I noticed that too, and yes, it's definitely the same character, but with a different, updated design. There's an uncropped version of that cover art that proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt:

It just occurred to me that Anomaly is a parody of Metal Gear Rex. Their heads are shaped very similarly, and they both have a laser penis.

http://battleangel.wikia.com/wiki/Anomaly

http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_REX

It's not really her eyes that bug me. It's her skin on her non-cyborg parts. It looks too real, like the Na'vi. Too many pores. Her entire body is supposed to be artificial and eerily blemish-free, including her face.

This is very sad news. Sergio was a cornerstone of the community. He will be missed.

Since 2006. Alita/Gally is pretty special to me. She's one of the very few female protagonists I've seen in a work of fiction to have a sort of charisma, a kind of magnetism to her. Most "strong" female leads feel like they're only playing at strength, like no matter what over-the-top stunts they ...

Once I was unable to find anything about bemite in my dictionaries or on the web, it would help a lot if anyone could give a link.

Judging by the "-ite" in the name, the usage of the product as a spread on bread, the characters' reaction to it, and how yeast extract was invented by a German dude ...

Bemite is obviously like Marmite or Vegemite. They're concentrated yeast extracts that are very salty and kinda taste vaguely like soy sauce, sort of. I'm American, but I love Marmite on toast. I get the squeezy bottles from the international foods store whenever I can.

Incidentally, putting ...

The Gunnm: Martian Memory PlayStation game from 1998 and Last Order/Mars Chronicle have a lot of similarities, though the plotlines are far from identical. I wouldn't be surprised if Yoko's origin story from the game is still canon, especially given that she's presented as having always had a cyborg ...

All that Gergt guy is missing is a Victorian getup; top hat, double-breasted vest, cravat, a handlebar mustache to evilly twirl and all.

"HAHAHAHAHA! A CHILD , ALITA. A WEEEEEEEE CHIIIIIILD WITH A BOMB IN HIS SHIRT! FETCH!"

Seriously, I giggled a bit. Not sure if that was YK's intent, but yeah ...

It's actually quite ingenious. It enables him to do a biweekly format without compromising on quality. We still get the same number of pages per month, just twice as often.

It's spelled GUNNM but pronounced "Ganmu". There are plenty of manga out there with awkward titles stemming from certain Kanji readings, especially when loanwords are involved. Take Blame! for example. It's a romanization of "Buramu". In other words, the title of the manga is not supposed to be the ...

I think the lack of popularity has less to do with the themes of the series and more to do with the way manga is serialized in Japan. Each chapter is part of a magazine anthology loaded with chapters from other series, and these magazines have very specific targeted demographics. In other words, the ...

There's nothing wrong with using pseudoscience in a work of fiction. I mean, most of the "science" in Stein's Gate was based on conspiracy theories as well. That didn't keep it from being an awesome franchise.

Yes, scalar waves and free vacuum energy are bunk, but that shouldn't stop people from ...

If I had to guess, about 200 to 350 kilos, possibly more. One would have to be extraordinarily dense to deliver punches with tank-busting levels of energy and not spontaneously explode . Newton's third law, and all that.

Keep in mind that the reason why Hugo found Alita lying in a heap after ...

Re-upped it myself after finding an alternate download location. Here's a new link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TYWZ3P8Q

Hmm, that link doesn't work anymore.

Dude. I think everybody's brains shut off from the sheer awesome.

It is naïveté (and an unacceptable mistake) to take an example as a rule.

I wasn't saying that it was the rule. I was merely suggesting that the original creator is not always a 100% reliable source on this issue.

A couple more examples:

http://www.engrish.com/2002/10/status-clitical/

http ...

I wouldn't take the original merchandise or the author's word as law on this matter. Sometimes, the original Japanese creators of a given work mess up the L > R transliteration by making the false assumption that all Rs should become Ls in English. For example, does anyone remember the intro to ...

Why did you post the picture? WHAT FOR???

That's hardly a spoiler if you've been keeping up with the series. This preview reveals nothing that wasn't known at the end of GLO99.

Besides, this is a thread for discussing GLO100. It is assumed that spoilers will be posted right out in the open. If ...

Do you REALLY take Pakistan as a democracy? :?:

Not exactly, but that's certainly what they've been trying to bill themselves as.

EDIT: Preview's up now. *SPOILERS*

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I don't know any democracy in the world which advocates discrimination.

I take it you've never been to Pakistan? I hear it's lovely this time of year. If you're a Muslim. [url=http://india_resource.tripod.com/grpakistan.html]And not a woman.[/url]

So, because I profess tolerance, I should be tolerant of the fact that you've expressed a desire to use incredibly hateful labels? I DARE YOU to make sense of that. "Live and let live, man, even though I myself adamantly REFUSE TO."

Yes, there are many people who think like you do in my country ...

Heck, I know I wouldn't want to fight 12,500 of Lu Bu. One is bad enough.

Well, if you want to get technical about it, the current Alita contains none of her "original" organic material. If she ever was born a freak, she shouldn't have to worry about it now. She's already transcended that.