A good continuation of the original and I'm continuing to love the series

Spoilers for the first series!

This omnibus is the start of a new Alita series, following the end of the previous nine-volume series, which took us all the way from her "rebirth" in the junkyards of the Scrapyard to her death, blown up by the nefarious Desty Nova.

Angel Reborn begins with Desty Nova rebuilding a cyborg body for Alita. He salvaged her brain, of course. From there, this long volume takes us to the sky city of Tiphares, and has Alita participating in a revolution between the Millennials and the Boomers (they aren't called that, but imagine a bunch of Millennials saying "Ok boomer" as they slaughter their parents), trying to find her old friend Lou, and becoming increasingly bitchy.

Yeah, this is not the sweet anime girl we met way back when Alita was brought to life by Doc Ido. She's had a hard life. She's seen a lot of friends die, she's had her body blown to bits more than once, and now she's probably never going to see any of her friends again. She's become a cold, callous warrior who only occasionally shows a spark of that humanity that made her so lovable when she was a cute little unstoppable death machine back on Earth.

Here, she is drawn into bigger and bigger spheres as we learn about the Ladder, and the interstellar government that has been ruling the solar system, oblivious to the affairs of the crawling ants who live down on the ground.

There's lots of action, Alita has to fight ever more formidable foes with her Panzer Kunst, and the volume ends with Alita still stuck out in space trying to figure out the politics of these crazy, super-advanced post-human Jovians and Venusians and such. Something tells me she's gonna wreck shit, because she always does.

While it contains several interesting concepts, it’s very dry and cerebral, lacking the emotional impact of the original series. This is evident in both the writing and especially the art, which has a sterile, mechanical quality to it. A shame.

Who doesn't want to be Battle Angel Alita when they grow up? I mean, minus the heaping servings of angst and pain. This series is excellent all around: art style, characters, plot and sheer kick-ass goodness. If you like your woman to be insightful, cyborg, martial arts masters of coolness, you will love Battle Angel in all of it's forms. Also, wonderful use of technology as metaphor. The random sketches at the beginning of each section are also great. If you get the chance to pick up the large volume untranslated texts, they are beautiful.

Pretty good Sci fi manga series, really good awesome art and action scenes but the overall story wasn’t that great

I have no idea what’s going on…but it’s gory

第二部可以看出作者畫工明顯長進；至於內容，第一部講的是個人生命，第二部講世界觀，放在一起比好像怪怪的，但女主角夠猛，很好。（寫於2006年12月15日）

女主角凱麗，便體驗到即使是惡劣的宇宙都市與中央電腦都「充滿建造它們的人的思念」，並說出以下寯語：
「即使歷史是由愚蠢的行為累積而成的，但每一個時代都會有活在那個時代的人們的喜悅與悲傷。」（第一集）（寫於2014年）
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Re-reading this book (and series) for review purposes.

Strong set up.

Pretty darn good. Feels a bit more serious than the previous series, as if Gally is now all grown up.