Battle Angel Alita (Paperback), Volume 1

Contains chapters 1-9 of Battle Angel Alita. Far beneath the shimmering space-city of Zalem lie the trash-heaps of The Scrapyard… Here, cyber-doctor and bounty hunter Daisuke Ido finds the head and torso of an amnesic cyborg girl. He names her Alita and vows to fill her life with beauty, but in a moment of desperation, a fragment of Alita’s mysterious past awakens in her. She discovers that she possesses uncanny prowess in the legendary martial art known as panzerkunst. With her newfound skills, Alita decides to become a hunter-warrior—tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity in the dark and gritty world of The Scrapyard?