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Alita (known as ガリィ, Garī, or "Gally" in Japan) is the main character of Battle Angel Alita and its followup, Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, both written by Yukito Kishiro. She is renowned for her fighting prowess and skill at the most popular sport in the Scrapyard, motorball. Alita is occasionally referred to as "octopus-lips" due to her pouty expression. Company logo. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Yukito Kishiro (æœ¨åŸŽã‚†ãã¨ Kishiro Yukito) is a Japanese manga author. ... Miki Itō (伊藤 美紀 Itō Miki, née 平野 美紀 Hirano Miki) is a well-known veteran seiyu, born on October 21, 1962 in Tokyo, Japan. ... Amanda Winn-Lee is an American voice actress who works mainly on anime dubs. ... Daisuke Ido ) is a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita manga by Yukito Kishiro and its anime adaptation. ... Panzer Kunst (literally Tank Art or Armored Art) is a fictional martial art for cyborgs from Yukito Kishiros Battle Angel Alita and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order. ... Serialized in Business Jump Original run November 1991 â€“ March 1995 No. ... Yukito Kishiro (æœ¨åŸŽã‚†ãã¨ Kishiro Yukito) is a Japanese manga author. ... Alita attempts a kick at a motorball rival. ...

History

From flashbacks starting in Volume 4, and further elaborated on in Last Order, Alita discovers that she was a Martian native (a human living on Mars) named "Yoko von der Rasierklinge". In Kishiro's original series, Yoko was sent on a suicide terrorist mission. Her target was Earth's orbital ring, but at the penultimate moment her comrades were ambushed by an unknown opponent. Yoko escaped, but was left to crash into Earth.

However, with the release of Last Order, this is no longer considered canon. Instead, Yoko was sent to upload a virus, known as "Program Guinevere", into Melchizedek. The virus disrupted the navigational systems of the five Levathan ships, destroying four of them and killing 450,000 civilians, as well as caused a complete Gestalt breakdown in Melchizedek's organizational processes, from which it never fully recovered. This is known alternately as the the "Cam Ranh Tragedy", or "Camlann Calamity". She was captured shortly afterwards by the vampire, Caerula Sanguis. Regardless, Yoko was still sent to be burned up in the atmosphere as punishment for the terrorist attack. The last remaining members of the Cognate as depicted on the cover of GUNNM: Last Order Vol. ...

In the first book of the series, Yoko's damaged head and torso are found by exiled scientist Daisuke Ido while he searches the junkyard below Tiphares for parts to use in his cyborg repairs. Ido decides to fully rebuild her, and name her after his recently deceased cat, Alita. Daisuke Ido ) is a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita manga by Yukito Kishiro and its anime adaptation. ...

When the reanimated Alita suspects Ido of murdering women to provide her body parts, her guilt causes her to track and confront Ido. She discovers that he is a hunter-warrior, or bounty hunter, and that he is seeking the true killer himself. Her fight to protect Ido causes an instinctive recollection of the lost Martian battle technique called Panzer Kunst, as she quickly applies a single killing blow to the murderer. She decides to become a hunter-warrior herself, in which job Alita occasionally displays a disturbing bloodlust and love of battle. A bounty hunter is an individual who seeks out fugitives (hunting) for a monetary reward (bounty), for apprehending by law, if such laws exist. ... Panzer Kunst (literally Tank Art or Armored Art) is a fictional martial art for cyborgs from Yukito Kishiros Battle Angel Alita and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order. ...

Alita's first battle as a hunter-warrior is against a powerful, body-snatching and brain-eating cyborg named Makaku, who destroys the original body that Ido had made for her. Ido rescues her, almost dying in the process. Feeling he has no other choice, he reconnects her head to an ancient cyborg body called a Berserker Body, which had been especially made for war. Equipped with a new, stronger body, Alita is again challenged by Makaku, who has become obsessed with Alita and reequipped himself with a new Power Body. After a long fight in the sewers beneath the Scrapyard, Alita kills Makaku. The following is a list of characters from the manga Battle Angel Alita and the Battle Angel anime. ...

Shortly after becoming a hunter-warrior, Alita meets and falls in love with Hugo, a young boy who dreams of going to Tiphares. Unfortunately for Alita, her all-powerful berserker body proves to be a liability; since Hugo is a normal flesh-and-blood human, Alita is afraid that she couldn't even hold him close without accedentally tearing him to pieces. But what ends up killing Hugo is his obsession with Tiphares.

Alita's drive and skill makes her the best hunter-warrior the Scrapyard has seen. Her skill and reputation as a hunter-warrior and motorball player elicit interest from Tiphares, the elite society suspended over the Scrapyard, against which she harbors some hostility. Eventually, after a confrontation with a resurrected and enhanced rival, Alita is forced to become an agent for Tiphares. Despite this ironic twist of fate, Alita thinks of herself as a possible bridge between the utopian Tiphares and the impoverished Scrapyard. See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society. ...

Panzer Kunst

Panzer Kunst, or armored arts, is a legendary Martian martial art that seeks oneness between the senses. It is commonly referred to as the strongest of the cyborg martial arts and is especially effective in disabling and destroying larger opponents. Panzer Kunst (literally Tank Art or Armored Art) is a fictional martial art for cyborgs from Yukito Kishiros Battle Angel Alita and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order. ...

Originally, the only memories Alita had of her training are of her master on a red mountain. In Last Order however, after Dr. Nova built her Imaginos body and, in the process helped unlock her repressed memories, Alita now remembers many things about Panzer Kunst including her master Gelda.

The names of all Panzer Kunst moves and disciplines are in German. It is revealed in Last Order that Panzer Kunst is the basis of many space martial arts.

Alita's attacks

Most of Alita's attacks come from Panzer Kunst, although a few are of her own making.

Weapons and bodies

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Damascus Blade

The Damascus blade was created by Lam Dao and given to Alita by her motorball manager, Ed. The blade is hard as diamond, and can only be honed with high pressure water or supersonic waves. The blade consists of rare metals, including scandium, yttrium and lutetium, and has patterns suggestive of Damascus steel. The blade seems to represent Alita herself, as the imperfections and emotions that Alita has made her tougher than the emotionless AR series clones. This link between blade and bearer is further recognized in Last Order, when Desty Nova merges the blade into Alita's new Imaginos body to improve its durability. Later in the series, Alita often chooses to reproduce the blade by morphing her malleable Imaginos body. The following is a list of characters from the manga Battle Angel Alita and the Battle Angel anime. ... The following fictional characters are affiliated with the sport of motorball in the Battle Angel Alita manga. ... A United States Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in transonic flight. ... General Name, Symbol, Number scandium, Sc, 21 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 3, 4, d Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 44. ... General Name, Symbol, Number yttrium, Y, 39 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 3, 5, d Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 88. ... General Name, Symbol, Number lutetium, Lu, 71 Chemical series lanthanides Group, Period, Block n/a, 6, d Appearance silvery white Standard atomic weight 174. ... Damascus steel is a steel used in Middle Eastern swordmaking from about 1100 to 1700 AD. Damascus swords were of legendary sharpness and strength, and were apocryphally claimed to be able to cut through more ordinary European swords and even rock. ...

Berserker Body

After Alita’s first, non-combat body is destroyed, Ido equips her with a Berserker body that he has salvaged from the remains of a spaceship. The body allows supersonic movement as well as two unique combat abilities:

It should be noted that Alita’s time in the Berserker body was spent with the body’s powers partially sealed for safety purposes. When the Berserker mode seal is released, the body can change form at the wearer’s will by electromagnetic manipulation, and can even summon animate beings made of plasma. However, the user runs the risk of being consumed by the Berserker body, which is constantly absorbing matter. Desty Nova later acquired the Berserker Body from Alita's Motorball manager, Ed, and released the safety locks. He planned to transplant Zapan's brain into it, but underestimated the body's destructive potential and Zapan's burning desire for revenge against Alita. Zapan was later killed and the Berserker Body destroyed being shot with bullets loaded with collapser that caused it to disintegrate. A plasma lamp, illustrating some of the more complex phenomena of a plasma, including filamentation. ... Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: a field, encompassing all of space, composed of the electric field and the magnetic field. ... Zapan is a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita manga by Yukito Kishiro. ...

Motorball Body

The motorball body gives Alita speed and flexibility at the cost of power and weaponry. Because of the dangerous nature of motorball, the body’s limbs are constantly replaced and peak performance is not always guaranteed. Alita attempts a kick at a motorball rival. ...

It is in this body that Alita first receives her Damascus Blade; first as two separate blades on her wrists. After these blades are damaged in the fight with "Caligula" Armblessed, they are re-forged into the single blade that becomes Alita's primary weapon.

Civilian Body

Alita had two civilian bodies. She received the first after Ido found and revived her, which had decorated arms. This body was destroyed in Alita's first fight with Makaku.

Alita's second civilian body was used after she retired from motorball because the Berserker Body had been sold by her old manager, Ed, in an effort to keep her in the sport, and the Motorball Body was unsuitable for day-to-day life. While this body had no combat abilities, Alita did have a few weapons:

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TUNED Body

Alita (or A-1) receives the TUNED body after becoming an agent of Tiphares. Alita was connected at all times via satellite to the Tipharean Ground Investigation Bureau, or G.I.B. She was commanded by an operator, who had the ability to provide a Pavlovian shock stimulus to her should she ignore orders. As the product of advanced Tipharean technology, the body had the ability to travel at supersonic speeds and withstand a great deal of damage. However, as a “soft” body supported by nanotechnology to create and maintain vital systems, the body would overheat and malfunction under extremely high temperature conditions. Nonetheless, the body had a variety of effective support weapons, many of them designed to look like insects. Ivan Pavlov Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14, 1849 - February 27, 1936) was a Russian physiologist who first described the phenomenon now known as conditioning in experiments with dogs. ... Buckminsterfullerene C60, also known as the buckyball, is the simplest of the carbon structures known as fullerenes. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets...

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Imaginos Body

During late events in Battle Angel Alita, or early in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Desty Nova gives Alita a new body, after destroying her with a bomb. This body relies on nanomachines even more than the Tuned Body, is said to mimic the human body down to the cellular level, and is thus a nanomachine based organism. The capabilities of this body differ between the original series and the Last Order retelling.

The Imaginos: Battle Angel

While both bodies had strength and speed equal to the Berserker body, the original Imaginos body lacked the color-changing and shape-altering abilities of the Last Order version, and was also missing the metal bands under the eyes that had been present since the Motorball body. However, this version had abilities that made it arguably the most powerful body of all.

The Imaginos: Last Order

This version of the Imaginos does not have the accelerator. It can, however, match Alita's thoughts, and change it's coloring scheme and shape to better suit Alita.

TUNED AR Series (Alita Replicas)

During her time as agent of GIB, the organization documented all of Alita's combat experiences including the Panzer Kunst techniques. This was done without Alita's knowledge, as part of a plan to create a series of mass produced TUNED replicas all with the abilities of Alita but fully loyal to GIB and Tiphares. Their very existence is a result of the Secret of Tiphares, as their solid-state brains are the same bio-chips that are used in Tipharean citizens.

All in all, 12 TUNED agents were produced, each designated as AR, i.e., "Alita Replicas" (GR in the Japanese version, i.e., "Gally Replicas") 1-12, as Alita had been designated A1 (G1). All TUNED replicas have or had knowledge of basic Panzer Kunst and are able to use special attacks like the Hertza Haeon (Sechs used it in a puppet body as well as in his Fizziroy Body) and Einzug Rüstungen (AR-2 used it against Alita). The following replicas have appeared as characters in Battle Angel Alita and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order.

AR-2

Was sent to eliminate and replace Alita. Since AR-2 had not only all of Alita's fighting abilities and a solid-state brain, but also a lack of the human temperance, mercy, doubts, and fears accumulated by Alita during her years of living on the surface, AR-2 had the upper hand during the fight. However the destruction of her GIB control terminal by Alita's friend Lou gave Alita the chance to cut the replica's head off and thus defeat her. AR-2 had asked GIB if she could be considered the "original" if she defeated A1.

AR-6/Sechs

After the shutdown of the GIB, the aimless AR-6 searched out the other remaining TUNED Replicas. Sechs' dream was to become an original in her own way by showing that she was not like the original, but stronger, similar but still different to AR-2's wish to replace A1. If she is able to defeat the original, then she has earned the right to exist as Sechs. Sechs means "six" in German, and signifies that she is the sixth Alita replica. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Yukito Kishiro (æœ¨åŸŽã‚†ãã¨ Kishiro Yukito) is a Japanese manga author. ...

During her time on the surface AR-6 develops her own fighting style, called Sechster Angriff, which utilizes her Titan Blade. She had also modified, or patchwork fixed, her TUNED body to include a .22 caliber Superconducting Phase Transition Gun (also called a Solenoid Quench Gun) in her right arm. Sechs also has more familiarity with guns than her sisters Elf and Zwölf (AR-11 and AR-12, respectively), which proves beneficial later on, which she likely picked up during this time as well.

Sechs alone successfully killed AR-1, AR-3, AR-4, AR-5, AR-7, AR-8, and AR-9. This is interesting because Sechs, unlike AR-2, has all the emotions Alita has (which was why Alita nearly lost to AR-2). Afterwards she began to search for Alita to destroy the original as well, finding her in Tiphares, but is defeated. After her TUNED body is heavily damaged, her brain chip is transferred to the interactive interface doll used by Alita and Lou during their time in the GIB, and later into a new male body made of polythene materials, with an upgraded (rapid-fire) Solenoid Quench Gun arm, as well as a modified (longer) Titan Blade.

After damaging this body in the Z.O.T.T., Sechs' Fizziroy Body is upgraded to the Super Fizziroy Body, removing his Solenoid Quench Gun arm. But Sechs is able to do an extremely powerful long-distance punch, similar to firing the Solenoid Quench Gun, if he manipulates the internal pressure of the polythene solution circulating in the body. Sechs still has the interface doll, which is connected to his male body via a cable and is often perched on his shoulder.

Sechz proves to be a key member of the Space Angels, the team with which he, Alita, Elf and Zwölf enter the Zenith of Things Tournament (Z.O.T.T.). In the second round, he is able to defeat the surviving members of the Starship Cult by not falling prey to Springfoot Jack and then Whophon's deadly hypnotism. In the third round, Sechs singlehandedly takes down the entire Wild Guns team, allowing the Space Angels to advance to the semifinals and take on the seeded Venus team.

It is still not clear which gender Sechs is because of the male body he has adopted. So far he has not displayed any preference for the male body, except for it being bigger and more powerful than the TUNED body. He also still frequently speaks through the female-proportioned interface doll.

AR-10

A TUNED replica, using the Solid Wing, who attacked the survivors of the Barjack railway gun Heng after it was destroyed by the Tipharean superweapon Abaddon. She was successful in killing most of the survivors. She tries to kill Koyomi and shoots B.B. Buick. AR-10 is destroyed when Koyomi's cyborg dog Fury attacks her and throws them both into a pool of molten metal. The Barjack flag. ... The following is a list of characters from the manga Battle Angel Alita and the Battle Angel anime. ...

AR-11/Elf and AR-12/Zwölf

The only two TUNED replicas who escaped Sechs' killing spree among the replicas. Their names in German correspond with their AR numbers. Both are always seen together acting like twins, although they call each other best friends. They appear as cuter twin versions of Alita and supply comic relief and craziness, both through personality, dress styles and fighting styles. They fight together with combination moves, usually using a mono-molecular wire (TUNED standard issue equipment) in deadly synchronous form. Before they became Desty Nova's bodyguards, they worked as singers in Barjack City. Unlike Sechs they seem perfectly happy with who they are, and go along happily and carefree. During the Z.O.T.T, both disguise themselves as "Dark Alita" (Zwölf) and "White Alita" (Elf) to cover up for the original Alita's mission to infiltrate Melchizedek. They each have a backup unit in the form of a GIB TR-55 artificial life form that houses their memory chips. As long as this unit survives, Elf and Zwölf are not really "dead", as is shown when Springfoot Jack tricked Elf into blowing her head off with a .500 Magnum in a rigged game of Russian roulette. As of the third round, Elf and Zwölf are unable to to fight due to the fear of getting killed again during the match, forcing Sechs to fight alone.
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