

Therefore, in an ultimate attempt to “tame” her, Zetian is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest of all pilots, but also the most feared. A female pilot who can drain male pilots.īut society and the army are not ready to simply accept a strong woman in their midst. But her power is much beyond what even she suspected, and Zetian finds herself labeled an “Iron Widow”. No, she’s there to assassinate the pilot responsible for the death of her older sister.

But while the boys are the heroes of the people, the girls are little more than sacrifices drained of their live force to help their male counterparts succeed.īut when 18-year-old Zetian joins the army, she has no plans whatsoever to be lie down and die. These Chrysalises, as they are called, are operated by a male pilot and a female concubine-pilot. In Huaxia, giant transforming robots are used to protect humanity against an invasion of mecha aliens.

Iron Widow is set in a dystopian, futuristic China and is loosely based on the rise to power of Wu Zetian, China’s only female emperor.
