Blame!

I gladly worsened my myopia in order to read all of this in a row. Now begins my wait for futuristic retinal implants.

Okay, just watched the movie. Thoughts:

I just finished this... Beautiful, the huge spaces made me feel alone and cold.

Well, not quite

Spoiler

Cibo and Sanakan died, however Cibo's child and Killy Survived, in the last page of Vol.10 you see Killy and a kid wearing a gas mask, that is Cibos kid and Killy is protecting him/her. But what I wanna know, how did Cibo even get pregnant and who is the father o.O? I think I missed that part.

just finished watching the movie, it's damn good!

 

it looks like another skynet, which make me much more worry about all this machine learning craziness, google tpu, etch.. i don't know whether to LoL or not at this point.

 

actually i already aware of this manga from Sidonia no Kishi, and understood it would be awesome, but never find the urge to start reading it. it guess it's time to start it.

For reals? I had serious reservations about any screen version of Blame. Maybe I should try. As for the idea of an AI apocalypse, at least at this point, almost everything you see in fiction is a half-baked fantasy by someone who doesn't know the first thing about machine learning. XD

As for SnK... The story's fun. Definitely a Tsutomu take on the atrophied mecha genre. I prefer his older Blame-style art, though. It was prettier.

just finished watching the movie, it's damn good!

it looks like another skynet, which make me much more worry about all this machine learning craziness, google tpu, etch.. i don't know whether to LoL or not at this point.

actually i already aware of this manga from Sidonia no Kishi, and understood it would be awesome, but never find the urge to start reading it. it guess it's time to start it.

PSA: First installment of the "master's edition" ships on Sept. 13th. I have my reservations about translation quality, but I hear the publisher is okay. And I don't have to drop $200 on an untranslated Japanese version.

Edit: Got the book. So satisfying. Be warned, though, certain redditors take issue with translation quality because of a few name changes and incorrect translation in a place or two.

Edit edit: Got the second volume in December, very worth. Next one comes out on March 13th, if memory serves.

Edit edit edit: Read through the third. The high resolution feels sooooo good. A couple of slight curiosities in the translation. Toha Heavy Industries' teleportation is translated as "forwarding". The admin in ch. 30 had a line about how the Central AI's attempt to teleport was "inane" and is certain to fail, which kinda doesn't work with the character's formal speech, but I like the rest of his lines. Also, notably, the new silicon model from the malfunctioning cave is repeatedly referred to as "she".

I expect that there will be three more volumes? So the last one should come out in December.

Just started reading this and getting a gantz/matrix vibe from it.

edit; I just read it all and i have no idea what its about. If some1 asks me to make a summary.... Well i have to say i can't.

I... I think I liked this.

godspeed, habanero

OH MY GOD THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.

The high resolution part is great and all, but what takes the cake is the fact that I can finally read a non-mirrored version.

Still the best manga by Nihei

I still have the old Omanga scans archived somewhere. Glad that Habanero picked up the Deluxe edition.

I think I missed what made this good.

Nihei being architect.

We used the ebook raw rather than our scans, because it seems that after Nihei edited the scans, the black color wasn't properly tuned for the print. Thus certain dark areas, such as the darkest parts of gradient screentone, got huge detail loss. On the scan, that is. Maybe only in the first chapter, since it was done from manuscript. I'll have to see is the problem persists after I scan the second shinsoban chapter. There are also a few discrepancies between the original and the shinsoban print, so we've included the original pages along with a changelog (NFO).

The last few pages are from the original print, which differ from the shinsoban print. 

https://u.pomf.is/wsejhz.png

I think I missed what made this good.

What personally appeals to me is that this manga is totally unapologetic for its story. It presents so many outlandish things with a straight face and no explanation. You see an object or a character's expression and you can tell that there's story to it, but the plot is so sprawling that the aperture through which you see it is infinitesimally small. And you feel rewarded for getting as much as you can. The devil is in the details, man.

Indeed, there's a sense of scale to this world because there's just so much diversified scenery. That's a problem with so overwhelmingly many fictional worlds. I can elaborate on this if you'd like, though I prefer to not start the "that manga is so much worse" argument.

But, y'know, to each his own, etc., etc.

I think I missed what made this good.

It's a manga for people who like to look at the pictures

I think I missed what made this good.

Well, not quite

Spoiler

Cibo and Sanakan died, however Cibo's child and Killy Survived, in the last page of Vol.10 you see Killy and a kid wearing a gas mask, that is Cibos kid and Killy is protecting him/her. But what I wanna know, how did Cibo even get pregnant and who is the father o.O? I think I missed that part.

Agree for the most part,

I won't lie, on the first read I had no idea wtf was happening during most of the story.

These are just my assumptions after rereading but I guess it makes sense (as far as "sense" goes in this manga).

Wait a minute! Fan-translating Blame! into Italian, when you have the ultame deluxe edition released in italian allready?! Or is it out of print just as the english edition?

I just finished it and it had a.... happy ending... right...? Right...? RIGHT?!

 

It's so damn confusing and everyone dies. Still I enjoyed it.

Well, not quite

Don't you think they talked too much in the last chapters?