Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Volume 1: Angel Reborn Book

Spoilers for the first series!

This omnibus is the start of a new Alita series, following the end of the previous nine-volume series, which took us all the way from her "rebirth" in the junkyards of the Scrapyard to her death, blown up by the nefarious Desty Nova.

Angel Reborn begins with Desty Nova rebuilding a cyborg body for Alita. He salvaged her brain, of course. From there, this long volume takes us to the sky city of Tiphares, and has Alita participating in a revolution between the Millennials and the Boomers (they aren't called that, but imagine a bunch of Millennials saying "Ok boomer" as they slaughter their parents), trying to find her old friend Lou, and becoming increasingly bitchy.

Yeah, this is not the sweet anime girl we met way back when Alita was brought to life by Doc Ido. She's had a hard life. She's seen a lot of friends die, she's had her body blown to bits more than once, and now she's probably never going to see any of her friends again. She's become a cold, callous warrior who only occasionally shows a spark of that humanity that made her so lovable when she was a cute little unstoppable death machine back on Earth.

Here, she is drawn into bigger and bigger spheres as we learn about the Ladder, and the interstellar government that has been ruling the solar system, oblivious to the affairs of the crawling ants who live down on the ground.

There's lots of action, Alita has to fight ever more formidable foes with her Panzer Kunst, and the volume ends with Alita still stuck out in space trying to figure out the politics of these crazy, super-advanced post-human Jovians and Venusians and such. Something tells me she's gonna wreck shit, because she always does.