Unraveling Blame!

Blame! is an entirely unique and fascinating world unlike anything else I've ever experienced. Join us as we talk unravel Killy, his story, and the entire way Tsutomu Nihei designs his universe to tell a story.

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Blame! is an award winning manga by Tsutomu Nihei. It's a massive, dystopian, cyberpunk world encased in an ever growing building called The City. While many find Blame! incredibly confusing and hard to follow, our aim with this video is to elevate your experience with the manga and show why it's considered revolutionary, unique, and a must read story. It's a journey a little dialogue where the story is told through everything except the characters, with our protagonist, Killy, primarily used as a camera to take of from incredible scene to incredible scene. You've never read anything like this before. Here's why.
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Unraveling Blame!

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[BonsaiPop]

Hey! I'm awake! I actually slept through the launch of this video lol, I worked from 3am to 1pm today to get this out on time and Tyler launched the vid. I'm really glad we could bring this video to you guys, i even wrote a 13 minute ambient track you'll hear throughout the video for this one, i really wanted to get the feel of the manga with the music... i also did that this morning lol. Anyway, i had a ton of fun reading and researching for this. When figurama came to us we were like "cool, a movie, making videos on movies is the easiest" then i had to read three manga series in less than a week and write a ten page script leaving us only three or so days to edit this, which is mostly manga. editing manga is tuff because you don't want to just make a slide show, you have to keep it interesting and entertaining so it takes work in photoshop and after effects, as well as complete memorization of panels and pages to stream line the process. Needless to say production on this one was was a HIKE, but i'm really happy with the final product and props to Tyler for taking the brunt of straight editing on this one as well. If anyone out there is good at reddit it'd really help if you could share this video!
Thanks so much for watching, and we'll be back soon!
-Mike

[Marrwgar]

I read through blame and had no idea wtf was going on 999% of the time.
Highly recommend 10/10

[mfitzyyy]

Im an architecture major and my professor made us read the first few volumes of blame! then we had to create a level for the tower. it was pretty sick

[jearn]

I love BLAME. It reminds me of the "endless paperclip machine" scenario, where an AI gets told to make as many paperclips as possible without parameters, causing it to eventually consume and convert all the matter in the universe into paperclips.

[CamachoPrez]

"Read all three manga in six days" What a familiar feeling... Nihei's work hits like a ton of bricks

[danieln]

This series is basically "Impossible Space: The Manga", it's a must for anyone who's a fan of thick atmosphere typical of cyberpunk and old French scifi artists like Moebius.

[NLLHW]

As an architect myself, really cool to hear you talk about the storytelling and atmosphere that architecture itself can bring to a story.

[jakefoley]

I have to imagine this series might have the longest elapsed timespan of any piece of fiction. Killy's journey takes literally hundreds of thousands of years.

[johnnyplto]

i will forever envy nihei's ability to draw such heavy landscapes.
it feels as if the city itself is breathing

[lordslime]

I have never bought a statue. But GOD DAMN that Killy statue might get me to

[jaker]

Knight of Sidonia references the Aposimz as a sister ship to the Sidonia. Aposimz coincidentally is his series currently in production, so those two are essentially canonically tied.

[achronos]

I really wished there were more media set in worlds like these.

[nothingiseverperfect]

I remember there was a scene where Killy and Cibon went on an elevator and it took 800 hours but it was over in 1 panel and I’m like WHAAAAT?

Blame was insane, the architecture was so eerie yet amazing. The ending confused the hell out of me but damn it was a fun ride

[kouleifou]

BLAME! is most definitely in my top 5 manga, solid work here guys. It's one of those works where you can feel the emptiness, and hostility of its world.

[ryuzakihernandez]

Just as a clarification, (not as a correction) Killy smiles 3 times, every time with the silicon life killing process, also Killy eats 2 times, when he eats a snackbar and he eats a vegetable when he encounters a vagabond, this is such a great video!!! :3

[sukamadik]

For anyone who cares Knights of Sidonia didn't get canceled, the final Arc is coming out as a movie this year. They also stated that the movie is looking to improve the somewhat lackluster ending of the knights of sidonia manga.

[RiotKurhein]

I just realized From Soft should make a Blame video game.

[SpiritualWGaming]

Great thoughts on Blame!. What really gripped me about the story is how it's really not a narrative and more of an experience. Your sense of reality gets so MESSED UP after reading it (just try reading it in one sitting, I dare you!) Time and space mean nothing in this world, and it's absolutely unique in the manga world.

[astralodin]

Blame! is my favorite Manga, i bought it by sheer randomness back then in 1999. This Manga changed everything for me it was so good and saddly nothing after this was ever this good and satisfying to look at. the world invented in this manga is so unique and vast its just beautiful to look at and i revisit it at least once a year.

[wiffleboroughspaticus]

"His primary mode is Architecture, and the characters are like cameras, to take the story from one place to the next."

So well put!