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{{Short description|Japanese manga series}} {{About|the Japanese science fiction manga|the anime film based on the manga|Blame! (film){{!}}''Blame!'' (film)|other uses|Blame (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox animanga/Header | image = Blame! manga vol 1.jpg | caption = First {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volume cover, featuring Killy | genre = {{ubl|[[Action fiction|Action]]<ref name="VerticalLic" />|[[Cyberpunk]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Martin|first=Theron|title=Blame! – Review|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/blame/.116458|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=April 6, 2020|date=May 23, 2017|quote=the 1998 cyberpunk manga Blame! Although it was adapted into a series of six ONA shorts back in 2003|archive-date=May 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523165454/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/blame/.116458|url-status=live}}</ref>|[[Post-apocalyptic]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Santos|first=Carlo|title=Blame! DVD - Review|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/blame/dvd|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=April 6, 2020|date=July 29, 2005|quote=the setting of ''Blame!'' isn't so hard to understand; it's the usual post-apocalyptic science fiction fare.|archive-date=September 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911080200/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/blame/dvd|url-status=live}}</ref>}}<!-- Genres should be based on what reliable sources list them as and not on personal interpretations. Limit of the three most relevant genres in accordance with [[MOS:A&M]]. --> }} {{Infobox animanga/Print | type = manga | author = [[Tsutomu Nihei]] | publisher = [[Kodansha]] | publisher_en = {{English manga publisher|NA={{ubl|[[Tokyopop]] (former)|[[Vertical (company)|Vertical]] (current)}}|UK=Tokyopop}} | demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|[[Seinen manga|Seinen]]}} | imprint = Afternoon KC | magazine = [[Monthly Afternoon]] | first = January 25, 1997 | last = July 25, 2003 | volumes = 10 | volume_list = }} {{Infobox animanga/Video | type = ona | title = Blame! Ver. 0.11 | director = Shintarō Inokawa | producer = Kazuki Nakamura | writer = Mayori Sekijima | music = {{ubl|Hiroyuki Onogawa|KIYOSHI (BORN'S) (#3)}} | studio = [[Group TAC]] | licensee = {{English manga publisher|NA=[[Media Blasters|AnimeWorks]]}} | released = 2003 | runtime = 6 minutes (each) | episodes = 6 + OVA | episode_list = }} {{Infobox animanga/Print | title = Blame Academy! | type = manga | author = Tsutomu Nihei | publisher = Kodansha | demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|Seinen}} | magazine = Monthly Afternoon | first = February 25, 2004 | last = May 25, 2008 | volumes = 1 | volume_list = }} {{Infobox animanga/Print | title = NetSphere Engineer | type = manga | author = Tsutomu Nihei | publisher = Kodansha | demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|Seinen}} | magazine = Bessatsu Morning | published = December 16, 2004 | volumes = | volume_list = }} {{Infobox animanga/Video | title = Blame! Prologue | type = ona | director = Shigeyuki Watanabe | producer = | writer = | music = Yuichi Nonaka | studio = [[Production I.G]] | licensee = | released = September 7, 2007 | runtime = 4 minutes | episodes = 2 | episode_list = }} {{Infobox animanga/Print | title = Blame!2 | type = manga | author = Tsutomu Nihei | publisher = Kodansha | demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|Seinen}} | magazine = Mandala | published = March 21, 2008 }} {{Infobox animanga/Print | title = Blame! Denki Ryōshi Kiki Kaisō Dasshutsu Sakusen | type = manga | author = Kotaro Sekine | publisher = Kodansha | demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|[[Shōnen manga|Shōnen]]}} | magazine = [[Monthly Shōnen Sirius]] | first = April 26, 2017 | last = October 26, 2017 | volumes = 1 | volume_list = }} {{Infobox animanga/Other | title = Anime film | content = * ''[[Blame! (film)|Blame!]]'' (2017) }} {{Infobox animanga/Footer|portal=yes}} '''''Blame!'''''{{efn|Pronounced "Blam" like the gunshot.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brothers |first1=David |title=Tsutomu Nihei, A Manga Creator for America |url=https://comicsalliance.com/tsutomu-nihei-biomega-wolverine-snikt/ |website=Comics Alliance |access-date=4 June 2024}}</ref>}} (stylized in [[all caps]]) is a Japanese [[science fiction]] [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Tsutomu Nihei]]. It was published by [[Kodansha]] in the [[Seinen manga|{{Transliteration|ja|seinen}} manga]] magazine ''[[Monthly Afternoon]]'' from 1997 to 2003, with its chapters collected in ten {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes. A six-part [[original net animation]] (ONA) by [[Group TAC]] was produced in 2003, with a seventh episode included on the DVD release. An [[anime]] film adaptation by [[Polygon Pictures]] was released as a [[Netflix]] original in May 2017. == Synopsis == === Setting === [[Image:Blame! 7 log-38-024-025.jpg|thumb|left|Double page from ''Blame!'']] ''Blame!'' is set in "The City", a gigantic megastructure occupying much of what used to be the Solar System. Its exact size is unknown, but [[Tsutomu Nihei]] suggested its diameter to be at least equal to [[Jupiter]]'s orbit,{{Citation needed|reason=When did Nihei suggest this?|date=March 2025}} or about 1.6 billion kilometers (a detail suggested in the manga by having Killy cross an empty, spherical room roughly the size of Jupiter, suggesting that it had housed the planet before its disassembly). According to the prequel manga ''[[NOiSE]]'', the City began as a much smaller structure erected on Earth by the robotic "Builders". Humanity controlled the Builders through the Netsphere, an advanced computer network whose access was restricted to human use only, and authenticated by a genetic marker known as the Net Terminal Gene. Anyone who attempted to access the Netsphere without the marker was eliminated by an automated security force known as the Safeguards. However, a terrorist cult known as "the Order" released a retrovirus that deleted the Net Terminal Gene from all humans, thus cutting off their access to the Netsphere and their control over the Builders. Without specific instructions, the Builders began to build chaotically and indefinitely, while the Safeguards' programming degraded into a mandate to kill all humans without the Net Terminal Gene, whether they wanted to access the Netsphere or not. By the time of the events of the manga, the City has come to resemble a series of layered, concentric [[Dyson spheres]], filled with haphazard architecture and largely devoid of life. These layers compose the supporting scaffold of the City, known as the Megastructure; the underside of each layer periodically illuminates the overside of the one below to provide a day–night cycle. The Megastructure is extremely durable, with only a direct blast from a Gravitational Beam Emitter being able to penetrate it. Travel between layers is challenging, both due to the City's chaotic layout and the risk of provoking a Safeguard response; due to the size of the City, it is also extremely time-consuming, despite such amenities as elevators that can reach relativistic speeds. The buildings on each layer are largely uninhabited, although scattered human and post-human tribes, rogue Builders, hostile Safeguards, and Silicon Life can be found throughout the entire City. === Plot === {{See also|List of Blame! characters{{!}}List of ''Blame!'' characters}} [[Killy (Blame!)|Killy]], a silent loner possessing an incredibly powerful weapon known as a Gravitational Beam Emitter, wanders a vast technological world known as "The City". He is searching for [[Net Terminal Genes]], a (possibly) extinct genetic marker that allows humans to access the "Netsphere", a sort of computerized control network for The City. The City is an artificial structure of immense volume, separated into massive "floors" by nearly-impenetrable barriers known as "[[Megastructure]]". The City is inhabited by scattered human and [[transhuman]] tribes as well as hostile [[cyborgs]] known as [[Blame! characters and structures#Silicon Life .28Cyborgs.29|Silicon Life]]. The Net Terminal Genes appear to be the key to halting the unhindered, chaotic expansion of the Megastructure, as well as a way of stopping the murderous robot horde known as the [[Blame! characters and structures#Factions or groups of note|Safeguard]] from destroying all of humanity. Along the way, Killy meets and joins forces with a resourceful engineer named [[Cibo (Blame!)|Cibo]]. Their quest is indirectly supported by the City's Authority, which is unable to stop the Safeguard from opposing them. Together, Killy and Cibo meet a young girl named Sanakan and a tribe of human warriors called the [[Blame! characters and structures#Humans|Electro-Fishers.]] Killy's cybernetic abilities are restored after he is attacked by a high-level Safeguard, which turns out to have been Sanakan in disguise. She transforms into her Safeguard form and attacks the Electro-Fishers' village when discovered. Killy and Cibo defend the Electro-Fishers by bringing them to the cylindrical megastructure of Toha Heavy Industries. Here they meet Mensab, an AI independent from the Administration, and her guardian Seu, a human. The megastructure is ultimately destroyed due to attacks by Silicon Life and Sanakan, but Mensab is able to give Cibo a sample of Seu's DNA. Killy and Cibo next come to a region of the City ruled by a group of Silicon Life, where they ally with a pair of "provisional Safeguards" named Dhomochevsky and Iko. Seu's DNA is stolen by the Silicon leader, Davine, who uses it to access the Netsphere. Dhomochevsky sacrifices his life to kill Davine, but not before she downloads an extremely powerful Level 9 Safeguard from the Netsphere which manifests in Cibo's body. The Cibo Safeguard destroys the entire region. 14 years later, Killy's body repairs itself from the attack and he continues his journey. He meets a human whose physical body is dead and whose consciousness is preserved in a device resembling a USB stick, and takes her with him. Upon eventually finding Cibo again he discovers that she, having lost her memory, was eventually rescued by Sanakan, who is now allied with the Authority against the rest of the Safeguard. Cibo's body is incubating a "sphere" which contains both her and Sanakan’s genetic information. Ultimately, Cibo and Sanakan both die in a final confrontation with the Safeguard, but Killy survives and preserves the sphere. The digital consciousness Killy picked up earlier is seen in human form in the Netsphere, recounting Killy’s quest to other entities an unknown amount of time in the future. She is told that Killy’s journey to the outside of the City will be longer and harder than anything that came before. Killy finally reaches the edge of the City, where he is shot in the head and incapacitated, but a flood of water carries him to the surface of the City where stars are visible and the sphere begins to glow. In the final page, Killy is seen fighting in the corridors of the City again, alongside a small child wearing a hazmat suit. == Media == === Manga === ''Blame!'' was written and illustrated by [[Tsutomu Nihei]]. The series ran in [[Kodansha]]'s ''[[Monthly Afternoon]]'' from 1997 to 2003.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:弐瓶勉が劇場版「BLAME!」のために描いた設定資料が1冊に、本日発売|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/233609|website=[[Natalie (website)|Natalie]]|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=February 7, 2021|language=ja|date=May 22, 2017|archive-date=April 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416113522/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/233609|url-status=live}}</ref> Its chapters were collected in ten {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes by [[Kodansha]]'s ''Afternoon KC'' imprint. In February 2005, [[Tokyopop]] announced that it has licensed ''Blame!'' for U.S. distribution, with publication beginning in August 2005. After releasing the final volume in 2007, the series has gone out of print with several volumes becoming increasingly hard to find. In February 2016, [[Vertical (company)|Vertical]] announced that it had licensed the series.<ref name="VerticalLic">{{cite web |last=Hodgkins |first=Crystalyn |date=February 13, 2016 |title=Vertical Licenses Blame!, Dissolving Classroom, Immortal Hounds Manga |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-02-13/vertical-licenses-blame-dissolving-classroom-immortal-hounds-manga/.98645 |access-date=February 13, 2016 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |archive-date=September 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911080149/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-02-13/vertical-licenses-blame-dissolving-classroom-immortal-hounds-manga/.98645 |url-status=live}}</ref> ==== Volumes ==== ; ''Tankōbon'' release <div style="width:75%;"> {{Graphic novel list/header |Language=Japanese |SecondLanguage=English |Width=99% }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 1 | OriginalRelDate = June 20, 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030097|script-title=ja:BLAME!(1)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727140657/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030097|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314182-9 | LicensedRelDate = August 9, 2005<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 1|isbn=1595328343|last=Nihei|first=Tsutomu|date=9 August 2005|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-834-3 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 2 | OriginalRelDate = December 16, 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030108|script-title=ja:BLAME!(2)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727043406/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030108|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314194-2 | LicensedRelDate = November 8, 2005<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 2|isbn=1595328351|last1=Nihei|first1=Tsutomu|date=8 November 2005|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-835-1 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 3 | OriginalRelDate = August 20, 1999<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030131|script-title=ja:BLAME!(3)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727024836/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030131|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314218-3 | LicensedRelDate = February 7, 2006<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 3|isbn=159532836X|last1=Nihei|first1=Tsutomu|date=7 February 2006|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-836-X | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 4 | OriginalRelDate = March 21, 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030148|script-title=ja:BLAME!(4)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727090511/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030148|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314235-3 | LicensedRelDate = May 9, 2006<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 4|isbn=1595328378|last=Nihei|first=Tsutomu|date=9 May 2006|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-837-8 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 5 | OriginalRelDate = September 20, 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030164|script-title=ja:BLAME!(5)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727020323/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030164|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314251-5 | LicensedRelDate = August 8, 2006<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 5|isbn=1595328386|last1=Nihei|first1=Tsutomu|date=8 August 2006|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-838-6 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 6 | OriginalRelDate = March 21, 2001<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030176|script-title=ja:BLAME!(6)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727031847/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030176|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314263-9 | LicensedRelDate = November 7, 2006<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 6|isbn=1595328394|last1=Nihei|first1=Tsutomu|date=7 November 2006|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-839-4 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 7 | OriginalRelDate = October 20, 2001<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030189|script-title=ja:BLAME!(7)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727120607/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030189|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000035540|script-title=ja:BLAME!(7)限定電装版|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727055955/https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000035540|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314277-9 | ISBN_note =<br/>{{ISBNT|4-06-336342-2}} (limited edition) | LicensedRelDate = February 13, 2007<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 7|isbn=978-1595328403|last1=Nihei|first1=Tsutomu|date=13 February 2007|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-840-8 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 8 | OriginalRelDate = April 20, 2002<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030200|script-title=ja:BLAME!(8)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727071941/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030200|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314289-2 | LicensedRelDate = May 8, 2007<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 8|isbn=978-1595328410|last=Nihei|first=Tsutomu|date=8 May 2007|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-841-6 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 9 | OriginalRelDate = December 18, 2002<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030220|script-title=ja:BLAME!(9)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727123618/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030220|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314310-4 | LicensedRelDate = August 7, 2007<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 9|isbn=978-1595328427|last1=Nihei|first1=Tsutomu|date=7 August 2007|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-842-4 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 10 | OriginalRelDate = September 18, 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030237|script-title=ja:BLAME!(10)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=May 19, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727105036/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000030237|url-status=live}}</ref> | OriginalISBN = 4-06-314328-7 | LicensedRelDate = November 13, 2007<ref>{{cite book|title=Blame! Vol. 10|isbn=978-1595328434|last1=Nihei|first1=Tsutomu|date=13 November 2007|publisher=Tokyopop}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 1-59532-843-2 | ChapterList = | Summary = }} {{Graphic novel list/footer}} </div> ; Master's edition <div style="width:75%;"> {{Graphic novel list/header | Language = Japanese | SecondLanguage = English | Width = 99% }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 1 | RelDate = April 23, 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772012|script-title=ja:新装版 BLAME!(1)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306040023/http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772012|url-status=live}}</ref> | ISBN = 978-4-06-377201-2 | LicensedRelDate = September 13, 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/544548/blame-1-by-tsutomu-nihei/|title=BLAME! 1|website=[[Penguin Random House]]|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307133040/http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/544548/blame-1-by-tsutomu-nihei/|url-status=live}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 978-1-942993-77-3 }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 2 | RelDate = April 23, 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772029|script-title=ja:新装版 BLAME!(2)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=September 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908235414/http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772029|url-status=live}}</ref> | ISBN = 978-4-06-377202-9 | LicensedRelDate = December 13, 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/544549/blame-2-by-tsutomu-nihei/|title=BLAME! 2|website=[[Penguin Random House]]|access-date=April 16, 2016|archive-date=April 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428130233/http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/544549/blame-2-by-tsutomu-nihei/|url-status=live}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 978-1-942993-78-0 }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 3 | RelDate = May 22, 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772036|script-title=ja:新装版 BLAME!(3)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=January 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122133849/http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772036|url-status=live}}</ref> | ISBN = 978-4-06-377203-6 | LicensedRelDate = March 21, 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546475/blame-3-by-tsutomu-nihei/|title=BLAME!, 3|website=[[Penguin Random House]]|access-date=September 8, 2016|archive-date=September 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919130108/http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546475/blame-3-by-tsutomu-nihei/|url-status=live}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 978-1-942993-79-7 }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 4 | RelDate = May 22, 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772043|script-title=ja:新装版 BLAME!(4)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=August 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826212548/http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772043|url-status=live}}</ref> | ISBN = 978-4-06-377204-3 | LicensedRelDate = June 27, 2017<ref name="BLAME!, 4">{{cite web|url=http://vertical-comics.com/books/blame_04.php|title=BLAME!, 4|website=[[Vertical (company)|Vertical Comics]]|access-date=July 11, 2017|archive-date=July 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715071434/http://www.vertical-comics.com/books/blame_04.php|url-status=live}}</ref> | LicensedISBN = 978-1-942993-80-3 }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 5 | RelDate = June 23, 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772104|script-title=ja:新装版 BLAME!(5)|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306062144/http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772104|url-status=live}}</ref> | ISBN = 978-4-06-377210-4 | LicensedRelDate = September 12, 2017<ref name="BLAME!, 4"/> | LicensedISBN = 978-1-942993-81-0 }} {{Graphic novel list | VolumeNumber = 6 | RelDate = June 23, 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772111|script-title=ja:新装版 BLAME!(6)<完>|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|language=ja|access-date=February 29, 2016|archive-date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306054212/http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063772111|url-status=live}}</ref> | ISBN = 978-4-06-377211-1 | LicensedRelDate = December 12, 2017<ref name="BLAME!, 4"/> | LicensedISBN = 978-1-942993-82-7 }} {{Graphic novel list/footer}} </div> ==== ''Blame Academy!'' ==== {{nihongo|''Blame Academy!''|ブラム学園!|Buramu Gakuen!}} is a spin-off series of ''Blame!''. Set in the same "City" as ''Blame!'', it is a parody and comedy about various characters in the main ''Blame!'' story in a traditional Japanese school setting. Various elements in the main ''Blame!'' story are being parodied, including the relationship between Killy and Cibo, and Dhomochevsky and Iko. It was irregularly published in ''[[Monthly Afternoon]]''. A compilation volume, titled ''Blame Academy! and So On'' was published by [[Kodansha]] on September 19, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=314531X|script-title=ja:ブラム学園! アンドソーオン 弐瓶勉作品集|publisher=[[Kodansha]]|access-date=November 28, 2012|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213184023/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=314531X|archive-date=December 13, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==== ''Blame!2'' ==== {{nihongo|''Blame!2''|ブラム!2|Buramu! Tsū|stylized as BLAME!²}}, subtitled {{nihongo|''Chronicle of the Escape from the Megastructure by the Eighth Incarnation of Pcell''|第八系子体プセルの都市構造体脱出記|Dai-hachi Keikotai Puseru no Toshikōzōtai Dasshutsu Ki}}, is a full-color, 16-page [[One-shot (comics)|one-shot]]. Like ''NSE: NetSphere Engineer'', ''Blame!2'' is a [[sequel]] to the original ''Blame!'', taking place at a point in the distant future. It was published March 21, 2008 in the second volume of [[Kodansha]]'s Weekly Morning Special Edition magazine, ''Mandala''. This one-shot was also compiled in one volume with ''Blame Academy!'', titled ''Blame Academy! and So On'' in 2008. Set an undefined but long time after the events of ''Blame!'', it follows an incarnation of Pcell. After Killy's success in ''Blame!'', humanity has begun to dominate The City once more and began wiping out most Silicon Life. After P-cell escapes the extinction as the sole survivor of her kind (which is beset by humanity and the Safeguard), she is saved from death by Killy. She eventually makes it to the edge of the City, where it is implied she travels to another planet and restarts Silicon Life civilization using the stored gene-data of her dead companions. ==== ''NSE: NetSphere Engineer'' ==== {{Nihongo|''NSE: NetSphere Engineer''|ネットスフィアエンジニア|Netto Sufia Enjinia}} is a [[sequel]] to ''Blame!''. It was originally published as a one-shot in the ''Bessatsu Morning'' magazine. This one-shot was compiled in one volume with ''Blame Academy!'', titled ''Blame Academy! and So On'' in 2008. ''NSE: NetSphere Engineer'' follows a "Dismantler", a NetSphere Engineer in charge of disabling the remaining nexus towers that summon Safeguard interference upon its detection of humans without the net terminal genes. Like ''Blame!2'', NSE is set in a long but undefined time period after the events of ''Blame!''. However, it is implied it is even later than ''Blame!2'' as Safeguards are now very rare encounters. ==== ''Blame! Denki Ryōshi Kiki Kaisō Dasshutsu Sakusen'' ==== A manga adaptation of the ''[[Blame! (film)|Blame!]]'' film illustrated by Kotaro Sekine was serialized in [[Kodansha]]'s ''[[Monthly Shōnen Sirius]]'' from April 26 to October 26, 2017,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:映画「BLAME!」のコミカライズがシリウスで始動、夜桜×デュラポスターも|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/230341|website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]]|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=February 6, 2024|language=ja|date=April 26, 2017|archive-date=August 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813015555/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/230341|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Karen|last=Ressler|title=New Blame! Manga Reaches 'Last Battle' Next Month|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-25/new-blame-manga-reaches-last-battle-next-month/.121845|website=[[Anime News Network]]|date=September 25, 2017|access-date=October 24, 2023|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207190453/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-25/new-blame-manga-reaches-last-battle-next-month/.121845|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:次号シリウスで「怪物王女」新シリーズ始動、「A.I.C.O.」コミカライズも|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/254254|website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]]|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=February 6, 2024|language=ja|date=October 26, 2017|archive-date=August 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813020046/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/254254|url-status=live}}</ref> and collected into one volume, released on February 9, 2018.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:弐瓶勉が描く愉快で不思議なフルカラー作品集「ブラム学園!」新装版に|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/268887|website=[[Natalie (website)|Comic Natalie]]|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=February 6, 2024|language=ja|date=February 9, 2018|archive-date=April 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424144018/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/268887|url-status=live}}</ref> ===''Blame!: The Ancient Terminal City''=== A trailer revealing a special ''Blame!'' short, appearing at the beginning of the 8th episode of ''Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine'' (the second season of the anime adaptation of ''[[Knights of Sidonia]]''), was released in November 2014. The episode aired in May 2015. The short is contextualized as a TV program that the people of Sidonia tune in for.<ref name="Anime News Network"/> === Film === {{Main|Blame! (film){{!}}''Blame!'' (film)}} Plans for a full-length CG animated film were announced in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.net/news/2007/03/blame-cyberpunk-cg-animated-film-announced.php|title=BLAME!, Cyberpunk CG Animated film Announced|publisher=twitchfilm.net|access-date=2008-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712064828/http://twitchfilm.net/news/2007/03/blame-cyberpunk-cg-animated-film-announced.php|archive-date=2010-07-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, this proposed CG film project was not released before Micott and Basara (the studio hired) filed for bankruptcy in 2011.<ref name="Anime News Network">{{cite web |last=Loo |first=Egan |date=November 23, 2014 |title=Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! Anime Previewed With English Subtitles |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-23/tsutomu-nihei-blame-anime-previewed-with-english-subtitles/.81353 |access-date=November 23, 2014 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |publisher= |archive-date=November 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141125062208/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-23/tsutomu-nihei-blame-anime-previewed-with-english-subtitles/.81353 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was announced in November 2015 that the series would get an [[anime]] theatrical film adaptation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hodgkins |first=Crystalyn |date=November 19, 2015 |title=Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! Manga Gets Theatrical Anime Adaptation |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-19/tsutomu-nihei-blame-manga-gets-theatrical-anime-adaptation/.95551 |access-date=November 19, 2015 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729092607/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-19/tsutomu-nihei-blame-manga-gets-theatrical-anime-adaptation/.95551 |url-status=live}}</ref> The film is directed by Hiroyuki Seshita and written by Tsutomu Nihei and Sadayuki Murai, with animation by [[Polygon Pictures]] and character designs by Yuki Moriyama. It was released globally as a [[Netflix]] original on May 20, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nagamedigital.com/2016/08/12/blame-movie/|title=Blame! Movie Adaptation Coming to Netflix Original in 2017|website=[[Nagame Digital]]|access-date=2016-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009184551/http://nagamedigital.com/2016/08/12/blame-movie/|archive-date=2016-10-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> On October 5, 2017, [[Viz Media]] announced at their [[New York Comic Con]] panel that they licensed the home video rights to the film.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ressler |first=Karen |date=October 5, 2017 |title=Viz Media to Release Blame! Anime Film on Home Video |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-10-05/viz-media-to-release-blame-anime-film-on-home-video/.122337 |access-date=October 5, 2017 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |publisher= |archive-date=October 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006112532/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-10-05/viz-media-to-release-blame-anime-film-on-home-video/.122337 |url-status=live}}</ref> They released it on DVD and [[Blu-ray]] on March 27, 2018. == Reception == Jarred Pine from Mania.com commented "[it] is not an easy task" to talk about the story in the first volume as "it leaves quite a gamut of questions open for the reader, nothing on the surface to give the reader a sense of direction or purpose".<ref name="cb">{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/blame-also-wtshirt_article_76916.html|title=Blame! (also w/T-shirt)|author=Beveridge, Chris|date=May 3, 2005|publisher=Mania|access-date=February 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309231000/http://www.mania.com/blame-also-wtshirt_article_76916.html|archive-date=March 9, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="jp">{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-01_article_82092.html|title=Blame! Vol. #01|author=Pine, Jarred|date=September 1, 2005|publisher=Mania|access-date=February 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315093320/http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-01_article_82092.html|archive-date=March 15, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pine said ''Blame!'' doesn't have a mass appeal and "there will be quite a strong line dividing those who love and hate Nihei's unique and convoluted cyberpunk journey".<ref name="jp"/> In 2006, the Tokyopop distribution was nominated for a [[Harvey Award]] in the category "Best American Edition of Foreign Material".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://harveyawards.org/awards_2006nom.html|title=The Harvey Awards 2006 nominees and winners|publisher=harveyawards.org|access-date=2008-03-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070522040409/http://www.harveyawards.org/awards_2006nom.html|archive-date=2007-05-22}}</ref> == Notes == {{notelist}} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-01_article_82092.html|title=Blame! Vol. #02|author=Pine, Jarred|date=November 14, 2005|publisher=Mania|access-date=February 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315093320/http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-01_article_82092.html|archive-date=March 15, 2013|url-status=dead}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-03_article_82520.html|title=Blame! Vol. #03|author=Pine, Jarred|date=March 13, 2006|publisher=Mania|access-date=February 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123010901/http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-03_article_82520.html|archive-date=November 23, 2013|url-status=dead}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-04_article_82606.html|title=Blame! Vol. #04|author=Pine, Jarred|date=May 17, 2006|publisher=Mania|access-date=February 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123024046/http://www.mania.com/blame-vol-04_article_82606.html|archive-date=November 23, 2013|url-status=dead}} * {{Anime News Network|manga|3258}} {{Blame!}} {{Afternoon}} {{Group TAC}} {{Production I.G OVAs}} {{Monthly Shōnen Sirius}} [[Category:Blame!]] [[Category:Action anime and manga]] [[Category:Anime and manga about terrorism]] [[Category:Cyberpunk anime and manga]] [[Category:Fiction about artificial intelligence]] [[Category:Fiction about augmented reality]] [[Category:Fiction about brain–computer interface]] [[Category:Fiction about consciousness transfer]] [[Category:Fiction about cyborgs]] [[Category:Fiction about immortality]] [[Category:Fiction about malware]] [[Category:Fiction about nanotechnology]] [[Category:Fiction about prosthetics]] [[Category:Fiction about robots]] [[Category:Fiction about transhumanism]] [[Category:Fiction about virtual reality]] [[Category:Group TAC]] [[Category:Kodansha manga]] [[Category:Manga adapted into films]] [[Category:Media Blasters]] [[Category:Post-apocalyptic anime and manga]] [[Category:Production I.G]] [[Category:Seinen manga]] [[Category:Shōnen manga]] [[Category:Tokyopop titles]] [[Category:Tsutomu Nihei]] [[Category:Vertical (publisher) titles]] [[Category:Works about the future]]
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