Battle Angel Alita

jukes · Post by **jukes** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:27 pm

I also found some images of the Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita manga
Hope you'll enjoy...

http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii156/Jukes17/

Deep Blue · Post by **Deep Blue** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:05 pm

It's looked like Blythe!

jukes · Post by **jukes** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:45 pm

Whats that?

Tio · Post by **Tio** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:49 am

I love Alita. She has been round since the early 90's.

I have both collections of the books though the Last Order set hasnt been finished here in the uk yet.

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:55 am

I don't think it's finished here in the states either, I think Last Order stopped at book 9. I think there was a manga series call A.I or something like that, although they're more computer program A.I's come to life then robot girls. *thinks* then there's SMJ. I know there was more, i just can't remeber them all.

Nathan

minkwheel · Post by **minkwheel** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:37 am

"BLYTHE" was a fashion doll in the '60's with HUGE anime style eyes, she was supposed to emulate the look of the English model named 'TWIGGY" --- and was designed to fit into an ANDY WARHOL-ISH world.... She resurfaced in recent years, redesigned for a new generation ...Mattel called the new "Blythe" line 'DIVA STARZ" --so if I just melt down some friendly plastic, I can take a DIVA STARZ figure, and create an 'ALITA" figure for fun. --minkwheel

jukes · Post by **jukes** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:55 pm

oh, sorry I had no idea.

Steamboy · Post by **Steamboy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:40 am

OMG underage!

I thought she was proscribed here, since she is only 14 in the series...

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:07 pm

welllll, technically Alita is about 200+ years old. So i'm not sure she even fits that ideal.

Nathan

Tio · Post by **Tio** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:27 am

Considering I have read the entire series and she is in the the military before she looses her memory and is found in the scrapyard 200 years later then she is 18+. Plus she has full relationships in the manga and is shown to be adult. I will admit when she is first reconstructed then she is teenage like in mentality but she does mature throughout.

A.N.N. · Post by **A.N.N.** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:53 am

Her illusion of youth is started and even propagated by Doc Ito, since he didn't really know her and was trying to build a fantasy around her. So he would dress her up funny and treat her like a daughter. She would even have uncomfortable flashbacks about those times. I guess that's what happens when you have a microchip for a brain. The irony is perfect between the 2 of them.

Everyone else in the stories treats her as an adult, including other children.