Anime Profile: Battle Angel Alita
Fields | USA Info | Japanese Info | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
Title | Battle Angel Alita | Tsutsu Yume GUNNM (銃夢 ＧＵＮＮＭ) ("Hyper Future Vision GUNNM") |  |
· · · | Hyper Future Vision GUNNM | ||
Released | 1 OVA episodes | 2 OVA episodes | |
Dates | 1996 | 1993 | |
Company | A.D. Vision | Business Jump/KSS, Inc/MOVIC | |
Creator | Yukito Kishiro | ||
Director | Hiroshi Fukutomi | ||
Genre | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Mecha | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Mecha | |
Characters | Alita | Gally | |
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Description: Battle Angel Alita
In 1991, artist and writer Yukito Kishiro began to create a new graphic series for Shueisha Publishing's "Business Jump," a weekly comic aimed at adult audiences. Entitled "Gunnm" (literally "Gun Dream"), Kishiro's continuing odyssey of a young female cyborg's journey of self-discovery, set in a unique and highly detailed fantasy setting, captured the imagination of Japanese readers. Today, over 900,000 devoted fans follow Gunnm on a weekly basis.
In 1992, Viz Comics, one of North America's premiere publishers of Japanese comic books, or manga, decided to bring Gally and her world to the English-reading public, at that time changing both the title and the main character's name to "Battle Angel Alita". Again, the response was overwhelming, as Kishiro's masterful storytelling enthralled a whole new legion of fans.
In 1993, a team of extraordinary animators, artists, and writers began the arduous task of transforming Kishiro's intricate universe into a series of Original Animation Videos, or OAVs. The results, to date, are two of the most finely realized animated films ever created for any medium: "Gunnm - Rusty Angel" and "Gunnm - Tears Sign". A.D. Vision is very proud to present both of these extraordinary films, together, as "Battle Angel".
