List of Battle Angel Alita characters

The Battle Angel Alita manga series features a cast of characters designed by Yukito Kishiro. The series takes place around the city of Scrapyard where residents, of whom many are heavily modified by cybernetics to better cope with the hard life, are forced to make a living.

The series focuses on Alita, the protagonist and title character, a young cyborg with amnesia struggling to uncover her forgotten past through the only thing she remembers from it: fighting. Early on in the story, Daisuke Ido, a bounty-hunting cybernetic doctor who finds and revives Alita plays a major role as well, but midway through the manga he becomes marginalized as focus begins to increasingly shift to Desty Nova, an eccentric nanotechnology scientist who has fled from Tiphares. Nova is the mastermind behind many of the enemies and trials that Alita faces, but does not make an actual appearance until more than two years into the story, although he is alluded to early on. Finally, Kaos, Desty Nova's son, a frail and troubled radio DJ with psychometric powers, also begins to play a crucial role after he comes in contact with Alita. He broadcasts his popular radio show from the wastelands outside the Scrapyard, staying away from the increasing conflict between Tiphares and the rebel army Barjack.

Protagonist

Gally/Alita

Alita, known in Japan as , is the protagonist of Battle Angel Alita and its sequel, , both written by Yukito Kishiro. She is known for her fighting prowess as a practitioner of the powerful cyborg martial art Panzer Kunst and skill at the most popular sport in The Scrapyard, motorball. Alita is occasionally referred to as "octopus lips" due to her pouty expression. Alita's background and history were briefly hinted at in Battle Angel Alita, but were not fully explored until Last Order, which reveals that Alita was highly instrumental in creating the world within which both manga series are set.

Alita takes on a variety of roles through the manga, starting out as a hunter-warrior or licensed bounty hunter. She later becomes a motorball player, two years after which she is recruited by the Tipharean Ground Investigation Bureau to be an elite member of the TUNED, unknowingly serving as the basis for the development of their combat cyborgs known as the AR (Alita Replica) series which debut towards the end of Battle Angel Alita. In Last Order, she spearheads a team called the Space Angels which includes three of her replicas that competes in the LADDER-sponsored Zenith of Things Tournament.

The original Alita, known in Japan as , was Ido's black cat, who died a month before he found the remains of cyborg Gally/Alita in the Tiphares junkyard and is her namesake. Gally the cat was a male, and Ido's friend Gonzu comments that it is strange to name a girl after a male cat. The cat makes an appearance in the manga as part of a dream that Alita experiences while being trapped in Desty Nova's Ouroboros program. Interestingly, in the dream Alita is named "Gally" while the cat is named "Alita." Nova himself appears in this dream as "Uncle Nova," reflecting that he cannot get along with the cat. After Kaos in the guise of a dream Den attempts to rescue the real Alita from the Ouroboros and begins fighting with the giant Great Martian King dream robot, the dream Alita and dream Gally merge, appearing in the form of the real Alita. The "Seiyakyoku" reveals that Ido took the original Alita in shortly after he arrived in the Scrapyard, at least five years before he found Alita in the Tiphares junkyard.

Daisuke Ido

is a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita manga by Yukito Kishiro and its anime adaptation. Known as "Doc Ido", he is a cybernetics physician or cyberphysician, a doctor who specializes in operations on cyborgs who lives in The Scrapyard. He is responsible for restoring Alita after finding her in the Tiphares dump heap, a massive pile of garbage ejected from Tiphares. Ido also has a second line of work as a hunter-warrior. He is a former citizen of Tiphares, the great floating city suspended over The Scrapyard, as is indicated by the mark on his forehead, and is the first Tipharean introduced in Battle Angel Alita. After being expelled from Tiphares for unknown reasons, Ido trained as a cyberphysician and – five years before the main story starts – opened his own clinic.

Ido considers Alita to be like a daughter to him and their relationship progresses through several stages as Alita grows mentally and emotionally. As Ido wanted Alita to remain pure and unsullied, he is originally opposed to her becoming a hunter-warrior, but accepts her decision. He later accepts her decisions to play motorball and "leave the nest" after retiring from motorball. Ido is later driven to madness and erases his own memory after learning the secret of Tiphares. Daisuke Ido has no role in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order'' besides appearing in Alita's thoughts.

Desty Nova

is a former citizen of Tiphares who has used his extensive scientific knowledge and expertise in nanotechnology to save Makaku and Jashugan, as well as resurrect Ido and Alita from states that would normally be classified as 'dead,' even in this world where cyborgs are commonplace. He fled Tiphares to obtain the freedom necessary to experiment with live humans, a component he deems necessary in his research of karma and psychological capacity. A dream sequence shows that had his situation been different, he could have easily been a loving, protective father figure for Alita. He has injected himself with nanomachines that can repair dismemberment and give him pseudo-immortality. Nova possesses knowledge of the secret of Tiphares, one that could drive its citizens mad if released. Nova has a perk for the dessert dish flan, and can often be seen eating it, boasting that he thinks better while enjoying it. His name is a reference to the song "Astronomy" by Blue Öyster Cult.

Although he is generally villainous in Battle Angel Alita, Nova exists as much more of a neutral, ambiguous figure in Last Order, where he is one of Alita's key allies. In the original manga, Nova has two assistants who do not appear in Last Order.

is a very large, somewhat odd looking man who is Nova's assistant. He does not have any special abilities aside from his immense physical strength and blind devotion to Nova. Barzarld was almost killed along with Nova when the Den aspect of Kaos' personality took control of him when he was 15–16 years old. Barzarld does not speak much, but seems to instinctively know what Nova wants of him. He performs basic tasks such as giving Nova his flan servings and handing him tools, and acts as a driver when Nova leaves the Scrapyard after unleashing Zapan in the Berserker Body. Like Nova and Eelai, he has been injected with restorer nanomachines, making him near immortal, and has come back to life after being killed by Alita a few times. She finally kills him by throwing him into a high pressure water barrier that Nova triggers to effect his escape from her in the Granite Inn. His name is a reference to the song "Imaginos" by Blue Öyster Cult.

, Nova's second, sultry assistant as well as his lover, assists him with more specialized and delicate tasks that Barzarld is unable to perform, such as when Nova conducts surgeries. She also acts as a bodyguard, immobilizing Ido when he tries to destroy Zapan's brain that Nova has rescued. Eelai has been injected with restorer nanomachines, making her near immortal. She is somewhat morbid, delighting in Alita's grief when she sees Ido's remains in a box after he is killed by Zapan, and after having her throat slashed by Alita in rage, relishing the experience after she revives. She feels that only by having a real body as opposed to a cyborg body can one fully experience life's joys and pains, and prefers her men to be of flesh and blood. Eelai is shown taking a reformation bath in the Granite Inn that adds organs, tissues and flesh onto her skeleton, making her feel restored. She fights Alita with a water pressure converter that can shoot high pressure streams of water at supersonic speeds. By making her Damascus Blade go faster than Eelai's high pressure water shield, Alita is able to cut through it and kill her.

Kaos

is Desty Nova's son and a popular late-night radio host. He is extremely fragile. Kaos only sees in infrared wavelengths and hears and speaks at radio wavelengths. Those that see him in person must use special transceivers for communication. Kaos is an expert of psychometry, a unique talent to read the memories of inanimate objects. For example, he can channel the memories of a katana to learn sword skills and the memories of a computer to hack it. He and his team of molemen dig up artifacts from the bygone era, and he uses the memories contained in these artifacts as the basis for his radio show. Kaos also has a dark side in the form of Den, a manifestation of uncontrollable rage that has been with him since he was a child. Although Den exists in a physical form, he and Kaos are linked by an EPR transmitter Nova installed in Kaos' chest.

Antagonists

Jashugan

Jashugan's unnamed master is an old cyborg who resides in an automobile junkyard. Jashugan visits him before his challenge race with Alita, and faces his master in a test of his ability to manipulate chi. The old cyborg succumbs to Jashugan's mastery of reflective resonance, an ability to match an opponent's chi and inflict a destructive vibratory feedback upon them, that leaves him mortally wounded. He views cyborgs as more machines than human, believing that they do not need love, nor should they fear death, advising Jashugan to kill Shumira as she is the cause of his self-doubt.

Makaku

Originally born as a human, spent his entire life in the sewers of the Scrapyard, captivated by the life he could see outside. Three years before the beginning of the main story, Makaku was burned with a flamethrower by a pair of Scrapyarders while looking at the goings on through a sewer grate. He survived the attack, but his body began to rot and he nearly died. Desty Nova found Makaku and offered to give him a new, personalized body reflecting his innermost desires.

Makaku's new cyborg body consisted of a large head attached to a long, maggot-like body, which allowed him a great deal of mobility. He was also characterized by his long tongue and tendency to slobber. A large spike on top of his head could be fired as a single use projectile weapon. However, Makaku's deadliest ability was being able to take over the bodies of other cyborgs by using his body to jack into their spinal columns and then remove their heads with his newly-won control. He would take over powerful cyborg bodies and use their strength to acquire brains (preferably human, but even dog) in order to eat them to satisfy his endorphin addiction. Makaku justified his existence in destruction, and despite a bounty being placed on him, was so formidable that no hunter-warrior dared go after him for years.

Makaku is the first major adversary that Alita faces. In their first fight she succeeds in crippling the body he is then possessing as well as blinding him in his left eye by impaling it with one of her arms. However, her first cyborg body is destroyed in the process. Makaku survives the fight and almost kills Ido by impaling him with his head spike, swearing vengeance on both him and Alita before escaping. He seeks out the reigning champion of the coliseum, Kinuba, to take over his custom-built Power Body. Makaku then goes up against Alita in her new Berserker Body in the Scrapyard sewers. After a long fight, the Power Body is destroyed and Makaku nearly kills Alita in a plasma explosion that he triggers. However, she creates an electromagnetic barrier to shield them both, enabling her to talk with him. Makaku tells her his life story, revealing that she is the first person who seriously took notice of him by trying to stop him. For the first time in his life he is at peace as he is consumed by the plasma.

appears in the OVA as an amalgamation of the Makaku and Kinuba characters from the manga, being the former coliseum champion who has become a bounty because of his brain eating habit. The cyborg body that he first appears in is similar to that in which Makaku also first appears. Damaged in a fight with Ido and Gally (Alita) that he barely manages to escape, he seeks out Chiren, whom he knows. Chiren rebuilds Grewcica's body, equipping him with extendable fingertip cutters in his right hand that can move at supersonic speeds and cut through almost anything, similar to the primary weapons that Kinuba wielded in the manga. Interestingly, on his rebuilt body Grewcica sports the number 99, the number that Alita wore when she was a motorball player in the manga. At Chiren's suggestion, Grewcica fights Gally in the Scrap Iron City (Scrapyard) junkyard. Although he initially has the upper hand, Grewcica succumbs to Gally's techniques and skill, although the manner of his death differs from Makaku's.

is a cyborg who assists Makaku in acquiring dog brains, either by purchasing the animals live or by hunting them, in order to feed Makaku's endorphin habit. He has a bounty on him, the reasons for which are not made clear in the manga. He is easily dispatched by Ido while hunting dogs. It is implied that Izuchi used to be a hunter-warrior, but was reduced to acting as Makaku's lackey.

Izuchi appears as Rasha in the OVA and is shown stalking a woman with Grewcica. His association with Grewcica is stated as the reason for his bounty, as the latter is himself worth ten times Rasha's bounty because of his brain eating. Although Ido severs his left arm, Rasha gives Ido a tough fight, managing to stab him. Alita (Gally in the OVA) then appears on the scene and punches his head off.

Megil

Megil, known in Japan as , is a drug dealer and a bounty who Alita tracks down to an abandoned factory. He uses a lycanthropazine drug that he has been researching on himself, turning into an extremely muscular, psychotic werewolf strong enough to tear through concrete pillars and rip his own cyborg bodyguards to shreds. He proves to be no match against Alita however, who easily breaks his left arm. Megil lays low after Alita falls through the roof of the factory and loses consciousness, striking again after she has awakened and Hugo has discovered her. Hugo's attempt to protect her inspires Alita to act frightened, although she disables Megil with a kick to the head that shatters his brain without Hugo noticing. Hugo takes advantage of Megil's paralysis to then smash his head in with a pipe.

Megil himself does not appear in Yukito Kishiro's manga Ashen Victor, but in this prequel to Battle Angel Alita, the Megil Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that develops the drugs "Accel" and "Adam", which are respectively used to accelerate and slow down motorballers' nervous systems. "Adam" was developed as a means of rigging motorball races and was tested on the main character, Snev. Megil's dealings are eventually exposed, resulting in the "Adam Scandal". However, it is not until the company develops a drug called "Brainz" that results in numerous brain deaths that the company folds and its owners end up on the Factory's bounty list.

Zapan

was Murdock the Dog Master's daughter and Zapan's lover who worked at a soup kitchen. She took Zapan in after his original face was destroyed by Alita and accepted him for what he was, trying to reform him as she believed that no one ever truly won in the Scrapyard. Zapan kills her when he is driven mad by seeing Alita's face on a TV announcement of her upcoming challenge race with Jashugan. Sara's head is preserved in a jar and carried around by Zapan for two years while he is on the run. After Murdock's dogs apparently kill Zapan in the sewers, it is recovered by Murdock and buried in the courtyard of Bar New Kansas. After Alita swallows some collapser in order to stop Zapan from absorbing her with the Bersker Body, Sara appears again in a vision that both of them witness because they are almost one, just before Zapan dies and Alita is able to break free of the Berserker Body.

Supporting characters

Scrapyard residents

Gonzu

A former cyber veterinarian who now runs a Japanese food shack, is the closest friend that Ido has in the Scrapyard and is shown visiting Ido at his clinic. He saves Ido after the latter is almost killed by Makaku, and under Ido's direction, transfers Alita from her first cyborg body into the Berserker Body. Gonzu also helps Ido transplant Hugo's head onto a cyborg body. A regular at Bar Kansas, Gonzu is the first person killed by Zapan when he goes to Bar New Kansas in the Berserker Body in search of Alita. The side story "Seiyakyoku" reveals that six years before Ido found Alita, he saved Gonzu's life when he found him near death in the street. At this time, Gonzu's food shack was a cart that he pulled. Gonzu aids Ido, who has been rendered homeless, by hosting him and Carol and getting him in touch with the cyberphysician Gauss. Gonzu makes a brief appearance in the OVA, in which he is known as Gonz.

Hugo

Hugo, known in Japan as , is an orphaned teenager who was raised by his much older brother and his wife Nana. He ran away from home after Nana betrayed his brother to the hunter-warrior Clive Lee for building an illegal airship to attempt to fly to Tiphares. Since then he has inherited a burning desire to go to the floating city himself. He first encountered Vector three years before the start of the main story, when he recognized his brother's hand being sold by one of the latter's dealers, and impressed Vector by voluntarily trading his hand for his brother's. Believing that Vector could access Tiphares because of his pull in the Scrapyard, he fell for Vector's offer to get him there if he could bring him 10 million chips. Hugo ostensibly performs odd maintenance jobs for Scrapyard residents such as Ido, but has taken to illegally supplementing his income by posing along with his accomplices Tanji and Van, as a lubrication crew for cyborgs. They then paralyze their victims and steal their spinal columns, as these fetch the highest prices on the black market for body parts.

Alita meets Hugo during her hunt for Megil, and is impressed by his willingness to protect her even though he is grossly outmatched. The two then strike up a friendship which Alita makes clear she would like to take further, and she embarks on a bounty-hunting spree to help Hugo reach his 10 million chip mark. However Hugo is blinded by his obsession with Tiphares and does not realize that Alita is romantically interested in him. After his run in with Zapan, Hugo becomes a marked bounty. Despite learning the truth about him, Alita is still willing to go with him to Tiphares. He is nearly killed by Clive Lee, and is only saved by Alita linking her life support to his brain. Transplanted into a cyborg body by Ido, Hugo learns the reality that a surface dweller such as himself has no hope of reaching Tiphares. After confronting Vector with this, who also confirms it, he attempts to climb one of the Factory tubes that connects Tiphares to the Scrapyard. He makes it up further than any previous person, but is crippled by a massive spiked ring dropped down the tube. Alita is able to reach him just before a second one is dropped, but cannot save him, as his torso is shredded. Hugo is able to share his last words with Alita before falling to his death. This subsequently leads Alita to quit being a hunter-warrior and turn to motorball.

Hugo is a main character in the OVA, where he is known as Yugo.

Hugo's unnamed older brother was a mechanical engineer who worked for the Factory. Much older than Hugo, he and his wife Nana had no children of their own and functioned as foster parents for him. Insatiably curious, he devised a scheme to fly to Tiphares by constructing a hot air balloon. The scheme however, ended when Nana betrayed her husband to the Clive Lee, who killed him and destroyed the balloon. He lives on in a sense in Hugo, who came across one of hands being sold by one of Vector's street dealers and had it transplanted in place of one of his. In the OVA, Clive Lee sliced off one of Hugo's brother's hands, which is the one he had replace one of his.

was Hugo's sister in law, who functioned as a foster mother to him. She opposed her husband's scheme to construct a hot air balloon to reach Tiphares, and betrayed him to Clive Lee. Hugo subsequently ran away from her, and her eventual fate is unknown.

Tanji and Van are a pair of teenagers who assist Hugo with his spinal column thefts on and off by helping him solicit customers, and act as members of his lubrication/body waxing team, and serve as lookouts while Hugo steals his victims' spinal columns. When Zapan, who has posed as a customer, busts their operation, he easily kills them. . Only Tanji appears in the OVA.

The Bar Kansas barkeep

The Bar Kansas barkeep is also its owner and Koyomi's foster father. In the Battle Angel OVA soundtrack he is called Joh but is never named in the manga. At the start of Battle Angel Alita, he is partially cyberized, but largely human. After Makaku damages the bar and creates a large hole in the floor that leads to the sewers, he opens Bar New Kansas with help from the hunter-warriors. Alita and Shumira both work here, the former as a fighting instructor and singer, and the latter as a waitress. The barkeep is almost killed by Zapan when he visits the bar in the Berserker Body, but is saved by Murdock. He manages to escape the destruction of Bar New Kansas along with Koyomi, Shumira, and Fury, winding up in a refugee camp on the outskirts of the Scrapyard. The barkeep attempts to start the third incarnation of Bar Kansas by going into debt, but this appears to have been a failure, as he became an alcoholic and would hit Koyomi whenever something went wrong, causing her to run away. When Den charges into the Scrapyard, the barkeep appears, begging him to give Koyomi back. Den, testing Kaos' assertion that he is a figment of his psyche, but also sparing Koyomi from death, drops her. Her father catches her, but the impact breaks both his legs. He is eventually equipped with a caterpillar tracked lower body, and with the proceeds from the bestseller Barjack War Chronicle, successfully opens the fourth incarnation of Bar Kansas, Kansas 4.

In Last Order, it is implied that the barkeep had surgery on his broken legs, which nearly resulted in Koyomi being sold to pay the bill. Vector's intervention however prevented this, and the barkeep now boards with his daughter at one of Vector's antiques shops. He is an alcoholic and does not appear to leave the shop much.

Vector

appears in Battle Angel Alita, and its anime adaptation as a Scrapyard businessman—the top broker in illegal human body parts and organs—with a reputation for hiring powerful cyborg muscle to back him up. Vector furthermore supplies Tiphares, on a monthly basis, with one person’s worth of body parts and organs. Last Order reveals that Vector came from a poor village on the outskirts of the city, and due to the ability to instantly judge whether anyone was lying to him, became the most powerful person in the Scrapyard.

Battle Angel Alita reveals that Vector is assisted by Myra, unnamed in the Japanese version, who works for Vector out of a mobile clinic. Vector buys stolen spinal columns from Hugo and—knowing that no-one can go to Tiphares—offered to send Hugo to Tiphares for 10 million chips. Although he used Hugo, Vector has some honor: he repeatedly protected Hugo by killing witnesses and hiding Hugo, and offered Hugo management of the supply routes (a highly lucrative position). Vector later sustains serious injury and escapes with his life after meeting with Den as the Barjack closed in on Tiphares, but is instrumental in bringing peace to the world when Tiphares almost collapses and the factories shut down.

Vector also appears in the OVA where he has a stake in the Coliseum gladiators (in addition to his black market dealings). He also he has more control over exports to Zalem (Tiphares). He is killed in the OVA when he is impaled after being confronted by Ido over Hugo.

Shumira

is Jashugan's somewhat naïve, but warm-hearted younger sister. She is saved from being raped by two thugs by Ido while he is searching for Alita a month after she ran away following Hugo's death. When he shows her a holographic image of Alita, Shumira recognizes her as a motorball player, taking Ido to a circuit where Alita is racing and introducing him to the sport. She hosts Ido at her apartment for a week, after which they watch Jashugan at a race where he suffers a flatline attack. Ido has to use her brainwaves in order to successfully resuscitate Jashugan. Shumira meets Alita in person when she, Jashugan and Ido come across Alita and Ed at a Scrapyard open air restaurant. She covets Kimji, and asks if she can have him if Alita loses to Jashugan in arm wrestling. As a precaution for the next flatline attack, Ido creates a direct interface that will allow him to transmit Shumira's brainwaves via radio to Jashugan's brain. Prior to his challenge race with Alita, Jashugan receives a good luck necklace from Shumira and tells her to marry Ido. He then sedates her, nullifying any effect to resuscitate him should he have another flatline attack. Shumira thus does not see her brother's final race and subsequent death.

Two years after Alita quits motorball, Shumira is working as a waitress at Bar New Kansas. She narrowly misses being killed by Zapan when he arrives in search of Alita, and survives the destruction of the bar. Along with the Bar New Kansas barkeep and Koyomi, she winds up at a refugee camp on the outskirts of the Scrapyard, where she meets her future husband. Shumira stays with the volunteer group and eventually she and her husband have eight children.

Koyomi K.

is a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita manga and its sequel, . Koyomi takes on a variety of roles through the manga, starting out as an orphan, adopted by the bar Kansas barkeep, becoming a member of the Barjack, and a freelance photographer who publishes a bestselling photojournal. The manga never reveals her family history nor her surname. Koyomi first appears as a baby when Daisuke Ido and Alita visits Bar Kansas, and is subsequently kidnapped by Makaku in order to lure Alita into a fight, only to be saved by her father's dog, Duke Fang. She later forms a bond with Fury, Murdock's dog and in turn softens Murdock himself. At age 13, Koyomi ran away from home with Fury, encountering Kaos and reaching the underground ruins of a city from the previous era and eventually, meeting Den. Convinced by what Den says about Tiphares’ evils, Koyomi joins the Barjack and participates their campaigns, drawing closer and closer to the Scrapyard where B.B. Buick gives her his camera just before he dies. A year after Den's defeat, Koyomi compiles Buick’s photos into a book titled Barjack War Chronicle that becomes the Scrapyard’s greatest bestseller on record.

Koyomi appears in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order as a 14 year old boarding with her father in an antiques shop when she witnesses Kaos being ran over by a taxi and subsequently helps him. She later witnesses Kaos's transformation (when he receives the paper airplane that Alita had thrown from Tiphares) and Vector’s subsequent agreement to fund the Tower of Tiphares. Koyomi is the focus of the side story , in which she acts on a tip that a resurrected Den has been ambushing Scrapyard supply convoys. As a result of her dealings with the eccentric Geriperi and the ambitious manager of Farm 3, Eakins, she eventually discovers a purpose in life. The side story further reveals that Koyomi a celebrity among the Barjack because of a photograph Buick took of her and Fury, which he subsequently sold.

Motorball-affiliated

Lam Dao is a master blacksmith, specializes in the crafting of blades. After Alita's Challenge Team is formed, Ed has him forge the pair of Damascus Blades that Alita used into a single blade that is almost as hard as diamond. He asks Ed for Alita's body should she lose the challenge race with Jashugan to make a blade out of it. It is implied that Ed knows Lam Dao from his motorball days.

Barjack

The is a fictional, conventional military force depicted in the Battle Angel Alita manga. The Barjack are regarded as bandits by residents of the Scrapyard who remain unaware of their motive: to destroy Tiphares and with it, the Factory and the Scrapyard. The Barjack is predominantly a well equipped mobile ground force and is formally organized into ranks and units, although there is no formal inclusion criteria for members. Barjack members include Den, the Barjack's charismatic founder; Koyomi K.; Knucklehead, a former bandit; B.B. Buick, a "special prisoner"; Colonel Bozzle, a former member of the Green Beret Tribe; and Kayna, a cyborg nurse.

The Barjack switches to guerilla warfare after five years of fighting when their railway gun, Heng, fails to destroy Tiphares. The deployment of 11 TUNED AR units against the Barjack leaves the fate of the remaining Barjack forces uncertain in Battle Angel Alita, although the Last Order side story reveals that substantial numbers of Barjack survived and are willing to take up the cause.

Colonel Bozzle is a former member of the Green Beret Tribe and commander of a mercenary squad, Bozzle was defeated in battle by the Barjack two years prior and decided to join them, becoming a convert to Den’s mission to bring down Tiphares. He rose to battalion commander and leads the Boiling Metal, Barjack’s most powerful battalion, based in a former city in the desert near the Western Mountains. Bozzle has two heads, one on top of his body that serves as a platform for long distance optics, and a secondary head in the middle of his torso. His brain however, is located just above this secondary head. If need be, his torso can be detached from the lower half of his body and mobility is provided by hover jets.

Bozzle and his battalion come across Alita, Figure, and Yolg after they wind up in the city following a desert tornado, and Bozzle decides to attack them. Alita destroys his optical head with a pistol shot and nearly kills him with her Damascus Blade, but is stopped by Yolg, a childhood friend of his. Bozzle manages to shoot off both of Alita’s legs below the knees when she tries to attack him after his men attack and appear to have killed Figure. He interrogates her while the battalion is camped for the night, revealing that Ido is still alive and assisting Desty Nova, who is a friend of Den’s. Bozzle is shot in his secondary head by Knucklehead when the latter kidnaps Alita, but appears in his hovercraft torso form with Yolg, whom he had turned into a socket soldier, after Figure has killed Knucklehead. When Yolg turns against him, he detonates Yolg’s body, then is killed by Alita.

Kayna is a cyborg nurse working for Daisuke Ido at Farm 21, which has been under Barjack control for two years when Alita visits it in search of him. Kayna first met Ido five years before when she was working at Desty Nova’s lab, and has been instructed by Ido to show anyone from his past who comes looking for him a recording he made explaining how discovering the truth behind Tiphares almost drove him to madness and caused him to erase his memory. Kayna is very protective of Ido and attempts to have some local cyborgs intimidate Alita into leaving when she discovers that she is searching for him. When this fails, Kayna reveals that her capoeira skills are good enough to match Alita blow for blow, but Kayna proves unable to take strong hits and Ido breaks up the fight. During Alita's brief visit, she cautions her not to bring up anything that might make Ido recall his past and appears to develop sympathy for the difficult position Alita is in.

Dorotabo is a soldier who appears to have been responsible for Koyomi, as he is shown alongside her in a machine gun turret during a Barjack attack as well as in Koyomi's memories of her time in the Barjack. He was killed when the Heng was destroyed. Dorotabo was also shown as one of the soldiers interviewed by Buick.

Den

is Kaos's alternate personality and appears as a giant remote-controlled slave unit run from a transmitter embedded in Kaos’ chest. Den was within Kaos since he was young, and whenever this rage manifested itself, Kaos became homicidal but had no memories of what happed to him when this part of his psyche took over: Nova learned of Den when Den burst forth, nearly resulting in Nova and Bazarld's deaths, and installed a transmitter into Kaos’ heart and nervous system, to make him independent of Kaos’ body by providing him with a slave body (He can however, use the transmitter to take control of Kaos' body without his knowledge, and the death of Kaos will mean the death for both of them). After being created by Nova, Den went to the wasteland to find himself and train as a warrior, and found his purpose to find a suitable body to contain his rage and rule the desert. The story reveals that Den developed the firm belief that Tiphares is the source of the surface dwellers' pain and misery, and that anyone associated with Tiphares, the Factory, or the Scrapyard is corrupt, and formed the Barjack to wage war against Tiphares. He later fatally wounded by Factory ground forces when he charges the Scrapyard in a last attempt to attack Tiphares after the Barjack's railway gun, Heng, fails to destroy Tiphares.

The side story , reveals that two more remote-controlled bipedal bodies of Den exists: one was found by Eakins, the manager for Farm 3, who plans to revive the Barjack as a bandit organization, and the other is in the care of Geriperi, an old eccentric. These two Dens duel each other at the Barjack revival meeting, in which the second Den (operated by Geriperi) triumphs and leaves after ordering the remaining Barjack to assist in the construction of the Tower of Tiphares.

Knucklehead

A former bandit, Knucklehead joined the Barjack not because he believed in its cause, but for the opportunities it would give him to fire his gun and ride his motorcycle, all he claims he needs in life. His face serves as a protective covering for his brain, and can be detached when damaged. Becoming a squad commander, Knucklehead ambushes Factory Train 12, on which Alita is aboard as a Tuned agent along with Figure Four and Yolg, who are serving as rail mercenaries. The only member of his squad to survive Alita’s counterattack, his head is taken by her for interrogation, but gets lost in a desert tornado that Alita and her companions get caught in. Knucklehead is recovered by the Barjack’s Boiling Metal battalion and restored to a cyborg body. Begging Col. Bozzle for the chance to avenge his decimated squad, he is given a platoon of socket soldiers, but is unaware that he is being used as decoy. Once again, Alita wipes out Knucklehead’s party, but the timely intervention of the rest of the battalion saves his life. However, he is humiliated and demoted, seething with resentment at his treatment and hatred for Alita.

Knucklehead makes his move 48 hours after Alita has lost contact with the GIB and the Boiling Metal is camped for the night while on its way to attack Factory Farm 22. Shooting Col. Bozzle, he kidnaps Alita, insuring the battalion’s inability to take action against him by sabotaging their guns, the socket soldiers, and blowing up their vehicles. Taking Alita to a sand dune, he gives her the Damascus Blade and arms himself with a single shot 28 mm pistol for a duel. Before they can carry it out however, Figure intervenes, attacking and killing Knucklehead. Knucklehead was also shown as one of the soldiers interviewed by Buick.

B.B. Buick

A “special prisoner,” Buick has been with the Barjack for three years, recording their story through photographs and interviews. He claimed to be a Scrapyard reporter when captured, but was actually a murderer who targeted women and photographed their mutilated bodies. The sale of some of these photos placed a bounty on his head, forcing him to flee the Scrapyard. Buick’s time with the Barjack makes him start to believe in their cause and hope that he can change, but after witnessing Alita’s duel with Den, he falls in love with her and his innermost desires begin to resurface. These burst forth when the GIB destroys the Heng with Tiphares’ superweapon Abaddon and AR-10 starts to kill the survivors. Glorifying in the death and destruction, Buick records what he can, mistaking AR-10 from Alita. He loses his mind, asking AR-10 for an interview as she is about to shoot Koyomi. Shot with an armor-piercing round, Buick’s intervention gives Fury enough time to grab AR-10 by the neck and throw her into a pool of molten metal. He turns over his camera to Koyomi, which has 200,000 photos of Barjack’s battles and campaigns before dying of his wounds. The photos are later compiled by Koyomi when she is 15 into a book titled Barjack War Chronicle and packaged with an audio recording of an interview with Den, becoming the Scrapyard’s greatest bestseller on record.

Ground Investigation Bureau (GIB)

Lou Collins

Lou Collins, known in Japan as , is Alita's operator who is brought in after Alita and Figure part ways. She is a bit clumsy and often gets overwhelmed by work. On her first day, she makes a bad first impression on Chief Bigott by pulling a gun on him in self-defense because she thought that he planned to do what he would with her by leading her down an obscure back stairway to the GIB. Unbeknownst to Lou, she along with Dr. Russell was brought in by Bigott in an attempt to curb Alita's intransigence. Somewhat ditzy, Lou nevertheless has a good heart. She is a new at her job, having placed first in her class in simulations, and tries to get along with Alita. Lou provides Alita with intelligence, logistical, technical, and combat support. She can also remote control the mobile unit, a single wheeled motorcycle that is issued to Alita, as well as broadcast her voice from it. Through Alita's experiences, Lou eventually becomes her friend, and starts to develop a more sympathetic view of the world below Tiphares. She gives Kaos plans for the "Tower of Tiphares," a 2,500 meter tower connecting Tiphares to the Scrapyard that can be constructed with the existing scrap on the surface. She also agrees to help Alita by deleting the information regarding Den and Kaos from the GIB's systems.

Lou has saved Alita's life on two occasions, the first occurring while Alita was dueling Den and was almost impaled by his yari. The second time occurred when Alita was fighting AR-2. As Alita was about to lose the fight and be finished off, Lou destroyed AR-2's control terminal, freezing AR-2. She also placed a gun to the head of AR-2's operator. Lou is consequently dismissed from the GIB and sent to the Medical Inspection Bureau (MIB). The knowledge of Lou's sacrifice and Bigott's promise to let her go free after apprehending Desty Nova motivate Alita to complete her original mission. When she is brought to Tiphares by Nova in her new Imaginos Body, she finds out that Lou is to be cast out for forming a friendship with a surface dweller, and manages to save her just in time. Lou is the least traumatically affected by having the secret of Tiphares unveiled to her, the only side effect she suffers being the cessation of her hiccups. She accompanies Alita and Nova to Melchizedek and witnesses the result of Alita's injecting her Imaginos Body with a trigger given to her by Nova enabling her to go through a transmutation, creating the Life-Tree and preventing Tiphares from crashing into the Scrapyard. Subsequently, Lou eventually marries Kaos.

Bigott Eizenburg

The stern, no-nonsense chief of the GIB, intervenes just before Alita's brain is destroyed for committing a Class A offense to recruit her for the TUNED project. Although the GIB has a team of operators who provide logistical, intelligence, and technical support, he personally monitors and oversees Alita's operations and actions. Alita's independent attitude and willingness to disobey orders frustrate Bigott. In order to reduce her rebelliousness, he brings in Dr. Russell and Lou Collins as people whom she can warm up to. While escorting Lou to the GIB on her first day through a back stairwell, she pulls a gun on him as she thinks that he plans to force himself on her, but Bigott reveals that he is homosexual and has no interest in her.

More than a week after Alita duels Den, Bigott dismisses Dr. Russell for his opposition to replacing Alita with the TUNED AR series. When AR-2 confronts Alita, he reveals that her value to the GIB was never more than a sample for creating the perfect series of combat androids that would be totally obedient. After Alita defeats AR-2, he has her continue with her original mission of apprehending Desty Nova with the promise that she can leave the TUNED after its completion. Bigott meanwhile has the rest of the AR series conduct anti-Barjack operations, and uses the Tipharean superweapon Abaddon to destroy the Barjack's giant railway gun Heng. After Alita infiltrates the Granite Inn but gets trapped by Nova's Ouroboros program, Bigott sells her out, offering her to Nova and inviting him back to Tiphares with Melchizedek and the Ladder's approval. When the secret of Tiphares is revealed to Bigott, he slices off the top of his own head to see for himself. Seeing his own bio-chip brain, he goes insane, and is shortly after killed along with the rest of the GIB by the MIB. Bigott makes a brief appearance in the "Furusato" in which Alita is still a member of the TUNED.

Dr. Russell

appears to be the second in command of the GIB. More kindly and not as stern as Chief Biggot, he develops an interactive interface for Lou in the form of a mini Alita that Alita herself can control remotely. Russell is dismissed from the GIB just before the TUNED AR-2 is revealed to Alita for its final test. Russell's opposition to the replacement of Alita by the AR series is cited as the reason for his dismissal by Bigott. Alita comes face to face with Dr. Russell after she is brought to Tiphares by Desty Nova. Russell however, is nervous at the potential threat that Alita poses to the Tipharean way of life. After she is fitted with the Imaginos Body, Alita forces Russell to reveal what happened to Lou. When Nova unveils to him the secret of Tiphares, he jumps to his death.

In Last Order, Dr. Russell was used by Nova to reveal the secret of Tiphares to its citizens, being one of the adults whose head he sawed open to reveal their bio-brain chips. What happened to him after that is unknown.

Coliseum fighters

Kinuba

The reigning coliseum at the start of the manga, is undefeated in 281 matches. His facial appearance and Power Body are somewhat styled along the lines of a kabuki actor in costume, though he shares a strong resemblance with the comic character Sláine. After defeating the challenger Zaariki, Kinuba is approached in his dressing room by Makaku, who succeeds in taking over his Power Body and killing him. The Power Body's primary weapons are super vibration actuators that enable grind cutters mounted in the fingertips of the left hand to move at three to four times the speed of sound, easily cutting through ceramic armor. The grind cutters can be extended or retracted when not in use, and can be shot out to unspecified lengths. The fingertips can be launched individually or in combination. The Power Body also mounts a combat computer in its waist known as the Boarhead that can analyze an opponent's strengths and weaknesses and how to respond to them.

Zaariki

is the last coliseum fighter that Kinuba faces before Makaku takes over his body. In place of his hands, he wields two large chainsaws and his signature attack is the "Dance of the Sabato Crab." Following Kinuba's death, Zaariki himself becomes the coliseum champion and Vector hires him as a bodyguard. When Hugo and Alita confront Vector, Zaariki attacks them, but is no match for Alita.

Zaariki makes an appearance in the OVA as Zahriki, the reigning coliseum champion following Grewcica's disappearance. His body is completely different, and instead of two chainsaws, his arms end in crab-like pincers. Under Vector's sphere of influence, he eventually starts to lose. Zaariki appears as Vector's bodyguard when the latter is confronted by Ido. He is split in two by Ido's rocket hammer, one of his pincer arms flying into and impaling Vector.

Vanado

is the third coliseum champion to appear in the manga. Undefeated in 306 matches and 74 title defenses, he heads out into the wasteland with his manager and a film crew to duel Den for the one million chip bounty that has been placed on him as there is no one left to fight in the coliseum. Vanado mounts four large, spiked ratchet wheels, two on each arm, which can be launched at an opponent, slicing them from four directions and leaving them open for him to finish him off with his claws. Den takes his initial attack, and as Vanado is about to deliver the coup de grace, splits him down the middle with Zanshato. This is the only time in his massive form that Den is not seen in his centaur body in the regular manga.

TUNED AR Series (Alita Replicas)

During her time as agent of GIB, the organization documented all of Alita's combat experiences including the Panzer Kunst techniques. This was done without Alita's knowledge, as part of a plan to create a series of mass produced TUNED replicas all with the abilities of Alita but fully loyal to GIB and Tiphares. Their very existence is a result of the Secret of Tiphares, as their solid-state brains are the same bio-chips that are used in Tipharean citizens.

In all, 12 TUNED replicas were produced, each designated as AR, i.e., "Alita Replicas" (GR in the Japanese version, i.e., "Gally Replicas") 1-12, whereas Alita herself was designated as A-1 (G-1). All TUNED replicas have or had knowledge of basic Panzer Kunst and are able to use special attacks like the Hertza Haeon (Sechs used it in a puppet body as well as in his Fizziroy Body) and Einzug Rüstungen (AR-2 used it against Alita). The following replicas have appeared as characters in Battle Angel Alita and Battle Angel Alita: Last Order.

AR-2

Was sent to eliminate and replace Alita. Since AR-2 had not only all of Alita's fighting abilities and a solid-state brain, but also a lack of the human temperance, mercy, doubts, and fears accumulated by Alita during her years of living on the surface, AR-2 had the upper hand during the fight. However the destruction of her GIB control terminal by Alita's friend Lou gave Alita the chance to cut the replica's head off and thus defeat her. AR-2 had asked GIB if she could be considered the "original" if she defeated A1.

AR-6/Sechs

appears in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order: Angel Reborn as the sixth Alita replica. Skilled in Panzer Kunst and her own fighting style, Sechster Angriff (lit. "Sixth attack"), Sechs dreams of becoming an original in her own way by showing that she was not like the original, but stronger: Sechs hopes that by defeating Alita she will earn the right to exist. The series shows Sechs searched out and defeated the remaining TUNED Replicas after the shutdown of the GIB, after which she searches out Alita, only to be defeated. Sechs eventually enters the Zenith of Things Tournament (Z.O.T.T.) as a member of the Space Angels team (also consisting of Alita, Elf and Zwölf), proving to be a key member. The relationship between Sechs and Alita becoming less hostile throughout the series, and by Volume 5 Alita shows great respect for Sechs, however Sechs always harbors the fear of being seen as Alita's copy, as shown in volume 7. To further solidify her own identity, Sechs has her body changed to that of a taller, male version of Alita, continuing to develop original and devastatingly powerful attacks of his own throughout the tournament. During one confrontation, martial artist Zekka comments that Sechs is developing "at the speed of light".

AR-10

A TUNED replica, using the Solid Wing, who attacked the survivors of the Barjack railway gun Heng after it was destroyed by the Tipharean superweapon Abaddon. She was successful in killing most of the survivors. She tries to kill Koyomi and shoots B.B. Buick. AR-10 is destroyed when Koyomi's cyborg dog Fury attacks her and throws them both into a pool of molten metal.

AR-11/Elf and AR-12/Zwölf

and appears in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order: Angel Reborn as the only two TUNED units to escape Sechs' killing spree. Throughout the series they appear as cuter twin versions of Alita, supplying comic relief and craziness through personality, dress styles and fighting styles. They are seen together, acting like twins, although they call each other best friends. At first they worked as singers in Barjack City before they becoming Desty Nova's bodyguards, and eventually they enter the Zenith of Things Tournament (Z.O.T.T.) as "Dark Alita" (Zwölf) and "White Alita" (Elf) of the Space Angels team.

Other

Hunter-Warriors

The Hunter-warriors are bounty hunters in the Scrapyard who are registered with the Factory. This makes them eligible to pursue wanted criminals and collect the bounties on them. Because there is no formal criminal justice system or police force in the Scrapyard, hunter-warriors function as the primary means of enforcing Factory Law. However, they themselves are still subject to Factory Law, and can become wanted criminals when they step outside its boundaries.

Chiren

only appears in the OVA as Ido's former partner in Zalem (Tiphares) who like him, works as a cybernetics doctor in Scrap Iron City (the Scrapyard). Unlike Ido, she is desperate to return to Zalem, and is disgusted by Ido's acceptance of his fate. It is hinted that they used to be romantically involved, as Chiren carries a holographic photo of them together. Chiren seeks out Vector to help her, becoming his lover. In return, Vector has her upgrade the coliseum gladiators. When Grewcica approaches her after being severely damaged in a fight with Ido and Gally (Alita), she sees this as a chance to strike back at Ido by repairing and upgrading his cyborg body.

After Grewcica is killed, Chiren continues to work on Vector's gladiators such as Zahriki (Zaariki), but starts to lose her effectiveness. Vector has her seek Gally out as he intends to have her fight for him as gladiator in the coliseum by using Yugo (Hugo) as leverage. She follows Gally to Yugo's hideout, but begins to question her motives after hearing Yugo discuss his past and dreams with Gally. She helps save Yugo by connecting Gally's life support system to his head, giving Gally time to take him to Ido, who transplants his head onto a cyborg body. Reporting back to Vector, Chiren tells him that Yugo is dead and that she cannot find Gally. Telling her that it is time to send her to Zalem, Vector then has her killed and harvests her organs.

Figure Four

Figure Four, known in Japan as , is a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita manga by Yukito Kishiro and is known for his mastery of koppo, a form of martial arts that emphasizes bypassing a cyborg's armor to inflict internal damage. Originally a fisherman, Figure traveled east in order to see Tiphares, staying in the Scrapyard for a year, before signed up as a rail mercenary on Factory Train 12 where he befriended Yolg and became intrigued by Alita. Figure Four questions Alita's bloodlust and desire for battle only to realize that she cannot choose not to fight and decides to help her in her fight against the Barjack. Figure Four realizes that Alita likes him when he saves Alita from Knucklehead, and later admits that the loves her. Figure Four later returns to his previous life as a fisherman. Figure Four has no role in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order besides appearing in Alita's thoughts.

Jasmine

is Kaos' friend and companion who assists him with operating his pirate radio station, Radio K.A.O.S. Slightly older than Kaos, she has known him since they were children, and believes that his psychometric ability gives him the potential to effect change. Jasmine has an ability to predict the future by using ordinary playing cards, and Koyomi has her predict Alita's future shortly after encountering her, which proves largely accurate. Jasmine has feelings for Kaos that he is unaware of as she develops an intense jealousy of Alita after Kaos dresses the latter in a wedding dress he made himself. Jasmine is killed the next day by Desty Nova's cyborg ninjas who target Kaos. Kaos afterwards realizes what Jasmine meant to him, and dresses her corpse in the wedding dress, although he still loves Alita.

Sentinel

is the leader of a small group of biker bandits who operate in the badlands. The group is unusual in that they do not accept tolls in return for safe passage, viewing this as an insult. They prefer to extort goods out of their victims instead of killing them first and then taking their valuables, as Sentinel is actually averse to killing, which will make him constipated for days depending on the circumstances. His group holds up the caravan Koyomi is gambling with, and Sentinel tries to use bluster and intimidation on her to awe the caravan merchants. However, he falls prey to Koyomi's gambling skills, being put in the embarrassing position of having to wager the "piston launcher," an odd weapon that is his group's symbol and which they use to intimidate their victims. When Fury kills one of his men after he threatens Koyomi, Sentinel is forced to nearly kills Koyomi, but a well-aimed shot from Alita shatters his axe and scares the bandits into fleeing.

Yolg

A nervous man with a tendency to stutter, befriends Figure Four when the latter serves as a rail mercenary on Factory Train 12. He had previously served as a rail mercenary with his friends, being the only one to re-sign in order to see his family at Factory Farm 22, the train's destination. Suffering a broken leg during Knucklehead's ambush of the train, he is the only other rail mercenary survivor along with Figure. Yolg accompanies Alita all the way to the Boiling Metal battalion's base, where he is captured by the Barjack, but ends up saving Col. Bozzle's life as Alita is about to stab him with her Damascus Blade. Yolg reveals that his actions result from his cowardice and overwhelming desire for security, but Bozzle's treatment of Alita, the apparent death of Figure, and the revelation that the Boiling Metal is on its way to attack Factory Farm 22 where his family is, make him rethink his actions. Bozzle turns Yolg into a socket soldier and sends him to kill Alita and Figure after Knucklehead kidnaps her and sabotages the battalion. Yolg however turns on Bozzle and has his body detonated, sustaining fatal injuries. He begs Figure and Alita for forgiveness before dying.

Animals

Duke Fang

Duke Fang, known in Japan as , is a dog who belongs to the unnamed barkeep who owns and runs Bar Kansas. Extremely devoted to baby Koyomi, after Makaku kidnaps her and escapes into the sewers, he is the first to follow in pursuit. Duke Fang proves instrumental in Alita's fight against Makaku in the sewers, pulling out the forearm of Alita's first cyborg body which had been lodged in Makaku's left eye, making the eye bleed again and creating a distraction. This gives Alita time to hand off Koyomi to him, thus enabling her to fight Makaku without having to worry about her. Duke Fang returns Koyomi to the surface and safety. He dies a few years later, but Koyomi's memories of him are so vivid that as an infant she calls every dog she comes across as "Doo Fan."

In the OVA, a stray dog that appears similar to Duke Fang is befriended by Gally before she registers as a hunter-warrior, following her back to Ido's and later to Bar Kansas. When Grewcica appears, displays the power of his cutters by slicing the dog into pieces.

Fury

is one of Murdock the Dog Master's cyborg dogs, and appears to be modeled along the lines of a bloodhound. He is the only dog whom a 2 year old Koyomi latches onto as "Doo Fan", what she calls all dogs she comes across after Duke Fang. He is assigned by Murdock to protect Koyomi and Shumira when Zapan wreaks havoc on Bar New Kansas in the Berserker Body, and is thus the only one of the four dogs to escape alive. Fury stays with Koyomi and her father, joining her when she runs away at age 13 to see Kaos by hitching a ride with a caravan. Fury now spends much of his time sleeping, but he still possesses some of his old instincts, as he quickly kills one of Sentinel's bandits who is threatening Koyomi. Fury recognizes Alita when she saves Koyomi from the bandits, even though he has not seen her in 11 years. He accompanies Koyomi when she joins the Barjack, and is with her and the Heng when it fires on on Tiphares. Fury realizes that AR-10 is not Alita, and after the Heng is destroyed by the Tipharean superweapon Abaddon, destroys a flock of missile bees unleashed by AR-10 on the survivors. His first attack on AR-10 when she threatens Koyomi fails, but while AR-10 is distracted by asking the GIB to switch her ammunition over to anti-personnel rounds to deal with Buick, Fury is able to grab her around the neck and use his weight to throw her into a pile of molten metal, killing her but also dying in the process.

Glory, Hubris, and Valor

, Hubris, known in Japan as , and Valor, known in Japan as , are three of Murdock the Dog Master's cyborg dogs. They appear to be based on a mastiff, Doberman Pinscher, and greyhound, respectively. Along with Fury, they form Murdock's means of tracking and bringing down the bounties he targets, and Murdock can communicate with them without speaking via a cyborg implant in his chin. After Murdock assigns Fury to protect Koyomi and Shumira when Zapan appears in Bar New Kansas in the Berserker Body, he attacks with these three, but they are killed by the Demon Dog, which Zapan forms out of plasma and is too fast for them.

Kimji

appears as Alita's pet after her fourth straight motorball victory. When she got him is not revealed, but she did not have him when Hugo was still alive. He has a pair of feet, a single eye, string-like tail, and no visible mouth. Flight is provided by spinning his ears like a propeller. Kimji has flown away to land on Shumira's finger twice, creating a small bone of contention between them because Shumira covets him and has had to return him each time. She asks if she can have him if Alita loses her arm wrestling match with Jashugan, as Alita has literally offered her heart as the stakes. Unknown to Alita, Kimji is actually one of a thousand TR-55 artificial life forms sent to the surface by the GIB to scout for candidates for its TUNED project. The "Seiyakyoku" reveals that these units were deployed a year before Ido found Alita in the Tiphares junkyard. Kimji recorded Alita's actions for two years, from her motorball career up through her fight with Zapan in his Berserker Body incarnation. He is revealed for what he is by Bigott Eizenburg when he recruits Alita to become a member of the TUNED, and is subsequently squashed flat by her. However, this squashing scene only happened in Alita's head, and Kimji's eventual fate is unknown.

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