I expected the look of the volumes to be quite different under a different publisher,
What I didn't expect was the drop in quality of the materials used in the books themselves.

The pages seem to be printed on a lower quality paper, and the covers are simply awful, barely stronger than the pages ...

And all this time, I didn't know beer had genders.

Please don't release 111 with doujin-style dialogue.
I'd have to hunt you all down, and the air-fare would be awful.

I would be happy to just fabricate some genuine-sounding dialogue, if it would make everyone less antsy!

I forsee Sechs fighting through Figure to destroy this AR unit (at the cost of her arm to his Hertza Haeon?), and to reveal her own identity as yet another copy of Alita, ending their conflict.
This promises to be really, really interesting, and I'm incredibly curious to see how Figure links up with ...

If you're not >14 yrs old and you think Michael Bay is a great director, you should feel bad.

That's all I have to say on the matter.

Write this down,
M-A-R-S
Mars, bitches.
That's where we are going!
MARS! RED-ROCKS!!

Yea-Yeah!

Well, it's a POSSIBLE answer. Only YK knows where this thing is really going.

A random unrelated thought.....If Mechilzedek can create 99% accurate proxies for Caerula and Arthur (presumably by analyzing the quantum ripples left by their thoughts and actions "that reverberate through time" as Ghost ...

One of the things that struck me as odd, in early readings of the series, is the moment when Ghost Arthur is trying to call Alita's spirit back from the edge of death in Robo-asyl.
He says "Gaze upon this vision of those who have entrusted their dreams to you!", and we see ghosts of all the ...

Who birthed/made Alita/Yoko?

I still come back to Melchizedek. In the original ending to Battle Angel, it takes on a female aspect "an overbearing mother" according to Nova. There's no reason to assume that it's Overall aspect has changed from that initial idea. In Last Order 10, when Lamba Nam ...

There. I might quote some of my older ramblings later on as they become pertinent, but from here I'll continue on with newer thoughts on the material.

I eagerly welcome any input from others, even if it's just to say that I'm probably full of it. I know I'm reading rather a lot into some of this ...

On further thought, it might explain why Yoko was chosen to be Mechelzidek's "assassin" in the first place, if whe were originally created by M or a third party to circumvent the A.I's predictive abilities.
This would explain the confusion of her immediate superiors (like Tzycrow) over her being ...

I'll bet the gene sequence synthesizer from the early part of the story is going to create a human body for alita, with her human brain & all.

I'll bet against you. That Organ is used to formulate new gene sequences, whereas Alita and Lou already have a genetic code. All Nova needs to ressurect ...

I seem to get onto these tangents where I'm hypothesizing about what's really going on in the book, and it turns into long-winded conjecture in disparate threads.
Thus I am creating this topic to try and keep it all in one place, so as to avoid cluttering up threads on other topics. I'm going to ...

I'll bet the gene sequence synthesizer from the early part of the story is going to create a human body for alita, with her human brain & all.

I'll bet against you. That Organ is used to formulate new gene sequences, whereas Alita and Lou already have a genetic code. All Nova needs to ressurect ...

You know, I had honestly forgotten about Alita's brain in all of this.

I'd say that either A. It's going to end up as another ghost inside Mechelzidek like Arthur
or
B. Alita and Lou both get physical bodies and journey back to Earth/Tiphares, with Original Brain Alita keeping Tiphares Nova in ...

Here's how I see this playing out;
The Onion Frame gets to the Moon, Sechs ends up leaving with Zekka as his master, with Yani, Derossi, Elf and Zwolf in tow.
Probably headed to Earth, it seems to be the default dumping ground for characters secondary to the storyline.

Alita (sans the wormhole ...

Yeah, Mbadi could make mincemeat of people like Saya, and maybe prove a solid match against the Figures or Zapans of the world, but I suspect either of the Bunnies could decimate him without his hacking powers.
I was never really expecting him to actually fight Alita physically (unless it was in the ...

I'm pretty sure that Don Fua is saying HADOKEN! on that last page...

Don Fua had already surrendered to Alita, knocking him out of the ZOTT.
Zekka provokes a fight with Don Fua, who trounces him out of the tourney.
Honestly, it isn't that complicated.

Kudos!

S.why I said it depends on the body. Ido's original body for her and the Tuned body were more or less conventional builds, probably didn't weigh much more than twice a normal girl's body weight.
The Nano-bodies have sufficient mass to them that they can generate extra appendages like blades and what ...

Depends on her body, but the nanomachine bodies like the Berserker and the Imaginos series are really, really heavy.

In Tears of an Angel, Yugo tries to give Alita (in the Berserker body) a hand up off of the ground, and she literally pulls him through the double railing he's leaning against ...

lamebot wrote:any progress on scanlations?

Yeah, roughly 106 chapters worth.
It's rude to pester those who toil in your service for free.

Well Vendigo, I'm starting to lose faith that I'll live long enough to see Guts reach Elf Island with his accumulated child-army, and the ZOTT has been quite a bit more entertaining than the last 100 chapters of Berserk.
It's been worth it to build up the cast of secondary characters to the extent ...