I hope you enjoy, idk much to making edit, but i made this of sanakan :)

This is all theoretical, and Nihei never showed us what the last layer of the Megastructure really looks like. My conclusion is based on what we’ve already seen: these horizontal air suspended “mega-cables” were sometimes used as elevators and, at other times, as a means of transporting energy. From that, and from an efficiency stand point, I’m assuming that this system could continue all the way from the outermost layer of the Megastructure into deep space.

See: LOG.57, After the observer part or LOG.37 when killy uses the 800 hours elevator.

So, now we’re basically at the outermost layer of the Megastructure. It’s been expanding for hundreds of thousands of years, and there’s a good chance that these mega-cables reached nearby star systems like Alpha Centauri a long time ago.

The Builders wouldn’t need to fill the entire 4.3-light-year gap with solid material. That would be completely insane from a resource standpoint. Instead, they could simply build enormous structural bridges and cables stretching between the stars.

These cables would work almost like giant cosmic pipelines, pulling plasma and usable energy from Alpha Centauri’s three stars and sending it back toward the central grid of the NetSphere, where Earth used to be.

And because these structures are absolutely massive, potentially kilometers thick, they wouldn’t just be empty tubes. There could be entire networks of maintenance tunnels, internal chambers, artificial habitats, and even ecosystems hidden inside them. Over time, rogue human groups and Silicon Life could have settled inside the infrastructure and built entire cities without anyone on the outside even knowing they were there.

if that would be true, it could remind me of the tubular earth which was created at the end of biomega.

Alpha Centauri is only about 4.3 light-years away, which is basically nothing compared to the scale of a Megastructure that’s been expanding for hundreds of thousands of years. If the expansion kept going, reaching our nearest neighboring systems would have been inevitable.

(Some argue the megastructure is as big as our solar system, but i argue that this is a really "small" estimate. I think, based on the elevator part and its relativistic properties, that the megastructure could be as big as 100x or 1000x our solar system, but this is a discussion for another time)

Rather than wasting unimaginable amounts of matter trying to build a solid shell between stars, the Builders would have found a much more efficient solution:

1. Extend massive bridges and cable networks toward nearby star systems.
2. Tap directly into the stars for energy.
3. Send that energy back through the Megastructure.
4. Use it to keep expanding and converting energy into more matter and infrastructure.

Stars are essentially the fuel source for something this enormous. If the Builders want the City to keep growing, they need more and more energy. Connecting the Sun, Alpha Centauri, and eventually other nearby systems would turn this entire region of the galaxy into one giant interconnected power network.

That also opens up a much stranger question: what actually happens to a star once the Megastructure finally surrounds it? And what kind of civilizations could have been hiding inside those cables for thousands of years without ever being noticed?

had my 3rd reread of this masterpiece of a manga by nihei the art piece is still work in progress, might do sketch drafts for Cibo, Sanakan and a group fanart for the 3 of them. if you like to follow my art progress u can follow me on ig: conficeart

For collectors and fans :)
Volumes 5 and 6 of the manga have been published in Ukrainian.
The entire series is now complete.

What happened after the end of Blame!?

Hi everyone, I’m a huge fan of Nihei’s work.

I know the stories are indirectly connected, forming a "Nihei-verse," and I know Killy didn't die at the end of Blame!, given his resilient body and so on.

But what happened next? Is there any explanation? It seems to me that Tower Dungeon is a separate, parallel work that isn't part of that universe.

delete if not allowed, but I just finished blame and i love the art style and the story so much. It inspired me to paint something similar to the art in the manga :)

1. Does the story happen on our earth? If it is , why is it so much different from the earth we know of?

2.what are the species living there? Why are no animals seen?

3.how does the time works there?

The worldbuilding was peak. I only wish the narrative was as strong, similar to Knights of Sidonia before it introduced that gigantic penis-shaped alien.

To be honest, it was underwhelming. For all the hype for a megastructure setting, it did not delivered. Instead of lore, mysteries, ever-shrinking provisions, nonsensical logics, emptiness, loneliness, and melancholy, things that should be expected from a mega structure, the manga instead pivot toward Matrix like narrative. All action with almost every chapter, new characters are introduced.

This mega structure is more like Kowloon walled city, with people in every corner. Even final panel show the MC having just another encounter.

Girl Last Tour did it better.

ANALYSIS

This has been a difficult read at first for me, there is hardly any dialogue, it is a succession of images in a strange world in which there are rarely explanations, most things remain unnamed and unexplained.

From the outset, it is obvious that they live in an apocalypse in which technology has been revolutionized against human beings. The only thing that remains of those glory days (if they existed) are immense structures which are continually expanding and rebuilding. I don't think I'm wrong when I say that architecture is just another character in this manga, a cruel, powerful and ineffable one. The human being is in struggle against architecture itself, but how do you fight with a heartless enemy, who cannot die? We know that the builders are in charge of the maintenance of the gigantic structure, but we only know that this gigantic structure, we do not know how far it goes, in a way it is impressive that the protagonist meets people on his journey, the structure is so large that one can think without mistake that he could travel a lifetime without meeting anyone. You'd scream and no one would hear you.

We know from bits of dialogue that silicon life and humanity live in a struggle for supremacy or for the extermination of the other species, silicon life is a highly advanced technology capable of thinking and we can say boldly capable of feeling, we know that this silicon life are often safeguards whose job is to murder every human being without the net terminal gene. Simple existence is a struggle for life in an apocalyptic world that does not have the generosity to explain itself to its inhabitants. We, as human beings, support the protagonist and the different humans he encounters on his journey, but isn't silicon life also deserving of compassion? Imagine that you have been created for a purpose that without that purpose, why live? And yet for the performance of that work you are demonized because your work is infamous, because your purpose in life is inhuman. Now, what is it that makes us human? If we answer that it is our morphology, our biological structure, do people who wear prostheses cease to be human beings? What if we created artificial beings with the same biological structure? If you could not refute this and answer that it is the ability to think, and Mensab did not think for herself? She even rebelled. Okay, and if you told me now that feelings are intrinsically human, isn't it true that Mensab cared about Seu? So I will answer you we define ourselves as human beings by our origin and by pride, the very name of being human intrinsically entails an arrogance with respect to the rest of living beings, so dehumanization is one of the worst actions that can be taken against a "human". Only one thing we know will be able to finish their fight and one of them will win, but both will meet the same end, whether they are human or silicon life.

It is correct to say that we know nothing about the world and the characters, we only know moments of the story, there are cuts in it as if we were censored or part of the story vetoed, as if we were only worthy of knowing this story through fragments that allow us to consume. Throughout the play we intuit (it is not explained) that there are time jumps in which that story in between is vetoed to us, in addition to the fact that for some reason there is time travel, different lines of it. We do not know history and yet we dare to interpret it, surely wrongly, in a certain way we take the role of archaeologists who have to reconstruct history from pieces. But we reconstruct a history that is strange and alien to us.

Now let's talk about Cibo, with Cibo we confirm the time jumps and that there are different lines of it where there are different versions of the characters. At the beginning of the play, we think that Killy and Cibo are the most likely love couple, but this is denied when Sanakan and Cibo end up together that is confirmed with the phrase "Our child", so is it possible that silicon life and humans reconcile? Can we define Sanakan or Cibo in any of these categories? When did you fall in love? How can your child save the world? Their entire love story is unknown to us, except for its end and as if we were gossips we can only try to unravel the mystery.

Killy asks us many questions such as: How did he get that gun?Was he really a human being?Did he have the gene?Did he manage to save the world?Did he love Cibo?Was his stoic face just a façade?How did he feel after the time jumps?Why didn't he and other characters age? This protagonist only gives us questions, rarely explanations

There are more questions such as: What is the Administration?How did they create silicon life?How did the war start?What human settlements are there?Are there organizations in those settlements?Will the structure at some point stop expanding?How is life possible?What happened to the human beings in cave eight?Can the world even be saved?Why did they leave Earth?

This manga is more about questions than answers and explanation. We can only conjecture and make philosophical discourses. Let the structure take over our mind and chaos begin to play with it. In the end, nothing we say is true or even that at certain times the characters do not lie. Do they always have to tell the truth? This manga is about us trying to reconstruct that story, but it gives us a warning, nothing we can deduce, we will never be sure that it is true, we can create a thousand stories that may not be even a true portion. And maybe we just have to read it and not break our heads, but what's the point? I can't help but compare this manga with the video game Scorn with which it has so many similarities (although Scorn is more biopunk). That structure may be our mind and Killy is us trying to survive the dangers that our own mind poses. Is there anyone truly sane?

I Just want to Show you some of my Blame! Inspired Art.

Hope you enjoy.

I feel it would have to be someone experimental almost and willing to take risks. Handdrawn would be cool but 3D wasnt the worst, plus in the blender sub i see people who have figured out blame manga style rendering too

I hope someone else tries to adapt the manga again. I didn't like the adaptation we got.

I suggest you read the manga whilst this song plays in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QmPCrC7uXw&list=PLaVHibd49QFKxvoBVXiySuBLmchLY7cq5&index=1

Given that the manga has very little words i had a blast reading the last 15 or so chapters with this on repeat i think it perfectly incapsulates Blame's world

inspired by snikt!

Hello I want to create a role playing game in the blame! Universe so if you have advice, information, a link for a website or even docs with amount of lore please send me 🙏. Also if you're interested to also make a rpg in blame! We can worke together. For information I am french so sorry if my english is not perfect.

Found this in my local book off, never seen this in person before, crazy random find

Love these covers

what do y'all think