NIHEI DISCUSSION THREAD! Few months ago when they began reprinting

Tsumugi best girl.

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Yeah, let me find them. I didn't get around to scanning the ones that I just took phone pictures with though - I might do that right now.

Beyond simple *changes* to the original print, a lot of pages have proven to be damaged. There are incongruencies, burns, and general shenanigans throughout. Those issues are not things you would notice upon reading through the volumes, though - you would have to be looking for them. Next picture I post will showcase them, if I can find my image.

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>>135797040
Here we go. Like I said, the incongruencies and burns are very small and mostly in the early pages - not things you would notice if you were just going to read the volumes.

Bumping so I can get this done, hang on for 5.

Post everything you've got. I remember that there was a lot of this shit in reprinted edition. If you would post all changes to the original it would be greatly appreciated.

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>>135797797
That's an exaggeration; there's not too much of it. The ones that are actually distracting are mostly near the end of the manga. That being said, 2 more unfortunate comparison pages are coming up in a sec.

>>135797040
Aw dammit. I can deal with most of these changes, but that cube thing around killy looked so awesome.

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People really hate Nihei's less gritty style? I think it is not that bad.

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>>135798478
>>135798437
Nihei's "new style" is the worst thing to happen to art in general since Milton Babbitt.

>>135798437
too much white , the architecture stands out better with greys and blacks and his modern character designs make everyone look like fat yukkuris.


killy looked like he had been stuffing his face with one too many silicon food bars in those new blame covers. Abara was where his art was at his peak.

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>>135798827
>Abara was where his art was at his peak.
I still prefer the final two or three volumes of Blame! to Abara. There's simply too many good pages in them to say Abara is better. Pic related is one of my favorite manga pages - it's simply incredible how perfectly he was able to use black and screen tone, and he just completely threw all of that technique out of the window for Sidonia and part of Biomega.

I have nothing against Nihei new style, yeah, he developes over the years. But he shouldn't redraw older titles of his. New covers, ok, but leave the insides as they were originaly drawn.

This barrier thing isn't the only thing that he redraw yes?

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>>135799353
>This barrier thing isn't the only thing that he redraw yes?
There's some other crap - obviously you can see the massive redraw in my post here: >>135797040
He redraws/changes some other smaller things in the other volumes (and the same one), but that one was just absurdly fucking jarring when I was checking for changes. They also published many of the original colored covers in grayscale for some fucking reason.

Now, for those of you curious or anxious about the Abara reprint - this spread at the beginning is massively crunched down into two pages. Originally this was a 3-4 page spread, I forget which. Also, a painting that takes up a page in the original volume is shown only in a small box - I'll post that next. As I *recall*, literally nothing else has changed besides maybe some grayscale crap - the art in the Abara reprint hasn't been redrawn or computer modified like Blame! was.

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>>135799784
Pic related comes in miniature form in the reprint for some bizarre fucking reason, and it's marked with a label in English stating the fucking date and publisher of the magazine in which it was featured, but does not actually feature the image itself. I have a photo of it somewhere; if I can't find it, I'll just take another in a second.

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>>135799864
Here we are.

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>>135799784
And here's our deliciously crushed spread! How wonderful.

i fucking hate how Nihei forgot how to use black.
Blame! looks retarded with really light contrasts

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>>135800007
Yes, yes it does, I'm glad we agree on that.

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>>135800178
bumping myself because why the fuck not, I want a Blame thread for once in a month

>>135798638
that... doesn't look bad at all?

the Blame scans are really fucked up and they're not supposed to be as dark as they are; there's loads of clipping.

except for the stupid box removal, the new version looks fine.

>>135800419
>missing the massive redraw
get out

>>135800419
Maybe. But this "box" is very importance for this scene so removing it is fucking retarded.
It's like taking off gag and rope off a character that you previously gaged and roped in the picture.
It doesn't make any sense that he have problems with moving his arms in this fight if there's nothing to bind him and yet he does. Why? Cause there's a barrier that we don't see and that is supposed to be there, what the actual fuck.

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>>135800581
Thank you.
;_; people don't seem to understand how much those kinds of details matter to this manga

Why did he remove that? Where is sense in this?

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>>135800701
I don't know, and there isn't any.

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>Tfw Nihei turned into a fallen idol
why

>>135798437
His new style is garbage compared to his late-Blame days. It really is a great loss that he will never be that good again.

>>135798638
As in new style do you mean Sidonia's style?

>>135802488
He may not even *make* manga again. After the end of Sidonia, he said that he was "done with deadlines" or something, it's effectively the end of his manga career, and that he didn't intend to write anything that he couldn't do on his own chosen schedule.

>>135802345
His daughter. Not joking or being rude, she somehow cajoles him into making certain things happen in his manga.

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>>135802588
Yeah. See: >>135799329
>it's simply incredible how perfectly he was able to use black and screen tone, and he just completely threw all of that technique out of the window for Sidonia and part of Biomega.

>>135798827
>Abara
>Not Biomega
I know Abara was good but his best was absolutely at Biomega

>>135802633
Considering what he did to Sidonia I think that isn't a bad decision.

>>135802715
Last 2 volumes of Biomega was really weird
But first 2 was his peak at architecture porn IMO

>>135802719
Only early chapters.

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>>135798437

He now looks like Miyazaki.

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Old Nihei reminds me a bit of Giger.

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>>135802776
Agreed. Apparently he got to do whatever he wanted with Blame (due to a kindly sympathetic editor), which is why it turned out so well - I doubt he got any sort of freedoms comparable to that with Sidonia.

>>135802719
"no"

>>135802780
Some of Biomega's architecture was good, but it generally never struck me as particularly thematically effective, as opposed to how it was with Blame and Abara. There are a certain number of exceptional pages - obvious example being the missile page - but those few can't exactly tip the scales. His character/body designs were best in late Blame and Abara for certain, though.

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I've bought the reprints. Didn't even notice those defects until I stumbled upon a thread like this.

What I agree with is the fact that it's hard to look at the spreads without crushing the spine of the book. Also, I wish that they included the original covers inside.

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Also the new covers are pretty nice. There are also the side views inside.
I assume those were the designs that Nihei did for that short that Polygon pictures did. Maybe the original plan was to do a full-length movie.

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>>135803108
>new localization never ;_;

>>135803159
Well, dialogue there is sparse, and for most part pretty simple. I can manage reading it with a dictionary.

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>>135803000
>Also, I wish that they included the original covers inside.
That was a big piss-off to me too at first, but I stopped caring eventually since the defects/changes made me become dead inside. I really don't want to believe that the covers we got were Nihei's intended/projected image for Blame art; it'd hurt my heart even more. Even if they were though, death of the author, blah blah blah.

By the by, I didn't notice this for the longest time and haven't had a chance/reason to bring it up in a thread: Nihei drew Killy's face to look relatively normal (in the originals) on one page in Volume 1: pic related. I don't know if he accidentally did it or what, but I thought it was a bizarre coincidence, what with everyone claiming he couldn't draw a human until later.

>>135803259
I think you'll find you won't even need a dictionary; the imagery tends to speak for itself, and where it doesn't, you'll remember the plot/basic lines. The brain skips over the lines that you already know or don't need to recall, because of how massively the art overshadows the talking. I didn't even notice I was doing it unconsciously for a good hour or two.

>>135803305
Oh, he knows how to draw people, but not at a very good level. His focus in art was architecture and other inanimate objects.
He also wanted to show that most characters have mutations and not entirely human anymore.
A lot of time has passed. Nihei said that Kirii was more than 3000 years old. So this is probably the reason why he looks more normal than most other characters. That is also the reason for amnesia and loss of functionality.

>>135803529
>Kirii

fag

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>>135803529
I know all that, I just meant that that page specifically had Killy look different; more normal than he usually did around that period. Compare and contrast.

Oh - and there's that one sketching of a guy in Digimortal. Does anyone know if that was something Nihei copied from a sketch of someone in real life, or if he drew it himself? It was bizarrely out-of-place in terms of human design. I'll post it next.

>>135798827
>Abara was where his art was at his peak
Surprised to see someone actually share this opinion

Its like the ultimate form of what Blame was going towards

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>>135803755
>>135803730
don't be mean to our dear friends

Anyways, this sketch is what I was referencing.

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>>135803730
Yea. They are Kirri and Shibo.
Also it's "Toa" not "Toha".

>>135803809
Kinda reminds me of the last Russian Tsar.

>>135804045
fuck off nigger, and take gatsu with you on the way out.

>>135804228
I will, and will enjoy every minute of it.

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>>135804045
>Kinda reminds me of the last Russian Tsar.
Huh, you're right. Nonetheless, the man in the sketch looks much more French/German than he does Russian, so I don't think it was poor old Nick 2.

Also, the only part of your other response that you got right was Toa

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>>135804272
Replying to myself here - that also reminds me: has anyone got any lead on what the book is that Killy has in Volume 1? It's almost certainly a translation of *something*... I know people have been looking for a good while, and I haven't asked in a good while. Both these questions are going to bug the crap out of me until we get answers.

>>135804272
Russian Tsars have a o lot of german/french blood. Nickolay`s mother was from Denmark (Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar)

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>>135804432
Fair. Still, I have this nagging feeling that I've seen a more congruent face before on someone else famous. My studies are primarily in European philosophy, industrialism and literature and those seem like areas that Nihei would choose to reference, given his education/writing. There's just simply too many faces and names for me to run a list of who it *could* be, if anyone at all.

More important

How do you feel about the PV of BLAME!'s new movie?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDA1bUkotIk

>full cgi

>>135804987
The 6 Epsiode OVAs captured the atmosphere of Blame perfectly, I'm worried this will end up just another action series with an overly talkative Killy.

>>135804987
Better than the previous adaptation which were a pure garbage.

>>135804987
I feel like it's not going to work. It will be better than we expect it to be, but it won't be something you'll want to watch more than once. While the character models and their movements don't look particularly great now, I'm sure it'll look more fluid/true-to-form later on in the production, so that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

The part that really frightens me about their trailers/previews for it is the music. Part of what makes The City so scary is the largely "present" absence of sounds. If they put music really *anywhere* in the film, it could have a very negative effect on the tone/themes of the film's premise. Maybe if we were seeing a camera panning around a massive space, you could have music for 5-10 seconds, but that would be the limit per event. I could never stand for hearing a distorted guitar roaring over Killy fighting Schiff or something; that would completely collapse any and all tension leading up to such a fight.

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>>135795885
Please fix Sidonia's ending, Polygon.
Hoshijiro ;_;

>>135805369
It can't be done. The entire premise of Sidonia which was intriguing at first became a joke once the Gauna stopped being a real threat. Nihei scaled up the human technology much too far, making any number of Gauna under 1,000 seem paltry later; after many pilots had died fighting the first few to emerge within the manga's timeline.

Man, this is rather disappointing. I thought it was a particular style for Sidonia, not a distinct change of style overall.

>>135803108
> Maybe the original plan was to do a full-length movie.

Where have you been? They ARE making a movie. Check the news.

>>135798478
>getting rid of the stasis cube
For what fucking purpose

>>135805644
It was still pretty interesting until Benisuzume's defeat though. Afterwards it was pretty much nothing but waifufaggotry until the end. I thought it was gonna become interesting again with the gauna-Sho part, but that went nowhere.

>>135805767
I briefly considered suicide when I opened up my volumes and saw the new style crap. I just don't understand where Nihei went wrong. Why does he think it looks good? Who told him that? His daughter?

>>135804987
Putting aside visuals, music feels out of place. It should be some drone/dub/minimal/ambient techno

>>135805928
I don't get it either. Could be because Sidonia got quite popular (enough for an anime adaptation), mostly due to manga being more mainstream than it used to be back when Blame! came out. Maybe he thinks this change of style is the key to his success. Who knows?

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>>135805847
The eternal question that can be asked of Nihei for pretty much every decision he's made: Why?

Over time, I've gathered that the answer that he hasn't publicly stated anywhere is: "because fuck you".

Pic related - another "Why" image out of a series of "Why" images from Nihei.

>>135805911
That was kinda what I was getting at - when the Gauna ceased being a real threat, the characters became the real focal point of the manga, unfortunately.

>>135806087
I'd rather have more of this than Sidonia.

>>135806003
It shouldn't exist at all, unless it's something like this:

https://aairria.bandcamp.com/album/metastructure-netsphere

While it is simply some guy's projection of what The City would sound like, it'd make a whole hell of a lot more sense than random techno popping in to interrupt what will soon and inevitably be shitposted as "Literally Walking: The Movie"

>>135805928
Nihei's whole thing was architecture, not drawing characters. Unfortunately, selling mangas based on how well superstructures are drawn isn't really a thing these days...

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>>135806109
I can give you more of it. You know what, it's Nihei sharetime, dear friends.

Snikt, the Wolverine manga Nihei did for Marvel:
https://mega.nz/#F!n5RizB5D!wrBgi1ZQQ9GyvrtsBhhY8A

and Breaking Quarantine, the Halo manga Nihei did for Bungie:
https://mega.nz/#F!74gxCQaS!DlTyjE9t_I8ibcgULBSq5Q

and I'll just post the rest of Bitch's Life to bump the thread a little.

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>>135806404
the rest of Nihei's contributions to Bitch's Life*

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>>135806448
>>135806319
Nihei's great at drawing "architecturally designed" characters, though. Just take a look at Killy's suits or any one of the Silicon/Safeguard. Drawing characters may not be his #1 priority in manga, but he can certainly mix the two if he wants.

>>135806404
I loved Snikt, nice take on the character.

Thanks for sharing, anon!

>>135806166
Half of the tags I used are in this guy description.
I think industrial techno stuff like this would fit action scenes pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iaa1LXOwNg and haunting drones like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfHpR_Wodc accompanying traversing of the endless constructions sounds good to me.
Nice bandcamp project you've found there by the way.

>>135806087
Which is why I hope Polygon makes a third season with an original ending. They stopped at the perfect point for it. And considering the differences in the anime's story I'd say there is a chance they might do it.

>>135803803
You're not alone... I too think that Late Blame/Early Biomega/Abara was his peak. At that moment his style was the best.

Not as sketchy as early Blame and not as clean as Sidonia.

>>135806673
I tend to post a link to it whenever there's a "What to listen to when reading ____" thread. There's another bandcamp project album inspired by Blame, but it's not at all like what you'd expect.

https://gerardugalle.bandcamp.com/album/megastructure-unofficial-tsutomu-nihei-blame-soundtrack

I guess you *could* call it ambient drone or minimalist industrial or something but it's got a strange vibe to it in general, as it's focused around concepts within the manga and not the overarching concept of the manga. Not a bad album, but perhaps not the best choice for it.

Dumping Nihei's Sabrina because I still find it hilarious that it was ever published.

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>>135803108
>that Cibutt

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>>135806958
Forget pic on first post, 10/10

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>>135807175

I have to go talk with my wife so I can't stay an bump the thread, but, is he ever going to finish BLAME!? I first started reading and was completely lost, but the art was so good I kept going, I'm still not entirely sure what I read, 3 times. Iv gone and tried to read all of his other spin off's as well, Sidonia was meh at best tho.

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>>135807272
>is he ever going to finish BLAME!?
wat
I'm gonna go ahead and assume you're one of countless people who didn't realize this was the final page, and not just a "summary" drawing at the end.

>>135807290
This is one of my favorite Nihei oneshots, but I imagine people who haven't read BLAME! don't have a fucking clue what it's doing.

this is the guy that did the Wolverine manga too right?
He has a particular easy distinguishable way too draw

>>135798437
i like it anon

>>135807023
This one is so weird. Did he eat too many mushrooms from his garden when he drew this?

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>>135807522
>>135806404
Yessir. His unique style is what makes his art so intriguing.

The text on this picture is nonsensical garbage, but I still like the visuals.

>>135807000
Delicious, ain't it?

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>>135807469
How do you interpret it?

>>135807374
What does this page even mean, the story seems unfinished... Can you maybe help me understand the entire story start to finish?

>>135806404
>>135807522
>>135807608

Right, Snikt.
The story on that one was pretty meh / dull. The art was great yeah.

Oh totally forgot he was Sidonia guy, and I watched that. Yeah kind of wished that it wasn't computer animation, so his art style would shine through. Like Aijin. Not that the computer animation of that studio is horrible, but i would prefer hand drawn.

>>135807704
>How do you interpret it?
I made a post about it a while ago, I'll see if I can find it in a bit, but the basic idea was that it doesn't really have a deeper meaning (you can probably find one for yourself, if you'd like, but I don't think it was intended to be a particularly metaphorical work with any deep themes), and that it was more of an experiment in how much a world can be fleshed out by such a simple manga, with minimal text and only a few panels.

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>>135807721
>>135800698

In all seriousness, it's finished. So here's your entire story:

Killy is a surviving human legal authority from before the Netsphere disaster. The Netsphere disaster was an event in which the Silicon Life organization, hackers and businessmen managed to cause a massive error in the programming: instead of Safeguards only attacking people trying to utilize the Netsphere for malicious purposes, they now attack *all* humans. You saw the technology available in the manga - a million Safeguard units can spawn at any one place and butcher everyone. Just prior to the disaster, there was a change in protocol: only those possessing Net Terminal genes would be allowed to access the Netsphere. They, along with most other humans, were killed en masse, and possessing the genes and connecting to a terminal is the only means of re-entering the Netsphere and resolving the chaos. Those who survived the "purge", I guess would be the appropriate term, are the ancestors of the people Killy runs into during his travels. Everyone except him (and one other character, but that doesn't matter) from the time before the disaster is dead, and all the contemporary people know is that the Safeguards are bad and will kill humans.

Anyway, Killy is thousands of years old by the time the manga begins and his memory constantly deteriorates due to the limits of a human brain, hence he does not remember his cybernetic augmentations nor how to activate or use them. We watch him travel around the constantly expanding City, looking for someone with Net Terminal genes. That is the sole purpose of his quest, and he is heavily implied to be an extremely high-level legal authority: he is not allowed to lose consciousness or shut down without eliminating immediate threats to his existence, he has the most powerful GBE, and he is virtually impossible to kill due to his regenerative qualities.

There is a plague that is spreading in the air of The City, brought about by the Silicon.

>>135807962
>I made a post about it a while ago, I'll see if I can find it in a bit
Found the post I made a few months ago. It doesn't really add much to what I said above, and this was an OPT so it has a bit of added context that need not be re-stated in a Nihei thread, but I'll copy-paste the whole thing here anyway. Sorry if this isn't a very eloquent statement of my idea, but I think it gets the point across:

"It's essentially an experiment in how a world can be developed and fleshed out in such a short manga through carefully thought out panels and very minimalistic use of text. That's also something we see (albeit in a less concentrated, though by virtue of being much longer, ultimately more developed) in Nihei's later work, BLAME!

With Sabrina, and BLAME! as well, we see an interesting kind of storytelling by which the themes of a work are not conveyed through actions and events to be seen as metaphors for certain ideas, nor as ideas explicitly featured in the story itself, but as ideas implicit to the nature of the world depicted. BLAME! has been subjected to much analysis in this sense, but there isn't really much discussion of Sabrina online. When reading these works, I think it's best to consider what we can and cannot infer from what we see, and to do that we have to look into the details and consider what they mean.

At 6 pages, the world in Sabrina can only be explored in so much depth, but if you look at what we see there, you can see an underlying logic to the things that are going on."

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>>135808335
The plague can and will kill any humans it comes into contact with. Humans of this era are wholly unfamiliar with the concept of disease - throughout the space of The City, there are nanomachines that actively eliminate all possible viruses, germs, etc. so that there is never any sickness. It is intended to prevent Killy from completing his quest of finding a survivor with Net Terminal genes, by killing any remaining humans that might have them.

Eventually Killy runs into TOA and gets a genetic sample from another ancient human, Seu. Seu then disappears into a spacetime rift with his waifu. Davinellulinvega, a hulking outcast Silicon with huge influence, wants to access the Netsphere just to see what it looked like. She employs brutal tactics in order to get the sample off of Cibo, because she has discovered a provisional terminal to the Netsphere with lax access requirements: you only need a human's DNA to enter the Netsphere in this terminal. Shenanigans ensue, Cibo does something fucking stupid, Davinel and Dhomochevsky die. Davinellulinvega, however, managed to access and start a download for a Level 9 Safeguard unit before her ultimate death. Being the only living person still hooked into the machinery, the download starts in Cibo's body and both the Safeguard unit and Seu's genetic information is transferred into her; the latter in an orb stuck to her stomach. Killy freaks the fuck out because he has no idea what the fuck is going on, much like most readers at this point, and shoots at this weird, morphed Level 9 Cibo-looking thing. It determines he's a threat, and teleports a CHUNK OF THE SUN into the room where they are fighting. As I said in the last post, Killy can't lose consciousness unless he eliminates threats: he briefly emerges from a pool of lava and shoots the now-vulnerable Level 9 unit, permanently crippling it and restoring some control over the body and mind to Cibo, but she has unfortunately mentally regressed to a child's state.

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>>135808805
After 14 years in self-contained stasis embedded in molten rock, Killy wakes up. He has somewhat returned to a more human state for the time being, finds his gun, and starts firing it off at full-power in every direction, angrily/laughingly in the face of his nigh-impossible survival and involuntary imprisonment in an immobile body.

Shit happens, Killy starts tracking down Cibo. He acquires a talking necklace along the way. Sanakan became an agent of the Governing Agency because they inexplicably had her data records, and were able to restore her to the physical world, so she's now working to help with the Cibo issue too; but she doesn't know if Killy is even alive, much less where he would be. Cibo and Sanakan spend a ludicrous amount of time traveling, fighting off increasingly powerful and deadly Silicon Life until Sanakan is overwhelmed and killed again. Cibo is taken in by the primary faction of Silicon Life for the orb; their intentions for it are unclear and never explained because they die. Sanakan demands the Governing Agency reboot her into reality once more - this time with a better fucking gun - and they comply, but warn her that if she dies again, they won't be able to resurrect her. She massacres her way through the Silicon alliance, slaughtering almost all of them (Killy kills one of them off-panel) and lands, wounded, with Cibo on a little bridge thing. The Exterminator Safeguard arrives, and prepares to push everyone's shit in. Killy arrives, and prepares to push the Exterminator's shit in. The Exterminator cheats and puts a box around Killy that prevents him from doing anything, and Sanakan saves him by redirecting its attack aimed at Killy towards herself. Killy sets the GBE to max settings and blasts through both the box and the Exterminator, completely destroying *all* of their environs, and probably was the reason Cibo died, but I can't say anything solid about that. Dying Sanakan tells Killy the secret:

How the hell did you people manage to finish Blame. I can barely complete the first chapter before I'm lost.

>>135797040
Page?
I want to check my Italian version.

>>135797161
This can be seen, but still less than in the image you posted.

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>>135809556
>almost no dialog
>get lost
How?

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>>135809556
>>135807721

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>>135809229
She merged her own genetic information with Seu's, which resides within the orb affixed to Cibo. Seu had Net Terminal genes, and the orb-child will now, too. The only problem is that the orb cannot grow into a human until it is in a place safe/free from the plague altogether. Killy leaves the talking necklace with a representative of the Governing Agency, who takes its data into a virtual storage facility - that's where we get the weird, dreamy chapter. He was told by the representative that the journey he's now going to undergo will be even longer and even harder than EVERYTHING leading up to that point.

We timeskip forward an unknown amount of time. Killy is running out of power, out of motivation, out of even care to complete his task. He can't regenerate properly (or at least quickly) anymore. He's constantly demoralized by the fact that new Safeguard units have been created using the recovered design of the Level 9 (Cibo's face), and has to now constantly kill beings that wear her face. He reaches a level where it's raining, and lies down, knowing that his mission is close to an end: when the Builders are creating a new level, they flood the level with fluids beforehand. He has reached the edge of The City after God knows how many thousands of years of walking and fighting constantly. An extremely high level Safeguard - one with the exact same design as Killy - shoots him in the head before he can exit properly. Again, Killy can't lose consciousness yet, unlike any other individual: he shoots and kills the Safeguard and then collapses entirely. The fluids rise over a massive, slogging period of time, eventually carrying Killy up to the surface - the top, and the true, absolute end of the level: the edge of The City. He sees plants growing, and the orb beginning to change colors.

>>135809783
>He's constantly demoralized

I`m not shure that he has any feels at the end. Killy probably lost all his humanity (?) during the manga chapters. In early volumes he smiled, eat, frightened, but after second half he was turned into walking killing machine.

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>>135809783
Our last page - the one here: >>135807374 - is another timeskip of sorts. Killy is leading the child, who is obviously of several years' age now and is wearing a sealed hazmat suit to protect from the Silicon plague, *back into* The City. His quest now is to find a terminal with which to connect to the Netsphere and finally, finally, finally resolve the chaos and allow the Governing Agency to regain control over the operations of The City (excluding those of the Safeguards). In Blame! 2, a one-shot sequel, it is revealed that Killy succeeded long ago. So much time has passed that people don't even believe he ever existed: he is a myth, a legend. The humans began to rebuild their respective societies throughout the Megastructures, and they also began to drive the Silicon Life out, exacting a genocide on the species. One Silicon survives and makes it to a different edge of The City - one with a door - where they are accosted by an unholy amount of Safeguards, one of which is an Exterminator. They are miraculously rescued as they begin to lose consciousness by Killy, who uses the GBE to destroy the Exterminator and to blast a hole through the "door" to the outside. The Silicon wakes up outside of The City, on a strange, sandy ocean shore. Carrying the genetic information of his(?) entire group of Silicon Life he flies off into the unknown space, searching for a new home for the species where they will not be persecuted.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. That's our story. It's amazing that Blame! summarized is still like 10 paragraphs.

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;_;

>>135809556
Stick to AZ faggot

>>135798827
To be honest I feel like his best art is in Biomega.
Sure, there's less architecture porn. But when it's there it's awesome.

>>135810103
He goes apeshit when he gets out of the coma, he cries when Cibo dies, he bothers to pick up Mori and to hand her off to someone he can trust, he lies down flat on the ground in the pouring rain instead of doing anything after he blows up yet another Cibo replica. All examples of clear human emotion.

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>>135809556
Track the manga with my summary and you won't be particularly lost. I left holes in it where things should be relatively clear, so you'll still need to figure those out if you're dumb.

>>135809621
>>135809737
Nihei's action scenes aren't the easiest for me to follow.

>>135809562
Uhh, there aren't page numbers in the volumes. That being said, it's Volume 6, about 7/8ths of the way through. On thespectrum, it's page 152 in Volume 10.

>>135808335
>>135808805
>>135809229
>>135809783
>>135810159
I should re-read BLAME!, I've forgotten a lot of stuff. I'll probably wait until the rescans with a better translation come out for the sake of getting a better idea of things I was unsure of. Anyway, I agree with a lot of what you've put, though there are a few things I interpret differently. However, I just picked up on this:
>>135810197
Killy has both legs here, but in the bit just before and the bit just after, he has lost a leg. Is this bit something like a flashback to a similar event that had happened a bit earlier, or has Nihei made a mistake in the art?

>>135810505
The first volume's action scenes are fucking bizarre and you're absolutely right, are hard to follow: if you don't get it the first time you see it, you'll have to look at it a few times to get a better understanding. That being said, that is *only* the first volume. The rest of the fights are pretty simple, pretty easy to digest. Especially the one I posted at the top of this thread, provided the box is there.

>>135810159
>>135810616
Does anyone have a good link to re-redaing the series? I feel like some of what you mentioned was in the version I read.

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Blame is called Blame! because it's the sound Killy's gun makes. Just thought you guys mind want to know that.

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>tfw when bo Blame! game developed by From Software

>>135810616
May be it was Safeguard, which shot Killy at the end?

>>135810616
>Killy has both legs here, but in the bit just before and the bit just after, he has lost a leg. Is this bit something like a flashback to a similar event that had happened a bit earlier, or has Nihei made a mistake in the art?
That's not Killy, that's the high-level Safeguard tracking him.

If there's something you interpret differently, it's presumably something left largely open to interpretation, hence it doesn't really matter which way you read it so long as it's comprehensible. I kinda intended the summary to be more of a guide than a true summary.

>>135802633
I asked him about the rumors about going more mainstream because of his daughter suggestions/complaints and he denied everything, though

>>135810701
It makes a "blam!" sound, dummy. Nihei misspelled it and they decided it looked/sounded cooler.

>>135810676
http://view.thespectrum.net/series/blame-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+01&page=1

>>135810831
Thx broski.

>>135802780
He said that Biomega is what he was drawing when he switched from paper to digital.
That's probably the main difference you feel.

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>>135810777
I'm 99% certain he's said on at least one occasion that his daughter coerced him into doing something. He'll deny it being significant to the death; much like he denied remembering much of Blame and Abara, right?

>>135810404
I've read all your paragraphs and I was shocked. I did read BLAME! few years ago and it was one of a kind manga. What you've written in your paragraphs schocked me cause I never thought about ending that way. You know, that reaching the edge of the Dyson Sphere wasn't the end. And that the last page showed Killy escorting the child from the Orb back to the Megastructure. I must have missed the part with Silicon Life virus murdering remaining humans that could end the chaos. I definietly need to reread BLAME! when I have time.
I reread NOiSE few weeks ago so it would be good to do it with BLAME! as quick as I can.
10 volumes but it's sucha great manga.

>>135810701
I didn't actually realize this and gave me a lot of trouble finding a copy when I was in Japan.

When do you get a little more explanation on what's really going on and who Killy is? I'm almost done with the first volume, and I'm really liking it. The art is great, and the worldbuilding is getting me hard. I can infer and read between the lines and speculate on what's happening (or maybe more importantly, what happened) to the world Killy and the other characters are in, and the motivations for people wanting to kill Killy, but do things start to piece themselves together, soon?

I'm not asking for a flat out wall of text explaining every last detail, but maybe some more hints that the readers could pick up on.

>>135810930
>I must have missed the part with Silicon Life virus murdering remaining humans that could end the chaos
It was literally mentioned one time and never brought up again, but it's still a huge plot point.

>>135810915
Nah, he said that his daughter liked Attack on Titan better than his manga.

>>135811009
Iirc you get a lot of insight into what's going on when they reach Toha Heavy Industries which is around volume 3 maybe? I haven't read BLAME! in a while though.

>>135811009
>When do you get a little more explanation on what's really going on and who Killy is?
On who Killy is? Never; at least not directly. On "what's really going on", I think Volume 3, when he picks up a hot chick in the big city.

>I'm not asking for a flat out wall of text explaining every last detail, but maybe some more hints that the readers could pick up on.
too bad
http://www.randomisgod.com/blame/Artbook82.html

>>135811009
It takes a while to form a picture of whats going on. It feeds you little details all the way through, and some things that you dismissed might end up being really important but it's hard to know since you lack context.

It's the kind of manga that gets better with each reread.

>>135802980
He quoted Giger as a huge influence.

>>135802990
Not that true. Actually his editor for Sidonia, mr Suzuki, was a huge fan of Blame! when he was studying in college before becoming an editor, so he let a lot of liberties to Nihei. It's just that Nihei was tired of not being understood, not even by family and friends. Or at least that's what he said.

>>135810404
>>135810674
Thank you exposition anons.

>>135810753
>>135810768
Oh fuck, yeah, I'm an idiot, it's the safeguard. Even has the logo on their clothes in the last panel, though it also has "PLAYFORD" on as well.

Also:
>>135810768
>If there's something you interpret differently, it's presumably something left largely open to interpretation, hence it doesn't really matter which way you read it so long as it's comprehensible.
Mostly, yeah. It's pretty easy to overlook stuff with BLAME!, since a lot of things are shown without any explicit meaning given. I'll try to go through the whole manga at some point and try to make a more detailed account of what I think is going on, and post it in a future Nihei thread or something to see what people think.

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>>135811250
>I'll try to go through the whole manga at some point and try to make a more detailed account of what I think is going on.

OP here. After plowing through this thread I think about doing that too. Anon writing what's going on in BLAME! in paragraphs sort of enlightened me to new things I missed or interpreted differently. This thread turned out better tha I've expected, I'm glad.

>>135811242
I think like 65% of the posts in this thread are just me

>>135806109
Well he won't make any of that either because Fuck you too.

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Why did Killy want the Net Terminal gene?

>>135811878
Read the thread ya dingus

>>135811996
Don't call me a dingus, you donut.

>>135810915
Yes.
He evaded most questions about them by saying it's been too long and he doesn't remember, like when one guy asked about the girl with the dog in the first chapter and her answered by saying he didn't know who we were taking about.

>>135797040
>>135798478
>>135798638

Maybe Nihei realized the Dune movie wasn't as good as he thought it was ten years ago.

>>135811878
He wanted to access all the porn from the web.

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>>135812210
What the fuck is the Netsphere, anyway?

>>135812262
Like 4chan, but more hardcore.

>>135811592
How many times have you read BLAME! exposition anon?
And do you think reprint is worth buying? Changes happened only in few pages right? So comparing those changed pages against hundreds from the whole thing makes them little to no problem at all?

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Yesterday they announced we will get Blame! and Knights of Sidonia in Poland.

Until now we only had Abara from Nihei.

Looking really forward to this since it will be 2in1, B5 and hardcover (pre-order only)

As for Sidonia ending was disappointing and manga itself wasn't all that good but I will probably buy it anyway if there will be some promotion.

>>135812528
Kurwa

>>135811878
>Why did Killy want the Net Terminal gene?
Past the point where he is told of its significance by the governing agency at the end of volume 2, the answer should be obvious. Reading some of the comments Nihei has made, and by considering the manga, it seems likely that he was working as an agent of some organisation prior to this, to find the NTG for them, though either he abandoned them for the governing agency at the end of volume 2, or he simply forgot about that organisation and simply focused on his task, which Nihei has suggested may be viable due to the vast amounts of time that pass during Killy's journey through the megastructures. Now, the organisation may have been the governing agency (or some smaller body within), and the scene at the end of volume 2 may have been to reveal details not previously given to him, or to remind him of his quest, since he had spent a long time traversing levels that the Agency could not reach. It seems likely that he worked for an organisation under the control of the governing agency, or the government that existed in Noise, given the line "Killy is a secret agent of a pre-safeguard system". A second option is that this organisation was one we haven't heard of, that may not even exist any more. A third option is that he worked for the Cyber Life Society, and the dog girl from chapter 2 was his correspondence with them, working under Cibo, to find the NTG. That theory is a little more far-fetched, though, and requires a lot of making shit up to get it to work.

Most likely, I think Killy was an advanced Cyborg tasked by a police-like body working under the government in Noise (or maybe independently after the collapse) to find and protect NTG holders from the safeguard, though was not given a reason why at that stage, and the dog girl was among the remnants of that organisation.

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NIHEI YOU LAZY BASTARD

>>135812779
Show > Tell

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>>135812722
I want a 500-hour long Blame! game so fucking badly. Or just A blame! game. Somebody, please fucking make one and make it good.

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So is the Netsphere a computer that's so fucking powerful that it can literally alter time, space and the concepts of physics?

>>135812913
http://bac9.tumblr.com/
It's happening, but it's mostly just a walking simulator. A action-based BLAME! game can't happen for a long time, because GBE damage would be too hard to render properly in real time right now, I imagine.

>>135813004
The structures of the city are the actual physical "computer."
The netsphere is more like a sentient version of the internet.

>>135813284
Dude, what. That's fucking crazy. Man, Blame's world is literally the best Sci-Fi world to ever exist.

The concept of a structure so big it actually envelops the moon, uses it as building material and then moves on is just so out there it's incredible.

>really want to read BLAME!
>left-to-right

>>135808805
I thought Davinel was killed before reaching the side of the river in the netsphere, and that's when Cibo connection kicks in, as she is the one that always wanted to see the netsphere (considering the experiments she was doing way back before meeting Killy).

>>135809783
>She merged her own genetic information with Seu's, which resides within the orb affixed to Cibo.
>Seu had Net Terminal genes
That is debatable. The whole "2 moms" was weird as explained in the virtual storage dialog.

>new Safeguard units have been created using the recovered design of the Level 9 (Cibo's face)
Aren't those Silicons? They had loli cibo for a while, so they would get its data.

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Why is silicone life hostile anyway?

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This thread is missing some nice round cibos.

>>135813402
You should read Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds.

>>135813404
Get the GTI versions for the first 3 volumes. They have a couple of flaws compared to Omanga, but the image quality is better, plus right to left. Omanga is right to left v4 onwards.

>>135813709
thanks lad

>>135813498
Read Noise if you didn't understand it from BLAME!

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>>135813402
Nihei got his inspiration for the city from pic related.
I'd recommend it to anyone who likes Blame.

>>135813735
funny guy

>>135813697
>secret club has the first three GTI volumes specifically
>and Omanga scans
Thanks anon. Never even knew right-to-left scans of this existed. Any of the flaws you mentioned major that I need to be aware of?

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>>135813534
Reminder that Cibo is canonically unattractive.

>>135813795
I'm curious as to whether dirt still exists.

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>>135813972
Reminder that Cibo does not have any sort of libido.

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Is it still possible to buy the old release? Japanese. I like the volume covers.

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>>135814073
Reminder that Cibo lacks sex organs.

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>>135813972
>unattractive
What. May be she isn`t typical moe-moe girl, but still pretty cute.
Also, Killy changed from from vol.1 ugly freak to sort of handsome... whatever he is, at the end.

>>135814199
How do you know? Regardless, nice ass.

>>135813940
I haven't actually read the Omanga versions in full, but the GTI versions were pretty fine. They pretty much use the exact same translation, word for word,only with shittier grammar (essentially, the GTI versions are a quick re-edit with better raws). I think they did try rewording a couple of lines early on, and although I haven't compared side by side, I think there's only one slightly more significant fuck up in what they did, which is within the very first few pages. "I think he wanted my bag Killy" was instead "Killy, I bet he wanted my cell" in the Omanga version. Omanga is better here, though neither are great. I'm told it should be more like "Killy, I think he was after my genes." That's about it, though. Enjoy.

>>135814338
Well shit alright. So say, on a scale of 1-10, how decent/accurate will my read be with GTI 1-3, then Omanga 4-10?

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>>135814199
Reminder that sexual reproduction hasn't existed in the Blame! universe for thousands of years.

>>135814287
Nihei mentioned the characters being androgynous in his artbook.

>>135814431
Cute is cute.

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>>135814652
That's all for now.

>>135802990
>which is why it turned out so well
Let's be honest, the last volume of BLAME! clearly shows that he was fed up with it, hence the end which came too fast.

>>135814391
I don't really know any Japanese, so I can't say, but from what I've picked up from people who do know Japanese, it should be a good enough experience, and the translation does convey the meanings properly for the most part. I want to avoid putting you off, but I won't lie and say it's immaculate. So, on a 1-10 scale, where 10 is practically the same experience as you'd have in Japanese, 1 is JoJo Part 5 original translation and 5 is a typical scanlation group translator, maybe like a 7 or an 8?

Still mad about Sidonia.

>>135814795
That's acceptable then. Above-average works for me since it'll be better than average group translation so I shouldn't get something stupid like weekly mangastream/mangapanda One Piece trans, and it'll be far far above DUWANG tier.

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I'll dump this because why not
artist: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=5916092

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>>135815021

>【C89】「EAT ME!」シボオンリー合同誌(R-18)
Huh? Cibo Onry?
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=54077889

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>>135815021
Killy, you idiot.

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>>135815063
>>135815091
well I supposed it's more sensible just to go to the pixiv and look at it rather than for me to dump it here

>>135815220
Keep dumping it here, don't stop.

>>135814836
It's all the same shit. This pattern can be seen in most of his works. Nihei starts off strong with a series, his interest in it rapidly deteriorates, and it ends abruptly rushed with nothing but asspulls to accompany it.

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>>135815298
everything is out of order but I'll do it for you

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>>135815414

What is Toha Heavy Industries?

How much influence do they have in the building of the megastructure in BLAME! or are they an entity that adapted to the megastructures around them? It's so weird that this Japanese company exists/survives in such a harsh world where cultural traces of humans are almost wiped clean.

It seems like they are a faction of a long, long-gone era (capitalistic origins back on Earth?) that somehow managed to operate separate to the megastructure.

I think his "new style" fits well for Sidonia most of the time as the mains characters give a pretty lighthearted tone to the manga.
When the story is more dark and gritty, his old style would have been a better choice.
I think he should alternate between the two instead of forgetting how good he was with blacks and grays.

In Biomega, the change of style follows the story and makes the new world really different. I was hopping at the time that it would be just for the sake of the story and it wouldn't become the way he draws all the time. Sadly, I was wrong.

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>>135815091

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>>135815496
and 8 is where it ends: >>135815220

>>135815496
I remember one of their earliest meetings, she was so fucking tall compared to him. He was like a manlet when he stood beside her.

Why is Killy so cool?

>>135815460
It could be that the Toha facility that Killy visits was some kind of space colony that got absorbed by the city.

>>135815460
They came into contact with the City long after it started expanding. Toha's AI negotiated a mutual "don't touch our shit" treaty with Safeguard whom act somewhat sane because they aren't mandated to eliminate AI's.

>>135815792
I heard theories that they were some kind of dimension travelers thanks to their gravity furnace that could warp space and time.

Meanwhile BIOMEGA Universe:
- Holy shit man, zombies everywhere, they're taking over the world let's get the fuck away from here using this new experiment devide of ours.
After dimensional jump to BLAME Universe:
- Where the fuck did this device threw us to, now there's a shit ton of hostile androids trying to kill us and get in here!

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>>135814431
>being androgynous

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>>135812028
He's such a motherfucker. He went back and explained Abara like 2 months before your thing in Italy, didn't he? I know he knows the answers.

>>135812423
Well over 100 times, each time looking for something I might have missed the last time.

Reprint is worth buying if you're not a "seasonal fan" kind of person, and will actually read the manga at a later point. Yes, changes only happen on a few pages, they're just upsetting changes.

>>135816205
I distinctly remember the artbook notes saying something like that.

Nihei probably just forgot.

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>>135813424
>I thought Davinel was killed before reaching the side of the river in the netsphere, and that's when Cibo connection kicks in, as she is the one that always wanted to see the netsphere (considering the experiments she was doing way back before meeting Killy).
Nope, the Governing Agency explicitly says that Davinel was the one who stuck his hand into the Netsphere.

>That is debatable. The whole "2 moms" was weird as explained in the virtual storage dialog.
Think of it like a surrogate pregnancy, but super-future. The 2 genetic samples that are mixed - Sanakan and Seu's - are implanted into the orb which is "carried" by Cibo. It's Sanakan and Cibo's child by virtue of the fact that Cibo is the one in physical possession of the child, but Sanakan and Seu's child by genetics.

>Aren't those Silicons? They had loli cibo for a while, so they would get its data.
We see at the end that the Safeguards are pursuing Killy with more and more force; the Silicon Life group that was involved with Level 9 Cibo was completely exterminated by Sanakan.

>>135816564
>but Sanakan and Seu's child by genetics.
Remind me, where did the Sanakan genes come from? How did Sanakan's genes get in there?

>>135810753
>Blame! Souls
>focus on BB style dodging and aggressive gameplay
>focus on ranged combat
Might be fun.

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>>135814203
Consider that his face was removed at least once.

>>135814782
>end came too fast
pls go away

>>135815460
Toha is literally just a massive company conglomerate that existed before the Netsphere disaster. They closed all entrances/exits when they realized shit was coming down hard, and the people living in it are the descendants of the people who got locked in. Safeguards can't invade it because they had a legal agreement with Toha, made presumably immediately after the disaster began.

>>135816379
>"forgot"

>>135816735
She does a weird James Cameron's Avatar-looking thing with Cibo at one point. It's not explained until she lays out the facts to Killy.

>>135816876
When exactly does that happen?

>>135816832
Why do you thing ending wasn't abrupt and fast?

>>135817149
I said "at one point" because I didn't remember. It's after Cibo goes retarded and before Sanakan dies to the Armored Soldiers, as I recall.

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>>135817208
pls go away
you can come back when you've solved this puzzle

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>>135808805
When Killy saw lv9 Cibo for the first time, he shot it reflexively because Cibo aimed at him with her weird arrow. But the arrow healed him and his right hand regenerated with it. So I think Cibo didn't recognize him as an opponent at that time. It's to remove Pcell that Cibo used the sun nuke.

>>135816379
I just remembered, I think I know what you're referring to - he meant androgynous in appearance. There's no distinctive traits that really distinguish human men from women in this future beyond hair length and tits. That being said, the other species are even more androgynous. You wouldn't have known or guessed Davinel was a chick until I mentioned it.

>>135817304
But I'm not that previous dude that said Nihei was fed up. I'm just curious of your opinion.

Also what's this Playford thing that's written on Killy's arm and Safeguard collar?

And wasn't this safeguard that looked like Killy suppose to be bald? I remember that it was bald safeguard thath blew half of his head, or maybe I was mistaken?

I heard someone say in the past that every white haired female like the one from elevator in log 2 or this child from log 1 are some kind of Cibo's incarnation.

I wonder if that child from log 1 had net terminal gene.

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>>135817784
He shot because he was trying to kill the Safeguard in front of him. The arrow healed him because Cibo was still "in there", but quickly fading away while waiting for the Level 9's programming to fully kick in. When he shot her the first time, whatever Cibo had become at that point - either a heavily mutated Cibo or an almost completed Level 9, your choice - recognized him as an enemy and exploded the room. Killy had already killed Pcell. Go back and read it again; Pcell also shoots at Cibo, Killy realizes she's still alive and murders her.

I still don't get people's hard-on for Blame!, it really felt like it wasted a lot of its own potential to me.

The architecture porn could be godly (like seriously, the shading and sense of scale alone was great) and a lot of the less human looking characters were fantastically creepy, but what little there was of the main narrative was fairly poor and often just made reading a drag after it took over the manga because of how uninteresting and unmemorable the characters were - and the ending was a poorly explained, poorly paced mess.

I really wish it had just stayed as a more experimental piece, with Killy wandering the City and encountering weird, fucked up, or amazing shit in it endlessly - just a stream of tiny stories and scenes from across it's truly gigantic breadth.

The scene with the tribe of clones who subsisted entirely off eating new babies spat out by the machine that birthed them was incredible, and represents Blame! at its best for me.

It took like ten pages max and yet the atmosphere, grotesque sense of horror it instilled in you as you gradually pieced together what was going on, the design of the locality and cloning machine with the emaciated body strapped into it were fantastic, and without a single word spoken it conveyed an immensely sad and moving story. Fuck, I'd kill for an entire manga of scenes of that quality.

>>135817836
I don't think it was rushed because I don't think it was rushed. Cibo getting the orb was in volume 8; it's obvious that it was moving towards a conclusion from that point out.

>Also what's this Playford thing that's written on Killy's arm and Safeguard collar?
Japanese clothing line. Nihei used to have some involvement with them; there's some Nihei-esque clothes out there made by them, but they haven't been manufactured in years and there's no way to get them.

>And wasn't this safeguard that looked like Killy suppose to be bald? I remember that it was bald safeguard thath blew half of his head, or maybe I was mistaken?
Not quite sure what you're asking. The bald safeguard is the one that looks like Killy - its only obvious aesthetic differences are in the facial composition and lack of hair.

>I heard someone say in the past that every white haired female like the one from elevator in log 2 or this child from log 1 are some kind of Cibo's incarnation.
That's original content that came from the OVA, it's not true in the slightest. Even Nihei hated it; hence why he was and has been very wary of adaptations of his works since then.

>I wonder if that child from log 1 had net terminal gene.
we dunno; what the chick says on the phone to Dr Doom was incredibly nonspecific and unclear

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>>135818072
>but what little there was of the main narrative was fairly poor and often just made reading a drag after it took over the manga because of how uninteresting and unmemorable the characters were - and the ending was a poorly explained, poorly paced mess
Start here: >>135808335
and then keep reading until the summary ends, then scroll down and do the puzzle. Then you can post again.

>>135818321
I understand the story mate, I'm not a retard and I knew how to use Google to grasp the bits I didn't quite get.

I just think it was conveyed extremely poorly in the manga itself, meaning all the main cast besides arguably Killy are boring as shit, and the timeskips make the ending feel like a rushed mess because of how they fail to fill in any of the details of what transpired during them and just sort of dump you into a new time-period with zero context for what's happening.

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>>135818470
>they fail to fill in any of the details
I don't think you quite understood the manga
I also don't think you did the puzzle

>>135818470
>conveyed extremely poorly in the manga itself

I think that's part of the appeal for a lot of people. It's fun to "put the pieces togther" and understand exactly what's going on.
Not for everyone, though.

>>135818590
>I don't think you quite understood the manga

I do mate, just because it failed to explain something doesn't mean I was too dumb to Google the answer after.

Though if you're instead referencing the fact that it's an intentionally vague work where you're supposed to infer the general gist of what happens instead of get explicitly told, I'm aware of that also. I just feel the clues it gave were insufficient for many key parts of the narrative, leading to it being impossible to actually figure out a lot of the details without consulting additional sources or just miraculously being on the same wavelength as Nihei mentally.

There's nothing inherently wrong with ambiguity or vagueness in storytelling, but when the text fails to give enough clues to the reader to at least hint reasonably close to what it's trying to depict then it's a problem.

>I also don't think you did the puzzle
What puzzle?

>>135818862
Well that's how you read it, and I have no means of changing your opinion

and: >>135817304
this puzzle
go solve it before you come back

>>135818692
Yeah, that's totally fair - I've felt the same towards quite a few books myself, so I totally get enjoying that kind of story.

My issue is just that I think Blame! fails to give enough info to let the reader even guess at what certain scenes mean, or some of the major details of the backstory, and it really does the cast and overall narrative no favours, IMO.

>>135818223
I remember that near the end of his journey Killy met bald Safeguard with his own face that shot him in the head. But on the pictures here this safeguard that's tracking him down looks almost identical to him with suit and hair included. That's why I'm surprised.

really loved the exposition, as i completely missed the part where killy had to start killing safeguards that all looked like cibo

one thing i remembered was how cibo's height was really inconsistent through the manga--even with her multiple bodies, isn't she supposed to always be a lot taller than killy?

>>135819075
It doesn't have the hair, and it's designed to be identical to him: it's the same model augmentations that he has. That's the only reason it managed to get the drop on him.

See >>135810197 - there's been a distinctive effort to make it clear there's no hair on his head in the first panel.

>>135819096
She inhabits a short person for a while, then transfers into her alternate universe body, etc, etc. Any one of those could be different in height.

whatever the body,
cibo a cute

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>>135819621
wisdom

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>>135812341
>Like 4chan, but more hardcore.
I found moot.

What if Killy was actually one foot tall when he met Cibo first?

>>135820111
>moot.
Whom?

>>135820251
>Manlets inherited the future

no wonder everything went wrong

i really wonder how seu and mav's relationship started

i bet he was pretty crazy even from before all the reconstructions if he walked around the world of blame in a fucking cape and broadsword

>>135819523
Oh. I definietly need to re-read BLAME! When I look at this thread I see that there's some stuff that escaped my eyes when I finished this story for the first time few years ago.

>>135820371
He must have been pretty badass if he managed to survive with such weapon in the world of laserguns similiar to GBE.

>>135820479
Tsunbot was right

>>135820477
It's not like those are common weapons. The only two GBE-type weapons we see are Killy's and Sanakan's. Only the upper-echelon Silicon soldiers had the gravity swords; the rest generally opted for machine guns or weird sword-y weapons.

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Blame is getting a retranslatoin with the new scans btw. Habanero is doing it but their editor is taking forever, go into their IRC channel and bitch at him.

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>>135820479

>>135821018
We know, it's just it's not important enough to whine about when we already have scans and translations. They'll release it when it's ready.

>>135820669
I remember that some higher class Safeguards or Silicon Life Creatures got similiar weapon but not as powerful. Also Safeguards couls swarm you en masse and overpower you with numbers.
Also I remember those bug creatures or whatever it was near the begining of the story with some kind of kinetic weapon that would blast you to smitherness painting the wall behind you with your blood and crushed pieces.
Megastructure seems so fucking dangerous to humans it's scary to move anywhere outside your shelter and even in such places there's possibility that something will find you and massacre your entire population.

>>135821018
I really want to tatoo myself those characters in cibos's back.
I already tatooed my shoulder with the Safeguard inverted cross.
can someone help me with more clearer o "straight" characters?

>>135821244
>Also I remember those bug creatures or whatever it was near the begining of the story with some kind of kinetic weapon that would blast you to smitherness painting the wall behind you with your blood and crushed pieces.
Specific technology that was developed and exists only in that city Cibo started off in.

>I remember that some higher class Safeguards or Silicon Life Creatures got similiar weapon but not as powerful. Also Safeguards couls swarm you en masse and overpower you with numbers.
Safeguards can't and won't attack him because of the contract. The Silicon Life in Toha didn't have anything particularly threatening, especially given that we know that Seu and the retard with the giant switchblade had some sort of rivalry.

Not saying Seu wasn't strong - he obviously had to be, in order to beat retard-with-switchblade. He just wasn't some Super Guts figure or something.

it took me a couple of rereads when the gravity sword appeared for me to even grok what the hell it was doing

>>135821680

heinlein please

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>>135821603
maybe this could work for you

>>135821808
thanks, I already found that one tho. I was expecting someone to have some kind of render of it lol.
But I think I will have to do it myself

anyone else has nihei related tatoos?
I also thought about the TOHA logo but I think it has become to mainstream may reveal my powerlevel

>>135821680
How? Virtually every shounen does the exact same thing with willpower or magic or haki or whatever.

>>135821914
The Governing Agency has a design, but it's pretty similar to the Safeguard one, if I recall. It's clearly distinct, but you might not want something that close.

>>135822052
yes I know. I was temted but opted for something more classy ;^)

Are there raw rips of the new version of the blame! manga? I've seen rips of volume 1 and 2 in one of these threads some time ago but I couldn't find any other volumes.

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Who /onlyreadabara/ here?

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>>135822278
Oh, there's the icon on the Silicon Life facility in Volume 1. This one.

>>135798437
I love it. Reminds me of Nausicaa.

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>>135822324
>>135817304
go solve the puzzle then come back

>>135822314
No, Habanero hasn't released them. That being said, there's a few sparse garbage scans I made at the top of the thread.

>>135821921
i don't mean rereading the entire page, i mean just doing a double take on those specific panes

and it's not like nihei's action is particularly easy to follow

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>>135822493
>i mean just doing a double take on those specific panes
gotcha

>it's not like nihei's action is particularly easy to follow
it's certainly better than some of the shounen I had in mind

>>135822598
So I'm not the only one that thought about Killy when Ichise was doing his shit in silence in Texhnolyze with only few words.

>>135822410
shieeet, that's something I haven't seen anon.
Much appreciated

>>135822924
The entirety of Texhnolyze reminded me of a Nihei story.

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>>135822930
any time, dear friend

>>135823892
Are those all ricochets hitting domochovksy?

>>135824077
No, Spiderman had an MG on his arm.

So I've been wondering for awhile and this seems like the right place to ask: I've yet to finish Sidonia and after I had the ending spoiled to me awhile ago I sorta dropped the manga out of disappointment. I've read up through vol 14. Is it worth finishing the series?

>>135825016
No. Do not finish it under any circumstances; it's rushed beyond reason and pure shipping fulfillment.

>>135825016
If you have already invested in some of those characters and preferred happy endings to them, go on and finish it. It won't be as bad as it sounds.

>>135825016
>>135825214
don't listen to him

>>135806404
You're a great guy anon.

>>135798437
I HATE IT.

>>135813498
>silicone
Too many boob jobs?

>>135825661
I don't remember where the picture of the coelacanth is in the manga, so I can't photoshop Rin eating it.

I didnt care for abra, and feel Biomega and early Sidonia was his peak.
>opinions

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>>135814431
>>135816205
Reminder that Cibo's cibos are probably not canonically this sexy.

>>135813109
well that and the conflict in blame is hyper fast, it'd be walking simulator to insane kinetic hyper speed reaction duel

>>135821091
Why is Izana suffering so delicious?

>>135826715
What did you not enjoy about Abara specifically?

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>>135821914

>>135827542
I havt read it for a few years, but felt like it was a rehash of Blame! but with bone weapons. Seemed uninspired and boring at the time.

Also whats with the faggot posting about the fucking gif puzzle repeatedly.

Killy is way too fucking pretty in the sidonia style

would have preferred something more closer to old nihei for the new movie/ova whatever the fuck it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cKpGSQB3LM

also white blue gbe beam>>>>>red

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>>135827837
If you don't have the patience to figure out a maze, you certainly don't have the patience to actually read Nihei. I posted the puzzle link at people I thought were retarded.

Also,
>that faggot
is the person explaining and answering questions here

>>135828021
Cool to explain things for retards, but posting over and over some smug ass reply is no better than a smug reaction image, and makes you a faggot shitposter. Just ignore and hide it, as you should with this post.

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>>135828172
ok

>>135812913
There is a walking simulator/puzzle with heavy Blame! influence on steam. Definitely worth it in my opinion:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/265690/

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>>135828319
>not even an anime smug girl reaction image

Apply Yourself

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>>135798437
Sidonia is fucking rubbish.

>>135828021
Is that project still in development?
Last I heard the guy disappeared from the AGDG threads.

>>135828813
Last blog update was July 5th. He's always said he's frequently super busy, so I wouldn't be surprised if he touched on it now and then without making a post about it.

>>135829106
Can i get the link to his blog off you? I never saw him post one.

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>>135828506

>>135829177
http://bac9.tumblr.com/

>>135829423
Thanks honkey.

>>135829436
call me stepdad

They fucked up important stuff pretty badly, the box is a tiny graphical detail but a huge detail to the plot.

>>135808335
>>135808805
>>135809229
>>135809783
>>135810159
Well shit I guess I forgot half of it. I'll reread it now, thanks.

>>135804987
I didn't watch Sidonia because I thought it sucked because of being full cgi and the feeling being so much different than I thought it would be. They can't fuck it up that bad with BLAME! though right? Maybe it'll end up a 4/10.

You know, I really love whenever I see a BLAME! thread (though this was a nihei one). For some reason I always feel like I'm the only one that read it, even after I visit a thread, so these feel really comfy while they last. Thanks, anons.
How do you think netsphere porn is like and why is Sanakan so cool?

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>>135818072
>The scene with the tribe of clones who subsisted entirely off eating new babies spat out by the machine that birthed them was incredible
there is more weird shit were that came from.

>>135822324
I'm actually more confused about abara than Blame!

>>135811048
fucking brutal

>>135829400

you son of a bitch

Only shit heads like the trashy chicken scratching style of BLAME!

Whats the connection between blame and sidonia?

>>135832657
toha heavy industries

>>135832705
So they're set in the same universe, then?

>>135832902
Nihei never denied nor confirmed this hypothesis, even thought he's been asked many times.

There are also other elements that seem to tie also Biomega and Abara in, as the Gauna, the N5S virus and the Gravity Beam Emitter, but we'll never get a definite answer, either because Nihei doesn't want to spoonfeed his readers to keep the interest and theory crafting high or because he's just reusing elements but doesn't want to openly admit it.

By the way, this thread finally made me go and complete the last "big" work by Nihei I hadn't yet read, Abara.
How does Digimortal (the last two chapters) tie in? I'm not sure if I'm supposed to see it as a flashback or a fast forward to the future after the saving of the two guys, noah ark style, or it's just unrelated.

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Man, I want a girlfriend.

>>135833205
Wrong thread, wrong day.
thank you Miuna for protecting my smile, see you on monday

>>135829726
It might be a Nihei thread but nothing is stopping you from talking about BLAME! or any other Nihei related things here so don't worry about it. That's why we're all here.

Should i read Blame!, i looks like texhnolyze with gantz fashion.

>>135835115
Blame! is where Gantz got its fashion and where Texhnolyze got its MC.

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>>135835408
HORY SHIT!

>>135808335
Not exactly correct: Noise tells us, that the Netsphere planned to kill all humans without net genes. That was the Safeguards first job.
Then sometimes after or at the same time the virus happened and fucked up the genes of those with the net genes. Maybe the Silicon Lifes (at that time a Cult) thit it, maybe not.
Without working net genes all humans were targeted by the safe guard, most were killed.
Silicium Lifes flourished in the ensuing chaos.
Then BLAME! happens.

>>135827761
cool, Gantz

>>135808805
Actually he shots first as it seems she was about to shoot him. But instead she healed his arm.
Then she went full exterminatus on the area.

>>135835854
Thanks for reminding me.
Fuck you.