After you read this, read Tim's post because it's good.

What the title says.

Now that that's over with, I feel compelled to keep up the insane pace at which this blog is getting updated and rant about something. So I shall rant about something.

Now that I've sat here for a few hours (okay, just a few seconds) blankly staring at the computer screen, I've been auto-logged out. Just kidding. What has happened is that I've stalled long enough to think of the actual thing about which I wish to rant.

I learned recently that James Cameron is going to make the Battle Angel Alita movie! The title is set to be "Battle Angel" and encompasses the first few chapters or so of the manga. If you aren't familiar with this manga, go look it up on Manga Fox. It's basically about a time in the far future after a war has screwed up human civilization and there is a city called Tiphares, which is suspended by a huge column that extends off somewhere ineffable in the heavens and presumably attaches to something. Below the city is a giant pile of garbage, off of which the people living on the ground live. They have build a sort of city of their own around it called "the Scrapyard." One of its inhabitants is a Frankenstein-like mad scientist dude who has a hobby of trawling the garbage pile for cyborg parts, and he scores one day when he finds a living human head attached to some sort of portable life support. The head is apparently that of a girl who had lived 300 years before and due to extended suspended animation has forgotten most of her past life. (This is of course the author's excuse for not adequately exploring her history, lol.) What she does remember is how to be a super awesome cyborg warrior girl, and the story develops from there.
All in all it's a much more original plot than Avatar, and given how good James Cameron made that movie, this one is sure to be made of a high proportion of pwn. At least, it better be! I loved this manga.

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