#Battle Angel Alita is a mind blowing cyberpunk anime.

It starts off interesting, which is a must because content, specially in this day and age must captivate the viewer's attention span and interest at the start to ensure one consumes it fully. The first chapter already decently outlines some of the main aspects of the story with an alleged twist in the middle of it. The second chapter follows introducing the first main antagonist which further helps lock in viewers in and it continues at a sped up but well adjusted pace (in my opinion).

It features many gadgets in cyberpunk nature but they're mostly rather grounded conceptually, and include notes that help you understand these concepts at a high level, which adds depth and integrity to the storyline.

The main character, Alita goes through a long journey to mold who she is. We get a full journey from the blank slate she was found in, which is an enthralling journey. She goes through many changes, adapting to her situation and molding herself differently in each one of them. It's also a constant struggle to try and forget her past at the same time she hunts to know more of it. These include dynamic relationships that give more depth to the question of how human she is.

In this dystopian reality where lives have no meaning (both from the widespread violence and the fact they're portrayed as lesser beings), we see a straggler which always helps to increase how you care for the character, cheering for the underdog. She goes through many well written enemies, who also have their amazing depictions of personalities. We get to go through Zapan's downwards spiral with a tad bit of what feels like remorse, Jashugan's determination despite his situation (which granted, he did put himself in) and Nova's search for limits.

The overarching end storypoint where it turns out that the people who are mostly machine and sometimes questioning the boundaries of their humanity and live below the ones who are viewed as pure humans, even referred to as Gods under misconception is flipped around on its head is an amazing twist to the story. The fact that those who view themselves as captives of the Junkyard are the ones who are truly free while the ones who are viewed as Gods and live in superiority are the ones who are the actual captives is a surprise that I was not prepared for, but absolutely enjoyed.

P.S. this is my first review, not very good and I was going to give up once I started but I figured I already started and the sunk cost fallacy kicked in so here we are.