
Her second lease on life isn't easy: her heart is broken, she gains and loses friends to the cruel world of the Scrapyard far below the Utopian city of Tiphares, and she serves many masters in her quest to protect the innocent and create a new life for herself.Ī cross between Star Trek and Blade Runner, this series constantly challenges the reader's definition of what it means to be human. NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.Īlita, is a powerful cyborg with a soft heart and a mysterious past. But when he reconstructs her, she discovers her body still instinctively remembers the Panzer Kunst, the most powerful cyborg fighting technique ever known! Softcover, 5-in. When Doc Ido, a talented cyber-physician finds Alita's head in a junk heap, she has lost all memory of her past life. Her second lease on life isn't easy: her heart is broken, she gains and loses friends to the cruel world of the Scrapyard far below the Utopian city of Tiphares, and she serves many masters in her quest to protect the innocent and create a new life for herself. Alita is a powerful cyborg with a soft heart and a mysterious past. "Rusty Angel!" Story and art by Yukito Kishiro. This new paperback edition features an updated translation in six affordable, 300-page volumes.Ĭontains chapters 1-9 of Battle Angel Alita.Īction Edition - Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. 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. 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.

He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. 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 discovery: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
