Battle Angel Alita 1
Kodansha Comics · Paperback · August 3, 2021
Own the manga thrill ride that changed global comics and inspired the James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's cyberpunk action film Alita: Battle Angel!
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- Who it’s for
- Cyberpunk action meets a sharper question: what does power do to the person wielding it?
- Themes
- Memory loss and identity, Humanity and bloodlust, Justice in a lawless society
- Pacing
- Fast
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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. 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.
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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?
Steel and Humanity
Cyberpunk action meets a sharper question: what does power do to the person wielding it?
Come here for
- A lawless scrapyard, cyborg combat, and martial arts with a memorable name
- Action shaped by questions of justice and humanity
Expect
- A high-impact science-fiction manga with bloodlust at its edge
- Alita’s lost memories frame the action without crowding it
Where it sits
| Cyberpunk Comics | 93% |
|---|---|
| Action & Adventure Comics | 75% |
| General Manga | 54% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- General Manga
- Tie-In Comics
- Cyberpunk Comics
- Authors
- Yukito Kishiro
- Publisher
- Kodansha Comics
- Published
- August 3, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Memory loss and identity · Humanity and bloodlust · Justice in a lawless society
- Reading lane
- General Manga