BLAME! Chapter 66 Discussion

Really liked the visual storytelling and the main characters, Cibo and Kyrii.



So Cibo's personality was recreated from the remaining fragments and is stored, so maybe she'll be revived someday? Hope so. Kyrii managed to hatch the sphere and the child has net terminal gene too I assume? Wish there was a bit more to the ending but this fits the manga actually.

Overall. a very hard read but I'd say it's worth it. The art is phenomenal but it gets incredibly confusing during action scenes. Pretty hard to get invested when the enemies can be one-shoted every single time. The story is actually very simple but the way it's written and shown is what makes it great.



I'd give this a 7/10. I wanted to give this an 8 but it just doesn't hit the right notes for me, especially towards the end.

Aaaaand the bad choice award goes tooooo Cibo, id say.

Anyway, grear bourgeois novel of teenage Sherlock Gunner dead set to bring us humans our old swamp back from corporate state ownership because levels of freedom and everything. So beautiful every page is masterpiece. Never gonna login into smart house with my genes dammin. Disregard that, face login seem to be as bad idea as this one. As for me.

Definitely not an easy manga to get into, but I was a fan. Loved the art style, the technopocalypse world, and the scale of it. The artist really makes the city itself feel like a huge, overbearing threat since you never see the outside until the very end.



Definitely going to have to reread it, I already had to reread the first ~7 chapters to comprehend what the hell was going on. Fortunately, the ending was pretty self explanatory - and aided by the 1-chapter sequels Net Sphere Engineer & BLAME!2.



Ending Spoilers (don't click unless you want spoilers, obviously):




Killy succeeds reaching the outer edge of the contaminated city. Recovering from injuries he had sustained along the way, Killy is washed away from within a large storm drain and into a body of water. Notably, the body of water posesses aquatic plants - the first form of any plant life we've seen in BLAME! (unless I'm mistaken).



Killy awakens from his repairing state, and the embryo activates in the uncontaminated environment's water.



In the very last panel we see Killy and what is very obviously the Net Terminal Gene Carrier, wearing a full-body hazmat suit, walking back through the city to link with the NetSphere and stop the City's expansion and the Safeguard's targeting of humans without the rare gene.



Interestingly enough, the only other panel with the Net Terminal Gene Carrier is in the table of contents of Volume 10 - depicting what appears to be a girl wearing a full-face gas mask.



Overall BLAME! gets a thumbs-up from me. I'd recommend for older audiences due to the abstractness of the storytelling. The entire arc with the Toha Heavy Industries was a loss for me, I'll have to re-read it.

It is a work that does quite well in the artistic section and setting of the world, its story and characters are somewhat dry to be honest but it handles them well enough to not be a big point against it, the final section seemed a little weak and The ending was pretty "ok" but the rest is fine. 7/10

I've already given answers to similar questions in my previous post in the thread, and I'll try to answer your ones as well, but I too haven't read the manga in many years.



I don't exactly understand the distinction you make between "human or some gene clone". We've seen the girl from the embryo in exactly one panel, head to tow in a suit and gas mask. As far as I can tell she looks human, though I guess it would be cool if this is in a way Cibo's final transformation, got to say I hadn't thought about that. Either way is possible, but I think if it was some sort of clone, Nihei would have indicated it in some way. So I'm leaning towards "ordinary" human.



My memory is muddy here, I remember the embryo being "conceived" between Cibo and Sanakan, though I may be forgetting some previous detail, like what Veldarth mentioned about Seu. Either way, in a future so far off from our understanding of time, world so alien, and technology so advanced (and rarely explained), I think this little detail isn't that unbelievable in the context of the story. Almost everything in BLAME! is a mind fuck subversion, this as well.



Again, "human" is a really murky term in the world of BLAME! Whatever her original form and her transformations actually were (and these are details that another read to refresh one's memory would probably illuminate) it won't make any real difference regarding the story or her character. I'm guessing her transformations are some sort of synthetic bodies, though with the time travel shenanigans, maybe one of her versions we see later could be her original body from a different time line or something.



The water at the end signals that Killy has actually reached the edge of the Megastructure, yes.



The girl from the embryo carries the Net Terminal Genes Killy has been searching the whole manga for, and that's the purpose she was "created" for.

It's a recap of the previous chapter. Either that or the site is bad. I liked more Blame upon re-read because I understood what had happened at the end (Him obtaining the net genes and rescuing the egg).



7/10

I really didn't understand this end. And many times I found the plot confusing. I'll probably re-read it if I can find the manga to buy. In any case the artwork is really amazing and I loved it.