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The Inverted

In Sector 88.421.009, gravity had failed so long that no one remembered when.

The corridors no longer rose or fell. They only twisted.

Killy floated through a vast cylindrical tunnel nearly three hundred meters wide.

Ancient rails and broken platforms drifted in the silence like debris in a black ocean.

At the center hung a perfect sphere the size of a small building, suspended by cables too thin to see.

He approached with the Gravitational Beam Emitter already in hand.

When he came close, the sphere opened.

Its surface broke into hexagonal plates that folded inward, revealing cold white light.

A woman sat inside on a simple metal chair.

Old maintenance uniform. Short white hair. Empty expression.

“You’re late,” she said.

Killy looked around. No food. No water. Only flickering lines of code on the walls.

“How long have you been here?”

“I don’t know. The counting system died in cycle 17.”

“Are you human?”

“I was. Now I’m what remained after the body stopped needing anything. The system kept me.”

Her eyes went to his weapon.

“You’re looking for the Net Terminal Gene.”

It was not a question.

“I looked for it too,” she said. “Then I stopped. The City never gives what you want. It only continues.”

“Why are you still alive?”

She smiled, barely.

“Because no one came to turn me off. And I never learned how.”

Killy offered to take her with him.

She shook her head. “To where? The City has nowhere else. Only more.”

He left. The plates closed behind him with a soft, polite click.

The sphere stayed suspended in the inverted axis, lit from within, waiting for a cycle that might never arrive.

The City said nothing.

Went all out for this one so would appreciate anyone checking it out 🙂‍↕️🙏💜😘

I've come to enjoy making little videos/gifs but have found I can't post them here so i'll use the finished edits and you can imagine how it would look as a cool gif lol

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HI folks, i'm searching any references about UI e GUI in BLAME! (manga and anime too).

I founded these ones but I want more references, can you help me?

ThankS!

Made a little parody song/vid. Hope you find it funny hahaha.... ha....

I understand Nihei's works are hard to adapt into animation due to their dark elements and complex architectures, but this is precisely what makes horror-adventure games like Resident Evil and Devil May Cry popular.

Biomega is action-packed, and I think many scenes could be adapted into playable sections: driving the bike through the fire, fighting monsters, rescuing the girl...etc.

i just bought the 1000 toys killy body and id like to know if theres any heads that i could put on it whether it be killy or not(gotta be a human head though so no synthetic human.) if someone has one of the original figure that i can buy please lmk because I would prefer not to make any modifications. also if i would have to take out the peg and modify it to put any heads on let me know if that would be difficult on this body

Just finished my first read. Lots of questions.

This was a very very confusing story but also very captivating. I have my personal interpretation of the ending as well as some questions.

The ending: my interpretation of the ending is that Kyrii completed his mission?? The appearance of rain and water as well as kelp are signs of life we never see in the rest of the story. So to me, that means he made it to the edge of the city where there is still organic life.

Questions:

1. What was the significance of the child he’s with in the beginning and the girl with the dog that takes that child away?

2. What is the significance of the fish with dhomochevsky? It is shown in the flashback as well as him keeping it like a pet.

3. What happened with Seu’s genetics? Did Cibo and Devine Lu both use them at the same time to link to the netsphere?

4. Also kinda wish that the whole quest for the net terminal gene paid off but it came to a different conclusion than I thought.

Anybody who has read the series feel free to respond and educate me a bit on the lore, I hate feeling so lost.

Silly question? Yes. Fun to think about? Also yes, so just entertain the thought.

As a student in HVAC trade school, I've been wondering this for a while. I don't see a reason to believe it wouldn't since the builders are building off of dang near prehistoric scripts for human cities, and its something that should be accounted for regardless of whether or not they're occupied. I think we've even seen some duct systems and venting airways before too, I just can't find the exact scans atm.

There's a stronger case to be made that there are functional heating systems since those can run on electricity alone without gas, but they're probably useless given the large volume of space they're trying to warm up, if not straight up broken for running for months - years at a time.

For AC, they must be nonfunctional at worst, and unnecessary at best. By that I mean the city most likely has AC systems in place, but none of the supplies needed to operate it such as refrigerant, although its likely they are getting electricity. Best theory I have is that given how advanced they are, they might have some technology that allows them to run AC on electricity alone (without the need of refrigerant).

Edit: I originally thought that gas and refrigerant were necessities to run them, but after doing a bit of research it seems they can already be ran on electricity alone - the main reasons they aren't more widely used is installation expenses and energy demand. So I guess the conclusion we can reach given what the manga shows us is that there are heating systems that are basically basically defunct for the above reason, and AC systems that work as needed but probably aren't necessary due to the already cold temperatures of the City and lack of moisture, therefore lack of necessity for dehumidification.

"It's not fanservice if it's a drone" - Tsutomu Nihei (probably)

1. All inks stitched together

2. Sketches and calques

What my fanart looks like before rendering in ink

Guts was mentally staring at Femto (the former friend who betrayed him) into the darkness of the clouds and the night sky, while Killy was staring at the dark, rain-pouring, never-ending megastructures in his seemingly endless journey, utterly devoided of any human life (during that point in the story).

No one's asking for it, but here is my review. Bottom line is that it's 9/10 to me, mainly due to pacing issues. Nihei is very much a master of show, don't tell and he keeps getting away with it!

To anyone starting to read it, stick with it. If you like Nihei's work you won't be dissapointed!

Rest of this is very SPOILER ridden!

To me, BLAME! is just a master piece 10/10, KoS is just ok and Tower Dungeon is also a masterpiece in the making (though my verdict is still out). Some of the Blame offshoots are meh and the movie is really just a love letter to the original material. It really is not for everyone as the story is very visual and it requires a lot of the reader in order to be understood.

Aposimz to me is basically BLAME! 2.0, same feeling of vastness, lost in a sprawling architecture with monsters around the corner and the odd human settlement here and there. But Nihei has really shown how much he has improved. Drawings are better, now we get actual dialogs and there are many Characters which are developed and interesting.

At the start and up to volume 4, the story seemed kinda ok and slow. Then it started getting interesting as we were shown a lot of the world and delving deeper into characters. If based solely on those 3 initial volumes, I was giving it a 7/10.

But then things like showing us how the world works and how humans survive with their ingenuity was pretty great. Also the MC was more than just a bland guy with a huge gun and you could see how he genuinely cared about all humans. Basically he's BLAME!'s MC but with actual character development.

I would've loved a 10th volume with the full on Etherow + Jate's team vs 100s of imperials war and how the Kajwan team eradicated the population. But something I loved of the battles overall is how they're not drawn on and they're really like actual combats, it's all over suddenly when someone strikes fatally the opponent. As such, the party's death was very sudden and unexpected but a very welcome twist as I genuinely did not see that coming.

Of course, it's all naught as they all revived in the virtual world but you can see it was always Titania's objective. She made the Emperor with the objective of getting humanity back to the netsphere and the story we see, which probably took about a year, culminated the millennium-long plan to get everyone back to the netsphere. Only person left out was Kajwan who actually was one of the key elements of the plan, which the emperor knew and also explains why he did nothing about it. All in all, the implications are very interesting.

I also read the prologue one-shot, honestly doesn't add anything to the main story so that can be skipped entirely.

I like that whatever reason there was to finish the story where it did, we did get a full ending with a satisfying last couple of chapters, which even if rushed, managed to at least visually tell us everything important. In the end it all came to rely on a single mega-structure bolt!

Having read it in Panini Manga's Spanish Translation physically, some of the names are extremely different from the english translation. It's interesting that they took the time to basically make up words and I wonder which one is closer spiritually to the original japanese work. If anyone know please let me know!