This was prequel story to the Battle Angel Alita manga. This book shows Yoko Aka Alita when she was a little girl. She was unsure where she was and what was going on. The reader is introduced to Erica Wald. They seem to be best friends and act like sisters. The first few pages are very heart warming and make you want the best for Yoko and Erica.
The reader is then shown that the human race had gone to Mars and colonized it 140 years ago. It seems as though things on Earth as going bad for the human race and that cyborgs and androids are now part of are everyday life and it is the new normal.
I found it very interesting what Yoko and Erica had to go through just to find friends, food and happiness. First of all they live in a orphanage and the other girls there are very rude to them at first. They try to force Erica and Yoko to eat bugs and also beat them up. A few days later though, the girls start to be nicer to Yoko and Erica. They take them to their secret hide out and they got to have sweets and play a game. One of the older girls also reads to Yoko.
But just as things are starting to look better for Yoko and Erica, things go to HELL IN A HAND BASKET! The army shows up in the village where the orphanage is and begins taking out citizens left and right. Yoko and Erica do what that can to help the other girls be safe but in the end they are the only ones left from everything.
This story does a lightly happy ending however. Yoko and Erica reunite with the doctor that had repaired them before. They get to have some good food and learn more about some positive things that that going happen to them. So their story keeps rolling and I will enjoy where the road take them. This is a Good Slice of Life story that will make you think.
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