Product Description

A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references!

Our heroine, beautiful cyborg Alita, has finally penetrated the center of Melchizedek, the supercomputer who is holding her friend Lou's brain hostage. Now ancient vampire Vilma asks her to accept an awesome responsibility, while Alita's copies fight their own battles on the outside and her archenemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, returns. And returns. And returns! Is there no end to him? And whose side is he, or he, or he on, anyway??? Then, a moment of weakness may cost Alita everything?!

Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanid by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite and foes!A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55105 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 210 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781421521640
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
At 17, he won one of Shueisha's manga contests, but opted to go onto art school instead of ploughing straight into the manga industry. Yukito Kishiro is also the author of Ashen Victor, Aqua Knight, and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order.

Customer Reviews

This may be the best in the series
After what seemed like an eternity i finally got my hands on Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Vol. 10...it was worth the wait! Yukito Kishiro's art seems to get better with every volume and the story just seems to become more convoluted. This could be a recipe for disaster...but not for this title. The more complicated things get the more i have come to love this story. The characters are always developing, always evolving and of course always interesting. If there is something i didn't like is that the volume seemed too short for such a long wait (then again kishiro can do a volume of battle angel with 500 pages and i'd still think its too short)
The fun aspects of this volume are: More new characters for the Z.O.T.T.
many, many more Novas
and a plot twist that i really didn't see coming.
I really cant find any flaws on the volume...maybe that the story seems to move a little bit slower...but i dont think thatts necessarily a bad thing since i really love Battle Angel...the more road blocks the more volumes right? and kishiro always deliver with great action and interesting story.

Hesitating?
Yukito Kishiro is simply too good for his own good.

I know all the clichés about genius being overlooked, but with this installment I think I realized (after mentally comparing it to some other Manga I've enjoyed) that it is as often overwhelming as it is overlooked. Take a moment to step back and let a few pages soak in, and reading Battle Angel will be like staring at the sun.

Extremely graphic violence and extremely cheesy humor as a way to confront the central questions of existence?

I love this stuff, but trying to comprehend it can make my head hurt.
I never envy native Japanese readers more than when I'm reading Kishiro's work. I can only imagine what must be lost in even the best translation. The story, after more than 10 years, has remained a perpetual exercise in cliché, dues ex machina, and self indulgence. Somehow it is also one of the most stunning works of any medium that I have ever encountered.

I can't help but feel I'm offering more of a warning than an invitation, yet I have to blame this series as the reason I read so little manga. Alita, already in a young-person's medium, makes everything around her seem simply childish.

Great! Awesome and amazing!
This is an excellent volume, showing that the end is still far off, opening up more and more potential for the story. The Fata Morgana is given to Alita , Melchizedec is explained for what it truly is, and the end is ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING.

Also, the awesome Zekka is introduced as a new character, he and Sechs together are great! Alita is finally back in, and Ping Wu fights a hopeless battle with Trinidad!

The artwork is great, and all around I loved this volume, one of my fav's of the Last Order series!

A Must Buy!