Sunday, 8 February 2026

Show #4: Battle Angel Alita VS Alita: Battle Angel

A new year but the same old tricks, going two-in-a-row on profligate projects from cinema luminaries that took years to emerge. This also has us breaking the seal on the imposing vault of live-action adaptations of Japanese anime with one of its most storied sagas. Two decades sitting on the film rights to Yukito Kishiro’s cyborg epic was enough time for mariner and part-time director James Cameron to grow weary of the prospect, enlisting Robert Rodriguez to assemble the spare parts into functional form.

Amongst the dreary scrapheap of Western anime remakes how does this one compare with the perfectly enjoyable 1993 OVA from which it so liberally borrows? We steel ourselves for the task, with Niall on hand to expound on the fantastic tableaus from the manga which may grace the big screen any century now!

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