>>3910Finally finished Blame!
It is seriously fuarrrking good. I felt it lost pace around vol5 but picked it up again around vol 8. Basically, when it gets very close to being DnD with cables and gun fights. It has so many /cyb/ themes and concepts, its almost a greatest hits for the genre, covering concepts that I've seen in animea / mangas like Dominion, GITS, AD Police and others. I really appreciated the sense of scale, which is present in most of Nihei's work, but is especially exercised in Blame! And also the fairly loose story, it felt very laden in mysticism. Overall I enjoyed the story in Biomega more than Blame! but the journey your taken on with Killy and Cibo is wonderfully engrossing and more esoteric. Although, obviously the art in Biomega and NOiSE is much better. Nihei's sense of space always seems a little merky, which I actually really enjoy, I would often find myself flipping back through the pages to look closely for more details to explain movements and positions, particularly in explosions, but Biomega was a lot clearer in that sense. Straight after finishing it I immediately read NOiSE and the 2 sequels. NOiSE and Net Space Engineer are spectacular, it's a shame that there havent been more chapters to NSE, as it sets up a potentially awesome character. I also read the Blame high school books which are very funny. Anyone else read the related texts?
Now, back to Sidonia.
