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Battle Angel Alita, Volume 02: Tears of an Angel
by Yukito Kishiro
And so it goes with all of this series, the content vacillates between gruesome and poignant. The deeper exploration of what it means to be 'human,' and all of it's terrible glory, is continued in this second volume of the Battle Angel Alita saga.
I read this one over a decade ago, and I'd forgotten the primary plotline about Alita pining away over a broken, self-absorbed "dreamer." That much was hard to read, yet understandable to see that obsessive weakness surface in the heroine. Still, I can understand people's frustration with it. The plot can be summed up like so: 'Naive, amnesiac cyborg girl falls in love with a crazed idiot.' When what you'd like to see is a lot of robo-girl kicking skidplates and taking names, this book can prove a little draggy. But a few key worldbuilding elements make it a need-to-read for those moving on in the series.
The art style is still as intricate and cyber-punk sleek as ever--though the flying fluids and bulbous eyes do get a bit distracting at times.
I read this one over a decade ago, and I'd forgotten the primary plotline about Alita pining away over a broken, self-absorbed "dreamer." That much was hard to read, yet understandable to see that obsessive weakness surface in the heroine. Still, I can understand people's frustration with it. The plot can be summed up like so: 'Naive, amnesiac cyborg girl falls in love with a crazed idiot.' When what you'd like to see is a lot of robo-girl kicking skidplates and taking names, this book can prove a little draggy. But a few key worldbuilding elements make it a need-to-read for those moving on in the series.
The art style is still as intricate and cyber-punk sleek as ever--though the flying fluids and bulbous eyes do get a bit distracting at times.