Why is he learning court etiquette from the receptionist? This seems like far out of her job duties.
This is EXACTLY her duty to teach rough and rowdy mercenaries how to deal with the nobles. Since mercenaries are mostly from common people and they have no knowledge how to deal with nobles
but the nobles may nominate them for jobs and the guild is there to help and support them so that they don't lose their head by insulting some noble.
I was thinking about rewatching Bodacious Space Pirates a while ago... gotta look for it.
The anime is averaging around 3 to 4 manga chapters an episode
Reminder the anime and manga are based off a light novel and on average it takes 2 volumes of manga per 1 volume of light novel.
LN 1st volume - 2 Manga volumes,
LN 2nd volume - 2 Manga volume,
LN 3rd volume - 3,5 manga volumes.
The anime team does pacing the same as the manga team did, except they just cut out of the 2nd LN volume a bit more. TBH it's the weakest of the bunch so whatever.