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It's more or less the same in the manga. The city's very much a lawless place with the only thing resembling a government being the factories that manufacture stuff to ship up to the floating city. Edit: This made me reread the first few chapters to see the city's look. It's mostly a decaying factory aesthetic. Also: shout out to Makaku's talking pighead codpiece battle computer. Alita doesn't even bat an eye when it pipes up out of nowhere 
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Tekne posted:Not sure who would be a good Sechs. Rosa Salazar but this time the CGI gives her an androgynous look? Edit: Looking forward to the film adaptation of Last Order with half the cast being her and whoever plays Nova.
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Seyser Koze posted:Yeah, but IIRC it's given to her by her (eventual) motorball coach instead of being a trophy taken off of Zapan. Yep. Zapan just used some random cleaver thing. It's not a relic from the old world either, "just" a crazy strong blade forged from a bunch of rare metals. Later on it gets turned into a giant butterfly knife 
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Mar 4, 2019 11:29
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There's a map in the original manga showing the surroundings of the Scrapyard and it looks like it's around Kansas City: Southern river = the Mississippi Northern river = Missouri river Western mountains = the Rockies Looks like Farm 4 (F4) could be on top of Saint Louis.
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Mar 5, 2019 19:23
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AlternateAccount posted:You might even say that revolution against a parasitic overlord that extracted wealth and labor and offered little/nothing in return, and operated under tacit threat of violent annihilation, is endemic to America itself. From reading the manga way back when, I always saw the conflict between Salem and the surface as being a parallel for (neo)colonialism rather than purely about class struggle. Salem isn't in charge of the surface, technically, but the factories are the closest thing to a government and exist only to extract resources and exploit local labor to send stuff up to the shining city in the sky. People, however, cannot ever move there. Vector is basically a comprador. It all makes Salem a metaphor for "the West" in general.
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May 10, 2019 18:05
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A major difference is that Nova is only introduced after the end of the Motorball arc.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:56
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At one point, the manga also shows that the factories have cyborgs equipped with anti-air missiles that shoot anything flying over the city on sight.
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Jul 11, 2019 22:51
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I thought it was more about imperialism and colonialism. The shining high tech flying city is fed by raw materials extracted from the surface (and dumps its trash back down there) and it ruthlessly crushes anything that threatens this system. Vector is basically a comprador. It's something that does get a lot clearer later in the original manga, but even this early we see that the factory don't give a poo poo about how bad it is in the Scrapyard.
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Feb 18, 2020 23:03
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Nova's scenes are usually heavy on the body horror too.
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May 27, 2020 06:52
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To give you an idea, Grewishka in the film is based on a character in the manga that's addicted to endorphin. His way to get a quick fix? Grab a dude, rip off the top of his skull and chomp on his brain, of course. All shown in graphic detail as the character's introduction. This manga is very good but it is absolutely not suitable for children.
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The MSJ posted:I guess this is an elephant in the room that has been gnawing at my mind: do people in the Alita world gently caress? Like when they get full body replacements do they get boners or what? In the manga, there's a big correlation between getting a full-body replacement and being batshit insane and getting off on eating brains or being utterly driven by some kind of personal quest that leaves no room for anything like sexual desire or self-preservation.
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