Battle Angel Alita 1 (Paperback) (Battle Angel Alita (Paperback))

I was the first to post a review on this new edition, yet when I went back to make a small edit I found my review gone. How annoying...Anyway, on with the review. Battle Angel Alita is an incredible story. Everything it does, it does amazingly well. Its dystopian future is brutal and fascinating, the characters are deeply engaging and either lovable, or delightfully revulsive monsters. The book manages to successfully lead you to believe/predict one thing before completely subverting your expectations. It powerfully endears you to its various characters, and there's a strong continuity of characters carrying over from former chapters to have significant roles (which will be more evident as the series goes on). Alita's puppy love is absolutely adorable and relatable, and her worries heart-wrenching (and also really damn cool because part of those worries is whether her cyborg super-strength would rip her crush to pieces). The comic is flawless, as far as I'm concerned. The story has been amazing for 28 years, and the art has always been incredibly detailed, expressive, cute, and horrifying (depending on the moment in question). The colored pages at the beginning of some chapters though are truly breathtaking in their lovingly crafted detail.The point that the book cuts off and ends at seems very strange, ending right before any kind of resolution to the current arc. It flows fairly naturally in the original run of the comics, but as these Delux Editions are two books per volume, the effect is exasperated. You expect each of these volumes to cover one arc or one season of Alita’s life, and that is MOSTLY true. The first book covers her origins in the scrapyard, going from Doctor Ido’s adorable daughter/dress up doll to a hardened warrior and bounty hunter. The second book will cover her time in the Battle Ball arena, and the third book the arc after that. That’s why it seems so strange that this book cuts off before the resolution of Yugo’s story, which wraps up in the next volume.I do have a few complaints, and it's about the new translation. I noticed immediately that they're no longer calling the floating city Tipheras, they're calling it Zalem, and that really throws me off. In the original run and all the way through Last Order, the English release always called it Tipheras. That's going to really throw off some readers who go from here to Last Order, so it was just a bad call. They changed other names to make them closer to the original Japanese, like switching Hugo for Yugo. One other reviewer pointed out that the general structure and wording of the dialogue was changed now, and it's far more clunky and less endearing now. That's very unfortunate and I wish they had just stuck with the original translation, but it's far from a deal breaker and I'm still overwhelmingly happy with this new release despite all that.

💯 times better than the movie couldn't recommend more great if you're into nineties sci-fi

Color me surprised. I did not expect to be impressed by Alita. I expected it to be a run of the mill manga that has aged poorly. But, it isn't, it's excellent and brutal. The artwork is also fantastic, holds up beautifully. I will argue better than the generic manga garbage that's released today.Yet it still has flaws. Anime tropes plague the writing. If you read enough manga as I have, you'll spot them immediately. The pacing is kind of off; events go by so quickly you'll not have a chance to register what happened. And this is on me, but Ido comes off as creepy. I'm not going to spoil why, but you'll know when you learn why he fixed Alita.Anyway, I enjoyed this manga: tropes and all. I'm going to continue it. I want to see more of Alita. She is a charming character.

Bought this for my dad and he love it. Quality is great

I haven’t read a manga in a very long time, the only other manga I’ve ever read was sailor moon and I was like 12 I think. I loved this, it’s so good, I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

FollowAlita as she faces her first challenges and the desire to understand herself and her place in the world of the scrap yard. If you liked the movie you will love the book!

The idea of childhood gives Edition 1 of Battle Angel Alita its foundation. The child is a feminine cyborg with no memories named "Alita" by her adoptive father, Daisuke Ido. A complete innocent, she also has the power to engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat. This fusion of innocence and power makes Alita a unique change-agent in her grim world. Speaking of this world, the "Scrapyard" created by the author may be the first dystopia of its kind; all the inhabitants in this world live in a massive junkyard. I've seen similar imagery in Pixar's WALL-E and very recently in Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok, but Kishiro drew it for Alita 30 years ago. Kishiro, in short, is a visionary, a trend-setter. At the level of individual frames, the art excels at conveying action, and that feature is critical; graphic violence forms the bones of this story, but to find a sophisticated narrative embedded in all this blood elevates it far above just a series of brawls between cybernetic demigods. Stars are such a crude tool for rating art, but for the right reader, Alita could be a "five."- Review by Tony Baus, author of  Son of Sloan

I've been waiting for a re-release of this series for nearly ten years, since it was so difficult to get a hold of the paperbacks in a decent condition and at a fair price. After getting this book in the mail and seeing what it had to offer, I'm so glad I waited til now to buy the manga! The book is gorgeous; the hard cover is nice and sturdy and the image is nice and crisp. The pages on the inside are on nice glossy paper and the color pages that were added in are beautifully made. The re-translation is an improvement as well, the content is still the same but the lines from the characters now feel more authentic and the dialogue flows much more smoothly and coherently than previous versions. Just a heads up though, this does read from right to left like a traditional manga. Also the book ends just one chapter away from the conclusion of the second story arc, which is odd but my guess is it was done on purpose to entice people to get the second book. But with this high level of quality and an already great story to boot I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you get this if you're a fan of the series, a fan of anime/manga, a fan of cyber-punk/post apocalyptic stories, or just want some new that's printed in high quality. Can't wait for book two next year!

Produto exelente, chegou rápido e sem nenhum amassado.

I decided to download and read the manga after watching the movie from 2019. It is quite interesting to see the differences and understand a bit more about the world.

Pues a mi hijo le gusta tiene 16 años

Beautiful edition, good quality

Un uso magistral de los planos y una historia muy bien narrada. El ritmo trepidante hará que no pares de leerlo.