Ah, I'm plenty familiar with Battle Angel Alita.
Dr. Goodguy is Dr. Daisuke Ido, cyber-physician and former citizen of Tiphares. He decided Alita should have the Berserker body after he saw that she was gonna do whatever she wanted despite what he wanted (a pretty and studious little girl to be his daughter - he wisely relented). Later, after the death of her first love interest, she ran away and wound up joining the motorball circuit and placed her Berserker body into storage... except that her coach hawked the thing to pay for upgrade or something.
The Berserker body then eventually fell into the hands of Professor Desty Nova (Dr. Freakyfreak), arguably the Big Bad, even more so than Aga Mbadi. Nova's thing is all about free will and destiny - how they play against each other in something he calls Karmatron Dynamics (or something like that). The easiest way of messing up the balance is with power, and the Berserker body has plenty of that. He mistakenly disables all the safety interlocks on the Berserker body, basically turning it into a rampant nanomachine colony. It then carries out it's basic objectives of first, finding a power source (which it does readily in Nova's lab) and then, finding a mind to control it - and it finds the remains of one of Alita's prior nemesi. And then everything goes straight to hell in a hand basket.
Anyhow, what I didn't get was the whole Saberhagen thing, and how that relates to The Berserker in Nasu-verse.
Dr. Goodguy is Dr. Daisuke Ido, cyber-physician and former citizen of Tiphares. He decided Alita should have the Berserker body after he saw that she was gonna do whatever she wanted despite what he wanted (a pretty and studious little girl to be his daughter - he wisely relented). Later, after the death of her first love interest, she ran away and wound up joining the motorball circuit and placed her Berserker body into storage... except that her coach hawked the thing to pay for upgrade or something.
The Berserker body then eventually fell into the hands of Professor Desty Nova (Dr. Freakyfreak), arguably the Big Bad, even more so than Aga Mbadi. Nova's thing is all about free will and destiny - how they play against each other in something he calls Karmatron Dynamics (or something like that). The easiest way of messing up the balance is with power, and the Berserker body has plenty of that. He mistakenly disables all the safety interlocks on the Berserker body, basically turning it into a rampant nanomachine colony. It then carries out it's basic objectives of first, finding a power source (which it does readily in Nova's lab) and then, finding a mind to control it - and it finds the remains of one of Alita's prior nemesi. And then everything goes straight to hell in a hand basket.
Anyhow, what I didn't get was the whole Saberhagen thing, and how that relates to The Berserker in Nasu-verse.