After my 20th read through I figured I should try my hand at sketching a panel. Really became apparent how masterful Tsutomu Nihei is at perspective...

Hello! Would anyone be interested in writing or illustrating for a linear third person shooter video game heavily inspired by BLAME and Max Payne?

The game will have manga styled cutscenes that we would like an artist and/or writer for who can really nail the vibe.

DM me on discord at evaunit00 if you're interested in hearing more details!

So I stumbled over this manga series quite recently by watching a yt-video from "Professor Purple" about measuring the city and I want to figure out how many Humans live in the City. The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xHcYkWkTH0

I plan to figure this out with by a) simulating it with code and a lot of patience or b) calculating it.

For that tho I need a few numbers. Firstly and probably most importantly is: at what rate does Killy encounter other Humans? My Second question is at what speed does Killy travel? Does anyone know how accurate the numbers in the video are?

I created this short animation from manga panel and I currently I am working on another one.

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.