During the series, Daisuke and Alita discover that Alita knows more and can do more than initially assumed. Never in his wildest dreams does Daisuke realize what or whom he has fixed. Daisuke takes her under his wing and names her Alita. The problem? The cyborg does not remember who she is or where she came from. To his surprise, she is not completely “dead.” With a few modifications and additions, the cyborg boots right back up again. Thinking she’d at least be good for scrap parts, he takes her home with him. Well, just her head and torso and not in any functioning order. While out on his route, he comes across a thrown away cyborg girl. It is in this rusting dusty world we are introduced to Daisuke, a shamed cyber-medic who goes dumpster diving to scrape and assemble his living. What can I say, the citizens of Zalem “are more machine now than man.” Lose a leg, eye, or heart? There’s a cybernetic prosthesis to replace that. Most people have attained “immortality” through cybernetics. Whatever catastrophic thing that happened has happened and humanity is left to survive in the rubble. It’s an old, grungy, and gritty world of recycled/reused mechanics. (I’m currently burning my way through volume 4).īattle Angel Alita is set in a post-apocalyptic mythic world of Zalem that is reminiscent of the movie Blade Runner. Yukito Kishiro’s writing and art had me intrigued from the start, and still intrigues. Manga is usually black and white which at first glance can appear a little plain or boring.Ī friend suggested this series to me, so I thought I would give it a try.

I’m not usually a manga fan because I appreciate the graphic side of graphic novels complete with colors. So it HAS to be good, right? Well, it is! Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro is totally awesome and reminds me that Manga CAN be awesome! So good that a deluxe edition was released this year in 2018! AND it’s been adapted into an animated movie that’s coming out in February 2019. OK, it’s an “oldie” (originally published in 1990), but a goodie.

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