Martian Successor Nadesico is a tV series anime that premiered in fall 1996, produced by Xebec.

About the production: the story comes from an original script, there are 26 episodes of about 23 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, comedy, mecha, romance and sci-fi, with themes such as Space, Parody, Love Triangle and Ensemble Cast.

On AniList, Martian Successor Nadesico has an average score of 73%, a good score, and appears on 17,693 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Kidou Senkan Nadesico: The prince of darkness.

Akito doesn't want to fight. Despite a childhood spent on 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 transported instantly to the Earth, mysteriously. He has questions no one can answer fully, but follows a girl from a chance meeting in hopes to discover any. The girl, Yurika, is captain of the private battleship Nadesico, and in order to follow her, he enlists as their cook. Possessing the nanite implants that allow to control mechas, he's a handy backup pilot for the mechas of the Nadesico. He joins a crew bent on revenging Mars and composed of misfits, otakus, and ditzes. But in reality they are 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. (Source: Anime News Network)

Official synopsis from AniList.