(Note: This deals with the OVA only. I haven't read the manga.)
This series had some good points: the interaction between Falis and Alita, the battle with the evil sorceress. Otherwise, this series is pretty bad.
Let's start with something shallow, but fairly objective: most of the fight scenes are crap. Our heroine cuts her dress, does some implausible acrobatics, and finishes off the monster with a Diagonal Cut. No strategy, no original element, no real tension (because the monster never gets in a hit, except for the aforementioned fight with the sorceress and that one fight where she doesn't fight back against the monster).
Then there's the villains. The sorceress is a Complete Monster just because (she has a token motivation, but she admits that some of what she did was just For The Evulz). I rolled my eyes when Kaito explained his motivation, and rolled them again when Alita decided that his attempt to destroy the world and killing of several people in the process wasn't really so bad. I liked Ana and Yuna, though.
The real problem with this series, though, is that it's a textbook case of They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot. The issue here starts with a title that promises something far more Grim Dark than what it delivers: the main character is a Disney Anti Hero. Then there's the body switch plot. The writers are so lazy that they left it completely unresolved. Another unresolved plot point: why did Falis nearly kill that child? They go out of their way to say that she would never do such a thing of her own free will. I think they were trying to imply that the villains and/or Teoria were controlling her somehow, but it's never explained.
And would it have killed them to introduce Teoria less abruptly? An Infodump only works if the info is interesting in inself and not just setup for something else.
Not Very Good
(Note: This deals with the OVA only. I haven't read the manga.)
This series had some good points: the interaction between Falis and Alita, the battle with the evil sorceress. Otherwise, this series is pretty bad.
Let's start with something shallow, but fairly objective: most of the fight scenes are crap. Our heroine cuts her dress, does some implausible acrobatics, and finishes off the monster with a Diagonal Cut. No strategy, no original element, no real tension (because the monster never gets in a hit, except for the aforementioned fight with the sorceress and that one fight where she doesn't fight back against the monster).
Then there's the villains. The sorceress is a Complete Monster just because (she has a token motivation, but she admits that some of what she did was just For The Evulz). I rolled my eyes when Kaito explained his motivation, and rolled them again when Alita decided that his attempt to destroy the world and killing of several people in the process wasn't really so bad. I liked Ana and Yuna, though.
The real problem with this series, though, is that it's a textbook case of They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot. The issue here starts with a title that promises something far more Grim Dark than what it delivers: the main character is a Disney Anti Hero. Then there's the body switch plot. The writers are so lazy that they left it completely unresolved. Another unresolved plot point: why did Falis nearly kill that child? They go out of their way to say that she would never do such a thing of her own free will. I think they were trying to imply that the villains and/or Teoria were controlling her somehow, but it's never explained.
And would it have killed them to introduce Teoria less abruptly? An Infodump only works if the info is interesting in inself and not just setup for something else.