I don't get it

>>156265670
Don't try to, just enjoy the art and the arc's individual stories for what they are.

Did anyone else think the ending came on too fast? It felt very abrupt, I was hoping for one more arc.

>>156265670
you only yourself to blame

>>156265840
I followed some of it, but I couldn't really put it all together, the lack of dialogue didn't help me either.
>>156265811
Yeah, I loved the art, possibly the best I've seen since Berserk.

he found the net terminal genes and stopped the growth of the city

>>156266053
Was it in the sphere or something?

>>156266259
yes, it formed into the child you see Killy escorting at the end

Its a story about going up for the thing.

That's it.

What happened to Cibo? Her memories got overwritten or something, but was she still alive? Also did Killy die? That headshot looked pretty painful.

>>156265811
Nihei cannot end stories well.

Biomega is the best story Nihei has done.

>>156265670
What's this and why does look edgy?

>>156267331
Early work of the guy behind Knights of Sidonia.

>>156267046
>Also did Killy die? That headshot looked pretty painful.
he's fine in the next few pages anon, also did you not read blame2?

>>156267116
very few manga end well

Quiet emo guy tries to find human to save human race. That's it.

edgy bump

>>156267431
What the fuck? What Blame2? Do you mean those unrelated short stories with a lot of unnecessary nudity?

File: Blame_p05.jpg (412KB, 1223x1600px) Image search: [Google]

412KB, 1223x1600px

>>156269568
it's a one-shot

>>156269568
>unrelated short stories
Blame Gakuen is cannon, you fucking pleb

File: 1454558125968.png (856KB, 1640x2042px) Image search: [Google]

856KB, 1640x2042px

>>156265968
>I followed some of it, but I couldn't really put it all together
Here.

It's a little bit imperfect near the end, but I'm going to write a revised version sooner-or-later.

File: Blame_p01.jpg (275KB, 1223x1600px) Image search: [Google]

275KB, 1223x1600px

I'll dump Blame 2, for funsies, and for those who haven't ever heard of/seen it.

File: 1457376669310.gif (334KB, 500x281px) Image search: [Google]

334KB, 500x281px

>>156266913

File: Blame_p10.jpg (420KB, 1223x1600px) Image search: [Google]

420KB, 1223x1600px

If you can't decipher the bottom panel here: main character in the middle, standing on a warped-ish platform. I couldn't figure it out for the longest time, so I imagine that others can't/couldn't, either.

File: Blame_p18.jpg (436KB, 1223x1600px) Image search: [Google]

436KB, 1223x1600px

End scene.

File: NSE_c01_04.jpg (264KB, 786x1200px) Image search: [Google]

264KB, 786x1200px

There's also Blame: Netsphere Engineer, a one-chapter gaiden-esque epilogue; and NOiSE, the prequel manga in which the Netsphere disaster takes place. Not gonna dump either of them, because they are far too long - just letting you know that they exist, if you didn't know. Also keep in mind: the translation for Netsphere Engineer (NSE) sucks and makes a few bizarre, but sweeping, contradictions. If you can ignore those, it's an enjoyable piece.

>>156265670
Dont bother. There's nothing deep to it. Its just a picture book for edgy manchildren

>>156271084
The only edgy thing in Blame! is the architecture.

>>156270307
Shit, I like it even more now.
>>156271039
Thanks for the dump, the only version I could find was mangahere but it had shitty translation and image artifacts.
>>156271084
I wouldn't say that, I do think the author certainly could've included a few more explanations though, it's one thing to spoonfeed your audience and it's the other to make them search every pixel for hidden plot clues.

>>156271257
i enjoyed it more in the beginning, when it was unconstrained by story and that wandering ambiguous possibility. it was just a visual pleasure, it could mean anything, the nature of the mega structure meant he could come upon any situation nihei wanted on a whim. your not waiting for the next plot twist to be typed out, your just watching, purely in it for the ride.

>>156271614
I mostly agree. What really left me an impression to me other than the visuals of course was the absurd space/time scale, I was left spechless in some points, like the elevator part.

File: 32423453123541234.jpg (120KB, 683x478px) Image search: [Google]

120KB, 683x478px

>>156271700
what did they do in there that whole time..

ill admit the plot comes together little past half way.
also sanakin a cute

Saw someone saying CGI was used for drawing Blame!, is it true/how much was it used? Just curious, I love this manga regardless.

Is there an official English release of Blame!? The version I read was pretty low resolution and seeing as the story was mostly told through imagery...

>>156271974
That was me, and I don't really think it's true. Was just using it as a vehicle to piss off people in that thread. In fact, I'm fairly certain I actually *said* that I was doing that, in the thread.

File: Blame_v09_c02_p073.jpg (104KB, 714x1100px) Image search: [Google]

104KB, 714x1100px

fun fact: Q Hayashida was nihei's assistant

File: 4525252.png (129KB, 500x254px) Image search: [Google]

129KB, 500x254px

>>156272203
No, that's a baseless rumor. Q. Hayashida never worked as an assistant, she even says so in an interview,

File: weenie.png (419KB, 1280x727px) Image search: [Google]

419KB, 1280x727px

>>156272107
A new official release is in the middle of being released. But it's got a lot of problems: mainly, that a lot of the art has been redrawn across all volumes. It's not always as noticeable as THE BOX, but it's there - shit like Killy's hair being lengthened, or changes in shading. This is the noticed changelog from just chapter 1 (of like 70, or whatever).

>>156269631
2B?

>>156272259


Hayashida: I still don’t know how to find the right size and place for them. I think the talented artists out there know some sort of trick to it, but I feel like I’ll never figure it out till the day I die, unless someone comes out and tells me.

–I’ll bet there’s a real difference in how people with experience working as assistants approach things and how people without that experience approach things.

Hayashida: True. It seems like most people have done some time as an assistant somewhere.

>>156272549
da bar?

>>156272264
Are you talking about the master edition? I was looking forward to buying it.

Shame it's not a hard copy though. I'm from Poland and our version is but I still prefer the English one

>>156272623
Yep, exactly what I was referencing.

File: 03_000b.jpg (196KB, 1778x1200px) Image search: [Google]

196KB, 1778x1200px

>>156272663
>Are you talking about the master edition?
Yes. There's also a few issues with the translations, now that you've had me start to recall these things. In some insane, disassociated decision-making process, they came to rename our dear protagonist "Kyrii". And the first argument that comes to mind in their defense would be that it's the 'proper' transliteration of the Japanese name - if it weren't for the fact that the true English name, "Killy", is WRITTEN ON THE JAPANESE VERSIONS.

I bought the raw ones when they came out 2 years ago, so I know what I'm talking about.

>>156270905
Neat, I've somehow never read this before. I'm glad to see the humans shitting on the silicon creatures for once.

Sidonia babbies
Netflix was a mistake.

>>156273354
While I'll agree with your sentiment, personally, I would write it as
>Netflix babbies
>Sidonia was a mistake.

Did Shibo fucked Sanakan, or was it the other way around?
What it rape?

>>156273625
it was consensual data merge

>>156273625
>Shibo
no

>>156273655
l-lewd

>>156266259
The human that he was looking for all along

now Killy has his own personal loli onahole
some payback for his hardship

>>156272147
Why would you pretend to be retarded?

>>156274141
I was making a point about 3D and computer generation in general and passingly mentioned Nihei (with the *intention* of meaning his current works), and a bunch of people blew up on me for it. If they wanted to be an effect, I should do them the courtesy of being the cause.

File: various forms of ms cibo.jpg (296KB, 1005x892px) Image search: [Google]

296KB, 1005x892px

inevitably

>>156273666
And this is why I'll never bother buying manga again in my life. It was Shibo in the Blame manga I got and I'm way too used to that name. I'm also certain it's more accurate.

>>156275299
>I'm also certain it's more accurate.
It's accurate in the same way that "Kiri'i" is accurate. Mangaka write names in the English alphabet for a reason; Japanese doesn't have enough support for such things. The Japanese transliteration of the English word "lock" is three character syllables. ロ、ッ、ク.

>>156275580
Oh I thought it was written in hiraganas.
Well damn.

>>156275650
It's written in katakana, but my point was that you can't just equivocate kana and English. Otherwise, you end up with "Domochefusukii", "Puseru", "Mensaabu" and so on.

>>156275253
There's something odd about that final form, but I just can't put my finger on it...

File: blameacademy_p08.jpg (393KB, 821x1200px) Image search: [Google]

393KB, 821x1200px

>>156276000
not enough "kyaaa", probably

File: cibo.png (271KB, 424x494px) Image search: [Google]

271KB, 424x494px

>>156276000
Cibo's real final form is this.

File: Sidonia S2 BD Special p009.jpg (2MB, 1135x1600px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1135x1600px

>>156276207
I completely forgot about that chapter, thought you were making a joke, checked, and found out that that is actually Cibo. Why.

>>156273354
>Netflix was a mistake.

Dunno about that. They help finance the movie and the trailers look neat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k75jXSruSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGGN8n5rQJY

Inb4 muh framerate.

>>156276451
>They help finance the movie
That is the worst possible thing you could have said re: defending Netflix

>>156276451
fuck Netflix and fuck kikes

>>156276321
what is this from?

>>156276662
Sidonia BD booklet

>>156276574
>>156276611
Then don't watch it. Simple as that. No one's gonna take the original Blame away and there never was going to be a proper adaption anyway. Japan had all the time in the world to make a proper animu by themselves and they didn't, so it's not like "the true version" got cockblocked by the CGI movie.

>>156276895
I'm not mad about it but it's a little saddening for me.

>>156276773
i figured it out soon after, i'm an idiot. the real question is, what cibo time period is that image? it can't be her final form since she merged with sanakan, and also killy was done searching for net terminal genes

>>156276941
It's a joke crossover; don't think about it.

>>156276895
>it's not like "the true version" got cockblocked by the CGI movie
Correct. *Nihei* cockblocked the true version.

>>156265670
>I don't get it
You only got yourself to blame!

File: deepest_manga.jpg (38KB, 298x157px) Image search: [Google]

38KB, 298x157px

There is no way they could properly transfer old Nihei's style to a hand-drawn anime without dumping a ridiculous ammount of money and good staff on it.

>>156276941
It's a "story in another story" type fan service. Killy and Cibo went out for hundreds of years. There might be this kind of episode in it.

>>156277238
What about live action? HBO miniseries perhaps?

>>156277238
How much money was spent on Gantz:O? I'd be okay with something on that level.

>>156277512
Why were the weapon effects so nonexistent?

>>156277581
I thought they were the same as in the manga. The gore and the drugs are missing but that was to be expected. Blame! wouldn't have any problem like that.

>>156277238
Old Madhouse would've pulled it off.

>>156267253

only until the space arc, that one was trash

>>156278224
That was most of the manga
though I do agree that it was trash

>>156270390

i think they used one too much negation there, it should be "if killy really did exist then..."

>>156278331
You're probably right, but I shall have to find the raws to be certain. Anybody know an acceptable place to get them? The standard raw sites aren't working for me.

>>156271039

I liked NOiSE

File: 1491780257935.jpg (3MB, 4074x3056px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 4074x3056px

I mean, it's not a very complicated story.
But WHAT THE HELL am I supposed to see here?

File: ss2015_05_29_15h50m49s235.jpg (65KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

65KB, 1280x720px

>>156279230
landscape

>>156279230

wasn't it the original body of the director that almost killed cibo at the beginning of the manga?

Pretty sure that's a gigantic body under all those metal plates however iirc

>>156279230
Remind me what chapter or volume that's in, and I will be able to tell you. But I do not remember that page being in Blame. Is it not from Abara?

File: 02_143.jpg (265KB, 840x1200px) Image search: [Google]

265KB, 840x1200px

>>156279338
It's not. The director was never seen after this page. As I said, if I know the volume, I can probably tell you.

>>156279230
This is not from Blame

>>156279956
Yeah, I found out that it was in Biomega. Looking for the chapter. But, my proactive guess is that it is the mechanism by which Nyaldee did some sort of transformation thing at the intro to the space arc.

>>156279338
>>156279353
>>156279956
Ah sorry, it's from Biomega Vol 3.
I just assumed this is an all-things-Nihei thread.

File: biomega_c018p11.png (158KB, 803x1200px) Image search: [Google]

158KB, 803x1200px

Huh, I was fairly on-the-mark - it's the synthetic human production chamber in which they produce Narain's giant body; the one that gets nuked right before the end of the planet

>>156280177

i knew there was a body under that, told ya all

File: biomega_c023p21.png (218KB, 796x1200px) Image search: [Google]

218KB, 796x1200px

>>156280279
It's not the body. It's the chamber in which they *make* the body. See pic.

Why is Cibo so cute?
Also tall Cibo is bestest.

>>156272264
This is extremely autistic but its exactly what I need, thank you.

File: 50539787_p1.jpg (807KB, 2039x1447px) Image search: [Google]

807KB, 2039x1447px

>>156280510
How tall Cibo is too tall Cibo?

File: 56713865_p1.jpg (709KB, 1240x1754px) Image search: [Google]

709KB, 1240x1754px

>>156280510
I'm honestly surprised there's so much cute Cibo fanart.

>>156280654

Like 8 foot tall cute.

>>156280642
To all here: if you or anyone you are familiar with knows Elemhunter, the guy who's supposed to be scanning the Japanese reprints of Blame, please, let me know. I need to have a word with him about certain things.

>>156270502
It's been so long since I read Blame! I probably wont understand a thing of this.

File: 47426080_p17.jpg (1MB, 1500x1071px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1500x1071px

>>156280681
Chic Cibo is Cute

>>156280755
Just read my summary; it's near the top of the thread, isn't it?

Cibo best girl.

>>156270905
So this is how the mega structure looks from the outside, pretty fascinating.

So I just finished Blame and that was alright, what do I read now?

>>156280891
Consider, though, that the lighting is for our benefit.

If you were to look at The City in space from 1,000 miles away, there would simply be a a complete black, monolithic space in front of you expanding past your line of sight in all directions, where there should be stars.

>>156281040
Unless the sun was shining on it

>>156281014
Netsphere Engineer and Blame2


Other good shit:
Dorohedoro
YKK
Nijigahara Holograph
Holyland

File: 1440476998247.jpg (60KB, 886x886px) Image search: [Google]

60KB, 886x886px

>>156281014
Nihei is to be (mostly) read in order. That's not like a "lol start with the greeks" type answer, it's just practical; there's an extremely linear progression of his art style throughout his works.

You're going to want to read NOiSE, then Abara, then Biomega, then the 3 chapters of Blame Gakuen. If you can still respect Nihei after the second half of Biomega and all of Gakuen, then move on to Sidonia and then his current work, Aposimz.

File: 54106544_p0.jpg (525KB, 1141x1400px) Image search: [Google]

525KB, 1141x1400px

>>156281040
Wouldn't it be radiating a lot of heat?
I'm no physicist, but all that energy has to go somewhere.

>>156281109
>Holyland
My nigga, holyland was fucking amazing. Probably one of the greatest fighting manga ever.

File: blame3.png (57KB, 741x592px) Image search: [Google]

57KB, 741x592px

>>156265670

Is it true that Nihei's daughter opinion fucked one of his series?

>>156281075
The sun does not exist in Blame. The City encompasses more than the entire solar system; reaching all the way to the Oort Cloud in some places.

>>156281200
Curiosly enough, it doesn't matter at which frame you start reading. Guess it's a virtue.

>>156281109
>tfw reading Holyland while listening to eurobeat
>BE MY BABY plays as he's walking to the park at night to fight the kickboxer dude

>>156281214
No, and the widespread translation of it is wrong.

>>156281159
Entirely dependent on how Nihei wants to frame it. The City creates its own gravity in order to prevent itself from collapsing. Its material is teleported into place instead of being physically brought in. It never moves, and has extremely low function in comparison to any real living environment.

>>156270338
thanks anon

>>156281246
>Curiosly enough, it doesn't matter at which frame you start reading

Just like the manga

File: 1428637714759.jpg (335KB, 850x1200px) Image search: [Google]

335KB, 850x1200px

>>156280782
Took me a while to find this one.

>>156281514
wtf is this gay shit?

File: 1469635164653.jpg (520KB, 940x1368px) Image search: [Google]

520KB, 940x1368px

>>156281109
>Dorohedoro
I strongly suggest this too, unironically my favourite manga. On the topic of gritty artstyles I'd recommend Franken-Fran and Fire Punch too,

>>156270414
1 billion seconds is not that much, is close to 31 years and half

>>156281040
Aren't you just making quite the assumption? I mean he did color it like that after all and this is a fictional world, who's to say it doesn't look like that from space.

>>156281163
You have terrible taste, Holyland is some trope filled garbage some typical underdog special snowflake mc.

File: 46747340_p0.jpg (2MB, 2508x3541px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2508x3541px

>>156281493
I'm sorry that you wasted your effort, for I have that image on a far-grander scale. 見るがいい！

>>156281687
Silicon Life doesn't necessarily have the same units of time as humans do.

One thing I never quite got was how the bald safeguard version of Sanakan, the one that tried to kill the electric fishermen inhabiting TOHA industries, transitioned into the governing agency version. If she always was a governing agency agent, why was she with the safeguards during her first appearance? I always thought the safeguards were never real people to begin with and more a sort of AI entites.

>>156281603
Fans being fans.

>>156281788
I am making an assumption; I'm playing at a hypothetical. I didn't mean to say that it absolutely was not visible from space. That's why I said "consider".

>>156280007
It's the device used to make artificial human bodies.

File: BLAME!10_139.jpg (39KB, 840x1200px) Image search: [Google]

39KB, 840x1200px

>>156281514
>>156281603
I only understand the top panel, because I have this manga fucking photographically memorized. Not sure what the rest of it is.

File: 1465383627653.png (40KB, 600x700px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 600x700px

Those who complain about Netflix and the anime simply and completely missed the point.

It's not either we have hand-drawn anime or a 3D anime.
It's either we have a 3D anime or NOTHING at all.

In this environment and economy, asking a studio a hand-draw Biomega or Sidonia is like asking them if they'd like to go bankrupt.

So, either avoid the anime (same as how many avoid the Berserk anime) or enjoy it for what it is and be glad that it helped bring new people into Nihei shit. Being mad at Netflix achieves shit all.

>>156282247
I don't really like the idea of Nihei going mainstream. I mean right now it's already known enough, we're in the perfect balance I'd say.

>>156282414
That is retarded.

>>156282247
>It's either we have a 3D anime or NOTHING at all.
The fault is in thinking that there is something aberrant in the concept of absence.

>>156282247
I choose nothing.

>>156276451
fuck Polygon

>>156282247
Hand drawn animation isn't as costly as you may think. Also there's literally no way Netflix can go bankrupt at this point, but they probably won't make a profit either, in which case they should leave it the fuck alone and adapt more accessible shit.

>>156282517
>muh secrit club
Sorry if I'd like a fanbase I'm part of to not go the jojo route.

>>156282247
3D isnt the problem
it's intentionally reducing the framerate without properly understanding the differences between 2D and 3D animation

>>156282677
>>muh secrit club
Are you making fan of yourself? Because really that's all there is to it.

>>156282543
That train of thought goes both ways. The existence of an adaption doesn't diminish the original. It may even help the original author get a bit more recognition in what's already a pretty shitty job with long working hours.

>>156283044
>>156282931
No original fan of Nihei's work wants him to be popular. Stop trying to create something which should not be made to exist.

>>156283243
Again, that is some retarded ass shit.

>original fan

Talk about fucking hipsters.

>>156283327
>hipsters
Nihei isn't some obscure author only 3 people circlejerk about, there is a normal level between going full mainstream and being an hipster.

File: blame.jpg (123KB, 676x484px) Image search: [Google]

123KB, 676x484px

i read blame long time ago, so i dont rember the deal about humans and there DNA. the humanoid on the serie (the not silicon or programs) where human whitout s "pure human dna"? or they where human-like beings, in a world almost humanless?

also what was killy and Chibo (sorry but i read it a long time ago)

File: na0fdyywnosy.jpg (104KB, 1067x600px) Image search: [Google]

104KB, 1067x600px

So is Nihei only working on the animu now or are there any manga he's announced?

>>156283689
You're certainly behind. He's published a oneshot, and then two chapters (maybe coming up on three?) of a new series entitled Aposimz.

>>156283676
learn english

>>156283529
Then stop alienating the fan base by calling yourself or others 'original fans'. So childish.

File: APOSIMZ - c002 (web) - p020 [Digital-HD] [danke-Empire].jpg (824KB, 2147x3056px) Image search: [Google]

824KB, 2147x3056px

>>156283689
he has a new manga, which doesnt seem that great

>>156283886
What don't you like about it?

>>156283807
I'm not him. And do you not understand the value of exclusivity? Do you not have any idea of how disgusting and diluted the Nihei fanbase has become in the past few years? There was once intelligent and complicated threads about Nihei works. There was once a time when every single mention of Nihei didn't precede an "I DON'T GET IT" post or a "THIS MANGA IS SHIT" post, or an "IT'S TOO DARK" post. The extremely-deliberate attempts at mass appeal in Sidonia gave Nihei the masses he wanted, and permanently ruined virtually all discussion of his works.

>>156283807
I did not call myself an "original fan", I was just stating that going netflix level mainstream is bad in my opinion.

>>156284051
The discussions before were far in between and almost non existent even if you think of them as more serious or whatever. If the fan base and grown that has certainly not changed one bit, the serious discussions you love so much are still there and probably increased, you're just unable to recognize them because they now form part of a bigger pool of more light or shittier discussions and posts.

>>156284051
You're a pretentious clown.

File: 2pgjIsM.jpg (294KB, 713x1024px) Image search: [Google]

294KB, 713x1024px

>>156283947
>Suman! Machigaeta!
Wow, what a hilarious and Nihei Original idea; I'd never thought of the comedic potential of a teenage boy walking in on a teenage girl undressing

This is current Nihei

File: you're on a.png (6KB, 547x133px) Image search: [Google]

6KB, 547x133px

>>156284211
You're on /a/.

>>156284328
well the girl dies a few pages later

File: tte ka nani.jpg (1MB, 1809x1812px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1809x1812px

>>156284423
In the next chapter, the male main character survives by drinking the female main character's piss. But you knew that, and were waiting for me to bring it up. Why?

>>156284328
Okay, you don't like that joke. Anything else?

>>156284587
this is Nihei's magical realm

File: APOSIMZ - c002 (web) - p019 [Digital-HD] [danke-Empire].jpg (788KB, 2147x3056px) Image search: [Google]

788KB, 2147x3056px

>>156284607
>Anything else?
His art isn't anything like it used to be. His stories aren't even vaguely comparable. He's becoming Tite Kubo (pic is an actual page from his new work). What are you expecting me to say?

>>156284587
>In the next chapter, the male main character survives by drinking the female main character's piss.
I thought that was funny.

>>156284051
>And do you not understand the value of exclusivity?

Only dumb hipsters care about this.

>A bloo bloo bloo, the plebeian masses like what I like

>>156284760
do you live in Germany or Sweden, perhaps?

>>156283801
Yeeeeah, I pretty much haven't read anything after Sidonia.
Mind naming the oneshot (unless it's Blame2, which I'd read already)?

>>156283886
Goddaaamn, the art looks even more simplistic than Sidonia.

>>156284051
I don't see much of that in this thread, friend.
There were some comfy Nihei threads, agreed,
but you can only about a limited pool of material so much.

>>156284730
But yeah, the art is fucking nothing compared to Blame and he seems to be pandering to moeshitters even more than before.

>>156272640
Psycho Mantis?

>>156284815
m8 this isn't /pol/
chill
that guy does seem very
tolerant
though

>>156284815
Murrica and that's not the same thing

>>156284858
Ningyou no Kuni, or Country of Dolls. It is/was essentially a prototype for Aposimz.

I'm glad that at least someone here is willing to agree with me on the art, at least. There isn't much intelligent discussion in this thread, but what can you truly expect from a Blame thread that started with "I don't get it"?

>>156265670
>show not tell taken to its logical conclusion by having the viewer not having any fucking clue what is going on and having to come up with a story in their heads

>>156285035
that's my favourite kind of storytelling desu
keep in mind though, I'm the kind of autist who loves fromsoft lore

>>156285093
>fromsoft lore
Speaking of fanbases that became total garbage.

>>156284730
>What are you expecting me to say?
Well, I was hoping you'd offer some clear, substantial criticisms instead of just talking shit.

>>156265670
Did you try reading it?

>>156284858
>muh pandering to moeshitters

>>156285532
>implying the transition from the grimdark in blame to kawaii highschoolers in sidonia is anything but that

>>156285532
This is probably the only case where that phrase can be used unirinically.

>>156285438
Reading what?

>>156285610
>muh grimdark

>>156285665
>muh shitposting

>>156285640
What kind of question is that? I'm pretty sure someone counted Kelly spoke almost thousand words.

File: 1348606392996.jpg (20KB, 260x262px) Image search: [Google]

20KB, 260x262px

>>156285746
>that volume where the only thing he said was a grunt

>>156285746
>Kelly
Who?

>>156285746
>thousand
meant hundred

>>156285844
Brain fart

>>156285904
No seriously, who is Kelly?

File: if only i could be so grossly testicular.png (2MB, 902x1012px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 902x1012px

best Nihei page?

>>156280891
At least in that area, it may have vastly different designs elsewhere.

>>156285610
It's a clear attempt to make his work more approachable, sure, but I really doubt he's trying to attract the same market as K-On or whatever.

>>156285992
I just got the name mixed-up.

>>156285992
kelly c

>>156285746
>spoke almost one hundred words
In an English translation. One of many. And not even vaguely true. I just counted now - in the Tokyopop translations, Killy says 45 words in the first 3 chapters.

>>156283886
>>156284730
His "new" style isn't any less detailed, it's just 90% white now instead of being 90% black.

>>156267046
Read all pages. There are no bonus artworks.

File: BLAME!10_206.jpg (219KB, 840x1200px) Image search: [Google]

219KB, 840x1200px

>>156286342
mhm yeah i hear you

>>156285610
I mean he's went ahead and done all the weird auteur shit he could probably get away with. Now he needs money.

>>156286460
>he needs money
What a hideous lie
That's almost as bad as the "Miura hospital" shit that floated around on here for several years

>>156286631
I forgot that he lived in the magical world where no one needs money and everything is free.

>>156286454
there are a lot of unnecessary lines

>>156286810
Are you perhaps talking about details?

>>156286933
that's not detail anon

File: 3.png (988KB, 1899x1083px) Image search: [Google]

988KB, 1899x1083px

>>156286460
It doesn't bother me that much but let's not pretend the changes he's making are purely populist.
I just hope he creates more gorgeous art instead of falling down the popularity rabbithole.

>>156286810
look at this shit though

>>156286933
The detail level isnt' all that high in that page. Just a lot of hatching that gives a bit of volume to certain parts. This sure ain't no Otomo.

>>156283886
sauce?

File: wolv_snikt_v1_001_06_rougher.jpg (292KB, 987x1521px) Image search: [Google]

292KB, 987x1521px

>>156287020
>let's not pretend the changes he's making are purely populist.
>I just hope he creates more gorgeous art instead of falling down the popularity rabbithole.

>Nihei: So after about ten years of that, I decided to try doing a normal manga for once – change up my art style, try to make as user-friendly a manga as possible. Knights of Sidonia is one of the results of that.
>Interviewer: The art in Knights of Sidonia does seem quite different from your previous work.
>Nihei: Yeah, I wanted the art to have a Tezuka-level mass appeal. (laugh)

File: 1442940152448.png (269KB, 582x685px) Image search: [Google]

269KB, 582x685px

>>156287262

File: APOSIMZ - c001 p009.jpg (197KB, 702x1000px) Image search: [Google]

197KB, 702x1000px

>>156287020
Compared to this page in Aposimz, I'd say the detail level stayed roughly the same on his architecture shots, though he got lazier with the screentone and hatching. Also the architecture here and in Sidonia got a softer look it it. Less ruler precision and more freehand.

>>156276451
If the movie turns out somewhat successful, I'd love to see Dhomochevsky's arc adapted. It's pretty self contained within the overall story and has a strong set of characters.

File: BLAME!09_006.jpg (195KB, 840x1200px) Image search: [Google]

195KB, 840x1200px

>>156287521
You can't say that there is even a single page in Sidonia that has this kind of complexity.

>>156287262
Interesting. I'd say the style in Sidonia has more of the fuzzy feel of Miyazaki's Nausicaa.

>>156286460
Despite his obvious attempts at making more mainstream manga, his stuff is still pretty weird and involves a lot of the same recurring subject matter. I don't really buy into this idea that he's "sold out" when his manga is still very "him".

>>156271974
At a QnA I attended nihei confirmed that there was no cg, not even a computer involved in blame.

>>156287883
No one is gonna ask nihei to write something that isn't at least a little weird. That's because he is at heart, kinda weird. So this is the result.

It's not really selling out, as much as trying to be more appealing.

>>156271974
No probably not. He tried and failed to use CG for sidonia and instead just resorted to kit bashing to make the mech design.

>>156287854
Miyazaki + Moebius

Would you like a MMO in Blame universe ?
What if it is distributed with own darknet DHT ?
What if it has no mods/gamemasters (think Second Life, but no one will censor you)?
What if it has cryptocurrencies hooked in including its owns related to amount of donated storage/processing power/in-game activities.
What if it has API hooks for uploads and connecting RL equipment ?

File: gakuen_119.jpg (617KB, 1092x1600px) Image search: [Google]

617KB, 1092x1600px

Took me fucking long enough time to get the raws for Blame Gakuen and So On. They're virtually impossible to get, for some reason. The text on the scanlated version of this page is, indeed, incorrect; it has one more negative than it should, as >>156278331 pointed out.

Because I have found that it is a nigh-impossible task to get the raws in a normal fashion, I have uploaded them myself to mega, for you all to enjoy.
https://mega.nz/#F!SlQBhLrZ!zAOF4YWE0YTyJmsKg232sQ

>>156288097
Are you the guy from Italy from like last year?

robot girls are the best

>>156288577
so the netsphere?

>>156288689

thank you anon

>>156286810
>unnecessary
No such thing. It's his style, the heavy amount of lines are part of it and create a feel to his work.

>>156267253
it started out fine, then shot out in a bunch of different directions near the middle and turned into a gigantic fucking mess and it was the first in the "fuck it, I'm bored with this thing,here's a shit ending", series.

Sidonia was next and the retards wiling to follow that power armor in the snow manga all the way to the end will have it as well. Blame was so fucking simple he couldn't fuck it up, guy was looking for thing, guy found thing, the end. he will never top it.

.

File: 1480413056270.jpg (255KB, 1422x1100px) Image search: [Google]

255KB, 1422x1100px

>>156289599
>CGI Blame!
I'm not sure about this

>>156265968
after second readthrough it's much easier to understand the plot. Translator's notes also help a lot.

>>156271084
shit taste

>>156290999
>Translator's notes
What? Where?