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'''''Martian Successor Nadesico''''' is a sprawling [[Space Opera]] with a subversive sense of humor about its own genre.
 
Several centuries in the future, Earth is at war with an alien species—propagandistsspecies — propagandists take advantage of the fact that no one has ever seen one by dubbing them "lizards," and everyone knows that [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]—that — that fights entirely by remote controlled robots and ships sent from Jupiter via immense hyperspatial gateways. The war is going badly for Earth when a defense contractor, the Nergal Corporation, decides it's going to cut out the middleman and field its own space battleship, the ''Nadesico''. Of course, it crews the ship almost entirely with a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|classic oddball gang of civilians]]. As captain, Nergal selects [[Genius Ditz]] Yurika Misumaru, daughter of Earth's head admiral.
 
Yurika's childhood sweetheart, Akito Tenkawa (a burnt-out, traumatized ex-mecha pilot who can't remember how he got to Earth after the fall of the colonies on Mars) joins the crew mainly by accident. Although he wants only to be a chef in the ship's galley, he is repeatedly forced to use his piloting skills in defense of the ''Nadesico''.
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Originally licensed by [[ADV Films]], it was recently re-released by [[Nozomi Entertainment]].
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* [[The Abridged Series]]{{context}}
* [[Action Girl]]: The female Aestivalis pilots.
* [[Actor Allusion]] (in the dub){{context}}
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Episode 18 focuses on Ruri and her past.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of space-battle mecha series
* [[Aliens and Monsters]]
* [[All There in the Manual]] : If you want to understand [[The Movie]] in one go-around, or have any sort of satisfactory conclusion to the series, you're going to need to find a copy of some tie-in video games. [http://www.clabo.net/nadesico/blank3.html Synopsis of the game can be found here].
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