Battle Angel Alita
Viz · 1992–1993 · 9 issues
About the series
In the early 1990s, Viz Media brought Yukito Kishiro's cyberpunk epic Battle Angel Alita to English-speaking readers, collecting the first nine issues of the original Japanese manga. This series introduced Western audiences to the amnesiac cyborg Alita (Gally) as she navigated the brutal, post-apocalyptic Scrapyard beneath the floating city of Tiphares. Kishiro's intricate world-building, kinetic action, and philosophical undercurrents made this a foundational title for the growing manga market in North America.