Battle Angel (OVA) - Differences Between The OVA and Manga - Plot Differences - Tears Sign

Tears Sign

• Tanji is Yugo's only accomplice in his spinal column thefts. In the manga, another teenager named Van also assisted him.

• Gally receives the news of Yugo becoming a bounty from a bounty terminal she passes. In the manga, Zapan breaks the news when he encounters Alita and Ido at a factory he visits to collect the bounties on Van and Tanji.

• The abandoned factory where Yugo had his stash of chips is the same factory he took Gally to in Rusty Angel, from which he claims the best view of Zalem can be seen. In the manga, this factory was where Alita tracked Megil the Pharmacist down to and fought him. It is where Hugo and Alita meet for the first time, and Hugo also takes Alita to the roof to get a good view of Tiphares. It is also happens to be the same factory that Hugo's brother used to secretly construct his airship, and where Hugo stashes his chips.

• When Yugo turned 10, Clive Lee killed his brother on the day the airship he constructed to fly to Zalem was finished. In the manga, the airship was also completed when Hugo turned 10, but Lee appeared on the night that his brother planned to leave.

• Yugo's sister in-law is not named. In the manga, her name is Nana.

• Gally runs out of the abandoned factory and attacks Lee with her knife, which he blocks. In the manga, she jumped through a factory wall and hit him with a kick.

• The fight between Gally and Clive Lee is slightly longer than it is in the manga, as Lee's weapon is different.

• Chiren performed the bypass of Gally's life support system which kept Yugo alive, after which she heads straight to Ido's. In the manga, Alita did this bypass herself. On her way to Ido's she is stopped by Zapan, who has gathered hunter-warriors and a netman because she is suspected of rebellion. Zapan is also the first to discover the bypass procedure, not Ido.

• In the manga, Alita slicks some of Hugo's blood (presumably) under her eyes after she defeats Lee. In the OVA, she does not do this.

• Vector is told by Chiren that Yugo was killed by a hunter-warrior then struck by lightning. In the manga, he reads about Hugo's death in a newspaper.

• When Yugo finds out the truth about the impossibility of buying passage to Zalem, he escapes from Ido's clinic on his own. In the manga, he angrily confronts Ido about this.

• Ido confronts Vector about lying to Yugo and physically assaults him. In the manga, Hugo and Alita confront Vector in his office, but Vector comes off from the encounter uninjured.

• Ido kills Zahriki. In the manga, Alita defeats him.

• Vector dies in the OVA, but in the manga he survives the confrontation with Alita and Hugo, continuing to play a role in the manga as well as in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order.

• Gally realizes that Yugo is climbing a Factory tube when she sees them against the sky. In the manga, she was alerted to this when some of Hugo's high value chips fall from the sky on a crowd of Scrapyard residents who then fight over the chips.

• The events from when Gally meets Yugo at the abandoned factory to his climbing the Factory tube take place on the same day, making the weather overcast when Gally goes after him on the tube. In the manga, the time frame between these two events is two days, and it is raining when Alita goes after Hugo on the tube.

• The final scene in which Ido and Gally release a balloon carrying a basket aloft in the direction of Zalem containing Yugo's arm and Chiren's earring is unique to the OVA. The manga does not state what Alita did with Hugo's forearm.

• There are several instances in which transposition occurs from left to right and vice versa, which seem to be associated with Yugo/Hugo, likely as a result of flipping the manga to adapt it for English translation.