Who is Alita? The manga origins of a cyberpunk icon


Alita was known as Gally in the original Japanese manga. — Photos: Yukito Kishiro

Who is Alita? Well, for starters, the titular star of cyberpunk sci-fi movie Alita: Battle Angel (Read our review here) wasn’t even called Alita to begin with. Not in the original Japanese manga, anyway.

When Japanese manga artist Yukito Kishiro created the comic in 1990, the name of his lead character was Gally, which was changed to Alita when the manga was translated and published in the United States.

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