Battle Angel Altia Review

For me, reading this manga was very nostalgic, while I had never read this particular manga before, I did used to read quite a bit a manga, and sometime in high school I stopped. Remembering what it was like to discover the strange, larger than life stories manga had to offer cam rushing back to me. Reading the fantastically ridicules Berserker series came to mind as I read Battle Angle Altia. I thought it was an interesting choice to drop us into a world, with, from what I gleamed, has a very rich history behind it, and then letting us grasp at straws until they finally gave us enough info to understand, sort of, what was happening, or at least who was who, seemed like a risky choice. While I knew I had the next few issues waiting for me, anyone who was reading this month by month it was probably infuriating waiting for the next issue, I would have contemplated not even getting the next issue. I think the decision paid off though, I was hooked and I couldn't wait to understand the world to which I was just introduced, and the characters that inhabit it. The art certainly helped, it had that super cool, kinetic, wholly designed look that all my favorite manga’s do. The level of detail in each panel and the thought behind how machines and the rules of the world work has always blown me away in manga and Battle Angle is no exception. There is a clearly defined logic behind this world, and from what I read, was not deviated from. This taste of the series has most defiantly peaked my interest and I hope to track down some more in my free time.