Gunnm

Horrible mutilation of an amazing manga. They completely destroy one of the most incredible story arcs in the first installment, and the second arc is just a shell of what it was. Top it off with blatantly rushed animation, and poor voice acting on both the japanese and english audio tracks and it leaves you with an adaption that is so bad its inexcusable.

Do yourself a favor, if you're interested in BAA, read the manga. Its one of the best. Don't waste your time on this.

Imo it wasn't that good. I know it came before but Alita is just a robot Sailor Saturn. I also didn't like the romance in this show since Hugo's a criminal but that doesn't seem to bother Gally at all. That makes me think she's a bitch. I don't have any sympathy for her. Hugo also seemed like a dick when he kissed Gally and said they're partners in crime now. Imo it's really tone deaf since he's a guy who rips peoples spines out to sell.

And I was really disappointed with the world. I thought it would be darker and more sci-fi but the ... world of BAA is more like Samurai Jack. It's very cartoony and the robot stuff is just a mish-mash.

I thought I'd read the manga but I doubt it. It's not my kind of story. I prefer a more serious one. Was interesting to see though how this inspired Texhnolyze with the privileged city above the dark one made of junk.

If Hugo was the OVA original character I probably would've read the manga but since Chiren was, who I thought was actually decent/compelling, there's no way I'd like the manga if the author can come up with a guy like Hugo. I'm surprised this is seinen. It's probably just another one of those shounen with x-rated violence and gore kind of seinen, like Tokyo Ghoul. I hate that type.