Martian Successor Nadesico. A good anime, though a few years old. It's a little bit in the future, when the earth has also colonized mars. A group of aliens, named jovians, attacks mars where the main charector, Akito Tenkawa, lived. He was somehow transported to earth right before his death and now he works as a cook. Though when the city he is in gets attacked he freaks out and gets fired. He then stumbles upon a childhood friend, Yurika Misumaru, who's father works for the millitary. She is a captain of a ship named the Yamato Nadesico, a ship built by an independant corperation called Nergal.
Basicly it's about them trying to get back to help the people on mars. From there it has a few plot twists though. It is very good and has a lot of humor throughout. The series doesn't end it though. The movie Nadesico: The prince of darkness is actually the ending, but is kind of dark and not humorous like the series. All in all a good anime.