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Battle Angel Alita (manga)

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[ serialized in [Business Jump] ]

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Alternative title:
GUNNM (Japanese)
Gunnm: Alita, Ángel de Combate (Spanish)
Tsutsu Yume GUNNM (Japanese)
Боевой Ангел Алита (Russian)
銃夢 (Japanese)
총몽 (Korean)
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: The people and cyborgs of the Scrap Yard live beneath the flying city of Tiphares, whose inhabitants dump their junk in the Scrap Yard and rules above it's inhabitants. One day doc Ido, a former Tipharean citizen, finds the intact head of young cyborg-girl in a vast pile of scrap. He takes her in and gives her a body and the name Alita. Alita then discovers since long forgotten fighting techniques hidden in her body and decides to become a hunter-warrior like Ido.
User Ratings: 433 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 152 votes (sub:58, Eng:56, dub:19, ?:5, raw:1, edit.dub:1, others:12
3 French
2 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese
1 German dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 French edited dub
1 German
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Excellent: 127 votes (Eng:62, sub:27, dub:15, ?:8, raw:4, edit.dub:1, others:10
3 Portuguese subtitled
2 French
1 Dutch
1 Polish
1 German
1 French subtitled
1 French dubbed
)
 Very good: 79 votes (Eng:35, sub:25, dub:10, edit.dub:1, others:8
1 Italian dubbed
1 Spanish
1 French
1 Italian
1 Polish
1 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 German
)
 Good: 41 votes (Eng:22, sub:10, dub:6, raw:1, others:2
1 Portuguese
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 16 votes (Eng:7, dub:3, sub:2, ?:1, others:3
1 Polish dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 Dutch dubbed
)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:2, dub:1, Eng:1, others:1
1 Portuguese
)
 Not really good: 5 votes (Eng:3, dub:1, sub:1)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:2, Eng:2, dub:1, others:1
1 German
)
 Bad: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 862 users, rank: #66 (of 4133)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.644 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.5462, rank: #360 (of 4136)
Weighted mean: 8.590 (Excellent−), rank: #331 (of 4136) (seen all: 8.87 / seen some: 7.74 / won't finish: 5.19)
Bayesian estimate: 8.583 (Excellent−), rank: #60 (of 2591)
Number of tankoubon: 9
Number of pages: 220
Volumes:
#1. 錆びた天使/Gunnm: Rusty Angel (Battle Angel Alita)
#2. 鋼鉄の処女/Gunnm: Iron Maiden (Battle Angel Alita: Tears of an Angel)
#3. 殺戮の天使/Gunnm: Killing Angel (Battle Angel Alita: Killing Angel)
#4. 炎の中に立つ男/Gunnm: Ars Magna (Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Victory)
#5. 復讐の季節/Gunnm: Lost Sheep (Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Redemption)
#6. 自由への道/Gunnm: Rainmaker (Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Death)
#7. 機甲花嫁/Gunnm: Panzer Bride (Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Chaos)
#8. 馬借戦記/Gunnm: War Chronicle (Battle Angel Alita: Fallen Angel)
#9. ザレム征服/Gunnm: Conquest (Battle Angel Alita: Angel's Ascension)
Vintage: 1990-11 to 1995-03 (Serialized in Business Jump)
Release dates: We have 41
Official website:
Yukitopia: Battle Angel Alita
Trivia: We have 2
Comment:
Although both releases consisted of 9 graphic novels, the original Viz releases and the original Japanese releases differ slightly in where they are split. In Japan Gunnm was split into roughly equal length volume, while Viz released Alita in story arcs. There are 8 volumes in the story, the third volume is split into two graphic novels. Viz's reprints follow the Japanese volume breaks.
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Graphic novel
    Battle Angel Alita - Rusty Angel [2nd Ed] (GN 1) 2003-12-10 (from $8.99)
    Battle Angel Alita - Tears of an Angel [2nd Ed] (GN 2) 2004-03-10
    Battle Angel Alita - Killing Angel (GN 3) 2004-05-12 (from $9.95)
    Battle Angel Alita - Angel of Victory [2nd Ed] (GN 4) 2004-07-01 (from $8.99)
    Battle Angel Alita - Angel of Redemption [2nd Ed] (GN 5) 2004-09-14
    Battle Angel Alita - Angel of Chaos (GN 7) 2004-12-01 (from $33.82)
    Battle Angel Alita - Fallen Angel (GN 8) 2005-03-15 (from $7.99)
    Battle Angel Alita (GN 9) 2005-05-15 (from $9.95)
    Battle Angel Alita (2nd Ed) (GN 6) 2004-10-01 (from $9.95)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Yukito Kishiro
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Shueisha
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Fred Burke
Matt Thorn
Sterling Bell

Editing:
Satoru Fujii
Trish Ledoux
Editing Assistant: Toshifumi Yoshida
Executive Editor: Seiji Horibuchi
Publisher:
Keizo Inoue
Masahiro Oga
Touch-up Art & Lettering: Wayne Truman
(none)
English companies
Licensed by: Viz Media
French staff
French companies
(none)
Publisher: Glenat
French cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Translation:
M.D. Mañas (Spain, 1993)
Marc Bernabé (Spain, 2002)
Verónica Calafell (Spain, 2002)

Consultant: Manuel Robles (Spain, 2002)
Design:
Josep Maria Ricart (Spain, 1993)
Rosa Romeu (Spain, 1993)
Editing:
Ana María Meca (Spain, 1996)
Jaime Rodriguez (Spain, 2002)
Editorial Director:
Antonio Martín (Spain, 1993)
Jesús Pece (Spain, 2002)
Lettering:
Albert Agut (Spain, 2002)
Rosa Romeu (Spain, 1993)
Retouch: Cristina Simó (Spain, 2002)
(none)
Spanish companies
Cover Design: A&J Torres (Spain, 2002)
Design: Estudi d'Art-Tres (Spain, 2002)
Publisher: Planeta DeAgostini Comics (Spain)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Publisher: Carlsen Comics
German cast
(none)
Dutch staff
Dutch companies
(none)
Publisher: Glénat Benelux
Dutch cast
(none)
Polish cast
Polish staff
Translation: Rafal Rzepka
(none)
Polish companies
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Distributor: JBGroup
Publisher: JBC (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)
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