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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 -- 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 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''.
Over the course of the series, the ship and crew go through bright times and dark, joy and sorrow, defeat and victory. Conspiracies are uncovered, secrets are learned, and the true nature of the war -- and of man's destiny in the solar system -- are revealed.
While it revels in being a classic "space war with giant robots" story, it also parodies the genre, both overtly and subtly. One of its most famous devices is ''[[Gekiganger 3]]'', a classic 1970s-style [[Super Robot]] anime [[Show Within a Show]]. Although ''G3'' seems at first only a device for cheap laughs, it slowly becomes not only a sly commentary on the main action, but also a major element of the plot in and of itself.
Originally licensed by [[ADV Films]], it was recently re-released by [[Nozomi Entertainment]].
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* [[The Abridged Series]]
* [[Action Girl]]: The female Aestivalis pilots.
* [[Actor Allusion]] (in the dub)
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* [[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].
** Also shows up in-story when Akito uses his knowlege of obscure bits of the ''Gekigangar V'' manga that were never animated to defeat a security program based on ''Gekigangar 3''.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: Both the bridge crew and the pilots as of episode 3 are ''almost'' this.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: Episode 21's chronology jumps all over the the place. Thankfully we're given a timeline of roughly the order the sequence happened, although it can be confusing when seeing it for the first time.
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* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Yurika's father has an... unusual obsession... with his daughter's maturation into a woman. Seiya Uribatake is just generally obsessed with young women, at least until he [[Heartwarming Moment|reunites with his wife]].
* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Admiral Fukube}}
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted of course.]] Many of Izumi's puns need to be explained due to their reliance of wordplay, especially in the Dub.
* [[Doomed Upgrade]]
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Hikaru does one in episode 22 to help save Akito.
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* [[Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon]]: The Nadesico had the Gravity Cannon, which was sandwiched between two forward protrusions. It later gets a [[Mid-Season Upgrade]].)
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: Episode 17 has one, right after {{spoiler|Yurika breaks Uribatake's figure}}.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Yukina doesn't seem to be a very effective assassin, passing out and being rescued by her target in the bath, who then tells her how lucky and special she is to him for coming out to their ship. The talk of hope for an end to the fighting by several crew members also confuses her, since she believed that all Earthlings were [[
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Yurika
* [[Genki Girl]]: Yurika. Hikaru borders on this frequently.
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* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: Yurika towards Akito during times where he either seems to be leaving the ship, or spending too much time with another woman. Later Erina says this towards him while also [[Cry Cute|crying]].
* [[Pungeon Master]]: Izumi.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The natural result of putting a together a crew of the most skilled individuals with no regard for "minor character flaws."
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Akito and Ruri's seiyuu are husband and wife. Thankfully '''not''' replicated in-series.
** Doesn't prevent Ruri's dialogue towards Akito and vice versa from sounding more passionate than that between Akito and Yurika.
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