Alita (Gally)

Alita, known in Japan as Gally (Gari), is the main protagonist of Battle Angel Alita, written by Yukito Kishiro.

She is known for her fighting prowess as a practitioner of the powerful cyborg martial art Panzer Kunst and skill at the most popular sport in The Scrapyard, motorball.

Alita is occasionally referred to as "octopus lips" due to her pouty expression.

Alita's background and history were briefly hinted at in Battle Angel Alita, but were not fully explored until Last Order, which reveals that Alita was highly instrumental in creating the world within which both manga series are set.

Alita takes on a variety of roles through the manga, starting out as a hunter-warrior or licensed bounty hunter.

She later becomes a motorball player, two years after which she is recruited by the Tipharean Ground Investigation Bureau to be an elite member of the TUNED, unknowingly serving as the basis for the development of their combat cyborgs known as the AR (Alita Replica) series which debut towards the end of Battle Angel Alita.

In Last Order, a replica of her spearheads a team called the Space Angels which includes three other replicas that competes in the LADDER-sponsored Zenith of Things Tournament.

Alita is voiced by Miki Ito- in Japanese and Amanda Winn Lee in English.

The original Alita, known in Japan as Gally ( Gari), was Ido's black cat, who died a month before he found the remains of cyborg Gally/Alita in the Tiphares junkyard and is her namesake.

Gally the cat was a male, and Ido's friend Gonzu comments that it is strange to name a girl after a male cat.

The cat makes an appearance in the manga as part of a dream that Alita experiences while being trapped in Desty Nova's Ouroboros program.

Interestingly, in the dream Alita is named "Gally" while the cat is named "Alita."

Nova himself appears in this dream as "Uncle Nova," reflecting that he cannot get along with the cat.

After Kaos in the guise of a dream Den attempts to rescue the real Alita from the Ouroboros and begins fighting with the giant Great Martian King dream robot, the dream Alita and dream Gally merge, appearing in the form of the real Alita.

The side story "Seiyakyoku" reveals that Ido took the original Alita in shortly after he arrived in the Scrapyard, at least five years before he found Alita in the Tiphares junkyard.

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Battle Angel Alita Wiki
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