Forum - View topicBattle angel alita, question about book versions..
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Vortextk
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Gohastings had a free shipping code and a deal on used books last week so I took advantage of it for some things then thought about finally getting this manga, I bought and read the first volume years ago and really liked it. I didn't even think about it till I opened the first book I received from them, which had me puzzling, but I guess this is an older print from viz. It's slightly larger and flipped for regular western reading, left to right. Not a huge deal, not for 2-4 dollars a book, but were there any other changes or alterations done on their subsequent prints? Anything like bad translations or censoring in the early ones?
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ZeroDemio
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You have the old format release which is flipped, higher retail priced, and bigger. Compare to the currently in-print version of Battle Angel Alita, the only difference would be the flipped reading direction and the cover art. I'm betting that the translations and SFX editing would be the same.
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Generic #757858
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Actually, for some reason the new editions of Alita have a new translation and SFX. IMHO, the new translation is somewhat worse, the older translation just felt more natural and less awkward. No censorship that I know of. If flipping doesn't bother you, go for the older editions.
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Tamaria
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I wonder, does the first edition also have the revised ending? The mangaka changed the ending in 2001 to make the series more sequel friendly. A different ending, that would be a big change.
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Generic #757858
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You mean he changed it to match the beginning of Last Order? Both of the Viz editions have original spoiler[bizarro-Pinocchio] ending, AFAIK. I sold my copies of the first edition volumes in a fit of madness (and poverty) so I can't verify, but I'm pretty sure they were printed before 2001. |
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Vortextk
Posts: 892 Location: Orlando, Fl |
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Well I'm not going to touch that spoiler tag, but thanks for all the info
 . I actually have a few of each, which will probably make reading them even harder(some left to right, others right to left), but otherwise it sounds fine. The last book is the newer edition too, whatever that means for the ending if it did get changed. I'd normally like them all the same, but I can't complain at the price of most of these. Thanks all.
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archaron
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So does the first printing have a different ending? (I just bought it a couple of months ago) Should I track down the 2nd printing of the last volume?
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Tamaria
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I looked it up and the final volume of the first edition was printed years before the ending was revised, but now it sounds like the second edition also has the original ending. I can't check, because I don't own the English version.
Speaking of Battle Angel Alita and flipped manga, don't pass up on Ashen Victor if you happen to see it for a good price. It's a spin-off about motorball with an artstyle that's more Frank Miller-like and a film noir type of story. |
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Vortextk
Posts: 892 Location: Orlando, Fl |
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I finished the first run of books, so just curiosity now... My last book was of the later versions Viz did, smaller and flipped to read like a japanese book and right at the end spoiler[figure and koyomi find the message left by desty nova, rip open the weird plant thing growing on the station, and a reformed Alita pops out into figure's arms, and the manga ends]. Just curious what the original ending was, probably the same without those last few pages added? And thus spoiler[Alita was either definitely or thought to be dead?]
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Generic #757858
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No, it's the same in the older edition. If the revised ending that Tamaria mentioned is the one I'm thinking of, then the English version can be found in the beginning of the first volume of BAA: Last Order and it basically retcons everything that happens after spoiler[Nova's bomb blast Alita to bits]. |
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