Battle Angel Alita Vol. 2 Kindle & comiXology

I read through this in about three or so days. I didn't want to put the story down, it's that good. The story has many moments that will touch your heart and moments that don't hold back and punch you right in the gut. There is a lot of gore and blood in this manga, which I usually am bothered by; however, it actually enhances the story and has events leave more of an impact. I love it. I cannot wait to read the next volume!

Anything you could want from a manga. Great combat art, great story in general and then all the sub plots and questions that arise from that, the factory? Zalem? Even Ido's true origin in a way and WHO WAS Alita or where had she come from? It's just an all around greatly told ,translated, and drawn series I've had the pleasure to read. Can't wait to start volume 3!!!

I met Yugo, but he seems like 14 yrs old! The bounty hunter that kept trying to get Alita to chop off Yugo’s head reminds me of his movie counterpart lol I can see the similarities. Too bad that the Big City in the Sky is off limits that sucks.

In the second edition of Battle Angel Alita, our petite cyborg begins an exploration of justice by defeating Makaku, a serial killer introduced in the first edition. Before the end, Alita gives him the chance to tell his own story, driving home the idea that monsters are not born; they are instead made by human cruelty. The imagery of this section makes Alita appear literally angelic, an entity that passes judgement upon the doomed while wreathed in fire.Triumphant but unsatisfied with collecting bounties on Scrapyard criminals, she then falls in love with a young (and entirely biological) youth named Yugo, a street hustler with a disturbing secret and a huge ambition. Soon, Alita risks becoming a target of Scrapyard's establishment, the factories, to protect her new love. The reader gets to experience being threatened by a perverse police state.The story illustrates the corruption of Scrapyard society, a society that takes the division between the haves and have-nots to a freakish extreme. All of this is rendered in Yukito Kishiro's kinetic artistry. I can't get tired of it. Five stars.Review By Toney Baus, author of Son of Sloan

Another great manga, love this series. Both the artwork and the story hooks it’s readers and is enjoyable to discover.

Has been my favorite comic series since I first read it as an 11 year old in 1993. Have read these volumes numerous times but I’m rereading again before the live action movie comes out in theaters.If you’re a fan of sci-fi or good stories, I can’t recommend this series enough.

Anyone who can create a character like Alita is certainly able to develop her further, and that's what happens in this second volume of the Alita story. It answers the question, can a cyborg have emotions (that question naturally occurs to a reader of volume 1), and Mr. Kishiro says yes. Alita meets a human, Yugo, and begins to feel what is obviously love (obvious to the reader -- not to her, because she remembers nothing of the time before Ido equipped her with her new body). This volume continues the elegant graphics and subtle, scholarly details of the first one with a deeper psychology.However, for the serious fan, it might be better to read it in paper form. As a Kindle edition, the manga suffers from very tiny letters in the speeches and especially in the footnotes (yes, there are footnotes, and even for those educated fairly well in science/engineering it is helpful to read them). While the Kindle image is high resolution, unless you're very nearsighted, even the maximum magnification you can get by zooming on a smartphone in the Kindle emulator, or using the double click feature on the actual Kindle to see one frame at a time may not be enough for you to quite read the text.

The plot continues in the second volume and the art style is amazing. However, there are several scenes in which character knowledge and motivation don't make sense. Alita still has magical plot skills from time to time but I assume that they aren't actually very magical in the context of later volumes. The romance between Alita and Hugo is believable enough considering the characters are teenagers, while vector comes across a typical con-artist. Overall I recommend this manga for several stand out scenes with several head scratches inbetween.