{"id":41,"date":"2000-01-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/01\/10\/ask-john-why-is-battle-angel-called-gally-on-the-dvd\/"},"modified":"2000-01-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-01-10T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-is-battle-angel-called-gally-on-the-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-is-battle-angel-called-gally-on-the-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why Is Battle Angel Called Gally On The DVD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was wondering why Battle Angel Alita is called &#8220;Gally&#8221; on the DVD? Isn&#8217;t that very, very wrong? Or is it as I hope I would be, just a print error, and they call her by her right name on the DVD?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nActually, the discrepancy between the names Gally and Alita comes courtesy not of AD Vision, but from Viz. In the October 1993 issue of Animerica, Fred Burke, co-translator for the Viz Comics Battle Angel Alita manga explains that, &#8220;For a Viz Comic to work, it&#8217;s got to appeal to more than just the hard-core manga and anime crowd;&#8221; therefore there were several alterations made in the translation of the manga. Yukito Kishiro&#8217;s title Gunnm, a compound of Gun Dream, was re-named Battle Angel Alita. Gally, the protagonist, had her name changed to Alita, a name, Burke explains, means &#8220;noble:&#8221; a name that he discovered while searching through a book of baby names. Burke also explains that, for no reason given, the floating city Zalem was re-named Tiphares: a name meaning &#8220;beauty,&#8221; taken from the Qabalah and the mystical Tree of Life. Furthermore, Yugo&#8217;s name was given a cosmetic change to Hugo for American readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I was wondering why Battle Angel Alita is called &#8220;Gally&#8221; on the DVD? Isn&#8217;t that very, very wrong? Or is it as I hope I would be, just a print error, and they call her by her right name on the DVD?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}