Blame!
| Blame! | |
Cover of Volume 10, featuring Killy holding the Gravitational Beam Emitter
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ブラム! (Buramu!) |
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| Genre | Cyberpunk, Technological singularity |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Afternoon |
| Original run | 1998 – 2003 |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Original net animation | |
| Directed by | Shintaro Inokawa |
| Studio | Group TAC |
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| Released | October 24, 2003 |
| Runtime | 6 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Net Sphere Engineer | |
| Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Morning Extra |
| Published | 2004 |
| Manga | |
| Blame! Academy | |
| Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Afternoon |
| Original run | February 25, 2004 – May 25, 2008 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Original net animation | |
| Blame! Prologue | |
| Studio | Production I.G |
| Released | September 7, 2007 |
| Runtime | 4 minutes |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Blame!² | |
| Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Mandala |
| Published | March 21, 2008 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Seshita |
| Written by |
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| Studio | Polygon Pictures |
| Licensed by | Netflix (streaming rights) |
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Blame! (Japanese: ブラム! Hepburn: Buramu!?), pronounced "blam", is a ten-volume 1998 cyberpunk manga by Tsutomu Nihei published by Kodansha. A six-part original net animation was produced in 2003, with a seventh episode included on the DVD release. An anime film adaptation by Polygon Pictures is scheduled for release in 2017.
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 immense volume of artificial structure, 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 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.
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