Koyomi K.

Koyomi K. is a teenage girl who takes on a variety of roles in Battle Angel Alita and Last Order. At the end of Last Order Koyomi is a freelance photographer working for the Screwhead Times, a Scrapyard newspaper. An orphan who was adopted as a baby by Master, the former proprietor of Bar Kansas, the course of the Battle Angel Alita manga takes place from when Koyomi is a baby up through when she is 18. The different ages at which she appears thus serve as a chronological benchmark for events that occur in the manga. The setting of Last Order however, alters the original ending of Battle Angel Alita and starts after Alita was brought to Tiphares and resurrected by Desty Nova with a new Imaginos Body, when Koyomi is 14. Despite her young age, Koyomi had to largely rely on herself after Master fell into depression over his failed attempts to resurrect Bar Kansas. She is thus very independent minded and self-reliant, unafraid to walk the streets of the Scrapyard. This spirit led her to leave the Scrapyard with Fury and head out into the Badlands in search of Kaos. She also single-handedly embarrassed Sentinel and his bandit gang by winning back all the goods that she had previously won from the caravan merchants she was traveling with. Her desertion of Radio K.A.O.S. and saving of Den from Alita proved key events in the Barjack's war against Tiphares. Although Koyomi believed she did not fear death, she had not fully accepted it at her age, and was terrified when Den threatened to drop her. However the realization that Den had spared her gave her a new motivation to tell the story of Barjack, which she did a year later with the publication of Barjack War Chronicle. In Last Order Koyomi lacked a sense of purpose following the defeat of Barjack, and was in search of meaning in her life. She had trouble believing in Kaos' ambition to construct the Tower of Tiphares, but she was able to break the scoop on the agreement that he made with Vector, starting her on the road to discovering a purpose. This was later moved along after her experiences with Geriperi.