Blame! volumes 1-2 - Manga Review

[FilledSpace]

I'm not hearing any sound from this video, which is weird because I can hear sound from your other videos.

[Gjkl345]

Without becoming jarring if we are open-minded to the possibility. In this story, we have eyes instead of relation to the main protagonist since he can walk literally 3000 years without suffering the fatigue of an existential crisis brought on by loneliness making the environments around him so appealing and breathtakingly claustrophobic.

[Gjkl345]

Cont. with panels showing brief ethics and morality for Killy and Cibo, but that's another tangent. We are the humans looking into log accounts, vignettes of a world so sheltered from emotion, humanity, morals, etc. (Even the Fisherman were based upon survival in a proto-society.) If anything, the gun symbolizes pure deletion and the character is the catalyst who must remain alive by his own programming to complete a linear quest. It's the appeal of seeing something so alien and simplistic...

[Gjkl345]

Some complaints I can think of are immediately countered when reviewing this manga introspectively. Is it a victim of cliche anime trends suchas the deus ex machina character with a gun that takes comic panels entirely devoted to it's godlike indulgence? No, unlike comic books like Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, these elements subtly added more then if it were to be taken out. It provides a means to an end, the jarring post-post-etc reality with faces beginning to look similar in design..

[MortalSky]

Hunt down the rest. The story really picks up around volume 4 or so.

[theoozaruking]

it's not infinite. it's just a maga-structure (basically a building that is extremely huge) if i'm not mistaken, and i'm normally not, it's about 308,778,750,000 miles roughly. i'm not trying to make fun of you but i just wanted to correct that. there is a single room roughly the size of Jupiter if that helps put it into perspective. . keep up the good work bro.

[Gjkl345]

@theoozaruking I always looked at the megastructure as not quite encompassing the entire universe, but basically in proportion with the small insignificant lifeforms and the fact it keeps finding ways to merge matter, expand through scenarios, lift entire realities from one section of the megastructure to another, only further reinstates the vast loneliness felt in atmosphere.

[xheadrulez]

Have you managed to complete this manga? If so can you please do a review of the remaining volumes or just the manga as a whole?

[ONVPodcast]

@xheadrulez Thanks for the idea! Sadly, it's almost impossible to find certain volumes of Blame! in English. I've tracked down a few, and am still working on the others. I definitely plan to review the whole thing when (and if!) I find all the volumes.

[sh3n3ng]

@ONVPodcast at first ,I love this manga a lot,then i finished the manga 2-3 years ago. And it was blaaa...as you guessed, actually, the ending made all series became a pile of bull shit.

[xThatxOtherxGuyx]

Blame! is actually the second manga series I ever read and the first that I read all the way through. I loved it, a lot of what you said is why I do, and it does pick up story wise later on. But that feeling of how big the world is is a big reason why i like it. Him just walking through the megastructure, really lets you take in the artwork.

[ElementField]

It'd be cool if you reviewed a seinen anime like gantz or darker than black(mainly because it's my fav type of anime) although your reviews are interesting nonetheless, even when you review shows that Im not really into

[iluvsakuraandsyaoran]

I always check out the stuff that you review. It's always interesting. :)

[goanimeorg1]

Thanks for the info. As in Blaam? Not Blame? Thanks!

[Frontactics]

The Blame! series got me to be a fan of Tsutomu Nihei's art style. I been trying to get all this work ever since.

[EvangelineMcDoweII]

How about making a Biomega review sometime?

[ONVPodcast]

@EvangelineMcDoweII Already posted a review of Biomega volume 1 two weeks ago. :-)

[bloodearth11]

@bloodearth11 sorry my computer messed up.

[ONVPodcast]

I've learned two things: This manga is pronounced "blam," and it's 10 volumes.

That length actually worries me; I don't know if Nihei can sustain this kind of story over 10 volumes. Should be interesting to find out!

[kblargh]

@ONVPodcast I doesn't sustain or get "bleh", it gets better (and better). Trust me.

[animeweekly1]

Blame T.1 and 11

[FuyuAkiWorld]

Seems enteresting.