Battle Angel Alita is a masterwork of japanamation.

I watched "Rusty Angel" and "Tears Sign" yesterday- my roomate has tons of animae & Manga videos.

Yukito Kishiro created it, and I can see why Cameron would want to make a live-action version. A sequence in Rusty Angel has her bringing down one of he biggest cyborgs I've ever seen (in a live-action movie or otherwise) and it's pretty damn boss.

It's got a futuristic feel not unlike Terminator. I love the Warrior- Hunter characters.Cameron will probably boost the already high sales on it. By the way, translated from "Gunnm", it means Gun Dream.

I also watched Ghost in the Shell and Akira this weekend. (Animation Attack party- my place- BYOB!)
Awesome films aimed at intelligent viewers as Ebert said.


And in line with Batman, I bought a pack of Batman Begins collector cards (1 pack!) and inside was a movie memoribilia card: a piece of Batman's cape. My buddy Brent was with me and he is so jealous... I was pretty damn happy. It's gotta be worth something....