Gunnm: Another Stories

GUNNM: Gaiden is a Japanese manga by Yukito Kishiro containing three separate side stories for GUNNM, known as Battle Angel Alita in English. The stories were first published in Ultra Jump magazine in 1997, but have also been printed in the GUNNM Complete Collection Japanese special editions of GUNNM. No English version has been published.

Supersonic Fingers
The first GUNNM: Gaiden story takes places after Alita's fight with the motorball champion Jashugan. Alita is shot in the head by a sniper while out on morning exercises, but she survives. Hunter-warriors band together to hunt the sniper down while Alita recuperates. It turns out to be a man with a deathwish, who can shoot metal balls at supersonic speeds with his cybernetically enhanced arms.

The Holy Night
The second Gaiden story is about how Ido, recently expelled from the floating city Tiphares, rescues a young woman on a cold Christmas night in the Scrapyard. This eventually leads to him opening his cybernetic clinic featured in the main GUNNM story.

Homecoming
The third story takes place during Alita's days as a TUNED agent working for Tiphares. She tracks down a lost deckman and terminates him.