Does Battle Angel Gally Find Love Again?

1993 original video animation based on manga by Yukito Kishiro

Battle Angel
Battle Angel OVA
銃夢 ( Ganmu )
Genre	Cyberpunk
Original video animation
Directed by	Hiroshi Fukutomi Rintaro (supervision)
Produced by	Kazuhiko Ikeguchi Jōichi Sugita
Written past	Akinori Endō
Music past	Kaoru Wada
Studio	Madhouse
Licensed by	Great britain Manga Entertainment Us ADV Films
Released	June 21, 1993 – Baronial 21, 1993
Runtime	30 minutes (each)
Episodes	2

Battle Angel , known in Japan equally Gunnm ( 銃夢 , Ganmu ), is a 1993 original video animation (OVA) based on the Battle Angel Alita manga series past Yukito Kishiro. It is directed past Hiroshi Fukutomi, and jointly produced by KSS Inc., Movic, Animate and Madhouse. The OVA comprises ii episodes, Rusty Affections and Tears Sign, corresponding respectively to volumes 1 and 2 of the manga with some differences, serving equally a compressed preview for the manga.

According to Kishiro, only two episodes were originally planned since at the time he was likewise busy with the manga "to review the program cooly [sic]" and he was not serious near an anime adaptation. He has no plans to revive the anime.^[1]

Plot [edit]

Rusty Affections [edit]

As he scavenges the Zalem dump heap for useful parts, cyberphysician Daisuke Ido comes across the remains of a female cyborg, who is withal alive. Ido takes her abode and decides to restore her, transferring her into a new cyborg body.

Shortly later on, the cyborg, at present chosen Gally, becomes interested in Yugo, a local boy who is performing maintenance work for Ido. Afterwards Ido returns home belatedly that night, the post-obit day Gally notices his injured arm, which he explains away as the consequence of a fall. Afterwards introducing herself to Yugo, he convinces her to go with him and the two leave just as Chiren arrives.

Yugo and Gally try to climb onto the roof of an abandoned factory, merely they both fall. Instinctively, Gally manages to catch Yugo and land safely. On the roof, they contemplate Zalem equally Yugo discusses his interest in the floating metropolis. Gally makes her interest in him known, but Yugo's obsession with Zalem blinds him to this.

Ido and Chiren get out for a drink. Chiren is obsessed with returning to Zalem, and views existence in Chip Iron Metropolis and Ido'southward acceptance of his lot in life as a waste. He warns her not to get involved with The Factory, and says he has no regrets nigh what happened in Zalem.

That dark, Gally is awakened by Ido going out. Curious, she decides to follow. Elsewhere in Scrap Fe City, a lone woman on her way home runs into the criminals Rasha and Grewcica. Earlier they can do anything to her, Ido appears and attacks Rasha with his rocket hammer, slicing off his left arm, but getting stabbed in the shoulder. Gally then arrives, killing Rasha by punching his head off. Grewcica, enraged at Rasha'south expiry, manages to deflect one of Ido'south attacks. He so fights Gally, who slices off his right arm with a kicking before knocking him into the sewers. Surprised at Gally's abilities, Ido also notices her bloodlust and regret at non being able to finish Grewcica off.

Ido takes Rasha's head to The Factory to collect the compensation, explaining the nature of his piece of work every bit a hunter-warrior. Gally, realizing that something has awakened within her, decides to go i as well, only Ido will take none of it, then she runs off.

Later sealing their bargain with sexual activity, Vector tells Chiren that her part of the bargain involves upgrading the coliseum gladiators. Soon after, a damaged Grewcica arrives at Chiren's apartment, begging for assist. His mention of Ido and Gally catches Chiren's attention.

The next solar day, Ido realizes that Gally's life is hers to lead, simply wonders if her desire to follow him equally a hunter/warrior is a event of some residual retentiveness. Gally returns to The Manufactory and registers herself as a hunter-warrior, but when she asks about Zalem, the merely answer she gets is "no comment". In the meantime, Chiren starts to rebuild and upgrade Grewcica to defeat Gally. Gally returns to Ido'south, where he accepts her conclusion to become a hunter-warrior. That night, they caput out to Bar Kansas, while elsewhere in Scrap Iron City, Yugo robs a cyborg of his spinal column.

Only as they arrive at Bar Kansas, Gally and Ido are confronted by a newly rebuilt and upgraded Grewcica, who uses a cutter installed in one of his fingertips to shred to pieces a stray dog that Gally picked up. Without help from the other hunter-warriors, Gally accepts Grewcica'southward claiming. Chiren then appears, wondering which of the two cyborgs will prevail.

The scene shifts to the Zalem dump heap, where Gally and Grewcica's fight is watched by Ido, Chiren, and an unnamed hunter-warrior (Gime). Grewcica has an initial advantage, but Gally is able to contrivance his subsequent attacks. Using her superior speed and ability to generate plasma, she offset disables ane, then both of Grewcica's arms earlier slicing him in two, killing him. Chiren hysterically acknowledges her loss, only vows vengeance. Equally they leave the dump heap, Gally assures Ido that she will still remain Gally no matter how much she changes.

Tears Sign [edit]

Equally Yugo and Tanji prepare to leave an alley with their cyborg victim'southward spinal column, Vector appears and kills the cyborg to eliminate him every bit a witness, so admonishes Yugo for his abandon.

At Yugo's identify, Gally waits for Yugo with his neighbors, who are skeptical of his plan to get to Zalem. Later on turning down Vector's offering of a role in his business organization operations, which include control of the resources sent to Zalem via The Factory tubes, Yugo - intoxicated - is dropped off by Vector, who notices Gally. In his apartment, Yugo discusses his dream of Zalem with Gally. To help him out, she embarks on a bounty spree, earning bags of credit chips.

Afterwards, a customer who has taken Yugo up on his offering for a lube chore reveals himself as a hunter-warrior in disguise (Zapan) who realizes that Yugo is about to paralyze him from behind. Tanji attacks Zapan, who deflects his assault and kills him. Yugo throws a burn down bottle on Zapan, engulfing him in flames and enabling him to abscond, simply Zapan knows that at that place volition soon be a bounty on Yugo.

Vector, who is with Chiren at his office, gets a call from Yugo apprising him of the situation and tells Yugo to bring his fries to his function. Afterwards the call, a news broadcast reveals that Zahriki, the reigning coliseum champion after Grewcica'south disappearance, has lost again. Vector tells Chiren that it will be time to rebuild Zahriki, simply Chiren complains that this is moot as all her efforts seem to be fruitless. Vector and so notices a newspaper piece on Gally, recognizing her. Chiren also recognizes her, and is surprised at Vector's scheme to have Gally fight in the coliseum for him past using Yugo as leverage. He gives Chiren the task of tracking Gally downwardly with the hope of sending her to Zalem if she succeeds.

Outside The Manufacturing plant, Ido is surprised at Gally having nerveless xiv bounties in seven days, as she did not become a hunter-warrior for the money. Equally they discuss how Yugo and Gally feel about each other on the way home, they observe from a bounty update circulate that Yugo is at present a bounty. Gime is shown receiving the news every bit well. Gally sets off to wait for Yugo, not finding him at his place. Chiren, who has been on stakeout, follows her.

At the same abandoned factory he visited with Gally in Rusty Angel, Yugo finds that he is 500,000 brusk of the 10 million chips he needs to buy passage to Zalem from Vector. Gally finds him here, after which they discuss what Yugo volition practise next. He refuses to relinquish his dream of reaching Zalem. Gally confesses her beloved for him, simply Yugo brushes it off. Drastic to know how he feels about her, Gally confronts him. Yugo admits that they are at present partners in crime, and Gally kisses him.

Later, Gally asks Yugo about the scar on his right wrist. Equally Chiren eavesdrops on their conversation, Yugo reveals his personal history well-nigh how the hand is a emblem of his older blood brother, an engineer of The Factory who planned to fly to Zalem by constructing an airship. His married woman however, betrayed him to The Factory and he was killed past a hunter-warrior (Gime) on the nighttime the airship was finished. Gally reveals that she empathizes with Yugo'south sister in-police force, and offers to help Yugo get to Zalem. The discussion changes something within Chiren.

After the storm abates, Yugo heads outside. Hearing him suddenly scream, Gally rushes out to find Gime continuing over Yugo, whose right arm has been cut off. She attacks Gime, who blocks her attack and claims his right to the bounty on Yugo. He also reveals his jealousy at Gally'south having beaten him to all the bounties since Grewcica. Realizing that the human relationship between her and Yugo has more significant, Gime fights her with a double-edged sword. He gets Gally in position to deliver a killing blow, but she blocks his blade with her hands while charging it with electricity. A bolt of lightning that is attracted to the electric accuse hits Gime, incinerating him. As Gally holds a dying Yugo and wonders how she tin can save him, Chiren appears.

Gally then goes to Ido'southward with Yugo's body and head and begs him to save Yugo. Afterwards successfully transplanting Yugo's head onto a cyborg body, Ido reveals that bypassing her life support system and connecting it to Yugo'due south caput kept his brain alive. Gally reveals that Chiren did this, which surprises Ido.

Dorsum at Vector'south, Chiren tells him Yugo was killed by a hunter-warrior and that she cannot find Gally. Equally she is nigh to leave, Vector tells her that he will now transport her to Zalem.

Every bit Yugo lies on the operating table, he overhears Ido tell Gally that the idea of buying passage to Zalem is a prevarication and no one knows this better than he does, being a onetime citizen of Zalem. Yugo wakes up screaming in denial and escapes from the clinic. Gally races off in pursuit, while Ido sees the bag of Yugo's chips and becomes enraged.

Going to Vector's part, Ido confronts Vector nearly lying to Yugo. He also discovers what is left of Chiren: organs and body parts in preservation tubes. Vector reveals that this is to fulfill a monthly quota that comes down from Zalem, and presses a button that reveals Zahriki from behind a screen. Zahriki attacks Ido, who dodges the attack and slices Zahriki in half with his rocket hammer, which flies into and kills Vector.

Loftier above the city, Yugo has started to walk on a Factory tube towards Zalem. Soon, a massive spiked ring comes hurtling downwards the tube, forcing him to jump to avoid it, but his anxiety are destroyed in the process. Gally reaches the base of the tube and prepares to follow Yugo, who has survived the start ring to come downwards, but has lost his feet.

After emerging past the clouds, Yugo tin can clearly see Zalem. Gally, who has defenseless up with him, pleads with him to return. Yugo is nevertheless adamant almost reaching Zalem, but Gally convinces him that they tin can discover a way to live in Scrap Iron City together. Another band comes hurtling downwards the tube and Gally's warning comes likewise late every bit Yugo is shredded by the band and thrown into the air. Leaping subsequently him, Gally manages to grab his remaining arm and employ her pocketknife to secure herself to the tube. His elbow joints cannot concord however and suspension loose, but not before Yugo is able to say goodbye, leaving Gally on the tube clutching his forearm.

At sunset, Ido and Gally are in the Zalem dump heap. They place Yugo'south forearm and Chiren's earring into a basket attached to a balloon, and release it in the direction of Zalem.

Differences between the OVA and manga [edit]

Names used [edit]

In its translation, ADV Films used the Japanese names for Tiphares and the Scrapyard besides equally several characters. These names differ from the names used past Viz Media in its translation of the manga. There are also slight differences in other character names used. The equivalent anime and manga names are outlined below. Word of the anime characters will utilize the names used by ADV, while discussion of the manga equivalents will use the names used by Viz.

The Manga Entertainment translation, released merely in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia on VHS, used some of the names from the Viz translation and went by the title of Battle Angel Alita. There is no data nearly a Region two Battle Angel Alita DVD.

ADV translation	Viz translation
Gally	Alita
Yugo	Hugo
Zahriki	Zaariki
Rasha	Izuchi
Gonz	Gonzu
Gime (in credits)	Clive Lee
Zavan (in credits)	Zapan
Chip Iron City	The Scrapyard
Tiphares	Zalem

Character differences [edit]

• The cyborg body that Gally is transferred into is the Berserker Body from the manga. It is implied that Ido created this body. In the manga, this was the 2nd cyborg trunk Alita received after her first civilian torso was destroyed in her beginning fight with Makaku. Ido had previously found the Berserker Body in a crashed spaceship and kept it in storage.
• A fundamental difference is that Panzer Kunst is never mentioned in the OVA as Gally'southward fighting way. In the manga, Ido recognizes it immediately after she dispatches the mutant woman who virtually kills him.
• Gonz'due south role in the OVA is reduced, as he is portrayed equally a friend of Ido'south in Scrap Iron City. Ido transplants Gally onto the Berserker Body and also transplants Yugo'due south head onto a cyborg body by himself. In the manga, Gonzu transferred Alita into the Berserker Body nether Ido's supervision because of the injuries Ido had sustained in fighting Makaku, and likewise helped Ido with the transplant for Hugo.
• Chiren only appears in the OVA. In the manga, Ido is not shown to have a love involvement or woman whom he used to be involved with in Tiphares who is now in the Scrapyard. He does get involved with a woman named Carol 5 years before the get-go of the main story in Battle Angel Alita: Holy Nighttime & Other Stories.
• Grewcica is an amalgamation of the Makaku and Kinuba characters from the manga, being the former coliseum champion who has become a compensation due to his encephalon-eating habit. The cutters have been switched to being placed on his right hand, whereas they were on Kinuba'south left.
• Although he is not named, Clive Lee is given a larger role in the OVA than he is in the manga. He makes more than incidental appearances and is portrayed as a professional rival of Gally's, who has been so expert a hunter-warrior that she beat him to all the bounties since Grewcica. This rivalry is so stiff that Lee has no compunctions virtually killing Alita over it. He is shown to have acted alone when he killed Yugo's brother, wields an extendable double-bladed sword, and his appearance is different. In the manga, Lee only appears twice: to kill Hugo for the bounty, and in Hugo's flashback of how his blood brother was killed, when he had a team help him with the torso. He as well uses a technique called the "White Hot Palm", which can make his forearms hot enough to cut through human limbs and cook cyborg limbs. There is no rivalry between him and Alita, and he primarily fights her over the bounty for Hugo, not for personal reasons. It is subsequently revealed that Lee was a famous hunter-warrior. No i knows who killed him however, as the fight between him and Alita had no witnesses and occurred while Hugo was unconscious.
• Zapan's office is reduced in the OVA considering of the changes fabricated to the storyline, and he is non named, only playing a role in exposing Yugo every bit a spinal column thief. In the manga, he as well tries to stop Alita from fleeing with Hugo and later becomes a major adversary.
• Zahriki (Zaariki) makes more than appearances in the OVA than he does in the manga, existence shown on Telly in addition to his appearance as hired muscle working for Vector. His OVA appearance is also drastically different from his manga appearance. In the manga, he is only shown fighting the and so-reigning champion Kinuba and later as Vector'due south muscle when Hugo and Alita confront him in his office.
• Vector's operations embrace control of the exports which are sent to Zalem via the Mill tubes. He too comes upwards with the moniker "Battle Angel" for Gally as a coliseum gladiator working for him. In the manga, Vector offered Hugo command of one of 6 intermediate Factory supply routes that he got control of due to Factory reorganization. He does not have a vested interest in the coliseum gladiators and never showed the same kind of interest in Alita that he does in the OVA. Thus, he never coined the "Battle Affections" term.

Plot differences [edit]

Rusty Angel [edit]

• Gally encounters Yugo much before in the storyline and nether unlike circumstances. In the OVA, she met him on the rooftop of Ido's clinic soon after Ido gave her a new cyborg body. In the manga, they first run into at an abandoned manufactory after Alita fought and defeated Makaku, when she was subsequently the bounty Megil the Pharmacist.
• Ido has several bounty reports taped to a wall of his clinic that can be seen when Gally and Yugo become out. One of them is for Grewcica, and Ido appears to have targeted both him and Rasha in the OVA. In the manga, information technology appears that Ido and Alita teamed up to become after Izuchi and Makaku in his kickoff cyborg body, equally Ido went afterwards Izuchi while Alita confronted Makaku.
• When Ido confronts Rasha and Grewcica, they are together. Rasha is able to wound Ido, and Grewcica witnesses his expiry at Gally's hands. In the manga, Ido is able to ambush and impale Izuchi without taking whatsoever injuries. Izuchi was also not right adjacent to Makaku when he was killed, although they were in close proximity to each other.
• Rasha is the first person killed by Gally. Ido takes his head to Manufactory 33 to collect the bounty and is assisted past Deckman 10. In the manga, a mutant adult female was first the person killed by Alita. Ido takes her head to Mill 33, where Deckman 12 assists him.
• When Gally registers every bit a hunter-warrior, she is shown being given her hunter-warrior barcode by Deckman 10. In the manga, when Alita went to Factory 33 to register, she was accosted by several deckmen before being directed to Deckman 10.
• Gally smears the dog'due south blood under eyes as an indication that she will fight Grewcica. In the manga, the first time that Alita does something like this is when she smears blood from Makakus center from where Knuckles Fang pulled out her arm embedded in their terminal confrontation (she calls it the "tan") below her optics during a lull when fighting Makaku a second fourth dimension, indicating that she has gotten serious virtually the fight.

Tears Sign [edit]

• Tanji is Yugo'due south simply accomplice in his spinal column thefts. In the manga, another teenager named Van also assisted him.
• Gally receives the news of Yugo becoming a bounty from a compensation terminal she passes. In the manga, Zapan breaks the news when he encounters Alita and Ido at a factory he visits to collect the bounties on Van and Tanji.
• The abased factory where Yugo had his stash of chips is the same factory he took Gally to in Rusty Affections, from which he claims the best view of Zalem can exist seen. In the manga, this mill was where Alita tracked Megil the Chemist down to and fought him. It is where Hugo and Alita see for the first time, and Hugo also takes Alita to the roof to get a proficient view of Tiphares. It too happens to be the same factory that Hugo's brother used to secretly construct his airship, and where Hugo stashes his chips.
• When Yugo turned 10, Clive Lee killed his brother on the twenty-four hour period the airship he synthetic to wing to Zalem was finished. In the manga, the airship was as well completed when Hugo turned 10, but Lee appeared on the night that his brother planned to leave.
• Yugo'south sister in-law is not named. In the manga, her name is Nana.
• Gally runs out of the abandoned factory and attacks Lee with her knife, which he blocks. In the manga, she jumped through a factory wall and hitting him with a kick.
• The fight between Gally and Clive Lee is slightly longer than information technology is in the manga, as Lee'southward weapon is different.
• Chiren performed the bypass of Gally's life support system which kept Yugo alive, after which she heads straight to Ido's. In the manga, Alita did this bypass herself. On her way to Ido's she is stopped past Zapan, who has gathered hunter-warriors and a netman because she is suspected of rebellion. Zapan is also the first to observe the featherbed procedure, non Ido.
• In the manga, Alita smears some of Hugo's claret (presumably) under her optics subsequently she defeats Lee. In the OVA, she does non do this.
• Vector is told by Chiren that Yugo was killed by a hunter-warrior then struck by lightning. In the manga, he reads about Hugo's death in a paper.
• When Yugo finds out the truth about the impossibility of buying passage to Zalem, he escapes from Ido'southward clinic on his own. In the manga, he angrily confronts Ido about this.
• Ido confronts Vector nearly lying to Yugo and physically assaults him. In the manga, Hugo and Alita face Vector in his office, but Vector comes off from the encounter uninjured.
• Ido kills Zahriki. In the manga, Alita defeats him.
• Vector seems to have been killed by Ido in the OVA, but in the manga he survives the confrontation with Alita and Hugo, continuing to play a role in the manga as well as in Battle Affections Alita: Concluding Order.
• Gally realizes that Yugo is climbing a Manufactory tube when she sees them against the sky. In the manga, she was alerted to this when some of Hugo's high value chips fall from the sky on a crowd of Scrapyard residents who then fight over the fries.
• The events from when Gally meets Yugo at the abandoned factory to his climbing the Factory tube take identify on the same day, making the weather clouded when Gally goes after him on the tube. In the manga, the time frame between these two events is two days, and it is raining when Alita goes afterward Hugo on the tube.
• The final scene in which Ido and Gally release a balloon carrying a basket aloft in the direction of Zalem containing Yugo'south arm and Chiren's earring is unique to the OVA. The manga does not state what Alita did with Hugo'south forearm.

Soundtracks [edit]

Gunnm: Image Album [edit]

Gunnm: Image Album
Soundtrack album
Released	May 21, 1993
Genre	Anime soundtrack
Length	44:16
Label	KSS Records

Gunnm: Image Album is primarily an image anthology with songs inspired by the OVA. The exceptions are "Cyborg Mermaid", the ending theme song, and two instrumentals. The anthology included a sticker and brusque filmstrip from the OVA.^{[ii] [iii]}

	Rails name	Type	Length
i.	"Rusty Affections"	Vocal	4:19
2.	"Absolute Miracle"	Song	3:36
3.	"Gunnm I"	Instrumental	iii:14
four.	"Aim"	Song	iv:55
5.	"Cyborg Mermaid"	Vocal	5:13
6.	"Dear Sugariness Center"	Vocal	4:34
7.	"Keep My Dream"	Vocal	four:25
8.	"Gunnm Two"	Instrumental	iii:59
nine.	"The One I Love"	Song	5:32
10.	"Believe in the Fate"	Song	4:23

Gunnm: Another Story [edit]

Gunnm: Some other Story
Soundtrack album
Released	June 21, 1993
Genre	Anime soundtrack
Length	41:38
Label	KSS Records

Gunnm: Another Story is primarily a soundtrack with the exception of "Cyborg Mermaid", the catastrophe theme song, an paradigm track, and two drama tracks.

	Track proper noun	Type	Length
ane.	"Satsuriku no Enjeru (Angel of Massacre) Part I"	Drama	8:39
2.	"Believe in the Fate"	Vocal	iv:24
3.	"Satsuriku no Enjeru (Angel of Massacre) Function Two"	Drama	13:eighteen
4.	"Cyborg Mermaid"	Song	5:12
5.	"Ido's Theme"	BGM	i:41
6.	"Infinity"	BGM	1:54
seven.	"Joh's Bar"	BGM	ane:36
8.	"Gally's Theme"	BGM	1:31
nine.	"Flake Iron"	BGM	1:fourteen
10.	"Action"	Choral	two:05

References [edit]

General

• Kishiro, Yukito (Oct 2000). Battle Angel Alita (11th ed.). San Francisco: Viz Communications. ISBN1-56931-003-3.
• Kishiro, Yukito (1994). Battle Angel Alita: Tears of an Angel (1st ed.). San Francisco: Viz Communications. ISBNi-56931-049-ane.
• Hiroshi Fukutomi (1999). Battle Angel (DVD). ADV Films.
• "GUNNM CDs". Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. Retrieved 2007-12-xiv .
• "Anime CD Information - Gunnm Image Anthology". Colette. Retrieved 2007-12-14 .
• "MNS Exclusive Interview: Battle Angel (GUNNM) Creator Yukito Kishiro". Anime News Service. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-fourteen .

Specific

1. ^ "MNS Exclusive Interview: Battle Angel (GUNNM) Creator Yukito Kishiro". Anime News Service. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-14 .
2. ^ "GUNNM CDs". Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. Retrieved 2007-12-xiv .
3. ^ "Anime CD Information - Gunnm Image Album". Colette. Retrieved 2007-12-14 .

External links [edit]

• Battle Angel (anime) at Anime News Network'southward encyclopedia
• Battle Angel at IMDb
• Battle Angel Alita at AllMovie

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_%28OVA%29

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