And one of the greatest of all time. The design were so good , mixture between medival monk and toture device with mechanical and biological. The world, atmosphere, pacing of story was so depress silent, haunting and bleak yet so serene and so beautiful. The design were so good , mixture between medival monk and toture device with mechanical and biological. Its makes the man feels so small in the vastness of time and space and everything is meaningless. But its also feels there might be meaning behind the main character. Eventhough at the point in this manga, Killy mission is meaningless but he still kept going and going. There's are and might never will be another manga like Blame! anymore. Such a unique read.
But he also saved Pcell-8 at the very end so she could escape the megastructure and presumably use her tribe’s capsule to allow the survival of her people.
Considering there is Blame!^2 , a very direct and short sequel to Blame!, which shows that Killy was succesful in shutting down the builders and the expansion of the city, i think there's little to speculate on the ending of Blame. Plenty to speculate about the inhabitants and so on but there was a victory.
Yeh I agree, I just saw a bunch of people who were saying it was possible for the first chapter to come at the end of the timeline, which I didn't agree with, so I wanted to disprove it using info from the manga itself.
Blame!’s timeline… is to say, non-linear. Those within the megastructure don’t have the same perception of time as we would. That said, Blame! is supposed to be first, with Blame! 2 being a small continuation of that narrative. Most of Nihei’s works, though not directly connected, share a lot of similarities… one in particular: TOA heavy industries. I found a great example of the contrast in perception of time and how entities function is the elevator ride. I believe the ETA to the level Killy and Cibo were going to was over 20,000 hours. The scope of the size of the megastructure is not just immense, it is nearly unbelievable. Killy is a pre-Safegaurd agent, whose body we can only assume is not entirely human. So that much time is nearly a tick of the second hand to him. He is not human. It may take a re-read to understand that concept, but it is clearly stated by Sanakan. I love Nihei’s work. It spoke to me. And I have made it an endeavor to understand that work that I love. But honestly, between Blame! and Biomega, Aposimz and Knights of Sidonia, Digimortal not forgotten either… and I think a few others I forget the names of… the man is pouring his soul out. And the product is more than astonishing.
I've often wondered if Nohei's stories are all intertwined somehow but has yet to be told how. Blame , knights of Sidonia, Biomega all seem to follow a certain kind of history.
I heard some theories that a lot of their works are connected in some way but I haven’t read anything else of his aside from Blame! so It’s possible but I’m not sure
Most of his stories kinda follow the bio mechanical and human are enemies set up. Also had this weird thing about using placenta as building blocks and resources in a few of the stories.
They aren't connected, only NOiSE, Blame!, Blame!2, and NET: Net Sphere Engineer are confirmed to be in the same universe. Other than recycling names and concepts like Toha Heavy Industry, Placenta, GBE, Seed Ships, and talking sentient bears, they aren't conected directly.
No way, not possible. At one point we see Killy walk through the room that used to contain Jupiter, thus we know that it extends well past jovian orbit, with some statements supporting it extending out to the Oort Cloud. Thus mars would be much closer to the cities center (located on earth) than its edge.
@@Wertsir OKAY. yeah true the way they described the size of that "room" did indicate such things. nonetheless it gets pretty heady towards the end and i suspect there's some dysons sphere shenanigans Also you're comment perfectly encapsulates the lunacy that this manga inspires, But in the best way possible
By trying to understand the story, by watching the OVAs, by reading the artbook and the interviews in which the author complains of having been too opaque in his story, which forced him to change. I've discovered 3 possible endings for Blame and fort last, the author has never disowned it because it is unpublished. Manga can be read in 3 different ways, there are 3 meanings. 1. The first is the classic linear reading mode, which is what 95% of people do. 2. The second, after thinking about it, reading the two epilogues and the OVAs, considering the beginning as well as the end, and what that leads to. 3. The third, which is new, after having thought about the incoherences, the details, Blame NSE in its original version and read the interviews where the author laments that nobody understood him, we can place the beginning at EX LOG Nest Ruins, and there it's the hero who breaks the system off-camera after having lived through a particularly hard loop of memories, which requires rereading volume 1 twice. Which is the meaning of the disappearance of the city's masters in the epilogues. LOGs 1 to 7 are the end, but in a way they're also the beginning: the story's present is EX LOG Nest Ruins, and in the last panel the hero is shown living out his fateful moment, after LOG 8, it's a return to the past through the LOGs, which are recordings linked to Killy's journey (in the LOG 8 double-page spread, you'll find an entrance in the middle of the mist, a common metaphor for onirism and the entry into dreams), these recordings can also include dreams (this is stated in the artbook). When you've reached LOG 65, you have to go back to LOG 1 until you reach Nest Ruins, and then you have the finale, which is Killee facing the Government Agency, angry at having been betrayed. And in the original version of Blame NSE, which was to be a sequel, it's said that Killy reached the Agency, and then the masters disappeared, but in the final version of Gakuen and so on, it's only said that the masters have disappeared. In Blame 2, the masters have also disappeared. So you have to understand that Blame's finale led to the destruction of the Agency, which in turn destroyed the countermeasure, without any clear explanation being given. I think to understand Blame, you have to watch everything, not hesitate to take note of what's going on. It's environmental narration, not classic narration, just like in the Scorn game. To understand, you have to try to understand what the author has done. Colors also have a meaning: red is linked to power, for example; in an artbook illustration, Killy's hand is red, because he is the hand of power at that moment; on the cover of Noise, the heroine's hand is blue, as she is wearing a red jumpsuit, to reflect that she was a policewoman, and therefore linked to power, but her hand is blue, because she rebelled against power to fight for the life that blue reflects. 0:19 the marine fauna represents an anomaly, a dream or a memory, LOG can be a dream also. 8:05 the sphere has a double meaning: in its first sense, it's the unborn child; in its second, it's the power of the agency at the center, which seeks to extend to the city in blue; the circles are a metaphor linked to power.
It is also one of pewdiepie's favourite manga's. I also first found it on his channel. It was quite good and it also has some anime but they were not that good. Japanese manga used to be so good when there was no cute culture and loli worshipping idiots. Nowadays almost everything is fan service
Iko (before she became a ghost) was a loli, and Cibo was a loli temporarily when she took over Sanakans body. I will not take loli slander in this house 😤
... The word is blame. Bluh-aim. How do you think the word blame is prounounced blam. In what world ever has ame sounded like am? Shame, lame, game, dame. Do you say gam, sham, lam, dam?
And one of the greatest of all time. The design were so good , mixture between medival monk and toture device with mechanical and biological. The world, atmosphere, pacing of story was so depress silent, haunting and bleak yet so serene and so beautiful. The design were so good , mixture between medival monk and toture device with mechanical and biological. Its makes the man feels so small in the vastness of time and space and everything is meaningless. But its also feels there might be meaning behind the main character. Eventhough at the point in this manga, Killy mission is meaningless but he still kept going and going. There's are and might never will be another manga like Blame! anymore. Such a unique read.
80 years into future: Blade Runner/Alien
800 years into future: Star Trek
8000 years into future: Dune
80000+ years into future: Blame
Maybe more maybe less who knows
Its actually confirmed in blame 2that killy stopped the expansion of the city and destroyed the silicon life.
But he also saved Pcell-8 at the very end so she could escape the megastructure and presumably use her tribe’s capsule to allow the survival of her people.
Considering there is Blame!^2 , a very direct and short sequel to Blame!, which shows that Killy was succesful in shutting down the builders and the expansion of the city, i think there's little to speculate on the ending of Blame. Plenty to speculate about the inhabitants and so on but there was a victory.
Yeh I agree, I just saw a bunch of people who were saying it was possible for the first chapter to come at the end of the timeline, which I didn't agree with, so I wanted to disprove it using info from the manga itself.
Blame!’s timeline… is to say, non-linear. Those within the megastructure don’t have the same perception of time as we would. That said, Blame! is supposed to be first, with Blame! 2 being a small continuation of that narrative. Most of Nihei’s works, though not directly connected, share a lot of similarities… one in particular: TOA heavy industries.
I found a great example of the contrast in perception of time and how entities function is the elevator ride. I believe the ETA to the level Killy and Cibo were going to was over 20,000 hours. The scope of the size of the megastructure is not just immense, it is nearly unbelievable. Killy is a pre-Safegaurd agent, whose body we can only assume is not entirely human. So that much time is nearly a tick of the second hand to him. He is not human. It may take a re-read to understand that concept, but it is clearly stated by Sanakan.
I love Nihei’s work. It spoke to me. And I have made it an endeavor to understand that work that I love. But honestly, between Blame! and Biomega, Aposimz and Knights of Sidonia, Digimortal not forgotten either… and I think a few others I forget the names of… the man is pouring his soul out. And the product is more than astonishing.
I've often wondered if Nohei's stories are all intertwined somehow but has yet to be told how. Blame , knights of Sidonia, Biomega all seem to follow a certain kind of history.
I heard some theories that a lot of their works are connected in some way but I haven’t read anything else of his aside from Blame! so It’s possible but I’m not sure
Most of his stories kinda follow the bio mechanical and human are enemies set up. Also had this weird thing about using placenta as building blocks and resources in a few of the stories.
Knights of Sidonia and Aposimz take place in the same universe, not sure about the others.
They aren't connected, only NOiSE, Blame!, Blame!2, and NET: Net Sphere Engineer are confirmed to be in the same universe.
Other than recycling names and concepts like Toha Heavy Industry, Placenta, GBE, Seed Ships, and talking sentient bears, they aren't conected directly.
Great video, BLAME! Is one of the best mangas out there, both story-wise and graphically.
One of my favorite Nihei manga.
Of the 90s more like of ever. No sci-fi comes close.
My theory for the end is that the "edge of the city is actually mars
No way, not possible. At one point we see Killy walk through the room that used to contain Jupiter, thus we know that it extends well past jovian orbit, with some statements supporting it extending out to the Oort Cloud. Thus mars would be much closer to the cities center (located on earth) than its edge.
@@Wertsir OKAY. yeah true the way they described the size of that "room" did indicate such things. nonetheless it gets pretty heady towards the end and i suspect there's some dysons sphere shenanigans
Also you're comment perfectly encapsulates the lunacy that this manga inspires, But in the best way possible
By trying to understand the story, by watching the OVAs, by reading the artbook and the interviews in which the author complains of having been too opaque in his story, which forced him to change. I've discovered 3 possible endings for Blame and fort last, the author has never disowned it because it is unpublished.
Manga can be read in 3 different ways, there are 3 meanings.
1. The first is the classic linear reading mode, which is what 95% of people do.
2. The second, after thinking about it, reading the two epilogues and the OVAs, considering the beginning as well as the end, and what that leads to.
3. The third, which is new, after having thought about the incoherences, the details, Blame NSE in its original version and read the interviews where the author laments that nobody understood him, we can place the beginning at EX LOG Nest Ruins, and there it's the hero who breaks the system off-camera after having lived through a particularly hard loop of memories, which requires rereading volume 1 twice. Which is the meaning of the disappearance of the city's masters in the epilogues.
LOGs 1 to 7 are the end, but in a way they're also the beginning: the story's present is EX LOG Nest Ruins, and in the last panel the hero is shown living out his fateful moment, after LOG 8, it's a return to the past through the LOGs, which are recordings linked to Killy's journey (in the LOG 8 double-page spread, you'll find an entrance in the middle of the mist, a common metaphor for onirism and the entry into dreams), these recordings can also include dreams (this is stated in the artbook). When you've reached LOG 65, you have to go back to LOG 1 until you reach Nest Ruins, and then you have the finale, which is Killee facing the Government Agency, angry at having been betrayed.
And in the original version of Blame NSE, which was to be a sequel, it's said that Killy reached the Agency, and then the masters disappeared, but in the final version of Gakuen and so on, it's only said that the masters have disappeared.
In Blame 2, the masters have also disappeared.
So you have to understand that Blame's finale led to the destruction of the Agency, which in turn destroyed the countermeasure, without any clear explanation being given.
I think to understand Blame, you have to watch everything, not hesitate to take note of what's going on. It's environmental narration, not classic narration, just like in the Scorn game. To understand, you have to try to understand what the author has done.
Colors also have a meaning: red is linked to power, for example; in an artbook illustration, Killy's hand is red, because he is the hand of power at that moment; on the cover of Noise, the heroine's hand is blue, as she is wearing a red jumpsuit, to reflect that she was a policewoman, and therefore linked to power, but her hand is blue, because she rebelled against power to fight for the life that blue reflects.
0:19 the marine fauna represents an anomaly, a dream or a memory, LOG can be a dream also.
8:05 the sphere has a double meaning: in its first sense, it's the unborn child; in its second, it's the power of the agency at the center, which seeks to extend to the city in blue; the circles are a metaphor linked to power.
10:17 LMFAO
It is also one of pewdiepie's favourite manga's. I also first found it on his channel. It was quite good and it also has some anime but they were not that good. Japanese manga used to be so good when there was no cute culture and loli worshipping idiots. Nowadays almost everything is fan service
Iko (before she became a ghost) was a loli, and Cibo was a loli temporarily when she took over Sanakans body.
I will not take loli slander in this house 😤
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... The word is blame. Bluh-aim. How do you think the word blame is prounounced blam. In what world ever has ame sounded like am? Shame, lame, game, dame. Do you say gam, sham, lam, dam?
the original name is Blam, americans translated it wrong to Blame