wtf am I reading?
Is this hellraiser?
>>137684054
Some a joint or 2 while reading through it and it'll start making sense.
>>137684102
I suppose I need to.
All I have so far is that they are in a labyrinth and MC is looking for DNA that hasn't been corrupted. This honestly feels like Matrix/Hellraiser tbhfamalamo
>>137684102
>Some a joint or 2
Nani?
>>137684054
>MC travels through a Dyson Sphere the size of the solar system
Talk about YUUUUUUUUGE!
>>137684168
Don't try too much to make sense of it. Plot isn't what you read Blame! for.
>>137684281
Not to say there wouldn't be some sort of story in there.
Plot is stretching it a bit, more like there is a setting and world.
>>137684054
i can't read this since the scans are the official version in english and thus read from left to right
>>137684054
A autist with a mission does things, it takes him a long time.
>>137684054
>wtf
>>137684168
>tbhfamalamo
Stop posting anytime
>>137684698
THATS WHY I WAS CONFUSED BY WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON AND DROPPED IT
>>137684698
its only like that for volume 1 and 2. after that you can find ones that go back to right to left
>>137684797
okely dokely
>>137684168
>tbhfamalamo
Fuck off.
>>137685293
Okely-dokely-doo!
>>137684281
horseshit, fuck you
>>137684803
shut up and read this
Cool, Gantz.
>>137686717
I love the manga but not for narrative reasons. It's interesting how it tells its story but it hardly is very lucid or even coherent.
>you just can't into visual information and subtext
Perhaps so, but ask from anyone who has read it once a synopsis for Blame! and the answers won't be all that exhaustive.
>>137687618
>ask from anyone who has read it once a synopsis for Blame! and the answers won't be all that exhaustive
That is *why* I wrote that.
>>137684102
I think I need one to understand this comment as well.
>>137687720
I understand and respect that. Doesn't change that the manga is notoriously hard to follow and decipher.
Many mostly tune off from the plot and read about it later. It's not like it wouldn't be entertaining without fully understanding it. I sure didn't at first.
>>137687893
Well that's fair, but a lot of people refuse to read it because they don't "get it" or the reverse for the first two volumes or whatever. I'd rather have them preemptively read a synopsis and be able to vaguely understand things than to just give up on the series before Volume 3.
>>137684054
You're reading about a guy looking for net terminal genes.
One guy's millenia-long quest for a wifi password. The plot is a piece of cake to understand compared to Biomega. Fuck that shit.
>>137688979
biomega did 9/11
>>137687720
Delicious cibo.
>>137689501
>>137688979
why did biomega end on a giant strand of space spaghetti?
>>137689792
Not tall enough.
>>137684054
I want to see Nihei do a mideieval fantasy world, I bet the castles, towns and dungeons would be amazing.
>>137689931
Because that was the bear's dream or something. Think Ghostbusters and the Stay Puft Marshmallow man.
>>137690054
here's your tallbo
>>137684054
>wtf
I really didn't think that Blame! was that hard to follow. I had to flip back a few pages every so often, but it isn't that fucking cryptic. It is just as explained here >>137686717 . Biomega, on the other hand... jeez, I had to go back whole volumes to figure out what the fuck had happened. Both are incredible though.
>>137691386
>You will never decaying megacities with a cibo head and shoulder taller than you.
>>137686717
Well that was a long read.
>>137694732
I'm pretty sure those 10 paragraphs contain more words than actual manga itself.
>>137684054
i re-read it like once a year.
This and Shigurui are perfect for multiple reads as there's always some detail you missed before.
>Walking to Jupiter starring Shoot Man
>Co-starring Stupid Science Bitch
>Also featuring Future Cop
>With the voice of Gilbert Gottfried as Mori!
>>137687147
Underrated
>>137694891
I very much doubt it
>>137695807
>With the voice of Gilbert Gottfried as Mori!
10/10
>>137695828
>dad, you should write something interesting like snk
>>137697207
But Nihei did write snk.
>>137697207
>>137697379
You think this is a game?
>>137697688
Should have made Sidonia 2deep4u and told his daughter she was a casual
>>137698091
That already happened with Abara, unfortunately. I think Abara's "confusing" end was what forced Nihei to try to make more easily palatable shit like Biomega and SnK. Not going to say that Biomega *was* ultimately palatable - it wasn't - but if there wasn't editorial interference to end it sooner, I'm sure it would have made a lot more sense. It felt like we were missing every 1 in 3 chapters because of that. Sidonia is just.. gross.
>>137698261
Speaking of abara, which one of you did this?
>>137698443
I have a feeling it's the guy behind >>137686717 since he's a fucking hero
throwing in what I assume to be an OTP thing because it's neat
>>137697814
Nihei draws the hottest augmetics.
>>137698443
>>137698547
Oh, wow. I did not do that. I was gonna do something like that, but I guess I can just leech content from that one if I want to make an updated/new one. I wonder who did do it, and if they're as big a Nihei autist as I am.
>>137686717
Ok I have some questions:
1. Where did the manga mention the airborne plague? I don't remember that at all.
2. In Noise the antagonists were a bunch of tech-worshiping cultists (I think?). Are they the origins of the Silicon Creatures?
3. The three humans alive from the old world are Killy, Seu, and the girl from Noise?
So, when are those high-quality scans coming out?
>>137698954
>Where did the manga mention the airborne plague? I don't remember that at all.
I think I noted in there that it's only brought up twice, and one is extremely indirectly. It should be somewhere in volume 3 to 5 - sometime after Killy and Cibo enter Toa Heavy Industries, I believe. Cibo hacks into a dying Silicon and forces it to tell them everything it knows, and it mentions a plague. The indirect mention is obviously at the end, where Sanakan tells Killy to take the orb somewhere that does not have the infection/disease/whatever she says specifically.
>2. In Noise the antagonists were a bunch of tech-worshiping cultists (I think?). Are they the origins of the Silicon Creatures?
Yeah. If I didn't cover that, I should have. Whatever, more info for the infograph I'm slowly making
>3. The three humans alive from the old world are Killy, Seu, and the girl from Noise?
Killy and Seu are definitely from the old world. Musubi is presumably dead, but I can't really say anything either way. The third that I was mentioning is the premise of a theory that I have, regarding a minor character that has a bizarre interaction with Killy and Mori: the dying human who modified the Builders (seen right before the Jupiter room).
It's shown throughout the manga that no living human has any idea how the Builders function, how they're coded, so on and so forth. Before we're introduced to this man, we find his "village" completely alone, hidden behind some sort of invisible wall. There's no sign of any other living human for thousands of miles in any direction, and there's a bunch of modified Builders that now possess a humanoid structure - some with screen displays to mimic human faces. They're seen wandering around this faux village as if they were living humans; as if they were meant to replicate the experience of being near others. Killy asks one of these Builders if there are any actual humans, and he points us to the dying man. He's hooked up to, fuck, con't.
>>137700110
He's hooked up to a massive apparatus that has clearly been delaying his death for a very long time. It's not the sort of thing that Killy has, though. It's not some means of regenerating flesh or keeping cells from dying; it's just an incredibly powerful life support system. This is why they say he's dying. As they're leaving, Mori wonders if he's the one who changed the Builders.
So there's a human who has lived long enough to be a person who knows how Builders work *and* how to modify them. No other human in The City can do that. He's hidden himself away from Safeguards by creating an illusory wall that separates his village from the rest of The City. He's built companions from machines in the image of humans in order to stave off the loneliness. He has managed to construct a life support system for himself, upon which he is now wholly dependent and is immobile. All of these things point towards the idea that he's an engineer from before the disaster. It's incredibly depressing, but he survived the purge and was left alone for thousands of years; eventually making friends out of what resources and knowledge he had. He didn't want to become like a machine, so he didn't give himself Killy-type augmentations. He just kept his ordinary human body and did everything possible to prevent his own death.
It's depressing as fuck, but doesn't that sound like what he really could be?
pls respond
I've posted this basic concept before, but I haven't gone into the depths of it before
>>137701007
>>137700524
Which vol was all this in?
>>137701204
Nine.
>>137701250
Wait which chapter I can't find it. I thought the Jupiter room meant the room in Toha.
>>137701463
>I thought the Jupiter room meant the room in Toha.
you dirty not-nerd
http://view.thespectrum.net/series/blame-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+09&page=147
>>137684698
>not having the scans from omanga
>>137701563
Found it just a bit before your post.
The ability to modify the builders is certainly interesting and indicates either a citizen with netsphere access from old world or a skilled engineer. It's probably the latter since if he could actually command the builders he'd likely have done so.
So yea I think the theory checks out.
>>137701250
>remove safeguard
>>137684054
DUDE MEGASTRUCTURE LMAO
>>137700110
My theory is that Pcell is Musubi after various reincarnations,just like Pcell had her own. She does have the Graviton Blade after all.
>>137704830
Is Pcell's sword really the same one from NOiSE?
I thought Nihei just liked drawing meat cleaver-style swords.
>>137704830
I just figured pcell found it after it's original owner was long dead.
>>137705696
He does; there's tons of swords like Musubi's, I dunno why people think that means anything
>>137705696
The Silicon Life originated from the cult, both groups had tons of the gravity swords
juuryoukushihoushasenshashutsusouchi
>>137710375
It sounds cooler than "graviton beam emitter."
>>137710505
that sounds pretty bad-ass
something about practical names for weaponry just does it for me, such as "neutron beams" or "damper field"
>>137710115
"Shashutsu" is difficult to pronounce even for a Japanese.
>>137710505
but not cooler than GBE
