Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita series was a hallmark of the early 1990's cyberpunk canon. I first read the trade paperbacks while in high school, and with the upcoming release of a movie based upon the work, it was time for a re-read. Kishiro's fast paced story keeps a reader intrigued page after page, and the striking visual style is clean and crisply presented. The story follows Alita, a young female cyborg with amnesia, as she pieces together her past and her future. The first three books in the deluxe edition series cover Alita's initial time as a bounty hunter, a motorball player, and finally as a tuned agent for Tiphares, a floating city above the scrapyard in which the story takes place. While Alita accomplishes these external things through the mastery of a mysterious martial art style that she innately knows, she struggles with the concept of identity and finding her place in a world she is just learning about.
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