Rico and Carmen have a romantic entanglement, but it's only slightly more touched upon than in the book. While events happen differently than in the book, the feel of the book's plot is present.
Like the book, the series focuses more on the characters and their relationships than on action and space travel, though we see a fair amount of each.
The most obvious plus to this series is the presence of the powered armor exoskeletons, something we were deprived of in Verhoeven's film. And, believe it or not, despite its differences, this 6-part animated series is, plot-wise, the most faithful adaptation of Heinlein's classic. Little do most know, however, that in Japan, an animated adaptation had already been done, released the year of Heinlein's death. The games are usually unrelated, the TV series was more of a spin off, and the less said about Verhoeven's film, the better. But none of these, so to speak, has really captured the spirit of his novel. Heinlein's classic novel Starship Troopers has been messed around with in recent years, in everything to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film to a TV series, to a number of games.
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