Need help naming an anime series

[vehz]

hi i really need help naming this anime that i watched years ago. i completely forgot as i was around 10 or 11 at the time. i hope you guys can help me if i describe some aspects of the anime that i remember.

plot:
a spaceship is travelling through space which contain mechs that members on the ship use for combat. the logo of the spaceship is some kind of a red spiral?

characters:
main character is if i remember correctly, a cooking chief in training on the spaceship, he has medium length hair and later on he discovers his natural talent for fighting in the mech suits. the mech suits are powered on by using the palm of their hands onto a round control panel which connects the individual to the suit. he was born on mars and some sort of trajedy occured to his family. the spaceship captain is a blue haired lady whom apparently used to be childhood friends with the protaganist. i also remember a lolita like character who is perhaps second in command of the ship. she is petite and almost never shows emotions as if like a robot. also from what i watched up to, there was a love triangle between the captain the lolita chick and someone else.

i hope anyone knowledgable is able to help me name this anime series. i think it was the first anime i have ever watched and it would be great to watch it again after all these years. thanks in advance!

[Steven21088]

It does sound a little like the Zone Of The Enders Anime but I am not entirely sure.

[vehz]

thanks for quick reply steven. i just looked up that series along with the art and story but didn't match with my memory. thanks for your input though!

[DeathBlade/13.666]

Maybe Eureka 7? Do any of these mechs/ships match? http://www.mahq.net/mecha/eureka7/eureka7.htm
Though it could possibly be Martian Successor Nadesico. http://www.mahq.net/animation/nadesico/nadesico.htm

[The Ace RailGun]

Maybe Eureka 7? Do any of these mechs/ships match? http://www.mahq.net/mecha/eureka7/eureka7.htm
Though it could possibly be Martian Successor Nadesico. http://www.mahq.net/animation/nadesico/nadesico.htm

When saw the des. saying one of the characters was a blue haired woman I thought that as well but then I also remembered Midori(or was it chidori) from Full Metal Panic and @vehz the part with the cooking chief (do you mean enginiering chief?) doesn't sound like E7 or Nadessco at all and sounds more like FMP or it could also be Macross or Gundum 00. Did the woman have more of a turquoise blue hair or a dark blue? Also does the name gekkostate sound familiar? Also one more thing was the Anime bright and colorful or more dark and serious?

[DeathBlade/13.666]

When saw the des. saying one of the characters was a blue haired woman I thought that as well but then I also remembered Midori(or was it chidori) from Full Metal Panic and @vehz the part with the cooking chief (do you mean enginiering chief?) doesn't sound like E7 or Nadessco at all and sounds more like FMP or it could also be Macross or Gundum 00. Did the woman have more of a turquoise blue hair or a dark blue? Also does the name gekkostate sound familiar? Also one more thing was the Anime bright and colorful or more dark and serious?

Yea I'm thinking it's more Nadesico, because
"Akito Tenkawa, a Martian refugee who wants nothing more than to become a cook, and the slightly oddball crew of the privately-funded high mobile battleship" and one of the characters is "petite and almost never shows emotions as if like a robot". Also "Yurika is the beautiful but ditzy captain of the Nadesico and childhood friend of Akito Tenkawa. Though he considers her crazy, Yurika has romantic feelings for him, and the two later get married. Yurika is shown to be very scatterbrained at times, misinterpreting comments made by others as words of inspiration and devotion, and forgetting or twisting events from her and Akito's childhood." from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ico_characters So I'm betting it's Nadesico.

[The Ace RailGun]

Yea I'm thinking it's more Nadesico, because
"Akito Tenkawa, a Martian refugee who wants nothing more than to become a cook, and the slightly oddball crew of the privately-funded high mobile battleship" and one of the characters is "petite and almost never shows emotions as if like a robot". Also "Yurika is the beautiful but ditzy captain of the Nadesico and childhood friend of Akito Tenkawa. Though he considers her crazy, Yurika has romantic feelings for him, and the two later get married. Yurika is shown to be very scatterbrained at times, misinterpreting comments made by others as words of inspiration and devotion, and forgetting or twisting events from her and Akito's childhood." from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ico_characters So I'm betting it's Nadesico.

Wait you mean the nadessco series? Oh I was thinking about the movie prince of darkness but yeah your right it could be the series as well :P but I don't think there are any blue haired characters in nadessco or are there hmm it's been so long since I've seen the nadessco series Ahh nostalgia lol @vehz but yeah try nadessco it would most likely be the one you are looking for as DeathBlade/13.666 had said in the last post.

[DeathBlade/13.666]

but I don't think there are any blue haired characters in nadessco or are there hmm it's been so long since I've seen the nadessco series Ahh nostalgia lol

Yep there's one! http://www.animegalleries.net/img/63456 Yurika Misumaru, the Captain.

[The Ace RailGun]

Yep there's one! http://www.animegalleries.net/img/63456 Yurika Misumaru, the Captain.

I completely forgot about her lol I guess I really do need to re-watch it :P

[vehz]

NADESICO YES THANKS SO MUCH GUYS! the instant i saw that name it clicked. greatly appreciate the help!

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watching it now.. it feels so amazing re experiencing something i've watched over 10 years ago. i didn't get any of the mature themes and jokes when i was 10 lmao. thanks again! =b