*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
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. 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.
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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.
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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, ignorein its English versions, when I first discovered the series in high school. I’m going through the books again, and though I wasn’t be able to catch the
Takes place in the Scrap Yard, a world of junk and trash where violence is rampant due to a non-existent police force. Crime has to be regulated by a group of bounty hunters. Above the city floats a huge aerial metropolis called Tiphares, where no ground dweller is allowed to visit.
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We meet Alita first as a damaged cyborg who only has her brain and face intact. Dr. Ido, a cybernetics specialist, is the one who rescues her, becoming a paternal figure in the process. He has a mysterious circular mark on his forehead, signifying his connection to Tiphares.
Due to Alita’s memory loss, she is learning all about life again, and her youthful curiosity is part of the first volume’s charm. At the same time, she possesses lethal martial arts skills that only a soldier from Earth’s dark past can possess. That clash between the soldier in her and what remains of her humanity is part of what makes her arc so compelling.
Alita handles her post-apocalyptic enemies with a violence that makes poetry out of her fighting skills, punctuated by bursts of calming “cuteness.” Here I refer to the cuddly smiles and youthful ripostes in the middle of all-out fighting and viciously gory mutilations, which add levity to offset the seriousness of the material.
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The opening volume details Alita’s origin story and her path to becoming a hunter-warrior. The main conflict revolves around Alita’s fight against Makaku, a mutated goliath that devours human brains for the endorphin stimulants they provide. He’s the first villain to put Alita to the test after she easily disposes of an earlier slew of criminals. Makaku literally crushes Alita’s body, forcing Dr. Ido to flee with her remains.
As they trudge through the streets, gushing blood from their wounds, the crowd is completely apathetic, an indifference that is heartbreaking. Even if the bystanders have become hardened by decades of suffering and violence, it’s hard not to be upset at their refusal to help.
The two are saved by Ido’s assistant, and Ido determines that Alita needs an upgraded suit to defend herself. He digs up a biological beast, the bio-organic armour of a
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, designed to maximise killing efficiency in some forgotten war centuries ago. While Ido waxes on the madness of humanity for building such armour, Alita prepares for a rematch that takes her and Makaku through the underbelly of the city of junk.
What’s most interesting about the climax isn’t just the tactical strategy (and magnetohydrodynamics) she uses to defeat the enemy, but Makaku’s origin story, which is surprisingly tragic. It turns out Makaku isn’t just a villain, but a pawn in a bigger scheme of events triggered by the mysterious presence of another fallen Tiphares citizen, Dr. Nova.
All throughout, the drawings are dynamically vibrant, even in grayscale. It’s like Alita is leaping out of the page with her power kicks. The costumes and environments are bold in their design choices and perfectly integrated with the hyper-charged grandness of the architecture. The future of Earth is a technological chimera layered in a mix of grime and decadence. Both the Scrap Yard and Tiphares become characters in their own right.
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Alita’s expressions are wonderfully vivid throughout; she’ll go from furious determination to funny surprise and humorous modesty in one frame to the next. The battles are a visual splurge that feel like they’re in frenetic motion, and almost every fighting stance demands attention. There’s a lot of visceral combat and the brutal killings add to the savagely despondent milieu.
, that seared the story into my mind (one small note is that the recent re-release seems to have different parts in different volumes). Rather than following up the first book with an even crazier nemesis, Kishiro took a step back and focused on Alita’s relationship with a young dreamer named Hugo.
Hugo is a mechanic who fixes windmills during the day and aspires to escape the hopelessness of the Scrap Yards by reaching the heavenly city of Tiphares. Orphaned at an early age, the dream first conceived by his deceased elder brother is all he has left.
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Shortly after the first time Hugo and Alita meet, Alita is under attack by a dangerous bounty. When the hunted beast bursts upon the scene, Alita is ready to spring, but Hugo, unaware of her abilities, does his best to protect
Despite his vulnerability. She’s impressed and even pretends to be afraid to give Hugo face. She’s attracted to Hugo and when he tells her there’s a way he can buy his passage up, she agrees to help him by capturing even more bounties.
Her affection blinds her to the fact that Hugo, despite being kind-hearted, is a criminal harvesting spines from unwilling victims and selling them on the black market—vertebral column theft, as it’s called. He’s doing this because he’s struck a deal with a trader, Vector, who’s promised him passage to the celestial metropolis in exchange for a whole lot of chips.
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I’m not one for cheesy romances, but it’s done so well here, I couldn’t help but root for them. Cybernetic love has never been so palpable. Hugo is completely oblivious to her affections until Alita, in a moment of rage, demands to know his intentions towards her. Her robotic bluntness is followed by their first kiss, which Hugo describes as tasting “like electricity.”
Unfortunately, things
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