Gunnm, tomes 1 à 9

銃夢 新装版 [Gunnm Shinsōban] #1-6

by Yukito Kishiro

Includes print with new art by Yukito Kishiro, plus two additional prints, featuring beautiful metallic coating! The complete cyberpunk classic, now a major Hollywood film! This box set includes all five volumes of Battle Angel Alita plus a brand new book of short stories - more than 2,000 pages of manga - in a collector's box set with special extras.

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down those who prey on the weak.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Science Fiction, Bande Dessinée, Collections, Graphic Novels

2004 pages, Paperback

About the author

Yukito Kishiro (Japanese: 木城ゆきと) is a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo in 1967 and raised in Chiba. As a teenager he was influenced by the mecha anime Armored Trooper Votoms and Mobile Suit Gundam, in particular the designs of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, as well as the works of manga artist Rumiko Takahashi. He began his career at age 17, with his debut manga, Space Oddity, in the Weekly Shonen Sunday. He is best known for the cyberpunk series Battle Angel Alita.

Reviews

[Vicente Ribes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un buen cómic con un inicio trepidante pero que va perdiendo fuelle al final. La historia de una niña cyborg que acaba con asesinos esta teñida de tragedia y el final es muy impactante.

[R · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't say anything more expressive than I should have read this decades ago, it was my failure, one I've just fixed it!

Give it a try in case you didn't read it in the past.

[Alyssa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Here's another instance of me failing to understand the hype around a manga series.

To sum up, I liked enjoyed the first two volumes, then hated volumes 3 and 4, and from then on, volumes 5 to the end (9) were a lot of meh mixed with tons of annoyance other various things, which had my interest decrease with each passing volume.

Things that bothered me, in no specific order.
— Gally's design. Or rather the way the author drew her mouth (and that of many of the few other female characters actually), which reminds me of how Sanbe Kei, the author of "Erased", "For the Kid I Saw in my Dreams" (I think that's the English title?) and many other titles, draws female characters' mouths and which I hate.
— Or her whole character actually. I couldn't get myself to like her in any way. Which is kind of a bother since she's the protagonist.
— How things pop out of nowhere, starting from the motorball (volumes 3-4) and everything after that. Like, suddenly it goes in a certain direction to widen the universe, but nothing's actually linked. It just makes it as if the author suddenly wanted to draw this and had this put into the story because why the hell not.
— Composition. Not really sure if it's only in the translated version but it didn't seem like it, but how there's an endless number of footnotes to explain concepts used in the series. Also, how everytime there's a new robot-thingy that appears, it needs a specific panel to explain what it is. Which completely breaks the pace of the story.
— It's kinda gory. Like, drawings are quite detailed, but it seemed to me to be even more the case when it was about dismembered bodies. And brains. Somehow there has to be lots of brains appearing.
— The fact that there's actual interesting ideas but they're aren't properly used. Specifically, the opposition between cyborgs and the people from "above". I don't really want to spoil it since it only appears in the latest volumes (which speaks to how it's not used), but that was the actual interesting thing that would have been worth 9 volumes of story.
— Motorball. I just kinda hated that and it needs to be mentioned on its own.

Still, I have to give credits to the quality of the box set, which is pretty rare for a French edition.


I actually left the rating at 6/10 on myanimelist, but for some reason, it equals a 2/5 rating here. Don't ask me why. 😅

[Bimugdha Sarker · Rating 4 out of 5]

ব্যাটল এঞ্জেল এলিটা দেখলেন? ভাল লেগেছে? অতৃপ্তি হচ্ছে পরে কি হবে জানার জন্য?


এই যে, আদি ও অকৃত্তিম ব্যাটল এঞ্জেল এলিটা৷ মূল সিনেমা অনেক ঐতিহাসিক সিনকে ট্রিবিউট করেছে৷ যদিই স্টোরিলাইন কিছুটা ভিন্ন৷

আগেকার দিনের জাপানিজ সাই ফাই মাংগাগুলো মানুষকে ডিপ্রেশন ভরা একটা জগত উপহার দিতেই বসে থাকত৷ একেকটা রত্ন ভরা বাক্স ছিল সেসব৷ আফসোস, আজকাল এরকম পাওয়া মুশকিল৷

এর চাপ্টার ৫৩.৫ টা৷ এর পরে আরো দুটা সিরিজ আছে৷ পড়ার ইচ্ছে রাখি

মাংগাটা বাম থেকে ডানে করা ছিল৷ মেইবি ট্রানস্লেটর করে দিয়েছে৷

রেটিং ৭.৫/১০

[Viggo Pedersen · Rating 5 out of 5]

2300-ish pages of pure delight! What a fantastic series! I was a bit disappointed with the last 3-4 pages of the original 9 book series, but there were other stories that followed, that furthered the story, so not disappointed anymore. The series had everything! Can't do anything else but highly recommend it!!!

[Amylie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really nice box grouping the whole first series (9 volumes). I really like the design of the box.

[Nitish Dang · Rating 4 out of 5]

First 3 volumes are very good. The pacing, the story, the emotions etc.

I think the 4th volume starts exploring the whole space angle and it.. starts getting weird..

By the 5th volume.. I felt like the ending was very abrupt. The few bonus stories were nice

I think the book does a really good job of exploring the concept of humanity especially with the twist that comes later

[Chris Patterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a great read. The first 2-3 books would have been 5 stars but the latter part of the story held my attention a little less. Still in my top 5 mangas of all time.

[Ozan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finally finished Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita). The ending was ridiculous... The Zalem turned into a tree... what, how, no way After i gave these reactions, I gave it 5 out of 10 points on MAL, but there was a part in the last chapters that I saw as an inspiration for the Matrix Film, seeing this made me abit warm up to the manga because I really like the Matrix, the first film was great, the rest was still watchable even though it wasn't that good. I also liked Alita's film, but the manga was very different, as it progressesed, it almost had nothing to do with the film, the Film was going to a much different place, if it had a sequel. The manga was pure action, It was read like a battle shonen with some gore and it had so few amount of nudity, I can't really call it a seinen. In order to seem deep, the manga gave examples from some literary works and philosophical works and stuff, and then gave a lot of scientific information, most of which was fictional, but when you look at the story of the manga, there wasn't actually anything deep

Mangaka wanted to create a conflict between Gally's human self and his machine body, but this was very weak, manga barely touched the surface with that, so it didn't mean much. Then there were many other things that didn't sit right with me, for example, the personalities of the characters showed inconsistency, the character you call a good girl suddenly became extremely cruel and did not care about human life at all, or a character like Desty Nova, whom you would call a complete psychopathic monster, suddenly experienced intense emotions and wanted to live in peace and harmony. There were many things that didn't make sense. Then when you learn the big secret of Zalem, when the residents of Zalem learned that they were so shocked and traumatized that they couldn't overcome it and committed suicide, you say, Is this it... This is not something that would cause such a big trauma and lead to suicide.

[Matthew Oliveras · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow o’ Wow. Four years of On n’ Off, Off n’ On interest of this grand set. I got it because of the live movie and read it over a course of four-years - 8 months and a week. Six large beautiful books in this. An enormous collection of the entire first season. Kind of disturbing of this Japanese B&W Gore, a bit hard to follow the plots too. Then in the end came along and set stones for the two sequel series.
I’m glad to have acquired this collection and read it because of a movie. I shall read it again in the future and pass it along to descendants.
What a cyborg story indeed.

[Cesar Leon · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5

[camille · Rating 4 out of 5]

j'ai pas forcément choisi le meilleur moment pour lire quelque chose d'aussi dur mais wah