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Alita: Last Order Omnibus #5
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Omnibus 5
THE SHOW MUST GO ON After nearly being canceled, the Z.O.T.T. resumes and now inches towards its conclusion with the Space Angels going head-to-head against new, formidable opponents that push their combative skills to the limit. With Alita jumping back into the fray, the independence of Tiphares and the scrapyard are depending on her victory, and with her new, seemingly unstoppable abilities, triumph seems to be nearly at hand for the Space Angels. However, behind the scenes, Mbadi and other nefarious entities are plotting to turn things around on Alita and her friends as the Z.O.T.T. continues into its final round. Collects Vol. 13, 14 & 15
594 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 9, 2014
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Yukito Kishiro
339 books374 followersYukito Kishiro (Japanese: 木城ゆきと) is a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo in 1967 and raised in Chiba. As a teenager he was influenced by the mecha anime Armored Trooper Votoms and Mobile Suit Gundam, in particular the designs of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, as well as the works of manga artist Rumiko Takahashi. He began his career at age 17, with his debut manga, Space Oddity, in the Weekly Shonen Sunday. He is best known for the cyberpunk series Battle Angel Alita.
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December 2, 2019
This was a solid, action-packed collection, bogged down a bit by what felt like a greater than normal amount of explanation via footnotes. I like techno-jargon well enough, but when you can barely go a handful of pages without running into multiple blocks of tiny text explaining terms (or at times, important parts of the world), it starts to feel a bit unwieldy.
Still, we get a good look at what Venusian biotech is like, a great side story centered around Zazie's exploits on Mars (with a very interesting development that I won't spoil), a glimpse at what's going on back at the Scrapyard, and one heck of a good confrontation between Alita's team and the Space Karate forces.
One of the only other iffy parts of this omnibus is Alita, herself. Since she had that back-from-the-dead transformation awhile ago, she hasn't entirely felt like the same character. I get that some of that's probably due to her learning an unpleasant truth about herself, after Nova pieced her back together at the beginning of this series (if you read the last omnibus, you know what I'm talking about), but she doesn't feel like the Alita we've come to know after all this time. More often than not, she's rather aloof--almost feral. And I still don't get the cat tail.
Those quibbles aside though, Last Order continues to put the misstep that was the vampire flashback behind itself. It's good to see the series maintaining its return to form.
Still, we get a good look at what Venusian biotech is like, a great side story centered around Zazie's exploits on Mars (with a very interesting development that I won't spoil), a glimpse at what's going on back at the Scrapyard, and one heck of a good confrontation between Alita's team and the Space Karate forces.
One of the only other iffy parts of this omnibus is Alita, herself. Since she had that back-from-the-dead transformation awhile ago, she hasn't entirely felt like the same character. I get that some of that's probably due to her learning an unpleasant truth about herself, after Nova pieced her back together at the beginning of this series (if you read the last omnibus, you know what I'm talking about), but she doesn't feel like the Alita we've come to know after all this time. More often than not, she's rather aloof--almost feral. And I still don't get the cat tail.
Those quibbles aside though, Last Order continues to put the misstep that was the vampire flashback behind itself. It's good to see the series maintaining its return to form.
February 21, 2016
The volumes leading up to #5 were much more focused on Alita's struggles, and although there was a thorough transition of her story from the spotlight narrative leading up to this volume, I sort of forgot why I was reading the whole thing at the beginning. Alita is barely even present for much of the volume, which...hey, that's ok in my book. #5 is very martial arts battle heavy. Allllmost in the style of DBZ's infamous 5-minute billion episode long destruction fight on Planet Namek, but nowhere near as banal. Many of the fast-paced *gasp!* style plot developments and intriguing background information of previous volumes becomes absent here to let the supporting characters get a chance to shine, all while setting up for what I'm hoping will be a fucking amazing #6.
And just while I thought #5 was starting to meander too much, midway through, it snaps back into the existential sacred warrior cosmos shit that had me riveted form the get go. <3333
And just while I thought #5 was starting to meander too much, midway through, it snaps back into the existential sacred warrior cosmos shit that had me riveted form the get go. <3333
August 27, 2022
This is the fifth omnibus volume of Battle Angel Alita: Last Order. Way back in volume 2, Alita arrived in space and joined the ZOTT (Zenith of Things Tournament). It's still going on.
Battle Angel Alita: The Last Order follows the Japanese manga tradition of publishing massive tomes that go on for hundreds of pages with almost no plot progression. Nearly two thousand pages so far have been devoted to a space battle between Alita's team and various other weird and wacky fighting teams, each of them with a new, over-the-top series of opponents with unstoppable powers. There are occasional digressions in which Alita zens out and discovers some new aspect of herself, or the other characters reach either peak enlightenment or another power-up, but mostly it's a bunch of fighting with characters whose punches leave impact craters and whose origin stories range from bizarre to gross.
This volume is the "final battle" of the ZOTT. The teams now are Alita (currently sporting a catgirl body), Sechs (Alita's bratty male-persona cyborg clone), and Zazie (a soldier chick from Mars who's... really good at shooting things) vs. Zekka (a hundred-year old cyborg martial arts master), Toji (a giant blocky cyborg master of "electromagnetic karate"), and Rakan (a weird super-fast martial artist who's apparently also a sexual deviant). They each fight one on one, giving us many, many pages of moves and countermoves and each of them cleverly trying to counter each other's powers, and guess what? By the end of the volume, it's still not over.
The original Alita series had a plot, at least, and some character development, though it went off the rails towards the end. The current series really feels like most of the time, the creator was just making up something to keep filling pages. If you like space superheroes punching each other across battlefields for hundreds of pages of fighting, it's entertaining enough, but even the occasional dips into personal histories or psychological introspection are too brief and meaningless to add much.
Despite all this, I retain enough affection for Alita to see this series through to the end, but it's been a slog.
Battle Angel Alita: The Last Order follows the Japanese manga tradition of publishing massive tomes that go on for hundreds of pages with almost no plot progression. Nearly two thousand pages so far have been devoted to a space battle between Alita's team and various other weird and wacky fighting teams, each of them with a new, over-the-top series of opponents with unstoppable powers. There are occasional digressions in which Alita zens out and discovers some new aspect of herself, or the other characters reach either peak enlightenment or another power-up, but mostly it's a bunch of fighting with characters whose punches leave impact craters and whose origin stories range from bizarre to gross.
This volume is the "final battle" of the ZOTT. The teams now are Alita (currently sporting a catgirl body), Sechs (Alita's bratty male-persona cyborg clone), and Zazie (a soldier chick from Mars who's... really good at shooting things) vs. Zekka (a hundred-year old cyborg martial arts master), Toji (a giant blocky cyborg master of "electromagnetic karate"), and Rakan (a weird super-fast martial artist who's apparently also a sexual deviant). They each fight one on one, giving us many, many pages of moves and countermoves and each of them cleverly trying to counter each other's powers, and guess what? By the end of the volume, it's still not over.
The original Alita series had a plot, at least, and some character development, though it went off the rails towards the end. The current series really feels like most of the time, the creator was just making up something to keep filling pages. If you like space superheroes punching each other across battlefields for hundreds of pages of fighting, it's entertaining enough, but even the occasional dips into personal histories or psychological introspection are too brief and meaningless to add much.
Despite all this, I retain enough affection for Alita to see this series through to the end, but it's been a slog.
August 17, 2025
El hecho de que este fuera el último tomo que aparece en Amazon me engaño, haciéndome creer que era la última parte de Last Order. Ya decía yo que nada estaba llegando a una conclusión satisfactoria para ser el final!!
Kishiro todavía se mantiene dando largas para expandir una historia que ya se encontraba en su recta final, lo que por un lado nos permite ver mucho más del universo de Alita/Gally, pero que nuevamente entorpece la narración, al centrarse tanto en las historias de otros personajes que no volverán a aparecer. Sin embargo, se las arregla para hacer una historia entretenida que se acerca a su gran conclusión. Una vez que se ha aceptado el nuevo estilo del autor para LO, es algo divertido. Puede que no sea tan dinámico como la obra original, pero es divertido de leer.
Espero que no decepcione.
Kishiro todavía se mantiene dando largas para expandir una historia que ya se encontraba en su recta final, lo que por un lado nos permite ver mucho más del universo de Alita/Gally, pero que nuevamente entorpece la narración, al centrarse tanto en las historias de otros personajes que no volverán a aparecer. Sin embargo, se las arregla para hacer una historia entretenida que se acerca a su gran conclusión. Una vez que se ha aceptado el nuevo estilo del autor para LO, es algo divertido. Puede que no sea tan dinámico como la obra original, pero es divertido de leer.
Espero que no decepcione.
June 17, 2020
More ZOTT
Book 5 is once again, 3/4 hyper violence and 1/4 character driven. In my opinion there is too much fighting in last order. Now I did read LO for some back story but I feel like LO is more akin to dragonball now than battle angel. Alita and co. Fight ginormous monsters again and again with very little concern on my part for Alita’s safety because at this point, Alita has been resurrected two times and has powers that are quite ridiculous now.
So each book is stretched thin with plot development and is more so 600 pages of rapid fire fighting. Personally I think LO is too long a series. Several books could be removed to condense the story and give most readers what they want, more Alita/Yoko back story.
Book 5 is once again, 3/4 hyper violence and 1/4 character driven. In my opinion there is too much fighting in last order. Now I did read LO for some back story but I feel like LO is more akin to dragonball now than battle angel. Alita and co. Fight ginormous monsters again and again with very little concern on my part for Alita’s safety because at this point, Alita has been resurrected two times and has powers that are quite ridiculous now.
So each book is stretched thin with plot development and is more so 600 pages of rapid fire fighting. Personally I think LO is too long a series. Several books could be removed to condense the story and give most readers what they want, more Alita/Yoko back story.
May 19, 2019
The final Z.O.T.T. is now! How will The Space Angels go up against The Space Karate Force? Will Alita discover the truth about Z.O.T.T.? How will Sechs win Zekka as they both have the same type of Fizziroy body? PLUS - A past from Alita has return! A mysterious woman that has the same Panzer Kuntz. No extras but one that really gives the final showdown the fate of the world! While this omnibus is incomplete, the following completion to finish Last Order will begin with volume 16, published by Kodansha.
November 24, 2023
Stand Off As Forces Collide
Still as action-packed with over-the-top character development. Every risk pays with creatively explosive results. Sure, Alita takes a semi-backseat, but Sechs and Zekka are extremely entertaining.
Still as action-packed with over-the-top character development. Every risk pays with creatively explosive results. Sure, Alita takes a semi-backseat, but Sechs and Zekka are extremely entertaining.
October 25, 2019
I hate when manga inevitably turns into a combat competition arc. It's boring. Hope they get back to the main plot soon.
May 25, 2021
Felt that it's a neverending story. 3,5
January 15, 2022
Another winning entry. Last of the omnibuses! Onto the smaller volumes now.
November 3, 2022
When I had started Last Order, I did not think it would be as fabulous as the original and yet it did so splendidly.A fitting conclusion, and yet more to come in the next saga.
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