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Blame!
Title ID:
2712
Alt name(s):
- iftira
- Блейм!
- ブラム!
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Rating:
- 9.00
- 9.10
- 1,063
Pub. status:
Completed
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- 219,182
- 12,407
- 431
Description:
Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head.
Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.
Officially Translated:
In French by Glénat
Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.
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Related:
- NOiSE (Prequel)
- Blame Gakuen! and So On (Spin-off)
- BLAME! Fort of Silicon Creatures (Side story)
- BLAME!: Denki Ryoushi - Kiken Kaisou Dasshutsu Sakusen (Side story)
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Reading progress:
- Volume 0/10
- Chapter 0/65
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1 mo ago
Shame these scans are such low quality, really recommend going to a different site & reading this masterpiece there, it really takes a lot away from the manga. |
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3 mo ago
Didnt love It but It was alright. Can tell why people love it the art Is fantastic, the story would be too If I could tell what exactly was going on more. |
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3 mo ago
heard about this offhand in a video on youtube, proceeded to read the entire thing over the course of three days and absolutely fell in love with it. pros-compelling storyline, interesting characters, some of the best setting art i've ever seen, and an ability to carry a lot of emotional weight despite having very little dialogue cons-first few chapters have no real effect on the rest of the plot, the lack of color/midtones leads to some bits of it being super visually confusing notes- read this before you watch the movie. seriously. the movie is great but makes no sense without it. if you don't like/can't handle body horror and gore, this isn't for you. overall-one of my favorites. 9/10 edit: what the fuck was that ending Last edited 2 mo ago by anglade. |
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4 mo ago
Started reading this manga because i saw someone mention it when i was reading Usogui (read this manga it's amazing). And man i enjoyed this allot i really liked everything about it esp. the buildings and world design it was very interesting but also gloomy and gritty but oddly relaxing aswell. Deff will re-read this soon. |
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5 mo ago
Cult classic, you're probably going to either love or hate this manga. Strengths:
- World is kept as mysterious to the viewer as it is to the MC through a lack of exposition/info dumping - Most chapters are relatively easy to read, and most of the manga is entirely visual with minimal storytelling - Most arcs are short and don't drag on too long - Visual style and storytelling does an incredible job at selling the scale of the world and the ungodly lengths of time it takes to traverse it - Visual storytelling done right ("show, don't tell") Weaknesses:
- Early chapters are disjointed from the remainder of the book - Art style evolves over time and gradually improves, leaving earlier chapters looking clunky and unrefined in comparison to later chapters - Some chapters are total cluster-fucks and require numerous re-reads to grasp Overall, one of my favorites of all time. It's definitely not everybody's cup of tea, but most of the chapters are easy to read through, and it's not a joke to say that the ~2,000 pages of this manga series can be read in about 6 hours. Give it a try, at least a handful of chapters. If you're not digging it, you won't like it later. If you fall in love, you'll love it all the way through. |
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6 mo ago
Came here after watching the Netflix movie. Good thing I did too, as that movie set up the context of things much better than this manga did early on. This manga has the opposite problem of those crappy manga / anime with overly long backstories where there's paragraphs of exposition and history you don't give a crap about it the beginning that you don't even have the context to understand. It's too minimalist and doesn't explain anything. Plus the art makes the action scenes a bit hard to follow. It has its strengths, like being atmospheric and establishing a mood, but so far, it's lacking characterization and context for what's going on. I like it so far, but can see why it never became a megahit, and only got animated after Knights of Sidonia was successful. |
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6 mo ago
This is one of the masterpieces. @katsu_curry that may be because this manga is not for everyone. You are just suddenly thrown into a world and actually have to put effort into understanding things. That is why this is my favorite @Iandiazgentry read the master edition. there is a pdf of all volumes somewhere on the net For those who can't understand the story, check the wiki on fandom.com for chapter explanations Last edited 6 mo ago by KhunEdhan. |
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8 mo ago
Nihei's magnum opus, idk why it's rating is only 9, should be at least 9.25 |
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8 mo ago
Terrible scan. Read the master edition official release instead. |
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9 mo ago
It might be good but I can't get past the art |
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10 mo ago
@CheerTheDead it's quite a basic premise, but there isn't much exposition and the gaps are enormous. Killy is a more ancient safeguard with a mission of finding this pure human dna to probably birth humans who can control the ai that builds the megastructure without control. The cyborgs want the megastructure to go infinetly to avoid the safeguards. The safeguards exist to erradicate non pure humans like cyborgs. A reduced version is humans vs mutants but no one is on the steering wheel or know what a steering wheel is through the eyes of the characters of these particular events, no bell and whistles, no lore, just things are like this. A story about the most advanced absolute decadence possible. |
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10 mo ago
How did you understand the plot ? What kind of wisdom god are you? |
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12 mo ago
H doujinshi where? (Shibo x Sanakan preferably) |
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1 year ago
@Herrgast The final chapter of NOiSE is the protoype one-shot Nihei wrote in 1995. Despite sharing the title and character name for Killy, it's not canonically related to Blame! 1997. The rest of NOiSE was written after Blame! 1997. It's possible Sanakan was created from a template of Musubi, but this is never confirmed. It's also possible that Killy is a human-turned safeguard like Musubi, but again, I don't believe this is ever confirmed in Blame!, details of the past are quite sparse. |
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1 year ago
@Turkeyjerkey I have to disagree at one point: killy weren't created, he was a human, like you can see at the last page of noise,he was a cop or smth similar, and sanakan were most likely musubi. Killy probably got his new body in the process of the story between noise and blame And those who didn't get the end: the child is a Carrier of the net terminal gene. The child itself is created artificially, bc there weren't any other carriers of the gene(most likely) that's why they decided to create an artificial one... |
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1 year ago
Setting explained for those confused: Humans created an automated city run by ai. Only people with normal human dna "net terminal genes" can give commands to the ai. A disaster causes human dna to be irreversibly mutated. With no to control it the city keeps expanding until it consumes the earth. The Safeguard ai doesn't recognize the mutant humans as people and tries to exterminate them. As the city expands it begins to break down into chaos. A new race of cyborg humans called Silicon Life emerges and seeks to maintain that chaos so that the Safeguard won't be able to eliminate them. Killy was created long ago, tasked with finding a human with net terminal genes to set things right if this situation ever occurred. Last edited 1 year ago by Turkeyjerkey. |
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1 year ago
I'm reading this paper back and I must say it's horror. The entire setting is terror. |
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1 year ago
Man this is hard to read. I want to like it, but I can barely see what's going on. |
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1 year ago
I keep seeing both you around the comments for I am a Hero and other stuff. Neither of y’all liked the ending... I can’t understand why lol |
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1 year ago
Lol wtf |