "intro" phase, so reaching a conclusive-enough original ending would probably feel better for the anime.