I just finished Blame! and I don't think I'll ever read a manga as aesthetic as this again.
If you like aesthetics you should check out Tower Dungeon! It's Nihei's latest manga.
>>284304999I would sex up Nihei out of gratitude for his countless kino works
all these "anon reads his first non-jump manga" threads are getting boring
>>284305226>nooo dont talk about anime or manga noooBro?
>>284305226Completely disagree.
>>284305226Not as boring as the coomer threads
>>284305226>MANGA? IN THE MANGA BOARD? AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>284304999Glad you liked itFavorite shots?
>>284304999Checked and based trips, is the only manga which Im collecting its master editions. I do feel their volume covers are basic bitch tier compared to the actual content. Sad, covers like those from Tokyo Ghoul, Fire punch or Choujin X style would be more appropriate.
>>284305318This was a nice "Oh no, she's hot!" spongebob moment
what is this manga about?it has a good ending? i hate to read mangas just to get shingeki'd at the ending
>>284305358I like the master edition covers, they feel modern, less grungey than the actual manga.
>>284305399
>>284305318That shot of the safeguard in the grass field froze my blood.
>>284305399Its an ending, that you kind of know its going to happen anyway. IT may seem rushed, but is not, because you have to assume you are looking at small important chunks of a reaaally long story. The timeskips are insane, like decades in an elevator, hundreds of years walking on a empty path, etc.
>>284305399The ending is pure poetry, in the best sense, actual kino. Manga is a solid 10/10 from start to finish.
>>284305318
>>284305358There was some controversy around the master edition, Nihei redrew panels in Sidonia style. A lot of the character that comes with the black ink was lost, arguably in favour of readability.
>>284305456Why would you completely spoil a good series for someone interested in reading it?
>>284305465
>>284305545I'm not constrained by your board culture
>>284305551There was a pic from /x/ posted that was very similar, like a paradise environment with sun and flowers and trees and in the middle there was a black demon just standing there looking straight at the viewer. The contrast is kind of unsettling and cool at the same time, like wtf are you doing here, it's supposed to be a safe place?
>>284305612I know exactly what you're talking about but can't find it. Nothing unsettles me more that that painting.
>>284305612I'd like to see that.
>>284305725I'm sexually attracted to Sanakan/that type of killer robots and it pains me to hell and back that fetish is very rare so there are no good 3d porn of it
Our hero and humanity's only hope
>>284305800penisman
>>284305800that bottom right looks cool as a character> A naked man, with a black round mask, a gun and nothing to lose
>>284305823A lone gunman?
>>284305551>>284305612>>284305715tangentially, if you wanna read a story that has that same kind of feeling, i recc you "Window" by Bob Leman, it won him a Nebula, its really good, i found it in an Horror stories compilation and loved it, my fave from the book
>>284305715I really want to see it now
I liked abara
>>284306035thats chainsaw negro
Megastructure is literally a perfect setting for a video game. It's a shame blame will never get any.
>>284306129
>>284306129Plenty of those, they're not perfect but it's something. Metal Garden, Hypogea, Naissance, Manifold garden to some extent. Lorn's Lure. Blackshard, although it's more esoteric.
>>284305300all these "anon reads his first non-coomer thread" posts are getting boring
>>284306364lil bro got spouting sumn bwc awww hell naw :skullemoji:
>Falling for the meme this isn't goatedfiltered and check my digits while you're at it
>>284306489close enough
>>284305612>>284305926Fucking finally
>>284305456That seems excessively long and full of spoilers anyway.>>284305476I just want to know if the protagonist at least accomplishes his goal/gets the girl/the money whatever. I've read enough seinen to know that a lot of them just suck when it comes to the conclusion.
>>284304999hi
>>284305226I totally agree, let's have more isekai and shonen threads! Retard.
>>284306696No, what we actually need is more false dilemmas
>>284306644Yeah, is a happy ending. No worries about that. Which is refreshing compared to the "eh, you didn't expect that even if ruins the ending" shit japs tend to do
>>284306721this diddy blud is whinning over nothing :skullemoji::skullemoji::skullemoji::skullemoji::skullemoji:
>>284305226I'm making an isekai coomer thread just for you m8, just wait.
>>284306644Without spoiling anything, it does have a definitive ending that wraps up the plot in a satisfying way.
>>284306792Hardest working man in manga history.
>>284306837That last chapters where He's missing a leg and its so fucked up by fighting creatures so powerful they are more dangerous that all the ones we've seen so far but they are off-screened , that he cant regenerate as well is so heartbreaking to me
I am not the first one to make this connection, but I wonder if Nihei took inspiration from the illustrations of Mathematician Anatoly Fomenko.
>>284306933
>>284306886He regenerated 60% of his body after safeguard-Cibo wrecked him, so I'm pretty sure he just regrew that leg at some point. In the final page, he seems to have his leg back.
>>284306763>>284306792>>284306818Awesome, will read. Thank you.I know they're not the same author, but does this resemble Lain by any chance? the drawings and the architecture always reminded me of the clunked room in the series
>>284305378Lol yeah when I first read the manga I just assumed the talking skeleton was a dude because why wouldn't it be? Then all all of sudden Cibo walks in here as the worlds tallest waifu.
>>284305358The original release of the manga already had perfect 90s kino covers
>>284305378>>284307260What's even crazier is that Nihei did this twice with the Mori box girl.
>>284306933>>284306946hot damn
>>284305318>Favorite shots?Dunno if I have any specific shot, but my favorite area was pic related. The implication that this was likely the area where a planet like Jupiter probably got disassembled was amazing.
>>284307455
>>284307119>"Daddy why do I have to wear the gas mask?">"Listen kid I didn't spend the last several millennia walking all the way out here to birth you just for you to randomly die of carbon-monoxide poisoning or the coof. I am NOT walking the entire diameter of the solar system a second time."
>>284306580why did the builders do this
>>284306631Get that nigger outta my garden!
>>284307537Good question
What edition is the best one? I remember I wanted to reread it a couple years back, but I downloaded one that read left-to-right, then downloaded one with fucked up white/light grey colors instead of white/black, then gave up.
Anons this thread stirred up a memory of reading a similar themed one involving a colossal structure setting with a lone male mc but I can't remember it. Was some one-shot. I wish I had more details to search for it, maybe if I don't remember it it wasn't good.
What music did anons listen to while reading the manga?I read the entire manga while listening to Crystal Castles.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTJa00puDU
>>284307797what the fuck i don't remember posting this. anyway yeah i particulary associate blame with crystal castles - empathy.
>>284307797https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvm2PUgP9_s
>>284307537just assume what would happen if we let this stuff running forever with mind of his own and endless amount of energy and self-repairable. something like that but for orders of magnitude bigger.It's just too good for what it does.
>>284307875Every time I listen to Empathy, Seu's fight with Ivy is ingrained in my mind.
There's plenty one of a kind manga for you to read, just gotta search. Felt the same way about Dorohedoro as one of my recent reads
>>284308231I like Dorohedoro, but it's a very different atmosphere from Blame!
>>284307797Metric I have no logical reason for this but I associate the song Dark Saturday with Blame!
Both Gordon Freeman and Chell are both Niheiesque characters with HL2 and Portal being Niheiesque adventures
>>284304999You should then check out old Heavy Metal magazines issues, since Blame! is heavily inspired by it.
>>284307797This is more fitting, typical 90's cyberpunk soundtrackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ0Ag6mBpYg
>>284307797The Neotokyo soundtrack.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6eZJRurFk&list=PLBA5D2A3169FBFF3E
>>284307797I didn't listen to anything while reading itbut I feel like Lustmord longplay could prove appropriate: https://lustmord.bandcamp.com/album/dark-matterhell, you could even play it and more melodic music at the same time
>>284304999It's not quite Nihei, but Yokohama Eki SF does a similar trapped-in-a-megastructure thing if you want.
>>284304999Try Abara next, Nihei wrote it at his peak.>>284305124Femanon I hope.>>284306177If it occupies this whole volume, the mass of the city is several times greater than that of the entire galaxy. Multiple galaxies would be needed to be consumed to build it, or perhaps they have the technology to harvest matter from infinite parallel universes. Gravity manipulation would be needed to keep the whole thing from collapsing into a supermassive black hole.>>284307353The Mori box was a male during the time Killy talked to him. The girl was the original occupant of the preservation pack, she mentions that other people's data (the guy) was written over hers but she was the original "official" occupant of the pack so her self was restored and stored in the Netsphere by the GA agent.
>>284309703>If it occupies this whole volume, the mass of the city is several times greater than that of the entire galaxy.kek what
>>284309703>perhaps they have the technology to harvest matter from infinite parallel universesThat is suggested by the Toha Heavy Industries arc, and it is pretty clear they can engage in gravity manipulation. Also it is unclear exactly how much of the structure is, structure, and how much is open area. So calculating a mass of the structure would be hard. Of course the amount of gas that fills the open areas is certainly going to contribute a significant amount.
>>284304999I love that there's almost no dialogue and the story is open to interpretation (kinda, for the most part), so reading this feels like meditation
>>284305399>what is this manga about?Super cyborg goes dumpster-diving in a decrepit megastructure the size of the solar system in the hopes of finding the admin password of it in some dirty napkin.>it has a good ending? i hate to read mangas just to get shingeki'd at the endingSort. It ends in a sort of "and the adventure continues"
>>284305791same
>>284307797do zoomzooms really
two years ago I didnt kill myself because I started reading Blame! and wanted to finish it.
>>284307797Holy fucking based recommending my fav artist. I've read some kino series to Plague and Transgender. I'm thinking about starting Blame! right now to Black Fairy. Seems to match the vibe. Thoughts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sCOGy22qlw
I can never remember what happens in the last chapters. I read it years ago and again when the daily was being posted but it's again all mush in my head.
>>284305045Nothing hits like BLAME! though. It's amazing how his first work is also his magnum opus despite how rough everything is.
>>284310576I don't blame you. A few sequences are hard to follow and a lot of the character suffer from sameface.
Someone make a continuation of Blame using AI.
>>284311890no slop please
>>284311890Clearly not Niheo since she doesn't have a derp face
>>284306035>abaraI remember being rather glad at that one afterword manga in Sidonia where he's at a convention and one of the audience's questions is "I didn't get Abara" because fuck I sure didn't.
>>284306035Digimmortal?
>>284305399>what is this manga about?retards forgot wifi password, hijinks ensue.
What works inspired Nihei in writing Blame? I know he likes Giger.
need cib gf
>>284312165need her loli form
>>284312012Humorously accurate.
>>284307797good luck babe by chappel roan pairs really well with sanakan and babby cibo's hijinks and the ending
>>284309250NTA, but that was a decent read, thank youalthough the ending was kind of abrupt and dispersed the atmosphere a bit
>>284307797I listened to multiple entire nightcore threads on /wsg/ while reading it.
Some lunatic made the connection and decided to use Blame as the real prequel for Alien 1979.https://heyzine.com/flip-book/6bd0377d5c.htmlhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1333SxUDcSkt4QJe3DOnFN7s82SBGrtBpD6jtXAPmfXQ/edit?tab=t.0>>284307797https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2hdV_5lXao&list=RDH2hdV_5lXao&start_radio=1
>>284307797I got my rec off going through the blame storytime, worked pretty wellhttps://youtu.be/9Pp9DC56hh8?si=ck661Xjn26IYT4iK
>>284305045embarrassing how people still pretend anything of his after the first half of Sidonia looks good
>>284313072>BLAME!+Samurai JackToo powerful for this world.
>>284307797Signalis ost
>>284313114Embarrassing how blame fags don't like sidonia
>>284312055Great Sky River and Feersum Endjin get cited a lot, for obvious reasons.
>>284313114I like Tower Dungeon a lot more than Sidonia so far but the art is a pile of shit.
>>284309703There's a lot of empty space. And there's a lot of gravity manipulation because people are still walking around with about 1g gravity.
>>284313356Jumped the shark when he humanized the Gauna, the setting itself is spectacular.
>>284313395The running theory is that humanity had mastered gravitational manipulation to the point where they could spread the Sun's gravity across the entirety of the City to sustain 1g regardless of how big it gets. If true, that really is breathtaking technology prior to the Fall, and it really nails home how devastating that Fall was for humanity, now reduced to frightened tribes in the Dark Forest that was once their civilization.
>>284313308Very nice
>>284307797I miss those niggas like you wouldn't believe
>>284312175Like this?
>>284313405>the setting itself is spectacular.I know it doesn't quite fit in with either Blame! or Sidonia, but I do like the idea that The City being this immortal home of humanity was a follow up to their near extinction in Sidonia to ensure that never ever happened. But as I said, neither the origins show in Noise or the destruction of the solar system in Sidonia really match up with the other.
>>284313637I don't think they are, or ever were, all interconnected. Noise and Blame, certainly, but the others not so much.
>>284313676Oh no yeah that's what I'm saying, they're not but the idea is close enough to working that it occured to me at some point.
>>284306543I wonder how many times this happened to Killy. Something randomly breaks under his feet and he loses like 100 years of progress
Time had lost its effect on me.
I'm a huge sucker for cute fanart of these two even though there was basically zero romance in the manga. Though I wonder... did they ever... you know? Killy's dick presumably functions, and it was a long elevator ride.
>>284313766
>>284313766Killy is barely different from the clankers that built the city. Domochomsky was way more human and actually had a crush on someone. Weird i dont see that much fanart of him with that bad chick
>>284304999AbaraBiomegaKnights of CydoniaDorohedoroFreesiaJoshi KouheiBlade of the Immortal
The story doesn't matter, this is a vibe manga.Killy is constantly aura farming too, but it's the ill kind of aura, ya feel me?
>>284313878I liked Freesia although I don't think it can really compare to Blame! when it comes to aesthetics.
I really like women like the Captain in Sidonia and Minsaber in Tower Dungeon. What's wrong with me?
>>284314477Time to start reading Dorohedoro, anon.
hate how inconsistent the art is personally. in one panel a bridge is 5 feet wide and in the next it's 30 feet wide. repeat a thousand times throughout the manga
>>284304999you should play Bleak faithsuper janky and confusing Souls like, but it has spot on Blame asthetics with the whole mega structure thing
>>284305300This
>>284304999>Be Nihei>Work in construction and stuff>It's pretty tiring, look for less tiring job>Hear about mangaka, fuck yeah all day sitting and drawing sounds easy>Don't know much about characters, stories or plot, just like drawing buildings and know a lot about their intricacies because of construction work>Fuck it, let's try anyway>Create a cult masterpiece that people still talk about 20 years laterhttps://mangabrog.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/a-2016-interview-with-tsutomu-nihei/The way he actively tried to make his following works more "normal" explains why blame really feels unique
>>284313811a wholesome lad, he was. no homo.mommy Sanakan was pretty best, too
>>284307797I guess crystal castles goes well.I read Blame! with Lorn music but also a majority of it with this song. I know it's an edit from Jujutsu Kaisen but I feel like it's super fitting with Blame! world. When I hear this song I can only imagine Killy fighting safeguards, walking into the infinite space of the city, waiting inside elevators for months. Just try it, and let me know.Just hearing it again. If I close my eyes I'm inside the city.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwG36P3_sYo
>>284305045It's Nihei's take at CSM. It's not bad but it's nowhere as good as BLAME!
>>284305716This reminds me of Enki Bilal.
>>284307797Hiemal - Astray of any other of his albums. The only music that I would consider listening to when reading blame! are mostly dark ambient tracks that fit the mood well.
>>284304999Blame feels like the addition of Gantz and Enki Bilal's work.
I was relatively glad Blam wasn't a dialogue-heavy "story" and instead I literally got Samurai Jack with a gun.In fact I enjoyed the first 20 or so chapters because so much stuff happens in it and I love very short 1-2 chapter stories, I got bored when he kept doing those 20 chapter long stories which felt generic as hell and I did not care for the secondary characters.I was very impressed that the 1st chapter gives me villains that die at the end and it isn't 20 chapters of Killy chasing after that kid.>>284313878I'm pretty sure I accidentally opened one of these because I remember Evangelion Shinji looking dumbass in a city surrounded by giants and lots of dialogue. I'm pretty sure I tried reading Blame a few years ago but accidentally came up a different Japanese comic book.One thing I didn't like about Blam was that Cibo does have a personality as a cheeky skeleton lady(which unfortunately she promptly loses after the company president dies) which makes a comeback as the other dead lady and USB memory thing which tries to hijack Killy only for Killy to off screen drag the USB stick all the way atop the 3000km staircase as punishment.I was instead very glad that Killy wasn't autistic like he was in the movie. He's actually quite a talkative and emotive bastard despite not communicating with a person for hundreds of years at a time.I wish the world design and logic was better with somebody questioning why the hell the administration doesn't give Killy wings and teleportation abilities but then it wouldn't be spaghetti western esque, it wouldn't be like Samurai Jack.The people reviewing it and all the images about it feels like watching the intro to Batman Beyond but waking up with a more sanitized simpler version and only sometimes backstory heavy dialogue that doesn't tell much.Still what you get is pretty good. Biomega was also pretty good and I treat it as a prequel to Blam, but it's also much more generic and action-oriented with a big bad.
>>284316760>Biomega was also pretty good and I treat it as a prequelThere is an actual prequel though in NOiSE
>>284316833Yeah but it's way too short and it only explains who Sanakan's human form was instead of explaining Killy and explaining the hackers and the plague, even when it explains stuff it's still very ambigous and it really puts your head to thinking. Difference between Blam and a detective novel is that with Blam you can't get spoiled even when you do read the story by yourself, whereas a detective novel gets ruined if you watch in the reverse order and already know who the killer is. Before I read Blam I thought Killy was the one to blame for the plague and post apocalyptic state.
>>284305045Better character and adventure but worse art and action
FUCK SILICONIGGERS
>>284317480this is our board now fleshchud
>>284317604FUCK YOU, THIS IS MY KLONDIKE BAR.
>>284314506I understand. You have to be able to roll with that to enjoy Blame.
>>284309703>If it occupies this whole volume, the mass of the city is several times greater than that of the entire galaxy.how can something the diameter of a single solar system outmass an entire galaxy with billions of stars? the black hole at the center alone is probably heavier than The City
>>284317604Call the Safeguard, I don't give a fuck
>>284305045
>>284319747>probablyThe city was only made with the mass of the solar system wasn't it? So it's not just "probably" more massive, it's millions of times more massive.
>>284323112i think the issue is that there is nowhere near enough mass to build the city with just the solar system. like all of space the solar system is 99.9% reocurring empty space.
>>284323112>>284323885The implication is that the Builders aren't using just the mass of the Sol system for construction purposes, one theory posits that humanity's control over gravity was so complete that each Builder is drawing mass from an adjacent dimension for its labors, and they have been for thousands of years. They literally can make things from nothing, on purpose, as needed.
Any other manga/anime with similar settings? I have read everything by Nihei. The art doesn't need to be as good, i just like the transhuman sci-fi horror aspect. I know the classics like Texhnolyze and Ergo Proxy, I'd even say something like Kemurikusa counts, and also Girl's Last Tour. There's also Kaira, which imo is really really good for a small anthology of short stories and very Blame!-like in atmosphere. There's also the oneshot Jack and the Beanstalk, and the webtoon Chokepoint. I am so deep in the sauce now I need something really obscure. I'll even take a light novel. I even know about Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment. There's also the Marshal King I guess. Another anon already mentioned Yokohama Station.
>>284324191Oh, and there's also the western comic Ion Mud
>>284323885It would depend on the material they used to construct it. It's possible they used a "puffier" alloy that is more voluminous but isn't as massive as let's say concrete. Plus the city itself has tons of gaps and holes. It's not a continuous solid structure.
>>284324098>>284324457Doesn't Cibo get replaced by a version of herself from another dimension/timeline? It seems pretty spelled out the city is reaching into other planes of existence.
>>284324538I honestly don't remember that.
>>284323112>>284323885>the issue is that there is nowhere near enough mass to build the city with just the solar systemyou're missing my point, I'm not questioning that partthere blatantly isn't enough material in the Solar System to make something of that sizewhat I'm questioning is anon's assertion that you would need to disassemble multiple galaxies to make something of that sizethat just seems like it couldn't possibly be true
>>284324760>there blatantly isn't enough material in the Solar System to make something of that sizeI disagree. >what I'm questioning is anon's assertion that you would need to disassemble multiple galaxies to make something of that sizeYeah that was a tarded statement. Not sure what he was thinking of.
>>284324457Even with such tech, the solar system has the density of grains of sand with hundreds of meters between them. It just doesn't add up.The galaxy is much less dense than the solar system still, but it's also incomprehensibly large with hundreds of billions of stars and dark matter and shit. Probably still more massive than the city?
>>284304999Never read Blame!, but do those tiny steps up the right wall play a role in the plot, or did the artist just throw them in to make people go WTF.
>>284325816it's all the output of crazed automaton builders with only a vague memory of what human architecture is supposed to look likeit's relevant to the plot in the sense that such paths are often the only way forward
>>284325723The solar system also goes way beyond Jupiter though. Also we don't know what percentage of the mass of the sun they used in this project.>Probably still more massive than the city?There's no "probably" lol. The city and the galaxy are not comparable in mass.
>>284305226that's right, we need more coomer and yuri garbage, shonen and isekai shit
i also finished Blame recentlygonna read Biomega and Abara next
>>284315188I still don't get why Dhomo was killed by sanakan, was it self-defense?
>>284313811killy is originally human, just really old
Someone check my math cause i'm sure i fucked it upvolume of solar system to jupiter perihelion:1.7105x10^27 km^3mass of sun:1.9885×10^30 kgor a little over one metric ton per cubic kilometeryou're gonna need a lot more mass
>>284327937It's not just a solid sphere, we've been over this. Also I doubt the city starts right at the edge of the sun.
>>284328392None of the shit you said was in that post. I've only stated getting within an order of magnitude of the megastructures size needs more than one solar system worth of rocks, even if you're building it out of manifold and paper mache
>>284328502It doesn't cover the ENTIRE volume between jupiter and the sun. We don't know where the city begins and we can see there are gigantic empty areas all throughout, one empty area being larger than the diameter of jupiter.
>>284328628dude we're talking orders of magnitude of differencefinding a small exception here and there doesn't even begin to cover the deficiency
>>284328734My impression was that the city is made out of several dyson sphere-like structures poorly connected to one another. Structures which may not actually be fully spherical and built haphazardly and randomly past a certain point.You're making it sound like it's a solar system-sized deathstar and I don't think that is at all similar to what the city actually is.
>>284305226>why do people talk about manga on /a/ ?
blame is one of my all time favs, butbiomega was better, if not for the ending
>>284328931Ahhh, the OTHER interconnected works: Sidonia and Aposimz
>>284328976sidonia is pretty greataposimz would've been great if not for the ending. it's almost comical at this point, will DT suffer the same fate?aposimz oneshot with the sick imouto and angry Titania is kino
>>284328806>You're making it sound like it's a solar system-sized deathstar and I don't think that is at all similar to what the city actually is.because both the manga, images like >>284306177 and all supplementary materials consistently depict it as a system-sized deathstarthat is what it is, occasional jupiter garage notwithstanding
>>284305823>NO ONE DARED TO ASK HIS BUSINESS>NO ONE DARED TO MAKE A SLIP>THE STRANGER THERE AMONG THEM>HAD A HELMET ON HIS DICK>A HELMET ON HIS DICK
>>284327937nihei said in the artbooks that the administration started harnessing dark matter
>>284309703I loved that bit>all these desperate people trying to preserve themselves for recreation by the netsphere>break the rules and overwrite someone else's personality>Authority just goes "what the fuck is all this" and only recreates the owner's dataIt's like if your little brother deleted you save but it was your immortal soul.
>>284305045niheis art has never recovered from the switch to digital
>>284330179Oh shit, I didn't know that. That's definitely more sensible than farming an alternate dimension for mass.
>>284313811Dhomochevsky is Literally Me
>>284328931>biomega was betterdisagreethe transition to digital halfway through ruins it
>>284304999I love it although I don't recommend binge-reading it, I think the art actually fucks with your brain's size perception. Once I was sick with the flu and decided to read half of it in one night, later my fever dreams started to take place in the City. Spookiest nightmares I've ever experienced. The dream world felt so vast that even when I was "moving" I wasn't able to actually change my location.
>>284330576Agreed biomega starts confusing which is alright, because later you start to understand the motivations of each faction. Then the digital/worm world shit starts and its like a different manga.
>>284314477you are heterosexual
>>284316392>Enki Bilalwhich of his works are worth reading?
>>284324191isn't usuzumi no hate supposed to be a little like Blame? i see it recommended in these threads occasionally. i haven't read it though, i'm still on Nihei's work.
I should reread Sidoniers
>>284330335>niheis art has never recovered from his young daughter saying his manga is boringfixed
>>284330846I've also read that, yeah. I should have included it. If you haven't read it yet I'll say that it's pretty good so you should give it a shot.
>>284305476>>284310026>>284312012Can someone explain to me the ending of this shit? You said the ending was good but the ending is literally shit with 9 explanation. Did Cibo survive?Did Kyrii accomplish his objective? Why he LARPed as a human, then has a cyborg?Why the admin hated safeguards, and safeguards hated silicon life, and silicon life hated humans?Why why why why?I fucking hate seinen. This shit genre is worse than shonen.
What was chapter 10 of Blame academy supposed to be, connected at all to blame? It's outside of the city obviously
>>284331786Yes actually Nihei went into thisKilly at some point gets some deeply strange brainhacking down to him and this is what he sees
>>284305456some bits like about memory loss seem like extrapolation, but I like this headcanon
>>284330617Kind of based, actually
>>284331782>Did Cibo survive?No.>Did Kyrii accomplish his objective?Eventually; we see the aftermath in NetSphere Engineer.>Why he LARPed as a human, then has a cyborg?He's an enhanced human from before the Crash.>Why the admin hated safeguards, and safeguards hated silicon life, and silicon life hated humans?Silicon life want to replace humanity, Safeguards got hacked and the Admin lost control of them, Safeguards were always enemies of Silicon life, they're intruders.
>>284331782>Did Cibo survive?No>Did Kyrii accomplish his objective?Yes>Why he LARPed as a human, then has a cyborg?He's originally a human and thought of himself as one, and his memory is whacked>Why the admin hated safeguards, and safeguards hated silicon life, and silicon life hated humans?The safeguards are an automated defense system. Admin can think but don't seem to have much control, they're not really enemies. Silicon life are just cunts / enjoying themselves in the city.>Why why why why?Looks like you need to read the manga again
>>284332262>No.Great. So that character just died for nothing with 0 fucking conclusion like every other single fucking character.>Eventually; we see the aftermath in NetSphere Engineer.Great, you have to read a fucking DLC in whenever-the-fuck to understand this shit ending.Thanks for the answer. But you the shills could have just said the ending in this was dogshit. What a fucking waste of time.
>>284332392>Great. So that character just died for nothingShe gave "birth" to the kid Killy escorts, the key to restoring control to the chaos for the first time in millennia. Hardly "no conclusion".>Great, you have to read a fucking DLC in whenever-the-fuck to understand this shit ending.https://weebcentral.com/chapters/01J76XYY6F6DGMT6ZRDT61YAZB
>>284332392>the ending in this was dogshitnah
>>284332528She gave "birth" how? At no point she has sex with anybody. I guess she got injected that shit tube that appears near the end but I never saw that happening either. I guess this happened with some pseudo-magical bullshit explanation like everything in this botched manga. This is one of these shit manga where the story is incredible simple and lacking, but because the author never writes anything in dialogue globes he can pretends it has le uber deep lore or whatever the fuck. I dodged a bullet because I was tempted to buy this shit for the cool art alone, but I trusted my smell and decided to complete it before. Fuck seinen writers and their shit storytelling.
>>284330617Had a dream in the City once, it's felt really cold, more than the vastness the emptiness hit me, empty and cold, it's a place without the Sun.Never had experience reading it while sick or with the flu and I'll keep it so.
>>284332733Starting to think you just skimmed over this.
>>284332733>where the story is incredible simpleit is, which makes it all the more hilarious you seemed to have miss so many things and it's causing hurt of the butt.
>>284332733You see just because some pages have no text doesn't mean you can skip them, especially with Nihei
>>284332733I do not get it and therefore I'm angry. You really just need to read the manga again, it's difficult to follow the first time but everything makes sense. And the story IS fundamentally simple, it's not trying to impart some pretentious philosophical concept.
>>284307797Ice Ages https://youtu.be/bHx5TBWHJRg?si=tqQ1ClB3O-3TsUaf
>>284332733Damn son, just browse JJK threads from now on
>>284333116>I do not get it and therefore I'm angry.No, I'm angry because I hate this type of "story" if you can call a recollection of disconnected events a story at all. That's why I asked if this thing is different from other seinen, but it's literally the stereotype of bad seinen: 99% of the cast dies, then shit ends.
>>284333368Well, 66% don't survive, but the 33% that does saves 100% of everything else.
>>284333368Maybe stop getting angry for stupid reasons. You sound ultra autistic.
>>284304999you are right. haven't seen anything interesting like this in decades. and never will probably.
>>284317913>>284321303Never ask a silicon racist about the race of his gf.
Are any of the other series' actually connected to Blame aside from academy/noise?
>>284334214People have made the case that any series with Toha Heavy Industries are all connected by that fact, but the reality is it's just Nihei's Easter Egg he inserts. Blame, Noise, and Academy are sure connections; Sidonia and Aposimz are connected; the others, to my knowledge, are standalones.
>>284333368You sound like you skipped half the pages. Do you have ADHD zoomie? The manga isn't even that long.
>>284336200I bet you're one of those LARPers who think he's intelligent because he watched Evangelion.
>>284336659Stop speed reading and then posting like a retard
I like the part where the protagonist spends years in universe walking up a stairwell. Goes to show just how unexplorable the place is if you're stuck with a mortal lifespan.
Is abara chapter 11.5 before or after the gauna explosion thing, since there's civilization and humans again
The Silicon Life always reminds me of Phyrexians.
I love how Blame never holds your hand, it lets you draw your own conclusions, it makes the world feel so big and so interesting.
>>284332733You should have at least 80 IQ to be allowed to post
>>284336659I don't even like Evangelion.
>>284334205mission accomplished, the reason you where created for is no longer necessary. The governing agency no longer has use for you but your an immortal cyborg that has no purpose anymore so you just walk back to the edge of the city again, and just wait. for eternity for something to happen. alone. not even an albino tall waifu or net terminal gene child to keep you company anymore.
>>284325080>>284326494The city would have more mass than the galaxy even with lots of empty space inside. The galaxy is mostly empty space. The solar system is mostly empty space. They call it "space" for a reason. A solid mass, even with lots of empty voids inside, occupying most of the space within Jupiter's orbit would dwarf the rest of the galaxy.Jupiter's orbit IRL is like a gumball machine with a few specks of dust inside. Jupiter's orbit in Blame is like a gumball machine filled with gumballs, there's many millions of times the mass. And it's solid mass, unlike stars which are gaseous.Also there aren't that many empty voids in the megastructure if what we see in the series is representative. The only big void Killy encounters is the Jupiter-sized gap, the rest of the time he goes through one megastructure attached to another in succession. If there was much empty space inside his journey would be more about navigating through it rather than climbing through floors and floors of buildings.
>>284306663I'm always sad this board is dominated by shonen and moe dogshit. I wish this board was more about reading seinen stories like The Climber and Punpun.
>>284339874A black hole that would be as large as Jupiter's orbit would still be way less massive than the rest of the galaxy.You're just wrong.
>>284316760>why the hell the administration doesn't give Killy wings and teleportation abilitiesSO the reason why Killy stands out from his peers is that he's off teh grid from even their own system. The only reason he's so effective is because he was given infinite regeneration, the best gun available and basically free reign to accomplish a single goal. if they strapped his ass with wings or a teleporter it would backfire, if the admin kept track on his, it would backfire, if he was connected to anything, it would backfire.He's meant to be a darkhorse Frodo. While all the grand factions are playing total war, Killy can go anywhere and adapt.
>still no blame! game
Sanakan is one of my waifus.
>>284337936Same, though they're more OG Phyrexian-coded than the later Mirrodin versions (pic related, big ups to the Fair Basilica)
>>284339848My headcanon is that Killy sets up a school for the Dismantlers we meet in Netsphere Engineer, and he teaches generations of them how to neutralize Safeguards and disassemble the old conversion towers.
>>284340439It's a shame how they ruined the design with the Phyrexian Invasion.
>>284340495All I want for Christmas is a Phyrexian comeback
>>284306631Why don't I feel any unease when I look at this picture? At most I'm just curious about what this land is.
>>284328931Biomega was a ride.
>>284324565>>284324538yeah that happens at the toha facility with the artificial sun. I think the electro fishers? I forget but she dies and gets replaced by herself
>>284341147Got a panel?
>>284340495some of the newer designs are alrightpicrel looks kind of like a potential benisuzume design
>>284332392Maybe don't consume media you're not willing to engage with.
>>284305545Why would you click on a SPOILER and keep reading 10 (ten) fucking PARAGRAPHS of text if you didn't want to be spoiled?Are you retarded?Do you have brain damage?
>>284343469Quick question: why did he post that plot summary?
What if>It is all a simulation and terminal gene is basically your way out of simulation I mean we even saw green fields when we peeked outside>Humanity trapped themselves in this simulation and the actual megastructure is a lot smaller
>>284343717>>284343717its been a decade since I read blame but I thought the green fields were the simulation, like that was the netsphere, basically the super internet.
>>284305545it wasa) behind a spoiler tag, so you have accountability in that you clicked the spoiler imageand b) ten fucking paragraphs long and it starts off by calling itself a plot summary, if you read past the preamble and didn't stop when you realized it was describing the last page of the manga, you are accountable.>OH NO I RAN PAST THE SLIPPERY WHEN WET SIGN AND THEN DOWN A HALLWAY PAST ANOTHER SLIPPERY WHEN WET SIGN AND THEN I SLIPPED FOR TEN PARAGRAPHS>HOW COULD THE CUSTODIAN BE SO IRRESPONSIBLE!?>>284343541because no one needs your permission to do anything.
>>284305045The fuck happened to his art?
>>284343916Either he intended it to be read and spoil the series, or he didn't intend it to be read and posted it for no reason. It's interesting behavior.
>>284344050>no the goal posts are over HERE now!>you have to kick the ball over HERE now!!but you never scored.
>>284344116That was the very first question: why spoil the series? Assuming he's just being stupid would have been bad faith, so I asked the more reasonable question. The goalposts haven't move just because you ignored them to start an argument.
>>284344207you are a fucking retard, and the reason no one is engaging with your facetious argument is because no one is dumb enough to thing it'll go anywhere.it doesn't matter what the poster's fucking intent was, it was behind a spoiler, required extensive effort on the part of the reader to spoil themselves, and at the end of the day it's your fault for going on 4chan and expecting everyone to expect your very important feelings and opinions.Get fucked, stupid, no one owes you any special treatment, respect or regard. Stop pretending you were victimized because someone posted a picture in a thread.
>>284344311Whatever makes you feel like you won.
>>284344323no uhaha goteem
>>284305045>everyone praises the manga for its drawing and atmosphere>the story is barely there>fastfoward>the drawing gets ruined toofor what purpose?
>>284343846Sure, that is most likely the case. But it is also interesting if the opposite could be true. Considering how magic the blame universe is compared to the more realistic world we saw in that "simulation", perhaps it is the opposite and the blame world is the simulation.
>>284344554>go to the "Real World">Safeguard exists there and immediately murder you if you don't have permission to wake upThere's a lot of evidence against this, and nothing really supporting it. The person Cibo uses to connect in volume 2 just wakes up in the grass, there are no facilities connecting her to the netsphere that is The City, so how was she being sustained and kept alive while she was "connected" to it?And the Safeguard that kills her, is that a real murderbot in the real world? If so it seems we're truly fucked, since it showed up immediately to murder her and cause a localized nuclear blast at BEC.If the blame world was a simulation, and the Netsphere's more natural world the "Real" world, it would need to follow some kind of real world logic, and it simply doesn't.Davinelulinvega at the RiverCibo in the Builder getting scissoredThat fuckhuge whale person thing in the epilogueThe City may be magical in it's technology, but the "realistic" world of the Net lacks any internal consistency, and has no way of connecting into Noise's narrative.
thread still up? niceyou now remember that a long time ago there was a dude that worked on a procedurally generated "Blame" game and actually got some prototype stuff working, then stopped posting updatesalso go play naissance
>Endlessly expanding urban waste doted with abandoned megastructures where everyone you meet is hostile2b2t the manga
>>284344646Didn't they also mention it is not the actual netsphere but something in between, it has been a while since I watched it
>>284343916nta but it starts with fucking massive spoilers right in the first 7 words. There's nothing to detect it being an actual spoiler beforehand, no time to abort reading in time. The spoilertag is completely misused on this site. You could've named it something or added a single word in your reply. But nah, you decided to be a little fag, and instead of accepting any little shred of responsibility you bitch out at others for telling you not to be so thoughtless next time. And what the fuck is that about permission? You gonna shit on my lawn because I don't have a sign saying that's not okay? is this that victim blaming I keep hearing about?
Literally dindu nuffin
>>284345869The fun part about silicon life to me is they seem to be just living life in the city and thriving. They're fuckers, but they don't seem to have a unified goal like gain control of the netsphere, destroy all humans, etc. Just a bunch of folks with their own goals and a unified desire for things to stay as they are.With that said, Killy was right to shoot first. Better safe than sorry around siliconiggers.
>>284346491Most of them did want to destroy all humans. Technically only ones with the net terminal gene, but the one cibo hacked said they just kill all humans they see instead of checking. Obviously there were a few that didn't but most we saw did do that
I like how the Netsphere concept is basically a reverse Matrix where everyone wants to join and is just a paradise but they can't, instead of being a prison like in the movie
>>284344311spoiler warning is by definition done for the convenience of the readerso if the reader felt that you failed to add an appropriate warning, then you don't get to say "nuh uh, I used the checkbox and so I'm blameless", you still fucking failedand it's clear you're a faggot anyway due to avoiding this question:>why did he post that plot summary?because there is no answer that doesn't paint you as an asshole
Deflects your GBE
>>284343541It was in response to someone asking what the manga is about and if it has a good ending.
>>284349106>OP: hey, I'm interested in the manga, does it have a good ending?>anon proceeds to spoil the entire thing for OPyup, asshole behaviour, everything checks out
>>284349553The only thing spoiled in the first 2 sentences is that it does indeed have a good ending. That's a direct response to the question. If you willingly read past that then clearly you don't care if it's spoiled for you.
>>284313766Nihei said Killy fell in love with her so
I want to take a trip in Cibo's travel beam!
>>284327937>Someone check my mathYou didn't do any math. You just wrote two pointless numbers down. I don't know where you get the idea from that this is impossible. There are suns that outsize ours by orders of magnitudes. Bettelgeuse, a close red giant, easily stretches to jupiter.
What if Tower Dungeon is just the early days of the Netshpere before it started expanding out of control everywhere. It'd be neat if Tower Dungeon wound up being a surprise Blame prequel.>>284315350>Nihei's take on Chainsaw ManSo not just me who thought this. I thought there was something familiar about Lilisen's character like she may have been influenced by Power.
>>284304999You should check out Usogui. Not quite the same style, but somewhere around chapter 200-400 it has possibly some of the best presentation, art style, and flow among manga
>>284351148blame already has a prequel
It was fairly obvious to me that Killy fell for Cibo. He looks out for he in a way he doesn't for other characters.
>>284351304That is his programming, he fell for her terminal genes
>>284351343She only starts carrying it near the end... he's a real human bean
>>284351527She always had it in dormant He is clearly not human with that durability and lifespan
I liked these two a lot. It was a nice contrast to the grunge ciberstuff.Maybe one of the og engineers liked the old idea of a knight and his princess and made them inspired by it.
>>284351655>She always had it in dormant Maybe, maybe not. But Killy couldn't detect it and he did have a scanner later on. Killy is human, just with a heavily enchanced body, a cyborg I guess.
>>284351270Why can't Blame have another prequel taking place thousands of years in the past
>>284351655I think they were the inspiration behind Maiden Astraea and Garl Vinland in Demon's Souls.
>>284351959ment for >>284351787
Late to the Blame thread but wanted to flag the Geiger influence
>>284352131where are the penises
>>284351343Id argue Killy is only part machine and even then he isn't ruled strictly by his objective. He saves the electrofisher camp just because in volume 1. He gets angry and goes on a wild shooting spree while maniacally laughing when he finds out what was being done to the Silicons by the camp Cibo comes from even though they tried to kill him. His lack of consistency is what makes him so great imo it doesn't seem that strange that he just grew to care for Cibo over the unknowable millennia they spent together between chapters, primary objective not withstanding.
>acts like a robot>durable like a robot>has a lifetime matching a robot>has a robot eyeI think he is a robot and anyone claiming otherwise is high on copium
>>284352683I act like him and I am human
>>284352541I always assume the eye people where just another mutant strain of humanity not silicons. Blame 2 is where he shows genuine kindness towards a silly cone though.
Blame sucks and I am tired pretending otherwise
>>284316392Nihei straight up says that the color pages in Blame! were an attempt to imitate his Nikopol era painting style.
>>284330536they do it all, dark matter manipulation, gravity furnaces, alternate worldline harvesting. it would imply entropy was thoroughly defeated. >>284352683we arent sure what exactly happens when you upload to the netsphere but it appears the "human" aspects are a person are preserved even if they manifest into a robo body. kinda pointless to take the debate any further, it just devolves into unanswered philosophical shit like is there a non-material aspect of a person etc
>>284352541Well he started fully human yes he was a cop or investigator type guy
>>284304999You will it's special but it's not incomparable. Now look up the art of French artist Moebius that inspired him I love how with Tower dungeon he's conceptually finalized his new style where instead of using high detail he uses a large amount of low detail to make very detailed scenes that really pull you into the story
>>284352683Did you read Noise?
>>284351304dunno, he was pretty quick to put a shot in her once she went level 9
>>284307797https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFyARb7fWPY fits perfectly
>>284351829>Killy is humanDhomo and Casper don't think soI don't think the manga ever calls Killy a human
>>284353637the pair don't detect even a trace of humanity in Killy and pretty much treat him as a full robot the entire timeand they're safeguards, they should know
>>284353719although personally I think Killy was fully human at the beginning of the manga, back when there wasn't really a story at alland later Nihei retconned in the whole super guardian robot aspectbut that is just my gut feeling
>>284353637Isn't this after they send Killy off on a train? They don't want Cibo chasing after him.>>284353719Not being able to predict his actions just makes him seem more human, a pure machine is would be easier to 'solve'.
>>284353871>Isn't this after they send Killy off on a train?yes, but their behaviour makes it clear they never considered him human>Not being able to predict his actions just makes him seem more human, a pure machine is would be easier to 'solve'.granted, but they didn't ascertain he's human, they ascertained he's jailbrokenthey are outright interfacing with his "registration code"
>>284353719>yes, but their behaviour makes it clearI don't think it's clear at all.>"registration code"Ok? You could microchip a human and give him a "registration code", we do that to pets.
>>284354206are we talking about what we think was manga's intent, or are you writing a fanfic?
>>284305823is there an existing character that fills all these criteria?best i could do is 2/4
What do you guys think of the theory that the first two chapters actually happen after the epilogue?
>>284354302Back at you. You are making huge leaps based on very little.
>>284354358Fire Punch, kinda
>>284354481I'm directly referencing the manga instead of creating explanations from whole cloth, but ok
>>284354527>"It's CLEAR Killy isn't human because he was registered, somewhere, at some point">"I don't think this proves anything or makes anything clear">"Uhmmmm it's called referencing manga, chud"But ok.
>>284354206Sanakan also thinks he's a Safeguard in the third volume and tries to restore his functions but ends up saying she failed and he's being removed from the Safeguard's register. He might actually be something like Musubi, a cop from immediately before things went to hell that got converted. Maybe he's something like a proto-Safeguard and that confuses some of the Safeguards he runs into, or maybe he's essentially the same kind of being but has been working for the Authority or something else instead of the Safeguard proper for however many millennia even if his memory's so bad he forgets it most of the time
>>284354595sure bro
>>284354687I thought the general consensus was that Killy was always a safeguard, but one that was never turned as a result of the net virus taking over. The safeguards were originally wards/security of the netsphere and by extension the administration that runs it. So putting all that together Killy's been around before the net virus took over and turned the safeguards against everything, he's just been around so long he doesn't even remember this.
>>284305300death to moe, shonenspic, coomer and jannies
>>284355771Was not aware Nihei was in Clamp
>>284355831Long Cibo is best Cibo
I always imagine killy to be a ship of theseus sorta thing. regular human at one point but he's had all his fleshy human parts, brain included replaced with artificial future tech materials.
>>284309250wtf is that ending
>>284356172his brain is probably mostly human otherwise his memory would be wayyyyyyy better
>>284354687>>284355262I think he was a Safeguard operating independently, like Sanakan does later on. I think it's just a matter of giving a Safeguard a human analog body, and separating them from the network. Except in Killy's case that is how he always operated.
>>284330929She was right.
She didn't deserve what she got
>>284357437Basically turned into a black gauna but still failed
Twilight zone
>>284305045It's shit and boring just like his daughter said
>>284351304Oh shit we got Last Shooting in Blame!? Don't think I remember recognising that at the time, yet another reason I need to re-read this shit.>>284351655None of the humans in blame are human in the way we are, they're all on like eight levels of transhumanism.>>284355771What I ended up thinking was that Kirii was like the guy that made the system or something, it sound a bit grandiose saying it now when I don't remember much to back it up, but it would certainly explain a few things like him being able to run the worker language matrix that nearly killed Cibo and having a GBE that if I'm not remembering wrong is much smaller than any other seen in the series. He's clearly forgotten a lot, but I mean if I wanted things fixed I'd go to the guy who built the system too.
>>284358497>What I ended up thinking was that Kirii was like the guy that made the system or somethingHe was an investigator not a scientist or programmer>>284353393
>>284358544I absolutely do not in any way remember anything to suggest that Blame is canon to Blame!.
>>284358658That chapter was listed as 6.6 in Noise where I read it, it's not part of the prequel?
>>284358679Pretty sure it's just the one-shot version of Blame! before it got serialised.
What was up with the child from the first 2 chapters? Did he not have the net terminal gene?
>>284358900iirc the kid did have the terminal net gene, but he was "infected" by the siliconiggers and died. Honestly Killy should be mad as hell because that shit increased his mission runtime for thousands of years, but he's more automata than man so i guess he just have the mission in mind
That's nice and all, but have you considered: silicon wifeforms?
I want a GBE
>>284359115Ah this explains it
>>284306933Well fuck, never knew Fomenko is a painter too. His New Chronology stuff is wild.
>>284354371My first reading of it I thought that the whole story had Killy stuck in a time loop caused by the big space-time explosion partway though the manga.
I love all the weird unexplained shit in blame!, like the perpetual cloning machine they find.someone had clearly set that up for a purpose then died and now its just spewing out babies forever, maybe there was something special about the women being cloned and whoever set up the machine was trying to replicate it or it could have just been some freaking building his own clone harem, we'll never know.
>>284354371Makes sense to me, he has the kid with him and he gives it to Chibo, or at least some version of her backups. I believe it to be canon.
>>284359524How do you get one? Asking for a friend.
>>284347226>>284345689Not even the anon who posted it, you slobbering retards, but please, keep whining in every direction that you read spoilers on 4chan against your consent.Again, no one needs your permission to do anything, if that anon felt like posting that copypasta, there's no rules against it. You read and partake of all media on this website at your own risk, there are no guardrails, and anyone who thinks that's a problem should probably just go back.
>>284363657>Least mentally ill blame fan
>>284363657It's called common decency. Just because you can be an ass doesn't mean you should be. Also how come you say anyone is allowed to do whatever, but me calling that guy a fag for being a spastic is too much? I should go back? You can't bring a single argument here and only spew your buzzword shit and then you pretend I am the person that `can't handle it` and need to go back? lmao
>>284363800you need to go back because you're the one who's mad.end of discussion. (you) are not the focus of this thread.go file a complaint with the management if you feel so hard done by.
delete that gross image, retard
>>284363800Anon, this manga ended in 2003. I first read it with yellow box translations flipped left-to-right. There is no reason for the rest of us to cater to you, it's not like this is a currently serialized manga.By the way, Sephiroth kills Aeris.
>>284366612>uswho?
>>284363800You must be new right? the spoiler tags exists for something my man.The manga ended loong time ago and when you enter a thread about a long finished series you can always expose to spoilers from one way or another.Take it or leave it.
>>284363800
>>284367197
>>284367197>>284367815She cute
>>284304999>>284305226BLEACH is more aesthetic and it's a Jump manga
>>284352131>>284352458went to the Geiger Museum, got hyped seeing this piece (its in the very first room) but the rest is pretty much all alien/penis stuff.
>>284366673honestly, just shut the fuck up.
>>284369460who made this?
>>284369460>Moomin if Tove Jansson kept drawing it as she slowly succumbed to schizophreniaFuck I just made it up but now Iwant to read this so badly
>>284305045Biomega is better than blame, and abara is great too. All by Nihei obviously. Tower dungeon is fantastic too.
>>284369460kek cute
>>284370850Couldn't really get into Biomega. I remember it having Blame's surreal setting with a completely off the walls plotline (in a bad way). Tower Dungeon's been great though. Almost couldn't believe Nihei could write somewhat normal but likeable characters, even if they are a bit more trope-ish. From what I've read, Blame > Tower Dungeon > KoS = Biomega
>>284373312>I remember it having Blame's surreal setting with a completely off the walls plotlineI thought it did it in a good wayThat spread of the bear on the motorcycle lives rent free in my head
>>284324191joshikohei perhaps
>>284375550what's it about?
>>284376833it's like, about giant robooots, and stuffjust read it
>>284313080>?si=ck661Xjn26IYT4iK>>284333238>?si=tqQ1ClB3O-3TsUaffuck off safeguards, not falling for that one
People will disagree with me but MiA is on par with blame in term if environment art.
>>284376833high school girls' pubes
>>284377078>MiAwhat's that?
>>284379762made in abyss
>>284380345made by abyss is made by an obvious pedophile thougheven the interesting setting and anime's amazing ost cannot make the magical realm tolerable in the long run
>>284380647>pedophile
>>284307797https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIa3iGfZSkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHOQD2upGBUanything intense and kinda echoey fits this manga super well
I hate that I can't talk about this series out loud because I have to explain why it's written "Blame" but pronounced like "Blamm"dude should have spent more time paying attention in english class instead of sketching giger ripoffs in his notebook
>>284305399>what is this manga about?>future>AI robots build structures (buildings, space stations etc.)>humans kind of go extinct>cyborg goes on a quest to try to find a human or DNA of a human because only humans can shut off the AI robots which have been continuesly building and the structure has by now reached the size of our whole solar systemthat's it in a nutshell, it's a wacky adventure trip through the eyes of the protag and because he's literally traversing billions of miles throughout the story you have sudden timeskips like when he walks across a room where the planet Saturn once was in and it takes him like hundreds of years or something.
>>284375316The existence of the second half of the manga really sticks in your nibd and the first half had the best action the author has ever done.
>>284382293It being called Blame is just more evocative. Sure it wasn't the authorial intent and "Blame" doesn't actually have much thematic or narrative relevance to the series, but it stuck for good reason.
>>284383873I just read it like the English word "blame"franky it's a better namealthough in fairness, this is exactly the kind of thing purists point out, where readers of the translated work give undue weight to elements that are mere artifacts of localisation
