Blame! Prologue

This is going to be a very short review for an anime that takes a little over 6 minutes to complete.

There isn't much of a story unless you were an avid reader of the Blame! manga. Several enemies appear, Killy destroys them, Killy continues with wandering the giant cityscape. End of story.

Now a good art design, this has in droves. This OVA was created by the same people who did Appleseed (04) and Vexille, so of course there's a high level of detail in the backgrounds. The city looks great, and it keeps that grungy, almost decayed look of the manga perfectly. The ... characters look more like action figures or robots more than anything else, but considering the fact that most of them are Silicon Beings, it sort of fits.

The sound was decent, but considering that all there was to hear was eerie noises and gunshots, that's not saying much.

If Cibo had shown up, there might have been some dialogue, but with Killy, its always shoot first, ask questions never. He's as silent as ever, and neither he, nor any of the enemies he runs into (including a brief moment when Sanakan appears) say a word. Its fine though, because you don't really need a whole lot of talking to understand this.

If you're a fan of Blame!, you can't really go wrong checking this out. If you're not, it's only 6 minutes out of your day and it's very pretty to look at.

Unfortunately unlike the original, prologue does not have any kind of story or idea to convey. It is just couple of battles and nothing more. May be it is only of interest to those who read manga, but I haven't yet.

Atmosphere wise it does convey broadly the same feel as the original.

Animation is early CGI and looks relatively good for the show that old. However nowadays it can only be of interest for historical reasons, to see early stages of CGI development.

Overall other than for looking at early CGI or very heavy interest in technogenic future, there is no particular reason to watch it.

The environments of this adaptation looked quite good, if not grainy and iffy here and there and the character models definitely look like PS2 ones. The music is just about non existent and the only plus I can give this is accuracy to source material. It feels like they actually took the time to analyze the panels from the manga to give what the fights would look like in motion, even if the quality is very poor, it gives you a feel of what maybe an adaptation would look like in its very early stages. Meh not recommended, even having read the manga.