Battle Angel Alita, Volume 1: Rusty Angel
When Doc Ido, a talented cyberphysician, finds Alita's head in a junk heap, she has lost all memory of her past life. But when he reconstructs her, she discovers her body still instinctively remembers the Panzer Kunst, the most powerful cyborg fighting technique ever known. In the postapocalyptic...
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When Doc Ido, a talented cyberphysician, finds Alita's head in a junk heap, she has lost all memory of her past life. But when he reconstructs her, she discovers her body still instinctively remembers the Panzer Kunst, the most powerful cyborg fighting technique ever known. In the postapocalyptic world of the Scrapyard, as the secrets of Alita's past unfold, each day is a struggle for survival.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781569310038 (1569310033)
Publish date: July 6th 1995
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Japan,
Dystopia,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Cyberpunk,
Manga,
Comics Manga,
Seinen
Series: Battle Angel Alita / Gunnm (#1)
Interesting start to the series. I'd like to see more about where it goes though - as while it's got a unique look and style - the fact that James Cameron wants to make a movie out of this is kind of making me look for the "James Cameron" movie in this - and I haven't found it yet.
Another of my favourite manga series that initially got me interested in Japanese manga and anime, Battle Angel Alita is another classic Japanese manga from the early 1990s.This series tells the story of an amnesiac female cyborg named Alita, whose head and upper torso are found in a state of suspen...