Martian Successor Nadesico (TV)
Gekigangar 3 (OAV) (spinoff)
Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness (sequel)
Nadesico (manga) (adaptation)
Alternative title:
Kidō Senkan Nadesico (Japanese)
Mobile Battleship Nadesico
Nadesico
機動戦艦ナデシコ (Japanese)
機動戰艦 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content:
Mild
Plot Summary:
Akito Tenkawa doesn't want to fight. Despite a childhood spent as a fan of the anime Gekiganger 3, a mecha show, he'd rather cook than pilot a mecha. Fate intervenes when his home on Mars is destroyed, and he is mysteriously transported in an instant to the Earth. He has questions no one can fully answer, but follows a girl from a chance meeting in the hope of discovering what has happened to him. The girl, Yurika Misumaru, is captain of the private battleship Nadesico, and in order to follow her, he enlists as the ship's cook. Possessing the nanite implants that allow him to control mecha, he's a handy backup pilot for the tactical mecha of the Nadesico, the Aestivalises. He joins a crew bent on avenging Mars and composed of misfits, otaku, and ditzes, but who are in reality handpicked experts. They take their own private war back to Mars to face the harsh reality that life may not always be like a giant mecha series.
User Ratings:
1648 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
22 minutes per episode
Number of episodes:
26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
1996-10-01 to 1997-03-24
2003-02-24 to 2003-02-25 (USA - Eps. 1-2 on Cartoon Network)
2005-08-01 to 2006-01-25 (Latin America Broadcast)
Opening Theme:
"You Get to Burning" by Yumi Matsuzawa
Ending Theme:
#1: "Watashi Rashiku" (私らしく) by Houko Kawashima (eps 1-25)
#2: "Itsuka…Shinjite" (いつか…信じて) by Kasumi Matsumura (ep 26)
Insert song:
"Aestivalis no March" (エステバリスのマーチ) by The Aestivalis Team Members (ep 11)
"Anata no Ichiban ni Naritai" (あなたの一番になりたい) by Omi Minami (ep 19)
"Delicious Island" by Howmei Girls (ep 19)
"Ginga no Christmas" (銀河のクリスマス) by Miyuki Ichijō and the Howmei Girls (ep 13)
"Let's Go Gekiganger 3" (レッツゴー ゲキ・ガンガー3) by Meron Kaneda (eps 13-15,17)
"Shōri no V da! Gekiganger 3 (HIKARU Version)" (勝利のVだ!ゲキガンガー3(HIKARU Version)) by Shiho Kikuchi (ep 19)
"Watashi Rashiku" (私らしく) by Hōko Kuwashima (ep 19)
Official website:
Big Globe's Kidō Senkan Nadeshiko page (Japanese)
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 6
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 1
Reviews:
Martian Successor Nadesico DVD 1 (Jan 5, 2005)
Nadesico VHS 8 (Jan 1, 1970)
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Director: Tatsuo Sato Music: Takayuki Hattori Character Design: Keiji Gotoh Art Director: Toshihisa Koyama Animation Director: Keiji Gotoh (mechanical) Maiju Maeda (mechanical) Megumi Kadonosono (characters) Nobukazu Yamauka (characters) Sound Director: Hideyuki Tanaka Animation: Kazuchika Kise (ep 16) Chief Mechanical Designer: Mika Akitaka Color setting: Hideo Kamiya Consultant: Mitsuyasu Sakai (science fiction) Editing: Naoyuki Masaki General Manager: Naoko Marukawa Insert Song Performance: Akiko Yajima ("Ginga no Christmas" / "Delicious Island") Akira Nakagawa ("Ginga no Christmas" / "Delicious Island") Chisa Yokoyama ("Aestivalis no March") Emi Motoi ("Ginga no Christmas" / "Delicious Island") Meron Kaneda ("Let's Go Gekiganger 3") Miki Nagasawa ("Aestivalis no March") Miyuki Ichijou ("Ginga no Christmas") Omi Minami ("Anata no Ichiban ni Naritai") Ryotaro Okiayu ("Aestivalis no March") Shiho Kikuchi ("Aestivalis no March" / "Shōri no V da! Gekiganger 3 (HIKARU Version)") Tomoko Kawakami ("Ginga no Christmas" / "Delicious Island") Yumi Matsuzawa ("Ginga no Christmas" / "Delicious Island") Key Animation: Kazuchika Kise (ep 26) Keiji Gotoh (6 episodes eps 1, 6, 9, 21, 23, 26 )Ken Ootsuka (OP; ep 13) Takaaki Wada (ep 19) Yoshinori Kanada (ep 26) Negative Editing: Jun Takuma Opening Animation: Keiji Gotoh Original Character Concept: Kia Asamiya (Studio Tron) Production Design: Hideaki Sakaguchi Production Desk: Takatoshi Chino Production Supervision: Kunihisa Sugishima Nobuyoshi Habara Tadayoshi Kusaka Takahiko Hoshiai Tamaki Nakatsu Publicity: Aya Jingu (TV Tokyo) Sound Effects: Masahiro Shoji (Fizz Sounds) Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa Theme Song: Houko Kuwashima (ed, singer) Kiyoshi Yoshida (ed, composer) Satomi Arimori (op, lyrics) Toshiyuki Omori (op, composer) Yuki Matsuura (ed, lyrics, composer) Yumi Matsuzawa (op, singer) | Houko Kuwashima as Yuji Ueda as Kentarou Itou as Miki Nagasawa as Naoko Matsui as Naoko Takano as Omi Minami as Akiko Yajima as Akio Ohtsuka as Ben Takada as Eiji Yanagisawa as Emi Motoi as Hiroaki Sakurai as Hiroshi Naka as Ikue Ohtani as Junichi Sugawara as Juurouta Kosugi as Kousuke Okano as Kunihiko Yasui as Maya Okamoto as Miyuki Ichijou as Nobuo Tanaka as Noriko Kobayashi as Omi Minami as Shiho Kikuchi as Shinichiro Miki as Toshihiko Nakajima as Toshiyuki Morikawa as Yasunori Matsumoto as Yuko Mizutani as Yuko Nagashima as Yumi Matsuzawa as | |||
Animation: K Production Animation Production: Xebec | ||||
ADR Director: Matt Greenfield Script: Matt Greenfield DVD Graphic Design: Chris Hawley DVD Logo Design: Andy Orjuela DVD Menu Design: Larry Koteff International Coordination: Toru Iwakami Logo Design: Larry Koteff Packaging Design: Larry Koteff Production Assistant: Akiko Yoshii Andrew Kent (vol 2-6) Kelly Jean Beard (vol 1) Maki Nagano Masami Takahashi (vol 1-4) Production Coordination: Janice Williams Project Translator: Dan Kanemitsu Promotion: Rod Peters (vol 1-4) Sound Design: Paul Killam | Jennifer K. Earhart as Spike Spencer as Brett Weaver as Heather Bryson as Jenny Strader as Kira Vincent-Davis as Mark X. Laskowski as Tamara Lo as Andrew Klimko as Andy McAvin as Anna Bechtol as Brett Weaver as Chris Patton as Cynthia Martinez as Don'l Johnson as Emily Carter as James Marshall as Jay Hickman as John Gremillion as John Swasey as Katrine Pine as Lash Bourque as Marisol Medina as Meredith J. Dahl as Nicole Sonnier as Paul Sidello as Sheri Sims as Spike Spencer as Tamara Lo as Ted Pfister as Vic Mignogna as | |||
DVD Authoring: Cinram/POP DVD Center DVD Authoring & Encoding: ImageSource (vol 3-4 Complete Chronicles) M.O.F.C. (vol 5-6 Complete Chronicles) Recording Studio: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors Soundtrack: AnimeTrax | ||||
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Dubbing Director: Arturo Velez | Arturo Sian Vidal as Mauricio Valverde as Adriana Rodriguez as Alan Miró as Arturo Velez as Arturo Sian Vidal as Belinda García as Bernardo Rodriguez as Claudio Romero as Clemen Larumbe as Elva Ladagga as Héctor Rocha as Jenny Burelo as Luis Raymundo Espinosa as Mario Hernandez as Marisol Castro as Mauricio Valverde as Patricia Mainou as Rodrigo Miranda as | |||
Dubbing Studio: Doblajes Paris S.A de C.V. | ||||
Dubbing Director: Annarita Pasanisi Script: Valerio Manenti Translation: Laura Giordano Assistant producer: Jessica Poce Dolby Surround Mixing: Andrea Pochini Editorial Coordination: Fiammetta Adiutori Encoding And Authoring: Luca Franciosi (DVD Ed.) Executive Director: Carlo Cavazzoni General Supervision: Federico Colpi IVTC: Luca Franciosi (DVD Ed.) Mastering: Marco Sechi Mixing Assistant: Giorgio Bassanelli Post Production Director: Valerio Manenti Post-Production Coordinator: Cristina Minoja Postproduction Staff Secretary: Anna Zuppiroli Production Staff Secretary: Gianfranco Calvitti Project Manager: Alex Corazza Synchronization: Paolo Brunori Titles: Sara Radelli | Federica De Bortoli as Massimiliano Alto as Daniele Raffaelli as Gemma Donati as Ilaria Latini as Simone Mori as Alessandro Rossi as Cristina Boraschi as Eleonora De Angelis as Fabrizio Latini Vidale as Francesco Bulckaen as Luciano De Ambrosis as Marco Mete as Neri Marcoré as Paola Valentini as Roberto Chevalier as Sandro Jovino as Sergio Di Stefano as Sergio Graziani as Vittorio De Angelis as | |||
Dubbing Director: Rodrigo Andreatto | Marco Aurélio Campos as Raquel Marinho as Fábio Moura as Fernanda Bulara as Letícia Quinto as Marcelo Pissardini as Rodrigo Andreatto as Tatá Guarnieri as Tatiane Keplermaier as Adriana Pissardini as Alexandre Marconato as Andressa Andreatto as Antônio Moreno as Carlos Campanile as Celso Alves as Dado Monteiro as Fadu Costha as Fátima Silva as Flávia Narciso as Gileno Santoro as Hermes Baroli as Jussara Marques as Kate Kelly as Lene Bastos as Lúcia Helena as Luciana Baroli as Luiz Laffey as Mauro Eduardo as Melissa Garcia as Nestor Chiesse as Orlando Viggiani as Ricardo Sawaya as Sérgio Moreno as Sílvio Giraldi as Tânia Gaidarji as Tarsila Amorin as Tatá Guarnieri as Ursula Bezerra as Vagner Fagundes as Wellington Lima as | |||
Dubbing Studio: Álamo | ||||
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