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Biomega is overkill. I heard "Blame!" was his most popular work, but it is one of his earliest too, so the style is still a bit rough. I love the design of his weapons, those clunky blocks, shooting with insane impact. He also manages to depict super long distances, making you shrink while sucking in the furious action.

Wow. I finished blame! like two hours ago.
The way he draws the architecture is really amazing and I found myself having to pause on a lot of pages just to take in the details.
I enjoyed how the lack of up-in-your-face story in blame! allowed for the reader to draw some conclusions for themselves.
Have you read most of his work?
Do what do you recommend to read next.

Blame is amazing.

Have you read Gunnm yet?

Op here. I'm now onto vol 4 of blame! It is spectacular. It has to be one of the greatest pieces of /cyb/ work ever. A full anime adaptation could be potentially godly, but will never happen (not counting the mini adaptation, which I'm saving til I've finished the manga). I'm onto number 8 of sidonia which is still fantastic and I've still not finished biomega. It's a real shame that Blame! Is oop mainly because I hate reading scans, but it's worth it. I got a copy of NOiSE tho, which I'll read after Blame!

This guy is a creative genius and I am loving every second of this giant sparse universe he has created.

>>3906
Op again. Apologise for double post. I've not yet read it, but it's on my backlog. /cyb/ manga is best manga.

>>3907
Cool. Would be fun to hear what you think after you have finished it. Bonus if you can compare it to biomega.

>>3910
Finally 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.

>>3905
I'd go with a few of the Blame spinoffs and then move on to the next series. I read Abara second because it was really short. After that Biomega and so on.

>Nihei just wasn't able to capture it again

This. BLAME!'s scale is tremendous. Just look at the followup work, biomega same universe, basically same characters, but just wasn't the same not in size, scope, or bizarreness. That's really what BLAME! had.

The story is easy enough to relate to, it's the prototypical "hero travels to find X" but the size was so large and the tech was so advanced that when you read it and try to wrap your head around it, real life just pales in comparison.

The jupiter sized room, the elevator that takes 10 years to ride, chibo getting stuck in time, massive self contained worlds inside the dome, the security forces. When a person tries to rationalize BLAME! insanity we go taste a little bit of that insanity as well.

The ending(not counting the short sequels) I thought were very tragic and poignant. A hero at the end of his lonely journey.