Fight! Iczer-One

Fight! Iczer One
Cover of the first light novel cover featuring titular character Iczer One
戦え!!イクサー1 (Tatakae!! Ikusā Wan)
Genre	Horror, Mecha, Yuri
Manga
Written by	Aran Rei
Published by	Kubo Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Lemon People
Original run	1983 – 1987
Original video animation
Directed by	Toshiki Hirano
Written by	Toshiki Hirano
Music by	Chūmei Watanabe
Studio	AIC
Released	19 October 1985 – 4 March 1987
Episodes	3

Fight! Iczer One (戦え!!イクサー1, Tatakae!! Ikusā Wan), is a 1983 sci-fi horror and yuri manga published in Lemon People magazine. It was created by Aran Rei. In 1985 the story was adapted into a 3 part Original Video Animation directed by Toshihiro Hirano. The story is of an alien invasion of earth, which is opposed by Iczer-One and her schoolgirl companion Nagisa. Together they can pilot the Iczer-Robo, a giant humanoid robot. The story features strong body horror.

Iczer-1 also featured two "sound novel" dramas released. The first sound novel was released on an LP record, and was based on the first volume of the Iczer-1 manga, entitled Golden Warrior Iczer-One. The second drama CD is a crossover with the anime Dangaioh.

Earth is attacked by an alien race, known as the Cthulhu (クトゥルフ, kutourufu). According to their initial strategy, the Cthulhu use parasitic creatures, called vedims (ヴェデム, vedemu), to infest and replace humans across the world. Their hope is to eradicate humanity and take the world without damaging it in an open war. However, Iczer-1 appears and begins rooting out and destroying the vedims. Upon learning this, the Cthulhu plan to initiate a full military invasion of Earth.

Iczer-1 searches for her "synchronization partner," a human whose sense of loss and anger at the destruction wrought by the aliens will allow her to co-pilot Iczer-1's mecha, the Iczer-Robo (イクサーロボ, Ikusā Robo), and unleash its full weapon capabilities. Ultimately she chooses Nagisa Kanō, a Japanese schoolgirl, as her partner. No sooner than she makes contact with her, than the Cthulhu agents begin trying to assassinate her, first at her school, by transforming her classmates into vedims, and later by transforming her parents into another type of parasitic creature, the Delvittse (ディルウェッツェ, Diruvettsue).