Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle #1

Two young girls — one dark-haired and wrapped in a flowing blue scarf, the other blonde with a bandaged eye and a solemn expression — walk hand-in-hand across a rust-colored Martian landscape while a city burns and churns thick black smoke on the horizon behind them. It's a quietly heartbreaking image that sets the emotional tone for Yukito Kishiro's return to the world of Battle Angel Alita, this time exploring the red planet itself. Mars Chronicle Vol. 1 promises the same blend of humanity and harsh sci-fi atmosphere that has made Kishiro's work so enduring.