Matt Schley
January 7, 2025 
Alita’s back, baby! After a 10-month hiatus, Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle has revealed a new chapter on the digital Comic Days platform. The chapter is the 52nd overall.
The manga, which kicked off in 2014, is the third manga in the Battle Angel Alita (aka Gunnm) saga, and takes place, as the name implies, on Mars. In the US, it’s published by Kodansha, which describes the first volume like this:
The cyber-martial arts saga that has spanned a solar system and over two decades in print returns, with creator Yukito Kishiro’s new sequel that reveals the true story of Alita’s childhood on Mars, and the mind-bending adventures that still await her…For centuries, war has raged on the dusty, red surface of Mars. This apocalyptic crucible will produce the solar system’s most fearsome warrior, Alita. But for now that warrior is just a little girl named Yoko. The future and past of the battle angel fan out across the reaches of space in the final chapter of one of the greatest sci-fi epics of all time!
Kishiro has previously stated that the 56th chapter will be the last, but that the story will later continue under a new name.
In December, Kishiro revealed on his blog that he had suffered an avulsion fracture in his leg. Yow!
Sources: ANN, Yukitolog
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