My favorite thing about Nihei’s art is that learning he was an architect explains a lot about his art when you look at his insanely detailed megastructures and then compare it to his… uh, lackluster rendering of human anatomy.
It's interesting how Nihei transitioned from the crosshatchy artstyle of Blame and Biomega to the more thin, slightly wobbly linework and stunning whiteouts dotted with detail somewhere in the middle of Knights of SIdonia and followed by Aposimz Both are cool and fit the places presented- the crosshatchy style mixing well with the dirty apocalypse of Blame and Biomega while the thin linework does exentuate the sheer emptiness of Aposimz surface
Oh hell yeah, one of my favorite manga finally getting the Owl treatment. Blame! will always be my favorite of Nihei's work, since I like the slow, brooding atmosphere of that one, but Biomega's just purely insane. Probably the fastest pacing I've ever seen in any manga, coupled with breathtaking visuals, and insane action! Now onto the video!
Yeah Blame! Is definitely one of my favorites. All of his stuff is really good I think. I would really like to see him do the artwork while someone else does the story. Think of the team combinations and the craziness that could result lol.
Yay Biomega! Love this series. Love Nihei's artwork. Didn't know he was an architect but it absolutely makes sense when you see his artwork, especially the backgrounds of the infinity city present in Biomega, and Blame!. Although the plot is close to impenetrable a lot of time, and sometimes the art has so much stuff going on I wish I had a poster size manga so I can tell what the hell is going on. That being said I still love the hell out of his work, and it's definitely a style all his own.
So I'm at 4:30 and talking about the "style" of writing, the way I interpret it is the plot isn't as important as the art you're currently looking at. It's kind of excuses to have certain subjects in the frame. I don't know if that's the intention, but when a work has a basic element that seems to be lacking or surface-level it's usually because that isn't the main focus. The pages you showed after you mentioned how odd the writing is, there were really nice action shots and dramatic frames. It felt like looking at a portfolio of an artist's work. 10:30 There it is.
I really, really appreciate you posting these - you've got a great voice, and I really enjoy hearing these breakdowns and summaries of the various horror manga I've read - and many I won't have a chance to read.
I think the inspector looks like a Mashup of the repo man and Pavi from Repo!. Possibly the Joker from the time he cut his face off then wore it like a mask.
The small powered gun in anime/manga has been a thing dating back far into the 80s in anime/manga. Probably even before that. You can find tons of portrayals that look eerily similar to how Nihei draws it. Even in his series BLAME! it was the main weapon of the protagonist. Judge Dredd was created in 1977s so there could still be a connection, but highly doubt its a direct one. Even the way Nihei draws it, looks almost like the small powered gun that a cyborg uses in Angel Cop. And that's just one of quite a few examples. You should check out BLAME!, I thought Biomega was a prequel story to BLAME! when I first read it when it released in the 2000s. Because all the same elements are there, even the bio-mechanical body horror.
I would probably identify the style as Gurobrutalism, because the architecture is often brutalist, while the tableu painted is often grotesque, amd designed to make you feel uneasy.
A lot of those weird weapons like that were used by farmers and peasants I think. In most places, they weren't able to buy or possess swords. So they improvised weapons. Not necessarily to resist government, but the many groups in social standing above them that could arm themselves with swords. They weren't weapons meant for a one v one. A sword could take out a whole village, no matter the resistance put up by the peasants. With these weapons, maybe only half the village would die. Well....I think they were also used by the peasants to kill and rob defeated warriors too...after skirmishes and large battles.
Sidonia no Kishi was a great read. The netflix anime is also surprisingly faithful, although the cel shaded cg animation style is slightly off-putting. I personally didn't mind the animation style, but I know it's a point of issue with some people.
I suggest if you ever read it to read the Second Half first. By that skip the first chapter. The second half feels like the better way to get into the story. You can go back to the beginning an d treat it like a prequel.
Mahogany, is that character's name. It makes me think of Repo! The Genetic Opera, combined with some b-rate slasher where the guy wore a silver mask and used some edgy "mall ninja" knives. Struggling to remember that movie's name, but I remember it somehow had a sequel. I actually tried searching to see if that inspector was a reference to anything. Either my phrasing is off or there's an odd lack of info on BiOmega. Even the wiki has a major lack of info.
This may be a bit off topic but is the window in the backround of your video possibly from the videogame "Nightmare Reaper"? Because i think it has a similar artstyle.
Maybe he should try making 2000AD stories. Like "ABC Warriors, Glimmer Rats, Rogue Trooper, Durham Red", unholy, in a positive way. Also, manga-creators should try WH40K.
(also you are wrong on kusarigama- it was a utility tool more than a weapon, and afterall just like all Ninja weapons: a repurposed farming equipment) The hooksword tho is for show
@@frightranker It was never meant for open combat- it's a tool first and foremost. (I recomend ya look more into the ninja stuff btw- popculture really both under and oversells them)
@@masterzoroark6664 Ninja, afaik, were seldom assassins and more spies/infiltrators, heavily romanticized and exaggerated due to the popularization of ninja fiction in the 70s and 80s.
@@frightranker yep And ones who did assassination did not wear the "tacticool black" but dressed up as servants and sexworkers to get close to the target (things never change honestly if you look at more modern stories of people getting assassinated)
@@frightranker I haven't finished it either but apparently its good. I just wanted to see if you could either figure out what the gauna are supposed to be or what Nihei was trying to accomplish thematically. Just check out some of the panels where someone gets eaten by a gauna, it's one of the most disturbing antagonistic forces I've seen.
The reference of the inspector may be the dollmaker from the batman comics. That and i think the singer of slipknot wore somethi g that looked similar.
@@frightranker how so? im 21 chapters in. i find it very well written and i love it how they built upon the lore created in the first one. i started SA expecting a mindless gorefest like Pygmalyon, instead the story kept me glued to the pages. there is just one thing didnt really made sense to me. but i dont know how far are you in so i won't spoil.
Wait........THIS IS JUST A PREQUEL TO BLAME. like the pistol, the toha company, and the virus shares the name with the gene that the dude from blame was looking for wtf lol, is eon some sort of patient zero??.
Tsutomu Nihei is making Masterpieces left and right Tsutomu Nihei, Go Nagai, Takehiko Inoue, and Kentaro Miura are the gods of manga, bow to your kings
My favorite thing about Nihei’s art is that learning he was an architect explains a lot about his art when you look at his insanely detailed megastructures and then compare it to his… uh, lackluster rendering of human anatomy.
It's interesting how Nihei transitioned from the crosshatchy artstyle of Blame and Biomega to the more thin, slightly wobbly linework and stunning whiteouts dotted with detail somewhere in the middle of Knights of SIdonia and followed by Aposimz
Both are cool and fit the places presented- the crosshatchy style mixing well with the dirty apocalypse of Blame and Biomega while the thin linework does exentuate the sheer emptiness of Aposimz surface
Oh hell yeah, one of my favorite manga finally getting the Owl treatment. Blame! will always be my favorite of Nihei's work, since I like the slow, brooding atmosphere of that one, but Biomega's just purely insane. Probably the fastest pacing I've ever seen in any manga, coupled with breathtaking visuals, and insane action! Now onto the video!
Yeah Blame! Is definitely one of my favorites. All of his stuff is really good I think. I would really like to see him do the artwork while someone else does the story. Think of the team combinations and the craziness that could result lol.
I absolutely love the "shocked Mr. Owl" model.
Fits so perfectly, doesn't it?
@@Koruvax Mrs. Owl did an amazing job lol
I’ve found so many new manga I love through your amazing videos and channel, so huge thank you from me to you and the whole owl family 😊
Thanks mate!
It's my first time seeing Mrs Owl 🦉 she looks great can't wait to see what the video is gonna be like. Really excited ✨
Also, thanks for covering this. I had not seen an art style so similar to my own, and the story is brilliant.
I get hard spawn vibes and a tony bit of the batman who laughs at 18:48 personally. I doubt thats what you were thinking but figured id share
Yay Biomega! Love this series. Love Nihei's artwork. Didn't know he was an architect but it absolutely makes sense when you see his artwork, especially the backgrounds of the infinity city present in Biomega, and Blame!. Although the plot is close to impenetrable a lot of time, and sometimes the art has so much stuff going on I wish I had a poster size manga so I can tell what the hell is going on. That being said I still love the hell out of his work, and it's definitely a style all his own.
I’m a long time lurker, love your videos!
So I'm at 4:30 and talking about the "style" of writing, the way I interpret it is the plot isn't as important as the art you're currently looking at. It's kind of excuses to have certain subjects in the frame. I don't know if that's the intention, but when a work has a basic element that seems to be lacking or surface-level it's usually because that isn't the main focus. The pages you showed after you mentioned how odd the writing is, there were really nice action shots and dramatic frames. It felt like looking at a portfolio of an artist's work.
10:30 There it is.
The design of the Inspector reminds me of the Repo men in Repo!the Genetic Opera
Does Zydrate come in a little glass vial?
NEW OWL VIDEO, it's a good weekend ^w^
One of my favorite manga, that is not really covered up on the internet. Thank you very much !
I really, really appreciate you posting these - you've got a great voice, and I really enjoy hearing these breakdowns and summaries of the various horror manga I've read - and many I won't have a chance to read.
Keep the videos coming!
Personally the inspector looks like a Repoman from Repo the Genetic Opera.
especially looked like it at 18:37
Absolutely what I thought
No silent hill triangle head
Agree!!
You can definitely tell that the Succubus and Hitman mangaka is heavily inspired by Todd McFarlane. I'd recommend checking it out.
I think the inspector looks like a Mashup of the repo man and Pavi from Repo!. Possibly the Joker from the time he cut his face off then wore it like a mask.
You and Mrs Owl have the cutest interaction
Also: i totally agree with the paralel with SAMURA’s « Blade… » which is an absolute MASTERPIECE. Nihei & Samura are my 2 personal G.O.A.T.s 🤩
Nihei is a Genius. Everything he does is fabulous… what is he up to now?!
believe it or not, he making a dnd-esque fantasy themed manga at the moment titled "tower dungeon"
@ is it dark or…? ‘Cos I know he had been making the Sidonia thing and it wasn’t very dark at all
The small powered gun in anime/manga has been a thing dating back far into the 80s in anime/manga. Probably even before that. You can find tons of portrayals that look eerily similar to how Nihei draws it. Even in his series BLAME! it was the main weapon of the protagonist. Judge Dredd was created in 1977s so there could still be a connection, but highly doubt its a direct one. Even the way Nihei draws it, looks almost like the small powered gun that a cyborg uses in Angel Cop. And that's just one of quite a few examples. You should check out BLAME!, I thought Biomega was a prequel story to BLAME! when I first read it when it released in the 2000s. Because all the same elements are there, even the bio-mechanical body horror.
It could be. Love Angel Cop, but I was going for Nihei loves western comics and there is more than just the gun that is evocative of 2000 AD.
Also, the health inspectors design seems to be quite inspired by both Nemesis from RE3 and Cenobites from Hellriser
Yeah, there's something specific though, it might well be the faceless Joker from the New 52 Batman era.
Actually, the inspector looks like a "Batman who laughs" for me
I was thinking faceless Joker XD
I would probably identify the style as Gurobrutalism, because the architecture is often brutalist, while the tableu painted is often grotesque, amd designed to make you feel uneasy.
Apropos Dorohedoro I would love if you would do deep dive. One of my favourite mangas of all time
Woohoo papa owl's back
Hey bro any chances you will make a video on mpd psycho btw love that you made a video on biomega 🙃
the guns remind me of the guns used by the X-laws faction from Shaman King
Video starts at 6:43
Man I remember long nights just rereading blame and scrolling through Fandom for more lore and to better understand the story.
We'll probably do Blame next year.
I've always thought that the apron wearing antagonists in Nihei's manga were inspired by the butcher villain trope often seen in western horror.
A lot of those weird weapons like that were used by farmers and peasants I think. In most places, they weren't able to buy or possess swords. So they improvised weapons. Not necessarily to resist government, but the many groups in social standing above them that could arm themselves with swords. They weren't weapons meant for a one v one. A sword could take out a whole village, no matter the resistance put up by the peasants. With these weapons, maybe only half the village would die. Well....I think they were also used by the peasants to kill and rob defeated warriors too...after skirmishes and large battles.
Sidonia no Kishi was a great read. The netflix anime is also surprisingly faithful, although the cel shaded cg animation style is slightly off-putting. I personally didn't mind the animation style, but I know it's a point of issue with some people.
So many of these have “on drugs” or “on all the drugs” somewhere in the description 😂
Tsutomu Nihei is my fucking favorite! If yall enjoy Biomega, you definitely need to read "BLAME!". Guaranteed not to disappoint!
I suggest if you ever read it to read the Second Half first. By that skip the first chapter. The second half feels like the better way to get into the story. You can go back to the beginning an d treat it like a prequel.
The butcher from midnight meat train, maybe?!
Ooh there's a film I haven't seen for a while.
Mahogany, is that character's name. It makes me think of Repo! The Genetic Opera, combined with some b-rate slasher where the guy wore a silver mask and used some edgy "mall ninja" knives. Struggling to remember that movie's name, but I remember it somehow had a sequel.
I actually tried searching to see if that inspector was a reference to anything. Either my phrasing is off or there's an odd lack of info on BiOmega. Even the wiki has a major lack of info.
18:54 He looks like Pyramid head from Silent hill.
Could the reference possibly be equilibrium?
Ooh! I...literally never thought of that.
16 years in Japan and I have not seen a Jason themed diner
It's not common lol, it just exists. There's also a Jason themed resort!
This may be a bit off topic but is the window in the backround of your video possibly from the videogame "Nightmare Reaper"? Because i think it has a similar artstyle.
Yes! Well spotted!
Inspector is a reference to leather face from Texas chainsaw massacre in my opinion
Maybe he should try making 2000AD stories.
Like "ABC Warriors, Glimmer Rats, Rogue Trooper, Durham Red", unholy, in a positive way.
Also, manga-creators should try WH40K.
I hope they release a Biomega master collection in English, I really don't want to drop $200-$300 on the six volume set of manga.
Yeah :|
kiiiinda loooks like joe the plumber joker, when he cuts his own face off and reattaches it with hooks lol
I also thought faceless Joker, but not sure if timeline matches up.
(also you are wrong on kusarigama- it was a utility tool more than a weapon, and afterall just like all Ninja weapons: a repurposed farming equipment)
The hooksword tho is for show
From what I've seen, the kusarigama was used in a few duels and that's it.
@@frightranker It was never meant for open combat- it's a tool first and foremost.
(I recomend ya look more into the ninja stuff btw- popculture really both under and oversells them)
@@masterzoroark6664 Ninja, afaik, were seldom assassins and more spies/infiltrators, heavily romanticized and exaggerated due to the popularization of ninja fiction in the 70s and 80s.
@@frightranker yep
And ones who did assassination did not wear the "tacticool black" but dressed up as servants and sexworkers to get close to the target (things never change honestly if you look at more modern stories of people getting assassinated)
The inspector looks like the pale lady to me, idk, just gives the same vibe, from scary stories to tell in the dark
I don't think I know what the design is based off of but I can tell you that it looks like a character in dead by daylight
Bubba/Leatherface
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤love it
Please do Sidonia and Blame!
Blame is a possibility, but late next year. Never read Sidonia.
@@frightranker I haven't finished it either but apparently its good. I just wanted to see if you could either figure out what the gauna are supposed to be or what Nihei was trying to accomplish thematically.
Just check out some of the panels where someone gets eaten by a gauna, it's one of the most disturbing antagonistic forces I've seen.
this seems like it came straight from Blame!
owl kun never make them shorter long all the way!!
Inspector man reminds me of The Bat who Laughs
I thought more faceless Joker :)
Damn my ass was about to click off until your girl set you straight... That's a keeper right there
The reference of the inspector may be the dollmaker from the batman comics. That and i think the singer of slipknot wore somethi g that looked similar.
have you read the sequel to Starving Anonymous? its on another level
It's...funny you should mention that ^^.
@@frightranker how so? im 21 chapters in. i find it very well written and i love it how they built upon the lore created in the first one. i started SA expecting a mindless gorefest like Pygmalyon, instead the story kept me glued to the pages. there is just one thing didnt really made sense to me. but i dont know how far are you in so i won't spoil.
@@2st_duallist You'll see what I mean next Friday. If you check today's community post you may be able to put two and two together XD
Possibly the keeper from evil within
Wait........THIS IS JUST A PREQUEL TO BLAME. like the pistol, the toha company, and the virus shares the name with the gene that the dude from blame was looking for wtf lol, is eon some sort of patient zero??.
Apparently it isn't and yes, that's weird.
The inspector looks like hes from that manga psyren
Wait so all the characters are from knights of sidonia and blame ?
Tsutomu Nihei is making Masterpieces left and right
Tsutomu Nihei, Go Nagai, Takehiko Inoue, and Kentaro Miura are the gods of manga, bow to your kings
Ryukishi07 and Hiroya Oku are waving
@frightranker damn HE CREATED GANTZ and Inuyashiki, he's welcome
@frightranker ryushiki07 is welcome because of Silent Hill F
@frightranker bro you know your manga I'm sleeping on them but I love their anime
@@frightranker was ryushiki07 involved in steins gate, I can't find his work
MFFFFF TERRAFORMARS, bro drop the vid for it
Kinda looks like one of the Thirteen Ghosts
Blame! Is the best 🎉
Do goblin slayer
It's a stretch but the butcher apron dude looks like enemies from a faction from City of Heroes, the Vhazilok. Think Dr. Frankenstein wanna-be's.
Repo the genetic opera
Really long intro
Keep in mind this will eventually be a 3 hour video once compiled.