“4.25 stars”

Como siempre Alita es una genialidad del cyberpunk

A bit confusing, but good.

Продолжение скорее разочаровывает, чем воодушевляет. По двум причинам: рисунок и судьба Залема/Тифареса. Еще вчера я хвалила на все лады рисунок в оригинальном Боевом Ангеле, и остаюсь при своем мнении, а вот Last Order, к сожалению, предлагает слишком много компьютеризации. Это дело вкуса, но для меня часть очарования потеряна, когда все идеально выглажено.
И небесный город, что в прошлом волшебно играл на контрасте с городом-помойкой, приобрел сюжетное развитие под стать какому-нибудь остросюжетному янг-эдалту. Каким образом за несколько дней все дошло до такой эскалации и многолетняя утопия слилась в канализацию? Это даже не списать на извечное желание людей играть в войнушку. Такое скоропостижное переключение неправдоподобно, за один день из амеб в изощренных маньяков не превращаются. Очень жду логичное объяснение (например, влияние извне или откровенный дефект мозгов).

А еще главный мэд саентист. Джокер, раз за разом выпрыгивающий из коробочки. Судя по последним томам, примерно раз в 300 страниц он чудесным образом возвращается к существованию (объясняя это своими изобретениями). После очередного спасения вся эта тема начинает выглядеть как минимум странно. Например, неужели он единственный владеет этой пресловутой технологией? И как вообще его изобретения сопоставимы с уровнем развития науки – не берет же он своих роботов из воздуха? Очень надеюсь, что его гениальность и живучесть имеют объяснение, а не просто because. Алиту в расчет не берем, протагонисту положено несколько раз воскреснуть, тем более киберпанк обязывает :р

hisashiburi

Great reboot to the series with many plot twists. Mars seems to be playing a larger role. Artwork is well done.

Not anywhere near as good as the first series, but still mildly entertaining. The main problem is that the plot is all over the place and that there are, somehow, space vampires. I'm going to stick with the original Battle Angel and pretend these don't exist.

3.5/5 -rating for the entire Last Order series.

I really loved the philosophical aspect to this series. It dwells on questions like what does it truly mean to be human, what is the point of living, if you could bring someone back from the dead, would it be ethical to do so? and much more. It doesn't fully explore all of these ideas, but it does dive very deep into most of them and if you like these kind of stories you will love this.

Unfortunately, it's not all about the philosophy, and there are some moments where what happens hinges on whether you believe some of the explanations that feel sometimes very deus ex-machina.
The whole tournament arc in this series is also more of a letdown for me, it felt dragged out, I would have loved if the story focused more on the philosophy and less on fighting between robots, but to some people it is the opposite, so I won't complain too much about it, it was fine, some of the fights were very good and the art is certainly top tier.

There are some other reveals that I won't spoil but they were very unexpected and made you rethink what manga you're reading. I love Sci-fi and the tech part was good, it's most likely not hard sci-fi although it tries to be, but from what I've read in the past some of the things that happen are nearly impossible.

J'accroche moins que le 1er cycle.

Nie

Fast pace and a great reintroduction to the world of the Battle Angel.

I'm going to refrain from rating until I've finished the series.

This start to the next Alita series is much different than I expected. The artwork is very different -much cleaner, but less impactful.

The story focus has changed too. We left off with a big, shocking secret discovered about Tiphares and the people, a secret that drives them insane when they learn about it. The start of this series is a year after Gunnm ending - the secret gets out, causing chaos and destruction on Tiphares. So Alita's world is about to get much bigger. No longer is it just a scrapyard town under a seemingly utopian city. We've gone much bigger, involved in space politics now and we especially focus on Mars (Alita's past). I'm very curious about what it'll be like for Alita to return to Mars, but I don't quite like the world-building. Lots of space politics and details about how their science works (I either skip or skim). Lastly, Alita is becoming more bloodthirsty and ruthless, caring more for what and whom she likes than morality.

Disappointment. Started reading the series after finishing the excellent original series, the only thing common with the original are few names, everything else is different and for most parts for the worse.

While the first series is story and character driven with not a singe dull moment, this one is only about stupid battles which just keep's dragging. Alita is not really the center character anymore and she is missing most of the times,her character is regressing instead of developing (addition of tail and wings while making her more stupid !!!). Even the "A" series seem so lame, No.11 and No.12 cannot be the clones of Alita.

While the idea of shifting the action to space is a cool idea, the story-line is not developed which makes the author waste the chapter on stupid competition which are without any meaning.

Frankly the only good thing in this series are all based Earth side and missing Alita - the flashback we get with the Vampire arc and the Ending arch with Figure Four and Dr.Ido