Battle Angel Alita was my first manga! I remember the series fondly.
I've only read vol 1, but Variante also seems to use shounen tropes with a female protag. She's the only survivor when her family is attacked by something monstrous, and she comes to consciousness with something monstrous on her arm that can be used as a weapon to fight the baddies. There's also a secret organization. The use of the monstrous arm that's also a site of trauma is drawn from Fullmetal Alchemist, Parasyte, and D. Grayman.
[Spoiler for character arc and series] Seras Victoria from Hellsing is a female character who also gets the shounen tropes treatment of trauma, training and an eventual power up, losing a normal arm in battle leading her to get a monstrous arm as a new weapon. She's not the protagonist.
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Fri, Nov. 14th, 2008 05:42 am (UTC)I've only read vol 1, but Variante also seems to use shounen tropes with a female protag. She's the only survivor when her family is attacked by something monstrous, and she comes to consciousness with something monstrous on her arm that can be used as a weapon to fight the baddies. There's also a secret organization. The use of the monstrous arm that's also a site of trauma is drawn from Fullmetal Alchemist, Parasyte, and D. Grayman.
[Spoiler for character arc and series] Seras Victoria from Hellsing is a female character who also gets the shounen tropes treatment of trauma, training and an eventual power up, losing a normal arm in battle leading her to get a monstrous arm as a new weapon. She's not the protagonist.