, also called ''Alien Defender Geo-Armor: Kishin Corps'', is a series of
Japanese light novels written and illustrated by
Masaki Yamada. The series was published in 10 volumes between 1990 and 1994. It is a work of
alternate history
Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, altern ...
, taking place in 1941 during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. An alien race invades the earth and their forces ally themselves with the
Axis powers. To combat these aliens an elite allied unit called the Kishin Corps is created, using alien technology. The story deals with the main character Taishi, who obtains a secret alien device from his father, which the Germans are after to build their own robots.
In 1995, ''Kishin Corps'' won the
Seiun Award for "Best Japanese Novel of the Year".
An
original video animation
, abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA s ...
titled ''Alien Defender Geo-Armor: Kishin Corps'' was produced by
Geneon, co-directed by Takaaki Ishiyama and Kazunori Mizuno, and released in Japan between March 24, 1993, and August 25, 1994.
See also
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Worldwar series
The Worldwar series is the fan name given to a series of eight alternate history science fiction novels by Harry Turtledove. Its premise is an alien invasion of Earth during World War II, and includes Turtledove's ''Worldwar'' tetralogy, as w ...
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1990 Japanese novels
1993 anime OVAs
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