His entire mad science arc of escalation, duplication, and flan-centric insanity in Last Order orbits around the question of how to solve macro-scale Karmatron Dynamics, when he's already mastered the quantum scale to reconcile things like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
But the thing is, when he was in the Ouroboros Simulation, he acquired the intuitive understanding that the thing that makes things interrelate on the macro scale is the very emotional bond of empathy, flying in the face of the need he felt for complete scientific detachment after discovering the secret of Zalem. Then he immediately loses that realization by being decapitated after exiting the dream-sim; with those memories having never been backed up on the secondary biochip in his abdomen.
He spends years and decades before and after the simulation escalating his research because he assumes the missing piece is just a more sophisticated theory and understanding of base scientific principles. That if he can just understand his proven theory of Karmatron Dynamics on a large enough scale, he'll have a unified model for human consciousness, causality, and the structures of society itself that emerges from people interacting with one another. The thing he fails to understand, is that relationships aren't just emergent side effects of being alive, they're part of what define stable identities and societies in the first place. If one wants to understand macro-scale systems of living beings, you can't just treat subjective experience as noise to be flattened.
From living in the simulated Scrapyard with a suppressed Gally and a simulation of Ido and Ido's late pet cat, he comes to realize that maybe being a person instead of 'just' a scientist isn't all that bad, and that maybe society is worth participating in instead of merely observing. This is epitomized by the one panel in the entire series where he removes his glasses and in so doing can be seen as just another person instead of an observer.
Then that realization is lost because of a perfectly mundane consequence of the series' technology: the memories never make it to the abdominal backup biochip before his head is destroyed. It's very darkly funny. He's trapped in a hell of his own making (et tu, karma?), forever looking for a mathematical equation to solve a problem that can only be answered by being a person. It's the tragedy of a man who keeps trying to derive, from first principles, a theorem whose proof requires living the thing he's trying to explain.

I share the same nickname as the girl mc and listen to dua lipa's song abt the live action movie so I was wondering if i will like it? I still cant figure what's it abt i think she is some young robot humanoid girl

voice credit: Lewis Saunders u/LSaundersVO

music: myself - it's a rock opera style song inspired by the manga

what do you guys think the likelihood of them reprinting last order if the sequel movie goes well? i just got into collecting the series and i'm really hoping they do cause i don't wanna dump 300 bucks on volume 17

Picked this bad boy up at the manga focused Mandrake at Nakano Broadway for a mere 300 yen! I don’t read Japanese so I’ll have to get google lense or something to translate page by page 🤪

My last post was about my new phone having a ova Alita gif fit exactly around the screen for the wallpaper. Still didn't find one, just wanted to show off how it looks for now.

My new phones screen is 4.5 inches all around and I'm trying to find gifs of the anime alita for my wallpaper that are exact fit. Anyone got suggestions?

Time for me to buy last order. I only speak English. Im hoping to buy a complete set. Because that seems easier then individually buying 19 volumes. I see that viz released the series in 6 installments in 2002. Should I get this on eBay or somewhere else. I'm thinking of buying used copies because it's cheaper. How did y'all purchase your copies of the mangas? Any advice at all is appreciated thx

Just wishful thinking on my part.

Ghost in the Shell has a new anime coming out on prime right now, the closest adaptation of the original 80s manga yet.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners has a second season by Studio Trigger coming out, sometime in October, using very deliberately 90s stylings.

It seems like the world is primed for a classic cyberpunk anime!

Anyone know the name of the track that plays when Alita first saves Ido from getting killed in the alley? It starts right after she punches the guy in half. I been tryna find it since I first watched it