In the manga, this is also suggested by Killy crossing an empty, spherical room roughly the size of Jupiter, suggesting that the planet had been there but was disassembled as the City grew.Īs revealed in the prequel NOiSE, the City began as a much smaller structure on Earth, created by humans with the aid of the robotic 'Builders'.

Its exact size is unknown, but Tsutomu Nihei suggested its diameter to be at least that of Jupiter's orbit, or about 1.6 billion kilometers. An anime film adaptation by Polygon Pictures was released as a Netflix original in May 2017.īlame! is set in what is simply known as 'The City', a gigantic megastructure now occupying much of what used to be the Solar System. A six-part original net animation was produced in 2003, with a seventh episode included on the DVD release. It was published by Kodansha in the seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from 1997 to 2003, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Blame! (stylized as BLAME!) is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice.

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Blame!, Vol. 2 by Tsutomu Nihei