While Blame! is certainly full of action - Nihei is a master of conveying, with just a frame or two, the superhuman speed and deadliness of Killy and the City’s various other citizens - what’s more striking is the atmosphere that Nihei evokes in Blame! ‘s pages.
Armed with an insanely powerful weapon called a Gravitational Beam Emitter, and obviously augmented himself, Killy traverses the City’s ever-expanding labyrinth in search of those few individuals possessing Net Terminal Genes. Searching for these genes is the series’ protagonist, a violent loner named Killy.
Set in the far distant future, Blame! depicts a world that’s been transformed into one vast technological structure known simply as “the City.” Technology has run amok in the City, with various artificial lifeforms and intelligences threatening to eradicate humanity, which has become increasingly augmented itself.īut even augmented, humanity’s only real hope for survival are “Net Terminal Genes,” a rare genetic trait that allows humans to access the computerized systems that control the City’s technology. But more than a decade before starting Knights of Sidonia, Nihei created the cyberpunk manga Blame!. Tsutomu Nihei is perhaps best known as the creator of Knights of Sidonia, the manga that’s been adapted into an acclaimed Netflix-exclusive anime.
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