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Today I finished Tsutomu Nihei's manga 'Blame!'. While I did understand the main plot, there are still so many questions left unanswered.
Giggs big bad torrent. Are there any in detail explanations/interpretations of 'Blame!' on the web?
I've looked around and I am surprised by the lack of discussion on this manga even though there is SO much to discuss about.
Or maybe r/manga can help me out? Here are only few of the questions I have:
- Where did the people with the net gene go? Is it because people started to using synthetic bodies or uploaded backups onto synthetic bodies/clones, and thus over time the net gen DNA got (nearly?) extinct? Or did all the people with the net gene uploaded themselves on the netsphere and are living inside the net (similar to Cibo when she 'died' in the fight against the safeguard while controlling the builder)?
- How did Cibo become the Level 9? She was not using the body of Sanakan anymore, so why did she transform into a safeguard. I guess its somehow related to the fact that she was able to get provisional access to the netsphere. But how?
- Why does the child have net gene? Could it be that Cibo was able to extract the net gen DNA when she accessed the netsphere? Or is is related to Seu's DNA?
- While, at the beginning he Level 9/Cibo was hostile and killed Domochevsky, and flew away. Afterwards she was reduced to a child-like state and become 'friendly' again. How come?
- Is the child Killy is protecting at the beginning of the manga the same as the one born from the sphere he was protecting at the end?
I could keep on going, but let's stop right here. If you want you can also post some questions and we could discuss among ourselves what the hell we think is happening in this vast world.
Edit: I hope everything is in line with the guidelines, it's my first time posting here!
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Blame! is now finally here and it’s actually pretty great.The original manga for Blame! started back in 1998 and there really hasn’t been anything like it before or since. Based around the quest of Killy, he wanders an almost infinite structure known as The City looking for a human with Net Terminal Genes.
This is because millennia ago, humans lost the ability to communicate with The City directly. The result being that the massive Builder machines ignored them and started building randomly and the Safeguard viewed humanity as a threat, requiring their total extermination.
Killy’s quest then is core to reclaiming The City back for humanity and over the course of the manga his journey is very much a long and winding one.
To help give a sense of the scale of that journey, The City is in fact a filled Dyson sphere with the circumference of at least up to and including Jupiter’s orbit. It’s unquestionably immense.
So the journey Killy undertakes in the manga is spanned over an incredibly long time in an almost infinite post-apocalyptic cyberpunk type world filled with lethal threats around every corner.
As you would imagine, trying to adapt this whole story into a single movie then would be futile and it’s here where we come to this adaptation.
Instead of trying to cover the whole story from the manga in a single movie, which would be entirely impossible, Polygon Pictures and Hiroyuki Seshita have opted to focus on one small part of the narrative and make Killy more of a supporting character.
This is also because in the manga, Killy rarely speaks and most of the narrative is inferred. For a movie that’s an obvious problem, so it makes sense that this film is based around the short Electro-Fishers arc.
The Electro-Fishers are human descendants of people called Planters, who in the manga originally worked for Toa Heavy Industries. In this movie, we start by being introduced to some reckless children that have stolen some Electro-Fisher gear in the hope of finding food in a new hunting ground.
Unfortunately, they are spotted by a Safeguard watchtower, which results in the spawning of multiple Safeguard exterminators. The kids do their best but a few are killed in the escape. It’s here where Killy appears and saves the day, using his signature Gravity Beam Emitter gun to wipe out all of the remaining exterminators. Killy is also seemingly immune to the Safeguard watchtowers due to a special collar he wears.
Killy then asks the kids if they know of anyone with the Net Terminal Gene and they aren’t sure what he means, so they take him back to the village to talk with the adults.
The village itself is mysteriously protected from the Safeguard via a special barrier that halts their entry. Naturally, the adults are suspicious of Killy but when he crosses the barrier, they realize he can't be a member of the Safeguard and allow him entry.
It’s that here we learn that the village sits atop something called the Rotten Shrine and that down there might be someone with Net Terminal Genes.
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At this point, it’s clear that some narratives from the manga have been merged and we get to meet Cibo, Killy’s female companion in the manga.
I won’t go into too much detail on what happens from here on out but it broadly follows the events of the manga, with the likes of the Safeguard operative Sanakan appearing and Killy doing what he does best to protect the Electro-Fishers from total extermination.
The interesting narrative shift in this movie is that the story is very much grounded by and focused around the human Electro-Fishers. Desperately trying to survive from the Safeguard and on the constant look out for food, their plight is directly linked to Killy’s quest. After all, if Killy can find a human with Net Terminal Genes, then he can halt the endless construction of The City and save the remains of humanity from the vicious Safeguard. What’s more, the appearance of Cibo also helps to explain much of the backstory and why the Electro-Fishers are the way they are.
As a movie then, it does work on its own and the focus on a smaller story in the much larger manga narrative definitely works here. By treating Killy as a supporting character that wanders The City, it means that the human story of the Electro-Fishers is brought to the forefront and gives much needed context for Killy's quest.
Blame Killy And Cibo Dance
However, the downside of this is twofold; it doesn’t really scratch the surface of the original manga’s narrative and it ends up feeling more like a deluxe episode from a long running TV series. I still think that this part of the original manga is the probably best part to adapt into a single movie but what Blame! really needed was a TV series like Knights of Sidonia to really flesh this immense story out.
Visually speaking, Polygon Pictures has done an excellent job here. This movie is visually intricate and sumptuous in terms of its depicting of The City. However, as with Knights of Sidonia, some of the character animation can be quite jerky at times and really needs more interstitial frames to make the movements look smooth. It’s clear that this is a stylistic choice, as other non-character movement is handled very smoothly and it feels like a misguided attempt to emphasize some of the action sequences with staccato-like movement.
Despite how Cibo is handled and a few other points, this is still a very faithful adaptation of the original manga and that is something I definitely appreciate as well as applaud. Due to this focused narrative approach, it also means that Polygon Pictures can return to Blame! at some point in the future to cover more of Killy’s story.
Blame Killy And Cibo 2
After all, this movie doesn’t even touch on arguably one of the main antagonist species in the manga, that of cyborg-esque Silicon Life. Many of the reasons why The City has fallen into disrepair and chaos is down to them. Talking of Silicon Life, some of the early trailers for this film showed an earlier part of the manga, where Killy comes across some Silicon Life but that is not in this movie at all.
Overall, this is a solid movie. It wisely picks a small part of the original manga to adapt into a concise and comprehensible story. The human animation is somewhat jerky in places but the movie is still a good one that does justice to what Blame! is, albeit in an obviously limited way. So if you want to have an introduction to the sprawling and epic story of Blame! then this movie is definitely a solid place to start.
Blame! is now released theatrically in Japan and is also available to watch on Netflix. If you want to check out the original manga for Blame! then Kodansha is currently doing a reprint of the entire series.
Disclosure: I paid to see this movie with my own money.
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