#zalem

Getting close to Gally, seeing the life below and witnessing Koyomi siding with Den helped Lou reconsider the facts. Eventually she detached herself from those preconceptions to think by HERSELF and directly opposed the authority in the way she could !

In the novelization, Nova explains to Chiren that Alita's core contains "technologies that have been lost to us for centuries".

You can wonder if by "us" he means humanity as a whole or Earth/Zalem.

Because if Earth/Zalem, that means the anti-matter tech (bc what other extraordinary tech could be in her core?) wasn't exclusively URM-only.

Maybe the technological gap between Earth and Mars wasn't even that big, but rather a lot of knowledge was lost due to war.

I mean...

...wtf, for real? Zalemites don't know how to make planes???

Also, can't find it now, but there was also a mention how Zalemian scientists try to bring some old technologies back and still can't reach the pre-fall level, sth like that, idk which book it was.

Btw: if Alita's core is so valuable, the scenario that Nova experimented on Alita in Zalem and then threw her out feels unlikely.

It was sooo tiny, hidden under other concept arts in IG post. Overlooked for all those years, tbh made me excited when I slowly realized what I'm looking at. It felt like having a glimpse at a secret place, something you didn't expect to see until the sequel!

Now, why did I suspect the ending was supposed to look different than what we got in the final product?

This fragment from the official artbook:

This doesn't make sense when Nova was shown only at bust level, clothes moving in the wind wouldn't be visible.

The initial plan apparently was to make a much broader shot at Nova's observation gallery at the movie's ending. The concept art, which has matching sky to the ending, seems to further support this suspicion.

Or, maybe there was supposed to be a scene separated from "raising the sword" scene? That's what we got in the official novelization, which was based on an older version of the script:

(small fragment)

Why did they change the ending? Either decided it would reveal too much of Zalem/Nova, has worse flow, or to save time/money.

(considering they used the same footage for defense ring and the ending, I wouldn't be surprised if it was to save the budget)

Btw on this art he either has the coat on his shoulders or wears some cape...

@morganhopesmith1996 @drabblesfromthegraniteinn

You know your life is off track when this is the kind of question that comes to your mind.

Anyway, my theory is that the layer of the endometrium lining that would have been shed during periods gets treated as waste and removed during regeneration baths. So on the day where her period should start Eelai gets in that bath and effectively presses the skip button on her period.

That is assuming she didn’t alter her reproductive system in any major way with nanobots, which she might have done.

Are landlords on Zalem called... skylords?

Ba dum tss

"Uh uh my skylord raised rent again"

Idk what is more funny: those losers not getting gifts from Santa or them being scared because they got gifts, meaning their defenses didn't work