Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Vol. 5

Lovely Battle Angel Alita entered the Zenith of Things Tournament to liberate her friend Lou's brain from enslavement as a computer component, but to accomplish her goal she must defeat a team with an even worthier cause! As if this ethical dilemma weren't tough enough, a nasty ghost in her ear won't stop questioning her every motive...

Plus, pint-size yet scrappy Sechs gets a surpirsing new cyborg body with rather--er--different equipment!

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Vol. 4

Alita stages a unique protest to save children from becoming cannon fodder, joins forces with some unlikely allies to compete in a sporting event whose promoters have ulterior motives, and, well...dies!

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Vol. 3

Alita arrives on space station Ketheres to rescue her friend Lou's brain, which has been stolen and plugged into a vast array powering an A.I. known as "Melchizedek"! Before Alita can get over her culture shock, she gets embroiled in the vicious squabbles of a league of planets who have harnessed the secret of immortality itself!

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Vol. 2

The Utopian city of Tiphares' diabolical secret is out, pitting parent against child, metal against flesh! As the reluctant protector of a surviving band of innocents, recently resurrected cyborg Alita must stop a rampaging three-story-high robot with the mind of a three-year-old child! But all she really wants to do is find her long-lost friends from one of her many other lives....

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Vol. 1

Thought Alita's struggles were finally over? Hoped she could settle down with her devoted full-flesh man in a nice house in the Scrapyard suburbs? Think again!

Alita awakens in a new cyborg body--as stunning as before, but even more powerful--in a world whose dark secret has at long last been revealed to all, pitting parent against child, metal against flesh....

Monday, December 18, 2006

Battle Angel Alita

By: Yukito Kishiro

My current collection:

Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 9

As beautiful cyborg Alita confronts her arch-enemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, for the last time, she finally learns the chilling truth about her past! Meanwhile, megalomaniacal Barjack leader Den launches a kamikaze assault on both the Scrapyard and Tiphares, the mysterious utopian city in the sky. Is there any ray of hope in this epic post-apocalyptic saga?