Battle Angel Alita Fan-site!

There are nine volumes of the Original Battle Angel Alita series. The titles are: Battle Angel Alita, Tears of an Angel, Killing Angel, Angel of Victory, Angel of Redemption, Angel of Death, Angel of Chaos, Fallen Angel and Angel's Ascension (check the mangas out at the bottom of the page). The genera is Sci-Fi, with gore (lol).The story and art is all done by Yukito Kishiro. In the originall Jappenese series Battle Angel Alita is called Gunnm (translating to Gun Dream) and Alita's name is Gally. Battle Angel Alita comics have been re-released with new covers. Click this link to compare original and secon addition covers (of rusty angel By the way the original BAA has been renamed Rusty Angel.

All Battle Angel Alita mangas are rated T for older teen's, but I think that theyre sutible for enyone ten and over. Battle Angel Alita is part of Viz Media, under the Action category.

 

Num	Japanese Name	English Name
1	Gunnm: Rusty Angel	Battle Angel Alita
2	Gunnm: Iron Maiden	Tears of an Angel
3	Gunnm: Killing Angel	Killing Angel
4	Gunnm: Ars Magna	Angel of Victory
5	Gunnm: Lost Sheep	Angel of Redemption
6	Gunnm: Rainmaker	Angel of Death
7	Gunnm: Panzer Bride	Angel of Chaos
8	Gunnm: War Chronicle	Fallen Angel
9	Gunnm: Conquest	Angel's Ascension

In the year 2000, BAA Creator Yukito Kishiro decided to go back and do more BAA books as he had originally envisioned the series. *A little side note: Yukito had to cut the serries short beacuse he was very sick. Any way he created a new BAA series called Last order which expands on Alita's adventures. It starts a week after the events at the end of BAA volume nine (Angel's Ascension), when she was blown up by the doll bomb by Desty Nova. The series features new characters, cleaner drawings (no less gore ), and a few CG (computer generated or graphics) drawings. So far Yukito has come out with seven volumes in English and almost nine in Japanese.

On a side note, After completing the Original Gunnm series, Yukito started abother series called Aqua Knight. When he decided to start a new Gunnm series he put Aqua Knight on hold.

At 17, he won one of Shueisha's manga contests, but opted to go onto art school instead of ploughing straight into the manga industry. Yukito Kishiro is also the author of Ashen Victor, Aqua Knight, and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order.

Yukito created Battle Angel Alita in the early 1990's and it premired in th the Japanese magazine Ultra Jump. However Yukito became sick and had to end the series faster than he had intended. After his illness Yukito went back to drawing with a new project: Aqua Knight, which was based more on harmony with nature than the Cyber Punk attitude of BAA.

After three volumes Yukito decided to hold off on the series, although he promised all Aqua Knight fans he would eventually return and finish the series. Yukito held Aqua Knight off to go back to the BAA eries and finish it as he originally envisioned it. He named this new series Battle Angel Alita Last Order. The series takes starts a week after Akita is blown up by the Nova's doll bomb towards the end of Angels Ascension. There is no word when he will start doing Aqua Knight again.

Yukito Kishiro also has his own website called Yukitopia. There you can find brief bios on the main characters, submit fanart for the mangas, find out about other works by Yukito Kishiro and chat with other fans in the forum. The site was just updated to version three in December 2008. Each New Years, Yukito puts out a Battle Angel Alita related picture welcoming the new year, I have posted them all bellow.

In this site, the link is free. URL is "http://yukito.com/".
To link to this site, please use this banner:

Official Site

http://www.yukito.com

Information site's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/rune/241/seraph/gfaq.html

http://http://www.viz.com/products/products.php?series_id=23

Fan sites

http://v.webring.com/hub?ring=gunnm&list *Note: this site isnt actually a fan site but has does have links to a bunch of them (fan sites).

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/battleangealita_fanclub/ (sequel group site)

 

 

*There are two pictures for the volumes of the original series, the first is the cover of the original edition, and the second is of the 2nd edition

Rusty Angel

Vol 1

(Sept. 24, 1991)

   

Chapters: Fight 1: Rusty Angel, Fight 2: Fight on Instinct, Fight 3: Only Value, Fight 4: Resurgents, Fight 5: Sanctuary of Drain, Fight 6: Battle Angel

         

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This sophisticated, complex science fiction tale by master writer and artist Yukito Kishiro is chock-full of action, black humor, and bizarre philosophical, historical, and cultural references. The heroine, Alita, is a powerful cyborg with a soft heart and a mysterious past. 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 When Doc Ido, a talented cyber-physician 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 post-apocalyptic world of the Scrapyard, as the secrets of Alita's past unfold, each day is a struggle for survival!

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Tears of an Angel

Vol 2

(Feb. 24, 1992)

Chapters: Fight 7: Tears Sign, Fight 8: Out of Blue Sky, Fight 9: Iron Maiden, Fight 10: Rainy Days, Fight 11: Guilty Dreams

      

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FIRST LOVE Alita falls head-over-metal-heels for Hugo, a passionate young man who longs to escape the degradation of the Scrapyard to live in Tiphares, the ethereal city in the sky. Will doing Hugo's laundry in her free time (between bludgeoning monsters and saving innocents) win Alita a place in his heart? And to what desperate lengths will Hugo go to realize his dreams?

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Killing Angel

Vol 3

(Jul. 22, 1992)

 

Chapters: Fight 12: Lost Lives, Fight 13:

            

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Alita is a powerful cyborg and master of the most lethal fighting technique, the Panzer Kunst, but she also has a tender heart and a mysterious past she must uncover. Her second chance at life is a struggle just to survive each day and leads her on a series of emotional battles. Her spirit crushed over the loss of Hugo, Alita runs away from Doc Ido and the life she's built in the Scrapyard to become a challenger in motorball, a combat-like game that pits cyborg competitors against each other. As they race through the obstacle course, fighting for the ball, Alita learns her foes will do anything to win, and that losers often don't live to talk about their defeat. Ido's determined to bring his adopted daughter Alita home, but in his desperate plan, forms new alliances. He teams up with the current, invincible star of the Motorball Top League, Jashugan, and his nieve, little sister, Shumira. 

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Angel of Victory

Vol 4

(May  24, 1993)

      

*Note: There are no comics for this volume because it was combined with the comics for volume 3.

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 Alita must choose a challenge team to defeat Jashugan, the proud, incincible Motorball champion. Who will give their all-their very life-for the lovely Battle Angel? In the intense heat of battle during her final one-on-one showdown with Jashugan, Alita slips into a trance that provides an incredible revelation about her mysterious past.

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Angel of redemption

Vol 5

(Sept. 22, 1993)

 

      

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Mad scientist Desty Nova resurrects the brain of Zapan the Hunter-Warrior whose pride Alita has injured one too many times and grafts it with a deadly Berserker body. Now, nothing can stop Zapan from exacting his revenge on Alita and all the Scrapyard inhabitants. Will Alita sacrifice herself to save her friends and other innocents?

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Angel of Death

Vol 6

 

      

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 Alita's death sentence is commuted in exchange for her service as a member of the "Tuned," an elite force of the utopian city of Tiphares. Her first assignment is to protect a nuclear-powered train from the infamous bandit known as Barjack

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Angel of Chaos

Vol 7

 

       

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Alita meets Kaos, the son of mad scientist Desty Nova, who uses his psychometric powers to repair Alita's cyborg body after she falls into a sinkhole. A refurbished Alita finally goes head to head against the forces of Barjack and is ready to kill their leader, Den, when she's unexpectedly betrayed. When the pair meets up again, Alita discovers the secret relationship between Den and Kaos.

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Fallen Angel

Vol 8

 

       

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Alita experiences a terrible fall from grace when she discovers the utopian city of Tiphare's ulterior motive for retaining her services as a special agent of the "Tuned." Now she must face her greatest foe yet - herself! Then Koyomi makes a strange new friend as she and the rest of the Barjack forces prepare to launch the ultimate weapon on both Tiphares and the Scrapyard. Will they destroy the pitiful remnants of civilization as they know it? Plus, the long-awaited return of Doc Ido!

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Angel's Acension

Vol 9

 

        

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As beautiful cyborg Alita confronts her arch enemy, mad scientist Dest 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. Then, Alita finally views Tiphares with her own eyes for the first time - just moments before the city's total annihlation! Is there any ray of hope in this epic post-apocalyptic saga? 

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Angel Reborn

Vol 1

 

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Master manga creator Yukito Kishiroi brings back his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. If you're a longtime fan, prepare to meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters, as well as revisit many of your favorite friends and foes in a post-apocalyptic universe where nothing is as it seems.

RESUCITATION
Mad scientist Desty Nova has resurrected cyborg Alita in a bio-mechanical body as stunning as before, but even more powerful! However, while she was "gone," Nova revealed to one and all the horrific secret of Tiphares. Killer robots hunt down those who know the truth, and a lone band of children desperately need Alita's help to survive. But can she trust their leader, Nova's former assistant Jim�c?

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Angel of innocents

Vol 2

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This volume continues author Yukito Kishiro's exploration of what it means to be truly human. Sachumodo, a giant robot housing the memories and personality of mad scientist Desty Nova's assistant Jim, wreaks havoc on Tiphares, the elite city in the sky. Nova tries to convince Jim to return to the truly living, while Alita resorts to brute force to put a stop to the destruction. Whose method will prove to be the more effective?

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Angel Enternal

Vol 3

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Alita joins her arch-enemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, and two nasty replicants of herself on a journey to the world of Ketheres, in hopes of rescuing her old friend Lou's brain, which is part of a vast array powering the computer known as "Melchizedek." In Ketheres, the hapless cyborg and her unsympathetic companions promptly become embroiled in a war between artifical worlds. Their hosts have the secret of immortality (as long as no one kills you, that is) which puts a new twist on the question Alita has always wrestled with: what does it mean to be human if you can live forever?

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Angel of Protest

Vol 4

(Oct 19, 2004)

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Alita stages a unique protest to save children from becoming cannon fodder, unwittingly competes in a tournament designed to pit insurgents against each other to cull them from the population, and dies! But only symbolically.

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Haunted Angel

Vol 5

(Apr. 12, 2005)

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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...

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The Angel and the Vampire

Vol 6

(Nov. 8, 2008)

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Competing in the rigged Z.O.T. Tournament in hopes of rescuing her friend Lou's brain from enslavement as a computer component, lovely cyborg Alita is locked into a battle to the death with a vampire! But how does one kill the undead!? Also, Master hacker Ping's alliance of convenience with Alita pays off beyond his wildest dreams; mad scientist Desty Nova makes a reappearance (of sorts); and an encounter with strangers raises a disturbing possibility about Alita's mysterious past.... 

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Guilty Angel

Vol 7

(Jun. 13, 2006)

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While lovely cyborg Alita's allies battle real, personal, and existential demons in the Z.O.T. Tournament in hopes of distracting government forces long enough for Alita to rescue her friend Lou's brain from enslavement as a computer component, the deepest secrets of Alita's former life are finally revealed!

But sometimes it's better not to know the truth about your past - especially when you're the one responsible for the horror of everyone's present..

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Angels Vision

Vol 8

(Dec. 12, 2006)

Angel Goes Nova

Vol 10

(Dec. 9, 2009)

This is the cover for Battle Angel Alita last order volume 10, availible in the USA December 9th, 2008 and currently on sale in Japan. Also bellow is a varriant blue version cover. The black version (above) is the official cover.

Our heroine, beautiful cyborg Alita, has finally penetrated the center of Melchizedek, the supercomputer who is holding her friend Lou's brain hostage. Now ancient vampire Vilma asks her to accept an awesome responsibility, while Alita's copies fight their own battles on the outside and her archenemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, returns. And returns. And returns! Is there no end to him? And whose side is he, or he, or he on, anyway??? Then, a moment of weakness may cost Alita everything…!

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Angel Cake

Vol 11

(Apr. 14, 2009)

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Vol 12

Bellow are the covers for a speacil editon of Battle Angel Alita, relased only in japan, known as the "Gunnm Complete Edition". The covers of these volumes have speacil CG art on them done by Yukito.

 

Volume 1