| | |  | VIZ MEDIA | Home » » » Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Vol. 10 | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references! Our heroine, beautiful cyborg Alita, has finally penetrated the center of Melchizedek, the supercomputer who is holding her friend Lou's brain hostage. Now ancient vampire Vilma asks her to accept an awesome responsibility, while Alita's copies fight their own battles on the outside and her archenemy, mad scientist Desty Nova, returns. And returns. And returns! Is there no end to him? And whose side is he, or he, or he on, anyway??? Then, a moment of weakness may cost Alita everything?! Master manga creater Yukito Kishiro returns, accompanid by his most celebrated character, cyborg sweetheart Battle Angel Alita. Meet Kishiro's latest bevy of bizarre and tormented characters and catch up with your favorite and foes!A sophisticated science fiction tale packed with action, black humor, and philosophical, historical, and cultural references! | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Yukito Kishiro | | Paperback:
| 210 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| December 09, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1421521644 | | Product Length:
| 7.3 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.9 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.44 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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This may be the best in the seriesDec 27, 2008
By Antonio Vicente Caballero
After what seemed like an eternity i finally got my hands on Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Vol. 10...it was worth the wait! Yukito Kishiro's art seems to get better with every volume and the story just seems to become more convoluted. This could be a recipe for disaster...but not for this title. The more complicated things get the more i have come to love this story. The characters are always developing, always evolving and of course always interesting. If there is something i didn't like is that the volume seemed too short for such a long wait (then again kishiro can do a volume of battle angel with 500 pages and i'd still think its too short)
The fun aspects of this volume are: More new characters for the Z.O.T.T.
many, many more Novas
and a plot twist that i really didn't see coming.
I really cant find any flaws on the volume...maybe that the story seems to move a little bit slower...but i dont think thatts necessarily a bad thing since i really love Battle Angel...the more road blocks the more volumes right? and kishiro always deliver with great action and interesting story.
THE BEST VOLUME YET!!!Jul 26, 2009
By anonymous
i can't believe how good this volume was. a tremendous, shocking discovery! this is probably my favorite volume of all alita series, including the original. what a payoff...
unfortunately, the next volume was, well... you can assume that i wasn't too thrilled. but volume 10 is so good.
the price the seller & shipment time was right.........Mar 15, 2009
By Kenneth B. Beasley
super fast delivery, my item arrived faster than I thought it would, my item was as described, the seller is an amazon.com seller not a "bait & switch" ebay seller, I hate ebay sellers I've been baited & switched too many times, I haven't had any problems when I purchase from amazon.com.
at last! something worth reading!Feb 18, 2009
By Fabricio Rivas Marmanillo
"fabrizzzio.blogspot.com"
after TWO books of flashbacks about Caerula, Byron and Arthur, the beginning of the earth as it is known now (and other meaningless details)
the master Yukito Kishiro gives us a shocking volume of the great warrior Sechs! well Alita is there too. Nova is back, do you remember what happens when his bio-chip was taken by Trinidad? what happened with it? well the answer here! and you'll never guess whose brain is on the box Alita is carrying. I can't wait for volume 11
Hesitating?Feb 10, 2009
By Z. Simon
"HarlotBug3"
Yukito Kishiro is simply too good for his own good.
I know all the clichés about genius being overlooked, but with this installment I think I realized (after mentally comparing it to some other Manga I've enjoyed) that it is as often overwhelming as it is overlooked. Take a moment to step back and let a few pages soak in, and reading Battle Angel will be like staring at the sun.
Extremely graphic violence and extremely cheesy humor as a way to confront the central questions of existence?
I love this stuff, but trying to comprehend it can make my head hurt.
I never envy native Japanese readers more than when I'm reading Kishiro's work. I can only imagine what must be lost in even the best translation. The story, after more than 10 years, has remained a perpetual exercise in cliché, dues ex machina, and self indulgence. Somehow it is also one of the most stunning works of any medium that I have ever encountered.
I can't help but feel I'm offering more of a warning than an invitation, yet I have to blame this series as the reason I read so little manga. Alita, already in a young-person's medium, makes everything around her seem simply childish.
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