*Please note that since writing this article a new series, Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicles, has been released and is currently still running. It continues the story of Alita as well as exploring her mysterious origins. Please check out the links below for reviews on those as they are released in English. Also, I have added my review of the Alita: Battle Angel film in the links
Is finally over. So how does feel to finally reach the end of this epic series? Well let’s start from the beginning...
The first series is a masterful piece of work which is an essential sci-fi read. The story tells the dark tale of Alita, a young cyborg girl who is discovered broken but with her brain intact by Dr Daisuke Ido. Ido is delighted with his find and takes Alita to his home and repairs her. Over time there develops a father-daughter bond but Alita has amnesia and is unhappy as she wants to find out more about her mysterious past. Over time she learns that she knows the powerful 'Panzer Kurst' fighting technique and enters the
Big Eyes Finally Saw Alita: Battle Angel
. The other 5 graphic novels see Alita try to live a ‘normal’ civilian life but life has other plans and there are plots to overthrow the floating city and bring equity to the Scrapyard… all pretty heady stuff! In my opinion, the original series peaks with the fifth graphic novel,
Gritty cyberpunk masterpiece. In the end Alita finally discovers the ghastly secret of Tiphares, saves the floating city and the Scrapyard from destruction and finds love.
, but diverged from the original ending. It ignored the transformation of Ketheres into a nanotechnological space flower, Alita's subsequent transformation into a flesh-and-blood human girl and her reunion with Figure, her love. Instead it takes place after Alita is killed by a doll bomb in the final volume of Battle Angel Alita.
A Fan's Review Of Alita: Battle Angel
Begins when Alita is resurrected by mad scientist Desty Nova's nanotechnology in the floating city of Tiphares. The city's dark secrets are brutally exposed, but it turns out to be a small part of a complex world. Going into space with new and old companions alike to look for her lost friend Lou Collins and to find out more about her forgotten past, Alita is caught up in an interplanetary struggle between the major powers of the colonized solar system. Along the way, she forms an alliance with three of the Alita Replicas who have now begun to think for themselves, an unsavory superhacker, and Nova himself when she enters the Zenith of Things Tournament (Z.O.T.T.), a fighting competition held every ten years. During the course of the story, more background about the setting of
That was not disclosed in the prior series is revealed, such as how the Earth emerged from a cataclysmic impact winter that wiped out most of the population.
In principle this all sounds great, more of the same and then some but the story was extremely slow moving and the fighting so excessive that it actually ground the plot to a complete halt several times and over multiple volumes of the graphic novels. Many of the volumes were a chore to wade through as we were introduced to new characters and then told overly long back stories that no-one was really interested in.
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order (manga)
By the end of the 19 run series it seemed as though Last Order was a pale shadow of the original run. I started reading
Had ended with the original run as it would have remained one of the best and unique graphic novel series of all time. As it is, ignoreI’m not much of a manga reader. For some reason, I find it difficult to focus on digest-sized pages printed in black and white, and sometimes it’s difficult to follow the action if there’s too much going on in a single panel. So at first, I was a bit apprehensive about reading Yukito Kishiro‘s cult-classic manga Gunnm (literally translated into “gun dream”,
For western audiences). Fortunately, my fears were soon quelled as I began delving into the series, unraveling the tale of a battle-hardened cyborg with a new lease on life in a grotesque, unforgiving vision of the future.
New Digital Editions Reintroduce Battle Angel Alita's Cyberpunk Iconoclasm
Started publication in 1990 and ran through 1995, chronicling the life of the comic’s namesake as she pursues the greatest challengers of her combat skills, first as a bounty hunter, then as a combatant in a violent future-sport, then as a superpowered government agent. Since the original run,
Has spawned two sequel series continuing Alita’s adventures, an excellent-if-corny OVA, a video game subtitled Martian Memory (unfortunately never released outside of Japan), and of course, the newly-released live-action film.
Franchise prior to the film’s development seems to have been polished into a hidden gem among the cyberpunk community, not nearly as often-referenced as the works of William Gibson, Masamune Shirow,
Battle Angel Alita Part 2 (1993) Comic Books
And many more. I could see why that may be; the worlds of Tiphares, the Scrapyard, and everything between can carry a zaniness to the point of being cartoonish, and the manga’s dusty, dirty environments sometimes leans more into post-apocalyptic tropes as opposed to more comfortable, artificially-lit ones. But
Is definitely worth its salt as a cyberpunk epic–the powerful emotion behind Kishiro’s writing beautifully blends cyberpunk with shonen and coming-of-age stories, a combination rarely seen in cyberpunk material, featuring Alita as one of the most badass female protagonists to be found in the genre to date.
It’s the 26th century. After salvaging what remains of a cyborg among a massive pile of refuse shat out by society’s privileged living in the floating city of Tiphares, cyber-surgeon Daisuke Ido discovers that the brain encased within still functions–it seems to have been comatose for some time, and all of its memories have been lost. After giving this cyborg a new body, Ido names her Alita and begins to show her a new life in the crime-filled streets of the Scrapyard, a city that is eating itself alive while those in Tiphares enjoy placid complacency in a floating utopia, literally casting a shadow over those it has left behind.
The History Of 'alita'
Alita soon discovers that Ido, who acts as a surrogate father to Alita as she rediscovers the world around her, was exiled from Tiphares and moonlights as a hunter-warrior to supplement a fairly meager income as a back-alley cyborg doctor. Many, if not most, of the city’s inhabitants are cyborgs, crudely grafting inelegant limbs to their bodies, inserting their brains into non-humanoid drone bodies in a life of servitude to Tiphares, or otherwise making enhancements to themselves that warp their appearances and dive straight into the uncanny valley. Unfortunately, this combined with the city’s cycle of endless violence sometimes results in sociopathic criminals, who have bounties posted on their heads once the authorities catch wind of their monstrous acts, which falls to the hunter-warriors to collect. Upon making her discovery, Alita knows that she wants to follow in Ido’s footsteps and become a hunter-warrior as well.
Her first test is against Makaku, a cannibalistic cyborg whose brain was harvested from the body of a vengeful but weak child by a mysterious scientist and placed into a massive, nearly-unstoppable cyborg body. Upon first contact with him, Alita’s decorative mechanical body is shredded. After being rebuilt, Alita develops her first crush on Hugo, an orphaned street worker with ambitions to someday reach Tiphares, which is a legal impossibility for surface dwellers. Unbeknownst to Alita, Hugo has been working with criminal underlord Vector, exchanging spinal columns he’s cut out of unsuspecting cyborgs for a supposed 10-million-chip ticket to the floating city. Hopelessly head over heels for the budding organ harvester, Alita decides to assist Hugo by taking on Makaku’s bounty. Instead of waiting for Alita to track her down, however, Makaku instead seeks her out, having developed a sick obsession with her and stolen a new, superior body. After a long, ferocious battle, Alita collects on the price on his head.
Unfortunately, the jig is up for Hugo; his scam discovered, there is now a bounty on his own head, which hunter-warrior Zapan intends to collect. Alita, caught between her duty as a hunter-warrior and her feelings for Hugo, comes up with her own solution; she cuts off Hugo’s head, sustaining it by hooking up her own respiratory system to provide oxygen to his brain. After being revived, his head mounted to a cyborg body, Hugo confronts Vector only to discover that Vector’s own promise of being smuggled into Tiphares was yet another scam–upon giving Vector his ten million chips, Hugo would have been sent in pieces, his organs and brain removed and sent up in jars for an unknown reason. Devastated by the hopelessness of his situation, Hugo then attempts to scale one of Tiphares’ supply lines, connected to the Factory by large tubes and protected from unauthorized individuals attempting to ascend. Despite Alita’s attempts to dissuade Hugo and confession of her love for him, he falls to his death after his body is shredded by the supply line’s security system.
Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 9: And Our Story Goes On
Alita then vanishes for months from Ido’s life, aimlessly wandering the Factory’s streets before stumbling upon
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