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Battle Angel Alita 4
Own the manga thrill ride that changed global comics and inspired the James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's cyberpunk action film Alita: Battle Angel ! This new paperback edition features an updated translation in six affordable, 300-page volumes.
Contains chapters 26-34 of Battle Angel Alita .
In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?
Contains chapters 26-34 of Battle Angel Alita .
In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?
312 pages, Paperback
Published January 4, 2022
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Yukito Kishiro
340 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 9, 2022
I watched Alita: Battle Angel, enjoyed it, then decided that I wanted to read Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita, 6 volume graphic novel series and want too read more in the manga genre.
Really like the Alita character a lot, found this one suspenseful, full of twist and turns, action and left with another cliffhanger ending. Definitely recommend the series and will have too check what else the author done.
Really like the Alita character a lot, found this one suspenseful, full of twist and turns, action and left with another cliffhanger ending. Definitely recommend the series and will have too check what else the author done.
January 7, 2022
I enjoyed this volume well enough. Certainly my least favorite so far, though. The action was killer, but the story feels rushed. Rushed in a way that doesn't COMPLETELY ruin the plot, but still leaving something to be desired. I feel like Alita's character is very inconsistent in this volume, and I'm not sure if it's intentional? I'm never super fond of when Alita gets overly and obsessively dependent on a guy. Least of all, Ido. I'm betting the farm that this is just a part of her character arc and that eventually she'll become more independent. I'm especially excited to see how they play this volume in the movies. Imma cry in the theater when Alita steps through the yellow door at what I'm guessing will be the end of the second movie. I hope.
May 8, 2022
Well...that went south quickly. I really loved the first volume and even second volume of this book. It was the sweet tale of a girl brought back to life by a cyber doctor Ido. then she joined him as a bounty hunter in this apocalypse future and also had a romance with a boy named Hugo. Along the way she was slowly trying to unravel the mysteries of her past and why she was such a good fighter.
Then we got sidetracked with her need to compete in Speedball (or whatever it is called) but there was still some heart to the tale as Ido tried to reconnect with her after she ran away from him.
Then - the cliffhanger (all of these paperback volumes seem to end in the middle of a story so it isn't really a cliff hanger but more "poor editing")Ido found a rebel scientist called Nova and it looked as if Ido died.
We then pick up this novel with Alita tracking Ido down and finding out (at the start so this isn't much of a spoiler)...Ido is actually dead. And wow...my interest in this tale died too. Gone is the grounded character. Gone is the father daughter connection. Gone is the one person who Alita had an interesting relationship with. And sure enough this volume is a lot of violence (the science experiment gone wrong that killed Ido goes on a rampage). Alita is killed because she used a gun to stop this terror from killing everyone and guns are outlawed apparently. And then she ends up on a train (she is now working for a guy from Zalem - the floating city) trying to save it from train robbers and we meet a weird new character Four Figures who looks like he is from Street Fighter.
*sigh* This is the point I have to decide - do I see this series to the end and continue to get annoyed by the poor writing and lack of character development and absurd U-Turns the story tales for no rhyme or reason or do I walk away?
The shame is - the first two parts were good and maybe that is where the writer should have ended this. He obviously had no plan to continue the story and made bad decision after bad decision. I mean - killing off Ido is just dumb and served no narrative or dramatic purpose. The new character of Nova literally does nothing for this entire volume.
This is a microcosm of why I don't usually read Manga - the stories are ultra violent and don't follow the logic I expect. But I thought Alita would be different. At volume 4...it seems I am wrong.
Then we got sidetracked with her need to compete in Speedball (or whatever it is called) but there was still some heart to the tale as Ido tried to reconnect with her after she ran away from him.
Then - the cliffhanger (all of these paperback volumes seem to end in the middle of a story so it isn't really a cliff hanger but more "poor editing")Ido found a rebel scientist called Nova and it looked as if Ido died.
We then pick up this novel with Alita tracking Ido down and finding out (at the start so this isn't much of a spoiler)...Ido is actually dead. And wow...my interest in this tale died too. Gone is the grounded character. Gone is the father daughter connection. Gone is the one person who Alita had an interesting relationship with. And sure enough this volume is a lot of violence (the science experiment gone wrong that killed Ido goes on a rampage). Alita is killed because she used a gun to stop this terror from killing everyone and guns are outlawed apparently. And then she ends up on a train (she is now working for a guy from Zalem - the floating city) trying to save it from train robbers and we meet a weird new character Four Figures who looks like he is from Street Fighter.
*sigh* This is the point I have to decide - do I see this series to the end and continue to get annoyed by the poor writing and lack of character development and absurd U-Turns the story tales for no rhyme or reason or do I walk away?
The shame is - the first two parts were good and maybe that is where the writer should have ended this. He obviously had no plan to continue the story and made bad decision after bad decision. I mean - killing off Ido is just dumb and served no narrative or dramatic purpose. The new character of Nova literally does nothing for this entire volume.
This is a microcosm of why I don't usually read Manga - the stories are ultra violent and don't follow the logic I expect. But I thought Alita would be different. At volume 4...it seems I am wrong.
November 2, 2022
This one’s solid. I was starting to get tired of the existing plot, so I’m glad the story moved in a new direction. It also feels like this series dances between a few genres and this volume is a little more Mad Max/Western body-horror than anything else. Alita is starting to lose it a bit and I’m enjoying seeing the character being pushed in new directions both with her mental state and her new role in society.
Not my favorite of the series by any stretch, but the art is always so undeniably beautiful.
Not my favorite of the series by any stretch, but the art is always so undeniably beautiful.
July 27, 2023
Good Ol' Octopus Lips
I read 1-3 back in ye olden days and loved them, but I never got to #4. Motorball is one of the most visual concepts I've ever seen, and lends itself to such amazing art. Packed with kinetic energy, this reminded me of exactly how brutal and compelling these stories can be.
I read 1-3 back in ye olden days and loved them, but I never got to #4. Motorball is one of the most visual concepts I've ever seen, and lends itself to such amazing art. Packed with kinetic energy, this reminded me of exactly how brutal and compelling these stories can be.
April 3, 2022
Some dodgy pages here and there but Alita survives the slaughter of Zappan and rides a train to rescue Ido while being the angel of death.
January 22, 2025
We finally get to see Alita as the "Angel of Death"!
September 10, 2025
This was great!
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