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Love me a bit of anime, as some of my older friends should remember, so I fancied drawing one of my all-time fave manga/anime characters, adorable cyborg bounty hunter Gally, star of Yukito Kishiro's awesome Gunnm, aka Battle Angel Alita. Discovered as a discarded chunk of scrap in a post-apocalyptic dystopian junk world by cyber-scientist Daisuke Ido, she awoke with no memory, at least until an encounter with murderous monster cyborgs triggered long-buried combat programming, namely the devastating "Panzer Kunst" martial arts style that renders her tiny, seemingly fragile cyborg form into an unstoppable fighting machine. Following surrogate father figure Ido into his day job as a bounty hunter, she made great use of these awesome talents ... but the thing I always really liked about her was her core personality, always so sweet, innocent, and endlessly curious. Kind of like a Miyazaki heroine reborn in a Ghost in the Shell body.

That was what I wanted to capture in this piece, that angelic adorability, the idea that, in spite of her massive destructive potential, she was inherently capable of such innocent grace and beauty. Of course it led me to tackle one hell of a challenging pose, and even the end reslt wasn't QUITE devoid of clunkiness (the hands still need some work), but for the most part I'm REALLY pleased with the current final results - reckon this is one of my most successful renditions to date. And I think I've done a pretty good job of capturing the intriguing paradox at the heart of the character.

Gally/Gunnm was created by Yukito Kishiro, and are property of VIZ Media/Shueisha Inc./Hitotsubashi Group.

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Love me a bit of anime, as some of my older friends should remember, so I fancied drawing one of my all-time fave manga/anime characters, adorable cyborg bounty hunter Gally, star of Yukito Kishiro's awesome Gunnm, aka Battle Angel Alita. Discovered as a discarded chunk of scrap in a post-apocalyptic dystopian junk world by cyber-scientist Daisuke Ido, she awoke with no memory, at least until an encounter with murderous monster cyborgs triggered long-buried combat programming, namely the devastating "Panzer Kunst" martial arts style that renders her tiny, seemingly fragile cyborg form into an unstoppable fighting machine. Following surrogate father figure Ido into his day job as a bounty hunter, she made great use of these awesome talents ... but the thing I always really liked about her was her core personality, always so sweet, innocent, and endlessly curious. Kind of like a Miyazaki heroine reborn in a Ghost in the Shell body.

That was what I wanted to capture in this piece, that angelic adorability, the idea that, in spite of her massive destructive potential, she was inherently capable of such innocent grace and beauty. Of course it led me to tackle one hell of a challenging pose, and even the end reslt wasn't QUITE devoid of clunkiness (the hands still need some work), but for the most part I'm REALLY pleased with the current final results - reckon this is one of my most successful renditions to date. And I think I've done a pretty good job of capturing the intriguing paradox at the heart of the character.

Gally/Gunnm was created by Yukito Kishiro, and are property of VIZ Media/Shueisha Inc./Hitotsubashi Group.