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Ivy and Maeve
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BLAME! is a ten-volume science fiction manga by Tsutomu Nihei. A series of 6 short OVA episodes were produced based on the series.
The tagline for this manga is \"Adventure-seeker Killy in the Cyber Dungeon quest!\" or \"Maybe on Earth, Maybe in the Future\". There is some debate over the meaning of the title, which may be a mistranslation of the onomatopoeia \"blam.\"
Killy, a silent loner possessing an incredibly powerful weapon known as a Gravitational Beam Emitter, wanders a vast technological world known as the Megastructure. He is searching for Net Terminal Genes, a (possibly) extinct genetic marker that allows humans access to the Netsphere. The Megastructure is an endless vertical space of walls, stairways and caverns, inhabited by scattered human and transhuman tribes as well as hostile cyborgs known as Silicon Creatures. 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 horde known as the Safeguard from destroying all humanity.
Along the way, Killy meets and joins forces with a resourceful engineer named Cibo and a tribe of human warriors called the Electro-Fishers. They are pursued by the Safeguard, who view any human without Net Terminal Genes as a threat to be extinguished on sight.
BLAME! features extremely dark, highly detailed depictions of the fantastic, ever-changing world of the Megastructure, punctuated by brutal combat. There is generally little dialogue to support the action or story, and the reader is left to piece together the plot for themselves. Many scenes are spent on the long, lonely travels through the Megastructure.
The Megastructure is actually a structure that began on Earth. The mechanical beings known as Builders, which move around reforming and creating new landscapes, appear to have begun building without end, creating an enormous structure with little internal logic or coherence. The Megastructure, and the Builders, were controlled by the Netsphere and the Authority but they have since lost the power to control the expansion of the Megastructure due to the chaotic and insecure manner of its growth. Without intervention by a user with Net Terminal Genes they cannot reestablish control over the Megastructure nor the Safeguards, whose original job was to eliminate any humans who try to access the Netsphere without Net Terminal Genes. The Safeguard now attempts to destroy ALL humans without the Net Terminal Gene as the degradation of the Megastructure has corrupted their true goals.
It has been suggested by Tsutomu Nihei himself in his artbook Blame! And So On that the Megastructure is actually a growing Dyson sphere of gargantuan proportions. Its spherical circumference is speculated to be roughly the size of Jupiter's planetary orbit (32.675 AU)[1]]. No evidence contradicts this speculation, and the prequel to BLAME!, NOiSE, even states that the structure has passed the orbit of the moon. |
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