Blame! Movie (Blame!: The Movie)

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Synonyms: Blame!: The Ancient Terminal City, Blame!: Tanmatsu Ikou Toshi

Japanese: BLAME!

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: May 20, 2017

Producers: Starchild Records, Kodansha, KlockWorx, Glovision

Licensors: VIZ Media

Studios: Polygon Pictures

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Themes: Mecha, Psychological

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 1 hr. 45 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.03¹ (scored by 59,592 users)

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Ranked: #4233²

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Popularity: #1977

Members: 107,862

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Synopsis

A young girl named Zuru sets out on an expedition through a post-apocalyptic city controlled by machines in a desperate hunt for food. Things go awry when her team accidently triggers the city's AI defense program called the Safeguard. Attacked by the machines, her companions are on the verge of being annihilated when a mysterious man named Killy arrives and exterminates the hostile units.

Despite his heroic intervention, Zuru is hesitant to trust Killy and questions his motives. He reveals to have come from thousands of levels below the city in order to find humans possessing the Net Terminal Genes—a trait that would allow humans to regain control of their civilization and shut down the Safeguard. After hearing his story, Zuru and the rest of her team join Killy and embark on a journey in search of the Genes that could prove to be mankind's last hope of survival.

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Blame! is based on Tsutomu Nihei's manga series of the same title and tells an alternate story than that of the manga. Written by Nihei, the film's plot is a composite of multiple story elements from the original manga.

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Killy

Main

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Cibo

Main

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Sanakan

Supporting

Hayami, Saori
Japanese

Zuru

Supporting

Amamiya, Sora
Japanese

Tae

Supporting

Suzaki, Aya
Japanese

Sutezou

Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Fuku

Supporting

Mori, Nanako
Japanese

Touchikyoku

Supporting

Toyosaki, Aki
Japanese

Fusata

Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga
Japanese

Atsuji

Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

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Seshita, Hiroyuki

Director

Iwanami, Yoshikazu

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Murai, Sadayuki

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Shimazu, Hiroyuki

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"Calling you" by angela

Reviews

Sep 17, 2023

RESOLVING_POWER

Recommended

I watched the Blame! movie, released in 2017. Here are my thoughts:

For the record, I have never seen the older (2003) OVAs nor have I ever read the manga. I knew nothing about the franchise before watching this movie. Obviously this review will not address the faithfulness of this adaptation to the manga; I am only evaluating the movie as a standalone product.

Basically, Blame takes place in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic setting because machines took over and blah blah blah reasons. The premise and setting kind of reminded me of the live-action Matrix trilogy.

This movie is animated in CGI (well, at least the characters ... and machines are). There were moments where the character animation seemed unnatural, but overall the characters looked okay to me. By CGI standards, it looked good. Facial expressions were done surprisingly well, which is unusual for CGI animation. Beyond the characters, the background setting looked terrific. There is tons of detail in the background landscapes, which really complements the post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting. There are lots of screencap-worthy frames in this movie. The muted, mostly grayscale, colour palette is suitable as well.

The audio production quality is excellent. Lots of different sound effects really enhanced my immersion. Regardless of the CGI visuals, this movie sounded very realistic to me. Blame's setting is one that can really be enhanced by sound effects, so it's great that this was capitalized upon. The OST is great too, and really well produced. The voice acting is adequate; I liked Cibo's voice.

The plot was pretty generic post-apocalyptic sci-fi material, and fairly predictable. In some ways it felt like a generic Hollywood blockbuster film plot. Although at times I felt like I was missing background information, it was overall coherent and competently executed. The plot was also fairly self-contained, meaning that there were no significant loose strings at the end (a common manga-adaptation issue). There was minimal character development, but the characters served their purposes, and none of them were annoying or unpleasant. Some of the character dynamics were a little corny at times, but these instances were short-lived. In terms of sci-fi stuff, there is a decent helping of cool technology in here, although nothing particularly unique.

My overall rating: 7/10
I found this movie immersive and consistently entertaining. It sounded great and looked good. It was competently directed and didn't have any major flaws. It was a good cinematic experience. Manga readers probably feel differently, but I think this movie did a good job of depicting a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting.

If you have a surround-sound setup then I'd recommend using it if you decide to watch this (or at least a decent pair of headphones).

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Jul 31, 2023

The_Collector01

Mixed Feelings

It's a good movie, but considering how much I was looking forward to watch it, it was a very underwhelming experience.
The main reason why I wanted to watch it was because of the concept. The idea of a city growing infinitely and the characters having to stop its growth was something I had never seen tried in anything and I'm always a fan of giving a crazy idea a chance. I had also heard that the Blame! manga was one of the best, if the best manga ever made, so I really watched this movie expecting something memorable.
Then I watched and my ...

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Mar 11, 2024

a_banana

Not Recommended

Blame! is a movie that looks very promising but completely fails to deliver anything. Almost everything about the movie is lackluster. The characters are very forgettable and boringly one dimensional. Everyone's personality could be summed up in zero to five words. The story crawled at a snail's pace except for three or four moments- only one of which actually felt like an important moment. There's very little to no build up so everything is completely unexpected in the worst way possible.

And the writing and world building... Hoo... It's just downright bad. When you jump into the movie, you have this feeling that there's a ...

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