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Battle Angel Alita 5
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 .
Alita starts a new life as a TUNED agent with new powers. As she travels the desert, she's reunited with Koyomi, meets the eccentric blind psychometrist, Kaos—and comes into contact at last with Den, terrifying leader of Barjack. What is Alita's past that Kaos claims to see? And what is the purpose of the Barjack Rebellion, which spreads like wildfire?!
Contains chapters 26-34 of Battle Angel Alita .
Alita starts a new life as a TUNED agent with new powers. As she travels the desert, she's reunited with Koyomi, meets the eccentric blind psychometrist, Kaos—and comes into contact at last with Den, terrifying leader of Barjack. What is Alita's past that Kaos claims to see? And what is the purpose of the Barjack Rebellion, which spreads like wildfire?!
299 pages, Paperback
Published March 15, 2022
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Yukito Kishiro
339 books373 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 29, 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.
December 24, 2022
This volume had a nicer flow than the last one but still doesn't have the narrative drive the first volumes had. I'll give my overall impressions of he series with my volume 6 review but this one has the good and bad of this series.
The good is the art continues to get better as the creator seems more confident with his art and storytelling abilities. Alita continues to be an interesting character. And there is a nice addition of her having an overseer in the sky city of Zalem. There are some nice ideas. We get Kaos an interesting new character.
The frustrating is...the story is all over the place. While the author is great at coming up and articulating neat ideas like psychometrics (feeling the past of an object by touching it) he is lousy at creating a compelling narrative that feels like it is going somewhere. Don't get me wrong - things happen and battles are won or lost but I don't feel any excitement from them. What happened to Alita new love Figures? He is out of the picture. what about the quest to find Ido her "father"? It comes and goes with little emotion and it is quite unsatisfying.
Overall - these Best Manga of All Time (which Alita has been called) just don't do it for me. The Eastern way of storytelling just doesn't click for me. I know many love it but I find it is bursting with creativity with little emotional connection to the characters and stories.
The good is the art continues to get better as the creator seems more confident with his art and storytelling abilities. Alita continues to be an interesting character. And there is a nice addition of her having an overseer in the sky city of Zalem. There are some nice ideas. We get Kaos an interesting new character.
The frustrating is...the story is all over the place. While the author is great at coming up and articulating neat ideas like psychometrics (feeling the past of an object by touching it) he is lousy at creating a compelling narrative that feels like it is going somewhere. Don't get me wrong - things happen and battles are won or lost but I don't feel any excitement from them. What happened to Alita new love Figures? He is out of the picture. what about the quest to find Ido her "father"? It comes and goes with little emotion and it is quite unsatisfying.
Overall - these Best Manga of All Time (which Alita has been called) just don't do it for me. The Eastern way of storytelling just doesn't click for me. I know many love it but I find it is bursting with creativity with little emotional connection to the characters and stories.
March 10, 2022
There's nothing scarier about reading a series that's already finished, and going "there's NO way there's only one volume left"
The series is about to be over and I have no clue how we're supposed to reach a climax. Is Nova the main antagonist? Is Den? Hell, it could be the director of Tuned for all I know. There's still plot threads from the movie that haven't been addressed at all yet.
My fears aside, this is my favorite volume yet. Alita is probably the single coolest female character I've ever read. "The wily independence of a cat! The stubbornness! The confidence! The pride! The thirst for self-expression! And yet she's shy. Uncooperative! Bursting with agency! Rebellious... ...so what drives Alita to fight? Some kind of hellish rage? Or a loathing of her fate?"
The series is about to be over and I have no clue how we're supposed to reach a climax. Is Nova the main antagonist? Is Den? Hell, it could be the director of Tuned for all I know. There's still plot threads from the movie that haven't been addressed at all yet.
My fears aside, this is my favorite volume yet. Alita is probably the single coolest female character I've ever read. "The wily independence of a cat! The stubbornness! The confidence! The pride! The thirst for self-expression! And yet she's shy. Uncooperative! Bursting with agency! Rebellious... ...so what drives Alita to fight? Some kind of hellish rage? Or a loathing of her fate?"
April 25, 2023
This series has a serious pacing issue, they essentially give us an ending for the series at the very beginning of this volume only to have Alita go off on another random adventure that goes nowhere.
She meets up with the girl from the bar but she doesn't remember Alita, so it might as well have been a stranger. Then you get some music guy that calls Alita the wrong name, seems to fetishizes her and then turns evil. Big evil robot appears then another fight, then the guy who we haven't seen since the middle of the series pops back up. Ido appears and I'm just left wondering, what direction is this series actually trying to go because we have one volume left and there hasn't been a clear narrative through the story, it started strong but as soon as Ido died the series fell apart.
She meets up with the girl from the bar but she doesn't remember Alita, so it might as well have been a stranger. Then you get some music guy that calls Alita the wrong name, seems to fetishizes her and then turns evil. Big evil robot appears then another fight, then the guy who we haven't seen since the middle of the series pops back up. Ido appears and I'm just left wondering, what direction is this series actually trying to go because we have one volume left and there hasn't been a clear narrative through the story, it started strong but as soon as Ido died the series fell apart.
November 9, 2022
Although I really loved the crushing ending, I just could bring myself to give it 4 stars. I’m not really into the Barjack/Den/Kaos storyline and those characters felt shoehorned into this story pretty quickly.
I’m hoping it concludes more solidly. Alita feels a little all over the place with love interests and distractions, but if we can get back to the core dynamics and emotions, the ship can certainly be righted.
I’m hoping it concludes more solidly. Alita feels a little all over the place with love interests and distractions, but if we can get back to the core dynamics and emotions, the ship can certainly be righted.
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