TITLE

Battle Angel Alita

Other Titles: Hyper Future Vision: Gunnm

Genre(s): Action, Androids, Bounty Hunters, Cyberpunk, Cyborgs, Drama, Science Fiction, Underworld. Post Apocalyptic

Type: TV

Episode: 2

Rate: 8.84 (Rated by 37 Members)

Aired: Jun 20, 1993 to Jun 20, 1993

Synopsis

Known as Gunnm in Japan and then Battle Angel Alita to Western audience, Battle Angel (in all of its incarnations) is now part of the canon of Blade Runner-inspired anime cyberpunk.The film version follows a "Hunter Warrior" and cyborg healer named Ido. Ido formerly lived in the floating land of Zalem (Tiphares in the book), the paradise that hovers over the refuse heap of Scrap Iron City in which he now resides with his former lover, Chiren. In his travels as a bounty hunter (killing spine thieves in a world in which human nerve tissue has become the most precious commodity), Ido one day discovers and repairs the remnants of a cyborg whom he names Gally (Alita in the Western version). Though possessing the body of a young woman, Gally embodies Ido's most sophisticated and lethal cybernetic skill.The preternaturally strong, amnesiac Gally begins to forge a life for herself in a world where every day can bring a fight for life.Adapts the first two volumes of the manga.

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