Battle Angel Alita was one of the first manga that I ever read and I’m sure it had quite the effect on me and my budding sexuality. If there is one thing I can say about mangaka Yukito Kishiro, it is that he is a absolutely brilliant artist and the only thing he can draw better than obsessively detailed backgrounds, it’s subtle yet effective cheesecake. That said, Battle Angel is not a T&A series like the simularly titled Battle Vixens. Kishiro’s manga is an intellengent and kinetic distopian epic and the instances of straightforward cheesecake are few and far between. But when they come about, oh boy.

Sadly, the most sexualized character of the series is often under dressed Shimura, who is either much younger than she appears or is mentally delayed.