I'm really happy that you choose to read Blame!, it's such a journey. There are some things you have to keep in mind: 1- sometimes between one log to the other can pass literally decades 2- all the lore is in the manga but you will need to pay attention carefully. 3- Don't mess with Kyrri. Also, there is a manga called Noise! that serves as a prequel.
I read Knights of SIdonia (Tsutomu Nihei's next manga) before BLAME, which is a more streamlined story of the same general concepts. Going from KoS to BLAME was like going from Twin Peaks to Eraserhead.
@@Revealingstorm. The emptiness and isolation just gets more powerful the farther Kyrii climbs, as there is less and less (human) life the farther up it goes. I loved the consistency throughout the manga in that regard. Did you end up finishing it yet?
I love stupidly high concepts in stories and had so much fun with the growing realization of how big the "city" is. First impression was like, okay so it's maybe a Judge Dredd-esque mega city. Then, nope this thing must be the size of a country or even a continent. Then, is it basically the whole world? I'll avoid spoilers, even though the true size isn't explicitly said in the manga, but that was still early days. Very early days. Also love the lore and explanation of why it is like it is. Great manga.
Pog more seinen manga reviews. Blame is great! I've yet the whole of it. This series is going to be a great for recap purposes. another thing , make sure to add Battle Angel Alita and Battle Angel Alita The Last Order ( the sequel manga ) to your reading list. It's 10/10. Very much like Blame! too
Im 45 and never had much interest in manga. Until now. I heard of BLAME from a video on megalophobia and the brief explanation of this universe pokes my interest as a scifi fanatic. Your enthusiasm has tipped the scales for me and im ordering a copy.
Great review, I'm really excited to hear what you think of the rest of the story. I'm not a huge sci-fi fan but I can't name one I like better than Blame!. I absolutely love how post apocalyptic this world is, the word "human" is completely obsolete since everyone is augmented in some way yet it has been so long since there was a stable civilization they don't even understand how to read their own HUD or retinal displays as the guy in LOG 5 called it. Amusingly, you kind of missed something during LOG 5 even after you went back to check. Killy did not plug the interface cable into his head, he plugged it into some kind of adapter he had on his belt in order to view the recording. You might've just misspoke but it's not an insignificant detail since it shows that Killy either doesn't have the necessary augmentation or just incompatible, showing he is older than he seems. It feels like I notice something new every time I read trough Blame! and I love it.
Really glad I found your channel. I love listening to you going on about two of my favourite mangas (and some books). I hope you can do this for a long time with the same energy you've shown so far! :)
I'm actually really excited to hear your interpretation of BLAME!, it's one of my all-time favorites and the few other perspectives I've heard all seem to be different than mine.
I read that Tsutomu Nihei was trained as an architect before becoming a manga artist, so it makes sense why the backgrounds look so amazing as they do.
I definitely need to check this one out. I saw the Netflix anime a while back without any idea that there was a manga out there if of. Very unique. Glad you loved it. Great review.
That Netflix film was a real letdown after reading the manga. Obviously there's no way to compress the manga into such a short runtime, but they took away basically everything that makes Blame so unique and different (because god forbid actually making something that challenges the audience. Unthinkable!). The only thing I loved about it was Cibo's voice actress. I could've listened to her talk all day.
now this is exciting, one of my all time faves. wish there were more sci-fi manga with Nihei's approach to the classic sci-fi thought experiment world design
1st time viewer, that was a great breakdown of BLAME!. I love Tsutomu Nihei's work. I discovered him through Biomega before finding BLAME!. I had read GANTZ before so I was used to some mind bending but Nihei took it to a new level. I recently finished AGARA & I have to read it a few more times. I'm now starting Aspomiz. He is also releasing Wolverine: Snikt! in June, that should be interesting. As for Nihei's art, if I recall correctly he was an architecture student before moving to Manga.
BLAME is a masterpices because it uses the very basic essential core element of manga and that is DRAWINGS and makes you really "read". One needs to have remarcable patience and forsight to make every page count, every panel important, to make the reader develop the eye for details, for "reading between the lines". Tell me, anyone, when you read Jujutsu Kaisen do you remember the background, the space, the journey of getting whereever a character was going, do you? With BLAME you will months after being able to remember a particular page becauce it was burned it you retina and mind by how grand it is. Take time because BLAME is worth it!
Loved this book - Read it in 2 hours. Was flying through it at first and realized I need to slow down to understand the details. Great story and love how we can interpret some of it for ourselves. Just ordered the 2nd Volume.
I've read quite a lot of mangas, novels, lots of movies but somehow this one speak to me like none others. I found out about this manga from the Pewdiepie channel where he earnestly show his love for this manga. I love this manga, and always love to hear people go in depth and analyzing it. Thank you, hope to see you goes in depth for some more on this manga. I rememberd there was a interview about animes and movies, they were talking about how Miyazaki's Ghibli movie speak volume and express even more emotion when theres no words spoken unlike any animation. But then I realize that in all the classical movies the story or the character wasn't always showing in words but how the actor emphasize it, the facial movement the gesture. The action speak volume. and this manga show it perfectly. To me the way Blame! express it emotion is like speaking to the soul, the loneliness, the absent of meaning, it's so eerie, so sad but so beautiful. the artwork sometimes goes extraordinary detail and show the building, the environment, sometime it goes sketching style like the wavering dream, things goes uncertainty, dreamy. And I love how this manga leaves things out as mistery and not goes over explain everything and there is no narrator, we feels like we are in there, we are immersed in it. The design of the silicon life is a mix between medival priest, knight, torture device and cybernetic with human tissue is really on point and grotesque. and the architecture, the environment is so beautiful, its emphasize on how much small people in the world and how its alienate the human from this world, I think this person speak much better than me: th-cam.com/video/Zkv6rVcKKg8/w-d-xo.html if there is movie that can show the same range of motion like this manga, I guess that would be Blade Runner and The lighthouse both are fantastic. [spoiler somewhat] I dont know if this count as spoiling it but reading this manga feels like a nightmare where this person walking endlessly to the end of the world where nothing was define for human and the purpose was no longer meaningful, the world was no longer like the one we live in and theres not really any "true" human anymore, but he keeps on going no matter what cause he cant die. we cant never know his thinking or motivation, we dont know that he's doing it cause he has to or he hopes to, but between action and fighting, we still see a hint of there is human side of Killy in him. At one point the manga show that he cant remmeber what is happening or who his was because he's been going for so long. its so depressing and it feels like a mixture between existensial nihilism and stoicism, or may be it just me.
A Seinen that i really like and its pretty underrated is Shigurui, its all about samurai but without all the romanticism and leaving behind a dark and macabre tone of that era
Wow! If I had a nickel for every time the main character of a manga looses an arm, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?
blame’s world gives me a morbid curiosity no other story does. nihei is an unrivaled storyteller 13:05 this is one of my favorite parts. kyrii says “we’ve long forgotten what the words on our retina displays mean” magic
I love how 8:49 with the punch to the face and the lack of detail about that place means that the memory of this place absolutely punches you in the gut retroactively _WAY_ later on without warning.
3 minutes in and i can say that reading it slowly is the way to go, but it also stands for all manga. you should read Berserk a little more slowly. Most hings you didn't understand or had issue with were literally explained in multiple panels. It happens every Berserk vid, same with Daniel Greene, like bro it's right there on the page! lol This manga looks amazing though. Never read it before, but that isolated lonesome feeling is awesome
Alright you made me buy the first two volumes…. I read way to way cuz I want the story but will def slow down and appreciate in vol 2. HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE KID AT THE BEGINNING. Even going back lol. The video explained it lol. Looking forward to more world building
Blame is one of my favorite mangas of all time is so thought provoking and interesting me being a fan of science and dark sci fi is perfect for me, i would recommend to u a manga really different from this It's called Innocent, is a story about a family of executioners during the french revolution, it has the greatest art I've seen in manga it's beyond this world, and the story itself is really interesting and based on true events of that time.
I just read this manga for the first time. I also read the Noise 8 chapter prequel manga to this and watched both the 2003 anime and the netflix anime. This is such an interesting world.
The way you described how you need to pay attention to this manga is what I would’ve told you if we met in person seeing how, no offence, you tend to miss details in the art of Bersek. But I’m glad you caught on quickly.
i never collected manga but last year i started 3 series. berserk deluxe blade of the immortal and blame! wish they would make a decent big format release of vagabond too!
@@mrmanju6989 yeah i read the 4 books and now book 7 comes and i didnt opened them yet so i can finish it all at once. too bad they say it will out complete on next fall... ( if 10 books is the end line )
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"WTF!, hold on a sec" - re-reads the entire last chapter again. That was my experience at least half the time i read this.
I'm really happy that you choose to read Blame!, it's such a journey. There are some things you have to keep in mind: 1- sometimes between one log to the other can pass literally decades 2- all the lore is in the manga but you will need to pay attention carefully. 3- Don't mess with Kyrri. Also, there is a manga called Noise! that serves as a prequel.
I love this story. Always happy to see other people get their brains melted by the ideas and and art in Blame!
The manga Gon is similar to this, you could even order an edition from any country as it literally has no words whatsoever. The art is also fantastic.
Gon is incredible. I have cried abt 4 different times with that shit. The little bugs in the cave, the wolf family, ohjh man
Tsutomu Nihei studied architecture which makes so much sense when you look at the incredible backgrounds in the manga
I read Knights of SIdonia (Tsutomu Nihei's next manga) before BLAME, which is a more streamlined story of the same general concepts. Going from KoS to BLAME was like going from Twin Peaks to Eraserhead.
I'm going through Blame right now. I'm hoping the feeling of grand emptiness and the unknown doesn't go away
@@Revealingstorm. The emptiness and isolation just gets more powerful the farther Kyrii climbs, as there is less and less (human) life the farther up it goes. I loved the consistency throughout the manga in that regard. Did you end up finishing it yet?
I love stupidly high concepts in stories and had so much fun with the growing realization of how big the "city" is. First impression was like, okay so it's maybe a Judge Dredd-esque mega city. Then, nope this thing must be the size of a country or even a continent. Then, is it basically the whole world? I'll avoid spoilers, even though the true size isn't explicitly said in the manga, but that was still early days. Very early days. Also love the lore and explanation of why it is like it is. Great manga.
Pog more seinen manga reviews. Blame is great! I've yet the whole of it. This series is going to be a great for recap purposes.
another thing , make sure to add Battle Angel Alita and Battle Angel Alita The Last Order ( the sequel manga ) to your reading list. It's 10/10. Very much like Blame! too
It's on my short list
Not gonna watch the full video (haven't read Blame yet!) but wanted to hop in with a like and a positive comment. Love the channel!
Well I'm definitely no expert on manga but I loved it and recommend reading it.
Im 45 and never had much interest in manga. Until now. I heard of BLAME from a video on megalophobia and the brief explanation of this universe pokes my interest as a scifi fanatic. Your enthusiasm has tipped the scales for me and im ordering a copy.
Great review, I'm really excited to hear what you think of the rest of the story.
I'm not a huge sci-fi fan but I can't name one I like better than Blame!. I absolutely love how post apocalyptic this world is, the word "human" is completely obsolete since everyone is augmented in some way yet it has been so long since there was a stable civilization they don't even understand how to read their own HUD or retinal displays as the guy in LOG 5 called it.
Amusingly, you kind of missed something during LOG 5 even after you went back to check. Killy did not plug the interface cable into his head, he plugged it into some kind of adapter he had on his belt in order to view the recording. You might've just misspoke but it's not an insignificant detail since it shows that Killy either doesn't have the necessary augmentation or just incompatible, showing he is older than he seems.
It feels like I notice something new every time I read trough Blame! and I love it.
Really glad I found your channel. I love listening to you going on about two of my favourite mangas (and some books). I hope you can do this for a long time with the same energy you've shown so far! :)
I'm actually really excited to hear your interpretation of BLAME!, it's one of my all-time favorites and the few other perspectives I've heard all seem to be different than mine.
I have to say, thank you! This video is what got me started reading Blame. And boy I haven't regretted it! This story is insane!
Always love to see some Blame! content
I read that Tsutomu Nihei was trained as an architect before becoming a manga artist, so it makes sense why the backgrounds look so amazing as they do.
I definitely need to check this one out. I saw the Netflix anime a while back without any idea that there was a manga out there if of. Very unique. Glad you loved it. Great review.
That Netflix film was a real letdown after reading the manga. Obviously there's no way to compress the manga into such a short runtime, but they took away basically everything that makes Blame so unique and different (because god forbid actually making something that challenges the audience. Unthinkable!). The only thing I loved about it was Cibo's voice actress. I could've listened to her talk all day.
Just found your channel through this Blame! series and I’m always glad to see people giving this manga some love! Gotta be my favorite manga lmao
now this is exciting, one of my all time faves. wish there were more sci-fi manga with Nihei's approach to the classic sci-fi thought experiment world design
I still don’t know what it’s about… I treat it as an art book. I’d also say it’s about the journey of the characters than an overall story.
1st time viewer, that was a great breakdown of BLAME!. I love Tsutomu Nihei's work. I discovered him through Biomega before finding BLAME!. I had read GANTZ before so I was used to some mind bending but Nihei took it to a new level. I recently finished AGARA & I have to read it a few more times. I'm now starting Aspomiz. He is also releasing Wolverine: Snikt! in June, that should be interesting. As for Nihei's art, if I recall correctly he was an architecture student before moving to Manga.
Somehow, this manga still being discovered makes me happy.
BLAME is a masterpices because it uses the very basic essential core element of manga and that is DRAWINGS and makes you really "read". One needs to have remarcable patience and forsight to make every page count, every panel important, to make the reader develop the eye for details, for "reading between the lines". Tell me, anyone, when you read Jujutsu Kaisen do you remember the background, the space, the journey of getting whereever a character was going, do you? With BLAME you will months after being able to remember a particular page becauce it was burned it you retina and mind by how grand it is. Take time because BLAME is worth it!
a little late to the party but great vid! really enjoyed blame and your reaction to it, gonna watch the next one
Loved this book - Read it in 2 hours. Was flying through it at first and realized I need to slow down to understand the details. Great story and love how we can interpret some of it for ourselves. Just ordered the 2nd Volume.
I've read quite a lot of mangas, novels, lots of movies but somehow this one speak to me like none others. I found out about this manga from the Pewdiepie channel where he earnestly show his love for this manga. I love this manga, and always love to hear people go in depth and analyzing it. Thank you, hope to see you goes in depth for some more on this manga.
I rememberd there was a interview about animes and movies, they were talking about how Miyazaki's Ghibli movie speak volume and express even more emotion when theres no words spoken unlike any animation. But then I realize that in all the classical movies the story or the character wasn't always showing in words but how the actor emphasize it, the facial movement the gesture. The action speak volume. and this manga show it perfectly.
To me the way Blame! express it emotion is like speaking to the soul, the loneliness, the absent of meaning, it's so eerie, so sad but so beautiful. the artwork sometimes goes extraordinary detail and show the building, the environment, sometime it goes sketching style like the wavering dream, things goes uncertainty, dreamy. And I love how this manga leaves things out as mistery and not goes over explain everything and there is no narrator, we feels like we are in there, we are immersed in it.
The design of the silicon life is a mix between medival priest, knight, torture device and cybernetic with human tissue is really on point and grotesque. and the architecture, the environment is so beautiful, its emphasize on how much small people in the world and how its alienate the human from this world, I think this person speak much better than me:
th-cam.com/video/Zkv6rVcKKg8/w-d-xo.html
if there is movie that can show the same range of motion like this manga, I guess that would be Blade Runner and The lighthouse both are fantastic.
[spoiler somewhat]
I dont know if this count as spoiling it but reading this manga feels like a nightmare where this person walking endlessly to the end of the world where nothing was define for human and the purpose was no longer meaningful, the world was no longer like the one we live in and theres not really any "true" human anymore, but he keeps on going no matter what cause he cant die. we cant never know his thinking or motivation, we dont know that he's doing it cause he has to or he hopes to, but between action and fighting, we still see a hint of there is human side of Killy in him. At one point the manga show that he cant remmeber what is happening or who his was because he's been going for so long. its so depressing and it feels like a mixture between existensial nihilism and stoicism, or may be it just me.
Solar Sands video on Monumentality has a really great section on Blame.
A Seinen that i really like and its pretty underrated is Shigurui, its all about samurai but without all the romanticism and leaving behind a dark and macabre tone of that era
that manga was brutal and weird at the same time. How perverted the samurai was back in the day caught me by surprise
Hmm... this manga seems to be a good exercise for you to really pay attention to the visual storytelling.
Uzumaki is in the same vein.
Love this content, as a anime/manga fan for a considerable its so interesting to hear about a series I've never heard of before! Cheers Rammel
Wow! If I had a nickel for every time the main character of a manga looses an arm, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?
At least Killi gets his back lol
I counted it and you would have like 4 nickels actually lol
Thanks bro u made this manga much clear than th manga itself
blame’s world gives me a morbid curiosity no other story does. nihei is an unrivaled storyteller
13:05 this is one of my favorite parts. kyrii says “we’ve long forgotten what the words on our retina displays mean”
magic
I love how 8:49 with the punch to the face and the lack of detail about that place means that the memory of this place absolutely punches you in the gut retroactively _WAY_ later on without warning.
Best video analysing blame i've seem. Subscroobed.
Fun Fact: This was the author's FIRST WORK.
3 minutes in and i can say that reading it slowly is the way to go, but it also stands for all manga. you should read Berserk a little more slowly. Most hings you didn't understand or had issue with were literally explained in multiple panels. It happens every Berserk vid, same with Daniel Greene, like bro it's right there on the page! lol
This manga looks amazing though. Never read it before, but that isolated lonesome feeling is awesome
Yeah lol. Blame is a manga that can be interpreted by anyone differently. Its so different each time
Alright you made me buy the first two volumes…. I read way to way cuz I want the story but will def slow down and appreciate in vol 2. HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE KID AT THE BEGINNING. Even going back lol. The video explained it lol. Looking forward to more world building
Loved your play by play here. I love this manga
Blame is one of my favorite mangas of all time is so thought provoking and interesting me being a fan of science and dark sci fi is perfect for me, i would recommend to u a manga really different from this
It's called Innocent, is a story about a family of executioners during the french revolution, it has the greatest art I've seen in manga it's beyond this world, and the story itself is really interesting and based on true events of that time.
I just read this manga for the first time. I also read the Noise 8 chapter prequel manga to this and watched both the 2003 anime and the netflix anime. This is such an interesting world.
thanks for making this man
The way you described how you need to pay attention to this manga is what I would’ve told you if we met in person seeing how, no offence, you tend to miss details in the art of Bersek. But I’m glad you caught on quickly.
I just started, its really good !!
Keep going it's great!
0:48🤣🤣🤣
Wait, didn't the silicon life dudes talk to the guy Killy/Kyrii shot? Pretty sure there is dialogue at that point.
nice!
YOOOOOOO 🔥🔥🔥
i never collected manga but last year i started 3 series.
berserk deluxe
blade of the immortal
and blame!
wish they would make a decent big format release of vagabond too!
BotI is incredible!!!
@@mrmanju6989 yeah i read the 4 books and now book 7 comes and i didnt opened them yet so i can finish it all at once.
too bad they say it will out complete on next fall... ( if 10 books is the end line )
Where do you find all these tshirts???
It's a company called out of print. They sell t-shirts with vintage book covers printed on them. Go to their website they have tons of them.
@@rammelbroadcasting thank you!
It's Killy
This video is missing background music/noises
Got my like at fuck it lol
Bro really becoming a weeb now? What an unfortunate turn of events for a once good yt channel . So long!
✌️✌️ good storytelling comes is many forms.
@@itskyyuuuu not if you're a close minded asshole it doesnt!!
@@itskyyuuuu not if you're rigid and miserable enough!!!