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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 4: Angel of Victory

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Troubled by her loss,Alita decides to runaway and leave it all behind and join the circuit of Motorball.The story is compelling and suspencfull and will leave you crawling back for more.She meets a couple of friends and with her skills of the Panzer kunst,she was able to rise to the top and challenge the champ himself.Ido,heart-broken by Alita's leave, decides to go after her only to realize that she set her mind on this goal and is not easily persuaded to return,but Ido forms an alliance with the champ in an attempt to return her.This books(vol.3+4)aren't as gory as the others but the art is amazing, full of speed lines and battles at 200klmiles!I recommend number 4 over 3(unless you wish to read the whole story),but if you want drama go for #2.You will not be disappointed.

ps.I do love flan!!kyhahahaha!!

This is the fourth Alita collection, although it is officially the last of part three of the series. As such, it marks the culmination of Alita's identity quest into the world the motorball. What Alita has discovered is that use of her special cyborg battle training skills can trigger sudden flashbacks to the days before Doc Ido reassembled her as Alita. These come as peak experiences when the doughty fighter must push her body to withstand what no biological body could.

We get to see to of these battles. The first Alita uses to test both herself and the cyborgs with whom she is considering teaming. This is an opportunity for both melee battles and some fine humorous moments when things do not quite happen as planned. The second struggle is the final confrontation with Jashugan. This we know will end up in a one-on-one confrontation between titans. The reader is entitled to, and gets, all the action art and surprises of which Yukito Kushiro is capable. Who wins isn't important at the transcendent moment, only that both have used up all that they had.

I'm probably going to go on and on about the art for this series until I run out of manga to review. Yukita Kishiro has the kind of graphic style that makes the frames magnetic. The story, the diversity of characters and the introspective twists are an important part of this manga, and keep it from ever being a simpleminded hack and disassemble story. Something deeper is going on, and we see it evolve one small piece at a time.

This was the first Battle Angel Alita book I ever read, borrowing it from the library. But, since I read 1,2, and 3 AFTER this, I've liked the motorballs better. I think this is a kewl book, I wish I'd happened to read #1 first, tho, but this all works out. I loved it! Simply, Alita is finishing what she started with motorball, what with racing and winning, winning, losing, whataver. Her showdown with Jashugan kinda leaves u, uh... confused (at least it did me V_V) and it never says more. THE REASON I GAVE THIS A 4-STAR RATING IS BECAUSE... the index page (copyright, idex, etc.) is the one of TEARS OF AN ANGEL! what's up with that?? i just realized that one day, looking to see what part it was. and that {is odd.}

This book, like the others in the series, is amazing to say the least. Its only flaw is one that Viz introduced, the changing of Gully's name to Alita in the translation. Oh well. Buy it any way.

the Battle Angel series is GREAT! The art is sooo beautiful and well done!! And the plot lines are so realistic and believable that you can really get into it. The author/artist is obviously very intelligent, because so of the things in the books are so interesting!!! I think everyone should read this series.

Alita meets a man by the name of Jashugan, the Powerball champion. Jashugan's enhanced brain has helped him master his Chi, which can destroy Alita if she cannot master her own Chi. In battling Jashugan, she gets flashbacks of her training of the Panzer Kunst, the martian arts of cyborgs. She has known that through battle she can find her true self, will this battle with Jashugan help find the answers of seal her doom?

In Angel of Victory, Atila sets about her plan to challenge the champion of the motorball circuit, Emporer Jashugan. This book is fast-paced and full of action, but it may leave newcomers to the series a bit confused as there is no real recapping of the past story. For those who do know the story, the book sucks you in and plays with your emotions, making you realy feel sympathy for the characters. Such is average fare for Kishiro's work.

After giving us the excellent volumes 1 and 2, "Battle Angel Alita" and "Tears of an Angel", Yukito Kishiro gave us what many consider the worst volume in the series, "Killing Angel". Volume 3 dealt with Alita's new life after the tragic events of volume 2, and while it wasn't a complete blashemy against the series, the storytelling quality didn't live up to the first two volumes. With volume 4, "Angel of Victory", Kishiro improves upon "Killing Angel", but considering what he worked with, the storytelling quality still wasn't where it should've been.

"Angel of Victory" is actually a continuation of "Killing Angel", a continuation meaing that the two volumes can be seen as parts of each other. The story deals with Alita trying to prove herself the best motorball champion while coming to terms with the sudden changes in her life. By now, her character is very well fleshed out and we really do care for her in many ways. However, the story in "Angel of Victory" still deals with motorball, something that doesn't have anything to do with Alita trying to discover her lost past, the reason we fell in love with her in the first place. The story in "Angel of Victory" is far better than the one in "Killing Angel", as it has several well-planned events and even a brief glimpse of Alita's past. But as a whole, the story isn't want we expected from the "Battle Angel Alita" series. If volumes 3 and 4 had been placed together into one volume, they might've been seen in a better light, but as it stands the two volumes are nothing compared to the first two volumes.

Graphically, Yukito Kishiro's artwork is amazing. There is so much detail that some artwork appears like it's come straight from a photo. If it had to be compared to something, Kishiro's artwork would resembled a polished version of Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" series, and even then the comparison is unfair.

All in all, "Angel of Victory" is far better than "Killing Angel", but it's not the best in the series. Still, "Angel of Victory" does set up some small plot details later on in the series, so it's not completely useless. If read with the entire series on hand, "Angel of Victory" (and "Killing Angel", for that matter) will be more appreciated. But alone, volume 4 doesn't live up to the first to excellent volumes in Kishiro's wonderful series.

The highlight of this manga is the fight between Alita and Jashugan, undefeated champion of the death-sport known as 'Motorball', yet do not be deceived into thinking that Battle Angel Alita is all about fighting and death with no storyline, plot or character development. Discard your preconceived notions of manga being merely violent caricatures of saturday morning comic strips. There is no definite 'right' or 'wrong', or 'good' and 'evil' in Battle Angel Alita. For instance, Emperor Jashugan is a hero in his own way, yet he is pitted against Alita - our heroine - in a no-holds barred fight to the finish. There is SO much to say about Battle Angel Alita which is beyond the scope of this mini-review...the only way one can truly experience Battle Angel Alita is to purchase a copy of this volume. Battle Angel Alita is one of the most recommended manga series out there and once one reads it, they will have no doubts as to how the series has garnered such high awards.

this book is awsome some of the best manga ive ever seen! the game they play called motorball is especially cool! i barrowed this book from a friend and now i cant get battle angel alita out of my head. Yukito kishiro is a genuise he has a great story and the drawings are unbelievable!the fight scenes are extrodenary. buy this book you will enjoy it if you enjoy manga!