Shi Ran Jiei Jiya O / Cho Nakahara, Nao / Yaku

Noriten, a frontier girl in Huaxia, joins the Human Liberation Army to fight against an alien mechanical creature, Hunnan. She boards a giant battle machine, the Ling Chrysalis Machine, and fights against the Huldan that is trying to annihilate the human race. The Reichswehr is ridden by a male-female pair and controlled by "Ki" (energy), but many of the girls in the pair die from the mental pressure. For the sake of a secret plan, Noriten volunteers to be a pilot and throws himself into a grueling battle... In a world created from ancient Chinese history, giant mecha run the battlefield. A masterpiece of action science fiction that won the British Science Fiction Society Award.