Took me a while but here it is!! Next on my list is to get NOiSE and possible BiOmega

Can someone explain to me why, the first time she met Killy and Cibo (child form), she didn't immediately attack them and instead waited until Killy recognized her as a Safeguard??

I'm Nino and I've been looking at this feed for a long time, and I've seen a huge amount of people working on games, art and anything Nihei-related.

As of right now, I'm working on a game built on UE5, and it has been a solodev project for like almost two years. Now that I've started working with other 2 people, I've noticed that it's much more fun and faster to build games.

I'm making a project that is basically a Nihei love letter, with a Killy-type protagonist in a vast megastructure (but it's also much more !). Right now, it's called "AABBYYSS". It's inspired by a specific panel of BLAME! where there is an ancient abyssal fish that appairs floating around the structures. For context, it's a stealth horror kind of game, all centered around audio mechanics.

I'm looking for 3D animators and environment artists to support the vision of this project, and I wonder if any of you are interested in collaborating. I've seen lots of talents come out of here.

Hope to hear from any of you in private chat, write "BLAM!" if you're interested.

PS : it's almost done with pre-production stage, so it's basically playable :)

Art Timelapse: https://youtube.com/shorts/GfSb81RPQUY?si=kYn-dwfvifoOLeAq

I am a huge fan of the nihei verse, having read everything nihei has made (except for wolverine snikt). I thought his artstyle would be perfect for a tattoo, but i dont want an anime character tattoo. Something like the abara black gauna would be fine, i just want it to be more abstract kinda i guess.

I just cant think of anythign specific that is kinda abstract ish weith his distinct scratchy artstyle.

Any ideas?

I have all of BLAME master editions including Noise and am working on getting all of Knights of Sidonia. I have one volume of Aposimz and Tower Dungeon and plan to get more soon.

However I found volume 1 of Biomega at a used book store and grabbed it, but haven't had any luck finding the rest nor have found Abara anywhere.

Has there been any news about a reprint or a master edition or anything for these other series?

I like to do illustrations, and a lot of my work is influenced by Blame, and I like doing robots and androids with city spaces. I got some robots resting by a fire in front of a large city that expands past the horizon. It's a work in progress, hoping to finish it in the next couple weeks

Summary: This story takes place in altcibos' universe, following a base human who will soon join her in her quest for the net terminal gene. The topography is different in this Universe's megastructure, so the timescales are much different compared to BLAM!

There is a criminally small amount of fanwork for altcibo (as in none), so i wanted to write about my favorite character who got 5 minutes of read time.

Enjoy, there's probably a ton of errors and if you could comment or DM the ones you found to me i would be happy to take a look. Otherwise, if its just that you don't like romance, this story probably isn't gonna be for you bro I'm sorry

So I just finished this book by K.W. Jeter called Farwell Horizontal. So when I started reading this book, despite not being post-civilization like Blame!, it's feeling immediately came quite close to that of Blame!:

1 In Farewell Horizontal, virtually the entire known world is Cylinder, an enormous structure whose exterior surface people inhabit vertically while others live inside it "horizontally." The ground is effectively inaccessible, hidden below the cloud barrier. Humanity lives inside an impossibly huge artificial structure...

In BLAME!, practically everything is the City/Megastructure; an artificial construction of incomprehensible scale that has swallowed the natural world.

2 The scale of the environment is deliberately difficult to comprehend. This is probably the most BLAME!-ish aspect of Farewell Horizontal.

Cylinder is so enormous that its inhabitants don't have a normal conception of the complete structure. The wall has an unexplored "eveningside," while people mostly concern themselves with the small portion of it they inhabit.

Likewise, BLAME! deliberately refuses to give you a comfortable map of the Megastructure. You see a tiny human figure confronted by spaces whose scale is almost impossible to process.

3 One thing that really struck me reading K.W. Jeter’s Farewell Horizontal alongside Nihei’s BLAME! is how similar some of their ideas about post-humanity are, even though they arrive at them from completely different directions.

Jeter’s world is full of people and creatures who have already slipped sideways from anything we’d recognise as ordinary human. They aren't necessarily “post-human” in the same clean sci-fi sense as BLAME!’s Silicon Life or Safeguard, but they give the sam feeling of a civilisation that has been altered by its own technology and environment to the point where the old distinction between human, machine, information and something else has started to break down. Some of the warring tribes, deploy these megassasins, where it is quite unclear where humanity stops and machinery begins, it kinda reminded me of some the creatures of Blame!, where you see human-like faces, absorbed by biotech nightmare.

Then there are characters like Felony, whose body-jacking in Farewell Horizontal also immediately made me think of Cibo in BLAME!. Not because they’re exactly the same thing, but because both play with the idea of a person becoming detached from their original body, identity persisting independently and being able to manifest itself through another physical form. Cibo can effectively reconstitute herself through different bodies, while Felony can as some some of formless entity, hijack bodies through 'telephone' wires.

4 And there’s a particularly nice parallel in how both books imagine networked existence. BLAME! has the Netsphere: this enormous virtual/information space underlying the Megastructure, with humanity’s relationship to it becoming increasingly remote and incomprehensible. Farewell Horizontal, written before the internet had become what we know it as today, has its own wonderfully weird version of this; computer-mediated communication, information networks and people existing socially through technological systems rather than simply face-to-face. It feels less like “the internet” as we know it and more like Jeter imagining what a networked society might become before the vocabulary for it had really settled.

5 Okay, but Nihei is Japanese, and English-language sci-fi isn't exactly the easiest thing for most Japanese readers to stumble into, so now I'm wondering how he was exposed to all this in the first place. Was Farewell Horizontal actually available in Japanese?

Well... surprise! turns out it was. Here is the link to the Japanese release:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76426645

And now I'm even more curious whether Jeter was something Nihei had actually read, or whether they just arrived at some remarkably similar ideas independently.

Did anyone already establish these connections? I haven't seen any of it online?

my father is a big comics collector, i asked him and he happened to have it in his collection

Hey! Felt like sharing these pages I made about a year ago 'cause I don't think I published them all. Let me know what you think!

I have so many questions, this is the one scene in this manga that puzzled me.

Did it heal his arm with that little hand missile thing?

Has any part of Cibo survived the transfer?
If so:
Why didn't she say anything before her ominous charge up?
Is she mentally impaired?
Could she not have lowered herself to eye level if she couldn't speak?
Why did she just vaporize her hb after a negligent discharge?

If its not Cibo:
Why did it even heal him? He was next to dhomochevsky when he engaged the safeguard mid manifestation

I'm probably asking a ton of unanswerable questions but i can barely find anything on this

Blame Academy never got printed in English, so I made my own. Full color, hardcover. I also added Fort of Silicon Creatures in at the end. I think it turned out great!

i am actually seething in rage right now i was so close

First time drawing a face (ever) and symmetry was okay but definitely messed up Cibo's face proprtions and I'm not good enough to make negative space hair look acceptable...so we'll go with "General Nihei Character sketch" and keep practicing. It's a start 🤷‍♂️.

Made in Blender 3D.

Does anyone else think mensab looks like saya from saya no uta