Battle Angel Alita

"There’s an old doctor in a futuristic cyberpunk world who goes to a scrapyard with all the junk from the rich people world in the sky, Zalem. Part of the junk is the torso and head of a cyborg. The doctor’s daughter died, so he feels a bit linked to this cyborg girl body that died. He revives her into a complete cyborg. She starts exploring the world and has flashbacks to her life before and slowly realises that she was a Martian cyborg who was made specifically to destroy Zalem in a war. She also finds a love interest who teaches her a lot about the current world and what the doctor who found her is hiding, which is that he is a bounty hunter who kills criminals for money. She becomes a bounty hunter and also discovers that her boyfriend is in heavy debt and tries to help him get out of it by killing the loan sharks but that doesn’t go so well. “A manga is like the in-between point between a book and a film” The sketch-like drawing goes very well with the cyberpunk style and is completely different from the other manga I’ve picked. In a weird form of censorship it’s barely got any blood because it’s machine parts that get blown apart, so although it’s a seinen manga it doesn’t feel so adult. At five volumes it’s a good length. The film is very good although it’s difficult to fit five volumes into one two-hour long film without messing it up, so it’s a bit wonky. I think the manga is good for kids age 12 and up, a similar level to The Hunger Games ."