James Cameron does Manga August 4, 2009 James Cameron plans Manga feature Battle Angel Alita? Director James Cameron is reportedly eyeing in making a feature adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s popular manga Battle Angel Alita. Battle Angel Alita tells the tale of a discarded cyborg who is rebuilt by a scientist and trained to become a crime-fighting warrior. The director said that the project will utilise filmmaking techniques developed for upcoming sci-fi movie Avatar, his first feature in more than a decade.