Blame! [ブラム!]

Series · 11 books · 1998-2019

By Tsutomu Nihei, 弐瓶勉

Books in series

Blame!, Vol. 1

1998

Killy is a man of few words who packs one very powerful gun. He wanders an endless labyrinth of cyberdungeons filled with concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other bizarre silicate creatures.

Blame!, Vol. 2

1998

On his quest to find the humans possessing Net Terminal Genes, Killy enters Cluster Town, where he comes across a woman who offers help. Her vast knowledge of the power behind this city may prove to be an asset to Killy, as long as he can give her what she needs. But the two will have to work fast, as they attempt to break through to the next sector of the Authority—the massive network that makes up the brain of the city.

Blame!, Vol. 3

1999

"Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down." â€"Play Magazine Having been delivered an imperative by the Authority to find the Net Terminal Genes—the key to halting the rapid and random growth of Cluster Town—Killy and Cibo come closer to unlocking the secrets of the Netsphere. However, the ability to actually understand the language of the Net Terminal Gene carriers may have been forever lost. Will Killy find a way to translate these seemingly undecipherable signals before the Authority itself is destroyed by its own creation?

Blame!, Vol. 4

2000

最強の銃を持つ男・霧亥（キリイ）！！　無限に広がる階層都市を行く冒険者・霧亥を描く渾身のハードＳＦアクション。

Blame!, Vol. 5

2000

Killy has been blazing through the deadly caves of Toha Heavy Industries. But even as he comes closer to finding humans with Net Terminal Genes, the one thing he's been trying to avoid stands in his way... "Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down." -Dave Halverson, Play Magazine

Blame!, Vol. 6

2001

Multiple showdowns go down simultanously in the cyberdungeon world of BLAME...and Killy is just one Gravitron Beam Emitter away from meeting his ultimate maker. "Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down." -Dave Halverson, Play Magazine

Blame!, Vol. 7

2001

Killy is getting closer to the rescue signal in the lost scientific facility. Killy and Cibo are not prepared for what awaits them in the corridor. Join us as Killy seeks the answer to humanity by unlocking the secrets of the Net Terminal genes. Older teens.

Blame!, Vol. 8

2002

Killy and Dhomochevsky don't trust each other, but they have a more pressing retrieving Cibo's capsule of human genetic information. The capsule has been stolen by the Silicon Creatures, who will use it to attempt a provisional connection to the Netsphere. Can our unlikely allies stop them in time, or is it already too late? "Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down." -Dave Halverson, Play Magazine

Blame!, Vol. 9

2002

In the aftermath of an apocalyptic battle, all that remains in the world of Blame! is Killy is on the brink of death, and Cibo's fusion with the Level 9 Safeguard unit has reduced her once-impressive intellect to that of a child. As the merciless silicon creatures close in, a mind-boggling spherical space inside the city may hold the key to salvation... "Action packed, bloody, and cerebral to the core, it's stunningly drawn and impossible to put down." -Dave Halverson, Play Magazine

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Blame!, Vol. 10

2003

Killy's journey takes him back to where it all began for him. The man of few words that he is, he saves the central city by granting it its greatest wish...the elimination of the silicate creatures. But there is much much more to the mystery...And will saving the city cost him his life and end his search for Net Terminal Genes?

#12

BLAME! Movie Edition

The Electrofishers' Escape

2019

From one of the manga world's most intriguing artists comes the manga version of the Netflix movie, BLAME! Steel and rust. The City structure has endlessly propagated itself for so many years that the reason for such growth has long since been forgotten. Even within such a techo-dystopia, humans still The Electrofishers. Driven to the brink of extinction, they are visited by a traveller—a man named Killy. But will his presence bring the Electrofishers ruination or hope..?

Authors

Tsutomu Nihei

Author · 25 books

See also 弐瓶勉. Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics. At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel. Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_...

弐瓶勉

Author · 4 books

See Tsutomu Nihei.