Shows Like Martian Successor Nadesico

If you liked Martian Successor Nadesico (1996), a animation and comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Valvrave the Liberator (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Haruto Tokishima, a high school student, discovers Valvrave, a mysterious and very powerful machine, and after controlling it Haruto becomes immortal.
2
Sgt. Frog (2004)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedy
Alien frogs come to take over the planet & get into all kinds of trouble while living under the roof of a small family.
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Birdy the Mighty: Decode (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
While pursuing fugitives the Space Federation police officer Birdy Cephon Altera finds herself on Earth.
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
It is the year 0083 of the Universal Century. The rebellious Principality of Zeon has been defeated in the One Year War by the Earth Federation. However, a faction of Zeon remnants led by Aguille Delaz fled from the…
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Metallic Rouge (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In a world where humans coexist with androids called Neans, a group known as the Immortal Nine rises up against society. Tasked with disposing of the revolters, a Nean named Rouge Redstar (aka Metal Rouge) and…
6
The Tatami Time Machine Blues (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedy
It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the…
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The Orbital Children (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In 2045, two children born on the moon and three kids from Earth try to survive after an accident on their space station leaves them stranded.
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Guilty Crown (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the…
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Urusei Yatsura (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedy
The invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess Lum Invader…
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Battle of the Planets (1978)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
G-Force, a five-member superhero team, fights to defend Earth and its space colonies from the threat of the planet Spectra.
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Chobits (2002)
★ 8/10Also animation and comedy
Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms – humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chii abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than…
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Final Space (2018)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of “Final Space,” the last point in the universe, if it actually does exist.
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Futurama (1999)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedy
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary…
14
Mazinger Z (1972)
★ 8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from…
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Synduality Noir (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The year is 2242. Kanata wants to be a Drifter and meets Noir, who is a dud Magus with no memories. However, because Noir excels in battle against the Enders, Kanata partners with her and discovers exactly what it…
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Steins;Gate (2011)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel…
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Pacific Rim: The Black (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and animation
Two siblings - an idealistic teenage boy and his naive younger sister - are forced to pilot an abandoned Jaeger across a hostile landscape in a desperate attempt to find their missing parents.
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My-Hime (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and drama
Schoolgirls discover that they have been given the ability to materialize weapons and control robotic beasts called "Children" to stop an evil organization from their plans of domination.
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Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX (1982)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and animation
Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX is an animated television series created by Leiji Matsumoto. It's the sequel to the 1982 animated film Arcadia of My Youth. However, like many of the stories set in the…
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Steel Jeeg (1975)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Hiroshi Shiba is a car racer who is mortally wounded in a laboratory accident, but restored to life by his father, Professor Shiba.