Trivia / Martian Successor Nadesico

• Acting for Two:
  • Tomokazu Seki voices both Jirō Yamada/Gai Daigōji and Tsukumo Shiratori, in addition to voicing some background characters.
  • Chisa Yokoyama voices Ryoko Subaru, Magical Princess Natural Lychee as well as Peaceland's queen.
  • Nobuo Tobita voices Seiya Uribatake and King Premium.
  • Kenichi Ono voices Mr. Prospector and Joe Umitsubame.
  • Omi Minami voices Ruri Hoshino and Nanako Kokubunji.
  • Akira Nakagawa voices Harumi Tanaka and Ai's mother.
  • The late Tomoko Kawakami voices both Eri Uemura and Ai.
  • Mitsuaki Madono voices Admiral Sadaaki Munetake and Ken Tenku, as well as some one-off characters.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub of the TV series, Desirée Sandoval voices Megumi Reynard and Ryoko Subaru, Diana Nolan voices Ai, Eri Uemura and Harumi Tanaka, Araceli Ramírez voices Sayuri and Junko, and Mario Hernández voices Jin Fukube and Haruki Kusabe.
• Anime First: Martin Successir Nadesico started as an anime and was shortly after adapted into a much different manga.
• Creator Backlash: Although Tiffany Grant (Ryoko's English VA) has fond memories of working on both the TV series and Prince of Darkness, she didn't care much about the latter, given Ryoko's limited screen time.
• Creator Couple: Akito and Ruri's Japanese voice actors are husband and wife. Thankfully not replicated in-series, albeit doesn't prevent Ruri's dialogues towards Akito and vice versa from sounding more passionate than those between Akito and Yurika, the official couple of the series.
• The Danza: Ms. Kobayashi shares the same surname with her voice actress Noriko Kobayashi.
• Directed by Cast Member: In the Italian dub of Prince of Darkness, Silvana Fantini was Yurika Misumaru's voice actress as well as the dub's ADR director.
• Fix Fic: This series has been a staple in the Super Robot Wars franchise ever since Advance. If the original series is a Deconstruction of the tropes, including it in an SRW would most likely be reconstructing it. Most common Fix Fic elements of this series:
  • Averting Gai Daigoji's death. If he has to die, then it would be for a heroic cause. Super Robot Wars W is also notable for a what-if scenario where Gai survived and participated in the events of Prince of Darkness.
  • Changing the events surrounding the deaths of the Martian colonists as a result of Yurika's actions. Judgment still has it happen, but as a result of Yurika making the hard choice to save the Nadesico while it's under fire, even though doing so will kill them all, rather than get shot down and get all the colonists killed anyway.
  • Tearing up the Karma Houdini Warranty of Haruki Kusakabe. He is not going to escape the hand of karma in this series, be it being killed or being surely arrested and made to pay for his crimes.
  • Wrapping up the Prince of Darkness' Darker and Edgier parts quickly and also reintroducing the classic series' comedy into the movie, and usually, allowing Yurika to be saved and then she and Akito proceed to earn their happy ending, with Akito moving away from his edgy self slowly. This is usually stated as one of the best fixes of problematic series, up there with how SRW fixed Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
• Franchise Killer: The lackluster performance of Prince of Darkness caused Xebec to retire the series altogether.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": A very egregious case happens in the Latin American Spanish dub of both Prince of Darkness and the TV series: The movie came first in Spanish and the TV series many years later due to Locomotion (the network who licensed the movie in Spanish in Latin America) only managed to get the rights of Prince of Darkness, due to the Japanese licensors asking very unrealistic petitions for the rights of the TV series in Latin America. The TV series was licensed in Latin America by Animax (previously Locomotion), albeit with a different voice cast from Cuernavaca.
• The Other Darrin:
  • The Latin American Spanish dub of TV series has a different voice cast, partly due to the time gap between the licensing of both Prince of Darkness and the TV series (the movie was released in Latin America in 2001 and the TV series about 2005) and partly because Animax decided to use another, cheaper voice acting studio in Cuernavaca (Intertrack in this case, since it moved from Mexico City in 2002), when the dub of the movie was dubbed at Román Sound, also based in Mexico City.
  • The Italian dub of the TV series was recorded at CDC Sefit in Rome. For Prince of Darkness, the dub was instead recorded at ADC Group in Milan and everyone was recast.
• Real-Life Relative: In the Italian dub of the TV series, Federica De Bortoli voiced Yurika Misumaru and her older sister Barbara De Bortoli voiced Erina Kinjo Won.
• Star-Making Role:
  • Yurika is the debut role of Houko Kuwashima and it immediately launched her into stardom.
  • The same thing goes in the Latin American Spanish dub for Ruri's voice actress in the movie, Ariadna Rivas.^note It should be noted that, despite being a veteran voice actress whose career dates back until the earlier 80s, until the movie she was normally relegated into voicing secondary roles, being her previous well-know role was voicing Gadget. The Prince of Darkness movie was one of the few times she has voiced a lead role.
• Stillborn Franchise: Nadesico was planned to have a trilogy of movies to tie up loose ends, along with a video game to explain how things ended up that way. The Prince of Darkness bombed quite badly, and no more effort has been put into the series. A video game that covers the events between the series and The Prince of Darkness was released, but in Japan only.
• Technology Marches On: While the series did accurately predict that VHS tapes would be obsolete in the future, it does not do the same with floppy disks.

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