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Battle Angel Alita 6
Own the manga thrill ride that changed global comics and inspired the James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's cyberpunk action film Battle Angel ! This new paperback edition features an updated translation in six affordable, 300-page volumes.
Contains chapters 26-34 of Battle Angel Alita .
Zalem has created replicas of Alita to serve as its secret weapon in quelling the Barjack Rebellion—and their final test is to destroy the original! Stunned and disoriented, Alita struggles in battle. Meanwhile, Kaos wages a solitary battle against his own past and father, Desty Nova, and Den readies a giant railway gun that can shoot down Zalem. How will these three battles inter-twine, and what will their resolution bring?! At long last, the conclusion to Battle Angel Alita!!
Contains chapters 26-34 of Battle Angel Alita .
Zalem has created replicas of Alita to serve as its secret weapon in quelling the Barjack Rebellion—and their final test is to destroy the original! Stunned and disoriented, Alita struggles in battle. Meanwhile, Kaos wages a solitary battle against his own past and father, Desty Nova, and Den readies a giant railway gun that can shoot down Zalem. How will these three battles inter-twine, and what will their resolution bring?! At long last, the conclusion to Battle Angel Alita!!
336 pages, Paperback
Published May 10, 2022
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About the author
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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February 19, 2024
Back around '94, a friend and I rented the Battle Angel Alita OVA on VHS from a local Blockbuster. That OVA introduced the basic plot:
A doctor named Ido finds the remains of a cyborg in a scrapheap and decides to rebuild it. This cyborg, named Gally in the OVA and Alita in the English translation of the manga, quickly becomes independent and strikes out on her own.
In the first plot arc, she becomes a bounty hunter and kills criminals for money.
In the second plot arc, she competes in a battle-race called motorball.
In the third arc, she leaves the scrapyard and becomes a mercenary in the post apocalyptic landscape.
And in the final arc, she confronts the big villain.
The OVA summarizes material from the first half of the first plot arc. Roughly 30 years later, I wanted to see what happened in the rest of the story.
Was it worth the read?
Not really.
Battle Angel Alita is a sci-fi soap opera for teens. Regularly spaced super-violent and gory battles are sandwiched between melodramatic plot developments. Melodrama is a feature of some genres of manga & anime- Super Dimensional Fortress Macross is a well known example.
I don't like melodrama.
It didn't help that I read volumes 1-9 over two days.
The art seemed to improve in the later volumes, but even so it was really hard to tell what was happening in many of the action sequences.
I'm surprised they haven't converted Battle Angel Alita into an anime series. It seems to me that it would find a ready audience with fans of Fist of the North Star and Dragonball Z. And before you ask, no, I have not seen the live action adaptation.
I didn't like Battle Angel Alita. If you like melodramatic sci-fi, then this might be your thing.
A doctor named Ido finds the remains of a cyborg in a scrapheap and decides to rebuild it. This cyborg, named Gally in the OVA and Alita in the English translation of the manga, quickly becomes independent and strikes out on her own.
In the first plot arc, she becomes a bounty hunter and kills criminals for money.
In the second plot arc, she competes in a battle-race called motorball.
In the third arc, she leaves the scrapyard and becomes a mercenary in the post apocalyptic landscape.
And in the final arc, she confronts the big villain.
The OVA summarizes material from the first half of the first plot arc. Roughly 30 years later, I wanted to see what happened in the rest of the story.
Was it worth the read?
Not really.
Battle Angel Alita is a sci-fi soap opera for teens. Regularly spaced super-violent and gory battles are sandwiched between melodramatic plot developments. Melodrama is a feature of some genres of manga & anime- Super Dimensional Fortress Macross is a well known example.
I don't like melodrama.
It didn't help that I read volumes 1-9 over two days.
The art seemed to improve in the later volumes, but even so it was really hard to tell what was happening in many of the action sequences.
I'm surprised they haven't converted Battle Angel Alita into an anime series. It seems to me that it would find a ready audience with fans of Fist of the North Star and Dragonball Z. And before you ask, no, I have not seen the live action adaptation.
I didn't like Battle Angel Alita. If you like melodramatic sci-fi, then this might be your thing.
February 10, 2025
An interesting finale of the series but with a twist on Nova and the ending.
Altogether the series feels a bit hollow. While it's a story of self-discovery and finding purpose, it's consistently rebuked in showing the purposeless of life beyond self-interests and ends without conclusion.
Altogether the series feels a bit hollow. While it's a story of self-discovery and finding purpose, it's consistently rebuked in showing the purposeless of life beyond self-interests and ends without conclusion.
February 1, 2023
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, left with another cliffhanger ending and will continue on reading Last Order.
May 6, 2022
The journey's complete. I've read all of the original Battle Angel Alita. Alita is without a doubt my favorite female character in fiction. No contest. This volume just solidified it. Her arc throughout this series is so powerful, and the climax of her feeling empty without a fight is so raw. I can't wait to get my hands on Last Order, especially after that ending!
December 24, 2022
So, in the end I was disappointed with this series. It started off great. I was invested in the emotional journey of Alita. You had the romance and eventual death of Hugo and everything was clicking. Alita joined the Battle arena and it was some fun competitions. Then...Ido was killed off (he comes back but without his memory so it is a big letdown for his return) and the series started to go downhill. Instead of what you would expect and hope for it became a meandering mess. I was hoping we would learn more about Alita and her past - we got none of that. We never learn why she is such a fighting expert who has these fighting skills in her repressed memories. I was hoping we would find out more about the sky city Zalem and why it exists and while we get a little glimpse into it it is very superficial. We get to see one command center with 8 people in it. That's it.
For this volume - the big build up of the rebels firing on Zalem and shooting it out of the sky ends with a fizzle. The fact Zalem has cloned Alita and is using the clones to attack her really never pays off. The big bad guy ends with a whimper and a "suicide". Even Alita's end is a huge let down.
It just didn't work for me. There were all these ideas and characters but no satisfying payoffs. The one payoff that was interesting was the fact people from Zalem are being controlled by a higher alien power - but since we never know who they are or what that means it is all mystery and no reveal.
In the end - I wonder what the hype for this series was based on. If it was on the first two volumes, okay, I get that. I was happy with them too. But it should come with a warning that it becomes a confusing muddled mess over the next 4 volumes. And Alita deserved a better end than "death by fake baby bomb". Especially when she had escaped so many worse threats before.
For this volume - the big build up of the rebels firing on Zalem and shooting it out of the sky ends with a fizzle. The fact Zalem has cloned Alita and is using the clones to attack her really never pays off. The big bad guy ends with a whimper and a "suicide". Even Alita's end is a huge let down.
It just didn't work for me. There were all these ideas and characters but no satisfying payoffs. The one payoff that was interesting was the fact people from Zalem are being controlled by a higher alien power - but since we never know who they are or what that means it is all mystery and no reveal.
In the end - I wonder what the hype for this series was based on. If it was on the first two volumes, okay, I get that. I was happy with them too. But it should come with a warning that it becomes a confusing muddled mess over the next 4 volumes. And Alita deserved a better end than "death by fake baby bomb". Especially when she had escaped so many worse threats before.
November 14, 2022
I’m a bit saddened of how enamored I was with series after the first couple of volumes, and now I’m just like “yea, it’s pretty good.” There’s been a wave of new characters that are just decent at best, especially Figure who has had barely any development, but Alita loves deeply?
At the end of the day, this conclusion feels like it’s trying to clean up a mess, but it’s serviceable. I gave a little extra to the rating for the art being consistently stellar this whole time, but without it, I would likely be bothered by the narrative.
I suppose I’ll read Last Order. I got this far, didn’t I?
At the end of the day, this conclusion feels like it’s trying to clean up a mess, but it’s serviceable. I gave a little extra to the rating for the art being consistently stellar this whole time, but without it, I would likely be bothered by the narrative.
I suppose I’ll read Last Order. I got this far, didn’t I?
January 23, 2023
A pretty gripping finale for the first series of Battle Angel Alita. The main unsatisfying thing is that it ends on a cliffhanger. Certainly not the first story to do this, but I would have liked a little more resolution. Still, there were a lot of huge revelations, and things tied together in a gripping way. I am definitely going to read the next
series at some point.
series at some point.
October 13, 2023
Ends with a cliffhanger so gotta find the sequel now
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 30, 2025
I enjoyed this but I prefer the original ending.
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