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Battle Angel Alita: Last Order

Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
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Cover of Gunnm Last Order volume 1 by Shueisha
銃夢Last Order
(Ganmu Rasuto Ōdā)
Genre Cyberpunk, Science fiction
Manga
Written by Yukito Kishiro
Published by Shueisha (former), Kodansha
English publisher
VIZ Media (former)
Kodansha Comics USA (current)
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Ultra Jump (November 18, 2000–June 19, 2010)
Evening
(March 22, 2011–January 28, 2014)
Original run November 18, 2000January 28, 2014
Volumes 19 (List of volumes)
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Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, known in Japan as Gunnm Last Order (銃夢Last Order Ganmu Rasuto Ōdā?), is the continuation of the manga series Battle Angel Alita. It is created by Yukito Kishiro and tells the story of Alita (or Gally in the original Japanese version) continuing her quest to uncover her mysterious past.

Last Order continues from Volume 9 of Battle Angel Alita, but diverges from the original ending. It ignores the transformation of Ketheres into a nanotechnological space flower, Alita's subsequent transformation into a flesh-and-blood human girl and her reunion with Figure. Instead it takes place after Alita is killed by a doll bomb in the final volume of Battle Angel Alita.

Kishiro has stated that he was sick at the time of Battle Angel Alita, and was forced to cut it short with an ending he wasn't satisfied with. After working on other projects and the manga Aqua Knight, he decided to go back to Alita's story in 2000. Originally, the story was planned to follow that of the PlayStation game Gunnm: Martian Memory, but its story is only used partially and sparingly, as Kishiro expanded and changed the story.

Last Order was on hiatus since the 100th installment due to a disagreement between Kishiro and an editor of Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine. The editor had wanted Kishiro to refrain from using the word "psycho" in his manga dialogue. Kishiro later offered to resume the manga only if the legal department of Ultra Jump apologized to him for questioning the three sections of dialogue in the new reprint of Battle Angel Alita, and Shueisha would recall the new reprinted edition and revert the revised sections to their original form. If his requirements were not met, Kishiro threatened to switch publishers to Kodansha's Evening magazine. Kishiro's requirements were apparently rejected by Shueisha and Kodansha subsequently announced that Last Order will join Evening's in the eighth issue in March 2011, which was released on March 22 with Chapter 101 of the manga.


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