Yukito Kishiro previously announced plans to release the next in the long-running Battle Angel Alita manga series this year, but those plans have changed. GUNNM: Kikou-Jutsu Senki (Battle Angel Alita: Panzer Kurst Chronicle) is now set for a spring 2026 launch. News comes from the …Read more »
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 …Read more »
In October, return plans were penciled in for Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle manga, which was supposed to come back to Kodansha’s Evening magazine in spring 2023. Now those plans have been pushed back a bit, with the official Twitter account confirming that …Read more »
Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle manga previously took a break back in June 2021 and returned two months later in August. Now it’s looking to take some more time off, with this year’s 22nd issue of Kodansha’s Evening magazine announcing that the series …Read more »
Anime is full of super-cool robots of all shapes and sizes. And while we may tend to think more of giant battle mechs, there are also much smaller units winning our hearts. With all respect to their big brothers and sisters, today we’re talking about …Read more »
Can robots and humans fall in love? It’s a question as old as robots, and it’s one that appears to have been at least partially answered at the Japanese premiere of the Alita: Battle Angel movie, during which the cast and staff got a chance …Read more »
Regardless of how well Alita: Battle Angel does in the box office this weekend, it’s already been getting some serious praise from fans of the manga. That says a lot considering your average reactions to live-action Hollywood takes on anime and manga properties. Some of …Read more »
We’re dangerously close to the premiere of the long-awaited Alita: Battle Angel movie, which has James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez adapting the Gunnm—AKA Battle Angel Alita—manga by Yukito Kishiro. To promote the upcoming release, Kishiro illustrated a new visual for the cover of Kodansha’s …Read more »
It’s been a long hard road for James Cameron’s quest to bring Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita manga to the big screen. We’ll finally see how it all pays off when the Robert Rodriguez-directed Alita: Battle Angel opens in theaters on February 14, 2019, and …Read more »
A lot of folks were put off by the big-eyed look of the upcoming Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm) adaptation, Alita: Battle Angel. But Yukito Kishiro, the creator of the original Alita manga, appears to approve. Kishiro was recently interviewed about the look of the James …Read more »
Director Robert Rodriguez’s take on Yukito Kishiro‘s Battle Angel Alita manga is on the way later this year, and it had a strong presence at this past weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con. Check out the latest Alita: Battle Angel footage that made its debut at the …Read more »
Battle Angel Alita was originally translated into English in the 1990s, but with James Cameron’s live-action adaptation scheduled for release later this year, Kodansha Comics is releasing new, deluxe editions. So volume 1 of the new edition is actually volumes 1 and 2 of the …Read more »
It looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer to gaze into Alita’s giant anime eyes. Alita: Battle Angel, the live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita, aka Gunnm, has been pushed back to December 21. It was originally scheduled for July. Alita …Read more »
If you were wondering when Hollywood would finally depict manga/anime eyes as they were meant to be, well, look no further than the first trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro‘s Battle Angel Alita manga. The James Cameron-produced project has been in flux …Read more »
In a wasteland of rusty metal, on a heap of broken robot parts, a scientist finds a young woman’s metal head. Hefting it back to his shop, Daisuke Ido—a surgeon/mechanic who works on both biological and cyborg parts—finds the brain inside still perfectly preserved and …Read more »
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