Anime Like Kishin Corps
This is a 1993 OVA where WWII and alien invasion happen at the same time, and nobody stops fighting each other to deal with it. The premise is genuinely unsettling: humanity's worst impulse to destroy itself doesn't pause when existential threat shows up. Taishi gets thrown into giant robot warfare while the world refuses to unite, and the show treats this collision not as spectacle but as the actual hell it would be. It's a minor title that nobody remembers because it arrived in the wrong format at the wrong time. Watch it for the specific flavor of sci-fi dread that only works when you're trapped between two apocalypses at once.
SYNOPSIS
October 1941: while humanity tears itself apart in global war, extraterrestrial forces descend on Earth with invasion on their minds. The world's governments remain locked in conflict even as this new threat emerges, leaving a specialized military unit called the Kishin Corps as humanity's only defense. They pilot massive bio-mechanical robots reverse-engineered from captured alien technology, machines powerful enough to stand against the invaders. Caught in the middle of this catastrophe is Taishi, a teenager whose father vanishes after pressing a mysterious briefcase into his hands. Inside lies something far more valuable than gold: the control mechanism for one of the Corps' most formidable weapons. Now Taishi becomes the most hunted person on the planet. The Japanese military wants him. The alien commanders want him. Even the Kishin Corps themselves pursue him relentlessly. Taishi must navigate a world collapsing under the weight of three simultaneous wars while uncovering the truth about his father's final gift and his own role in humanity's survival.
