THE OVA!

This Month our guest curator for AniMondays is jumping over from Blood Shed Theater, and she’s bringing some heat. Battle Angel is the timeless tale of Galley (or Alita if you’re nasty), a cyborg warrior who is dumped into the garbage heap beneath the sky city, where the fancy people toss their space trash. She’s limbless, and has no memory beyond the martial arts. Daisuke Ido, a cyberphysician (a good future profession we all should look into) finds and re-assembles her, and a beautiful friendship is born.

It’s a dystopian cyberpunk classic about trying to make the most of living on a ruined planet, surrounded by absolute monsters... featuring lots of massive dudes in goggles getting punched in the face by a tiny badass cyborg chick. The Manga by Yukito Kishiro was later adapted by Robert Rodriguez, but here the focus is mainly on the first two collections, and Christoph Waltz does not appear. (We're Sorry!)