BLAME! Chapter 66 Discussion

Jun 6, 2010 5:40 PM

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THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.
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The chapters went so fast. The art was phenomenal and so was the cinematic detail. Deserves and reread.
7-8/10 ☺

Nov 14, 2010 11:52 AM

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I loved the art very much. Although the story was hard to understand in the beginning, it slowly made sense after reading more chapters. I'd like to reread this again later on. 8-9/10

Feb 10, 2011 12:21 AM

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Fuuuuuuuck! I want to buy all 10 volumes, but there is no place that still have them in stock >.<

Feb 20, 2011 10:26 AM

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same, hoping to find a seller on ebay though

Sep 23, 2011 1:46 PM

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Hm chapter sixty six actually exist for the Post log of volume 1... My final thoughts of this series is that It took lots of patience to understand what was happening and all the characters were always changing.. The art and the vast Drawings were really cool..

Behold of my awesomeness~
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But my feels.

Jul 14, 2013 8:18 AM

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Okay, so what happened? I didn't realize that chapter 66 was the last chapter so I've been waiting to come back to this manga since like probably November so... yeah. Did he just drown? With the ball? I just... I need to reread this manga!! >.< Also... is this manga supposed to be like totally metaphorical because I wonder if it's about pregnancy. Like, maybe Cibo had one of those online babies where someone orders for an egg or sperm and then Cibo got pregnant. But in the end the baby had a miscarriage or something? Ugh.. I have no idea. -__-

Jul 19, 2013 6:09 AM

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The embryo (sphere) was conceived between Cibo and Sanakan. In the ending Killy manages to reach the surface, and the embryo "activates" in the uncontaminated water. In the last page we see Killy with the girl born from the sphere (which has the Net Terminal Genes that he has been searching the whole manga for), escorting her to connect to the NetSphere. We know he succeeds from BLAME!² and NetSphere Engineer.

Wind_FalconJul 26, 2013 6:13 PM

Sep 23, 2013 5:46 AM

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The concept and visual of this manga were amazing, but it was way too repetitive at times and could have been compressed to 40 chapters or so.

"Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii

There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov

Mar 21, 2014 8:28 PM

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Really loved the art, definitely going to order these on amazon one day though some of them are a little pricey.

Apr 20, 2014 8:26 AM

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Well well that, if anything was a self interpretative ending.

10/10

May 2, 2014 1:36 PM

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A wonderfully surreal work of art. Loved the complex story that at times is pretty much impossible to follow yet manages to remain interesting. A very fun read.

May 31, 2014 10:18 AM

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I had no idea what was going on in this at times, but the world and concept were interesting enough to carry it for me. Cool manga.

Jul 6, 2014 9:48 AM

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I really didn't understand this end. And many times I found the plot confusing. I'll probably re-read it if I can find the manga to buy. In any case the artwork is really amazing and I loved it.

"Me ni wa me wo, ha ni wa ha wo, aku ni wa aku wo."

Jul 16, 2014 3:48 PM

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Aota said:
I had no idea what was going on in this at times, but the world and concept were interesting enough to carry it for me. Cool manga.

My thoughts exactly, 8/10.

Oct 19, 2014 11:00 PM

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I really like how inventive the setting was along with the way it adapted the main character and in general mechanics of this series. 8/10. Great artwork. Hoping for a full TV series adaptation in the future that gets a similar Sidonia treatment.

Oct 30, 2014 5:34 AM

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I enjoyed this manga.I did find it very absorbing and the artwork was impressive.

Nov 12, 2014 11:01 PM

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comic book masterpiece

Dec 20, 2014 3:08 PM

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Can someone PLEASE explain a few things to me...!? This manga is so awaesome but REALLY confusing.

1. Is Cibo dead?? Is yes who killed her/or how she died, if no where is she now, she is such an awesome character!

2. I assume that i read that Cibo got pregnant? who's baby was that?

3. Who was that little Dark Haired girl that talked to that giant?

4. Did killy drown in the end?

5. Did Dhomochevsky get killed? if so by who?, or did he disappear?

6. Is Hanakan actually a bad or a good person i dont get it? Why is she trying to protect Cibo?!?! O.o

Someone please answer!

Dec 21, 2014 7:28 AM

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harkega said:
Can someone PLEASE explain a few things to me...!? This manga is so awesome but REALLY confusing.

Someone please answer!

As someone who read BLAME! years ago, I'll try my best to answer your questions.

1) Yes. She died in the fight against the exterminator. 2) Sanakan *probably* introduced some of Seu's genes into her. 3) I think it is the manifestation of the personality stored in the Mori pendant. 4) Read the last chapter again. 5) Yes. The lvl9 Safeguard killed him. 6) The Safeguard one is bad. The real one is good. Simple as that. As for your other question: She was mainly trying to protect the Net-terminal genes inside Cibo's core.

VeldarthDec 21, 2014 7:31 AM

Dec 23, 2014 11:28 AM

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I've already given answers to similar questions in my previous post in the thread, and I'll try to answer your ones as well, but I too haven't read the manga in many years.

I don't exactly understand the distinction you make between "human or some gene clone". We've seen the girl from the embryo in exactly one panel, head to tow in a suit and gas mask. As far as I can tell she looks human, though I guess it would be cool if this is in a way Cibo's final transformation, got to say I hadn't thought about that. Either way is possible, but I think if it was some sort of clone, Nihei would have indicated it in some way. So I'm leaning towards "ordinary" human.

My memory is muddy here, I remember the embryo being "conceived" between Cibo and Sanakan, though I may be forgetting some previous detail, like what Veldarth mentioned about Seu. Either way, in a future so far off from our understanding of time, world so alien, and technology so advanced (and rarely explained), I think this little detail isn't that unbelievable in the context of the story. Almost everything in BLAME! is a mind fuck subversion, this as well.

Again, "human" is a really murky term in the world of BLAME! Whatever her original form and her transformations actually were (and these are details that another read to refresh one's memory would probably illuminate) it won't make any real difference regarding the story or her character. I'm guessing her transformations are some sort of synthetic bodies, though with the time travel shenanigans, maybe one of her versions we see later could be her original body from a different time line or something.

The water at the end signals that Killy has actually reached the edge of the Megastructure, yes.

The girl from the embryo carries the Net Terminal Genes Killy has been searching the whole manga for, and that's the purpose she was "created" for.

Wind_FalconDec 24, 2014 12:49 PM

Apr 13, 2015 6:28 AM

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10/10 !!!!!

Apr 17, 2015 1:14 AM

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That was quite the ride. I haven't read a series like this before. So little dialogue so much beautiful artwork. Character designs weren't the best but the background and all the non human characters were mindblowingly amazingly drawn!

8/10

Jun 9, 2015 1:03 PM

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Because of everyone rating this manga so high it makes me think I overlooked some things. Or the whole manga -.-

Aug 30, 2015 8:19 AM

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I didn't like the ending, as I'd preferred more answers about the world and characters. But it was fitting. I loved the last few chapters actually, as they had no massive conclusion, but just continued with the world exploration. I'd also preferred more of this instead of all the action.
At times I hated the art, as I had no idea what was going on on some panels.
It was a good read overall and I loved the world.
Silicons need to die.

FiflyAnimeLover said:
is this manga supposed to be like totally metaphorical because I wonder if it's about pregnancy. Like, maybe Cibo had one of those online babies where someone orders for an egg or sperm and then Cibo got pregnant. But in the end the baby had a miscarriage or something? Ugh.. I have no idea. -__-

It's hard to come up with something more stupid, wow

Dec 20, 2016 10:23 PM

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I read blame 4 years ago and nothing in manga has come close to it. 11/10. I can try giving my take on some questions, they're old but maybe that'll help some other readers who are confused.

GGEasy said:

Veldarth said:

As someone who read BLAME! years ago, I'll try my best to answer your questions.

1) Yes. She died in the fight against the exterminator. 2) Sanakan *probably* introduced some of Seu's genes into her. 3) I think it is the manifestation of the personality stored in the Mori pendant. 4) Read the last chapter again. 5) Yes. The lvl9 Safeguard killed him. 6) The Safeguard one is bad. The real one is good. Simple as that. As for your other question: She was mainly trying to protect the Net-terminal genes inside Cibo's core.

Well fuck, so almost everyone died at the end... Would of loved if Cibo survived but overall very good manga, it reminds me of Texhnolyze allot, VERY similar ending and theme.

So the sphere Cibo had, it grew into a real human or some kind of clone?, i read the last chapter again and Killy was alive and kicking some ass with the kid standing behind him. So was it human or some gene clone?

So it was actually Seu's and Cibo's genese combined, that maybe explains it because i don't think combining two women genes can create that so that should conclude that it didn't belong to Sanakan. But it still bugs me because she said this in this page:
http://www.mangahere.co/manga/blame/c063/21.html

I just need to know, cibo had like 4 different body changes, was she actually a real HUMAN in any of them or did she get killed in that Lab accident and recreated into some kind of robot.

That lake where Killy fell in, that was outside the giant underground city?

Was that kid created so humanity can start to reproduce? If so is that kid gonna be the host for the next ''sphere containing genes''. And whos genes are they gonna put because i think everyone was wiped out at the end. no?

I was thinking about rereading, but it took me some time to finish it so im not motivated, at-least not now... so if you know please answer these questions too, and in simple words if you could o.O. ty

The most recurring subject about blame is the sphere. It is in fact the most important part of the plot because the sphere is the thing Killy has been searching this whole time. Even if what comes before is important for some general information on Killy's mission, what's really important in the manga starts when Killy and Cibo reach Toha Heavy Industries. My take on the sphere and everything connected to it is this :

killy and cibo recieve seu's genetic information from the toha industries AI. Seu's genetic information doesn't necessarily have net terminal genes but what we know is that he's from an ancient race of humans that is not that affected by the mutation/time because they were locked inside Toha Industries.

Next in the story, killy and cibo reach a level where they meet domochevski and his little buddy (I forgot his name). It is a very special level. Domochevski tells killy and cibo that in this level any human gene that resembles pure genes, that hasn't mutated too much, is able to get access to the netsphere for a "restricted connexion". But domo explains that even if you have restrictions, you can extract plenty of data from the netsphere from that connexion. Domo and his friend are safeguards, the safeguards are a software which purpose is to protect those connecting to the netsphere with authorization from those trying to connect without authorization. That means, in most levels of the city, all humans without the pure genes, and all other creatures, like silicon life. On any other level, Domo would attack all humans without the net terminal gene. But, because this level is different, Domo doesn't shoot all humans, because there's a chance they have authorization to connect. There is also the fact that they have to prevent silicon life from accessing the netsphere, so their main mission is to protect humans or genetic information that could make a connection possible.

So, the silicon life on domo's level manage to steal seu's genetic information from cibo, and they try to connect to the net sphere using that genetic information. Devinelulinvega, who seems to be the main guy of the silicon life on this level, does the "restricted" connexion. When he's connecting, in the netsphere dimension when you see him crossing the river, he is actually Seu, blond hair human guy, because he is using Seu's information to get authorization. Cibo by accident most probably attaches to him and his connexion and gets access to the netsphere through him. Devinel gets killed by domo right before he finishes loading the connexion. So, he dies and you see Seu sinking into the river. He reaches with his arm and you see that something happens with his hand as if he had done something significant. And then Cibo who was sort of piggybacking devinel's connexion, takes over for a very brief instant. You see Seu's facial expression is very different, as if he were a different person. And he says something like "I just wanted to see the netsphere once", and it makes sense to me that this is Cibo, because cibo was a scientist, and she had already attempted to connect to the netsphere. We see that story in the second volume. So, devinel dies right before he finishes loading the connexion, but he manages to steal the data of a level 9 safeguard (I think the arm reaching I was talking about is that), and Cibo, who was also using that connexion, becomes the recipient for that data. Thing is, Cibo also had a very peculiar "relationship" with another safeguard, sanakan. They switched bodies at one point. And sanakan's data is probably still lingering somewhere inside Cibo. So we get, Cibo + Sanakan + Seu's genetic information (that contains or doesn't contain the net terminal gene) + Davinel + level 9 safeguard data = Level 9 safeguard Cibo + Sphere containing the child of sanakan and cibo who has net terminal gene.

The level 9 Cibo is incredibly powerful and it tries to protect its egg. When the silicon creature shoots safeguard Cibo, she retaliates and destroys everything. Then it becomes this very weak and vulnerable creature. Sanakan is sent back, to protect Cibo and the sphere, and she seems motivated by a mixture of motherly love, some kind of feelings for Cibo, and her mission. I think the difference in sanakan before and after the sphere is that before she is a mindless safeguard, like all the other robots, and after she talks and thinks and feels (I think). Sanakan after having been just a robot, generated by the out of control safeguard software, is now kind of like Killy. We know Killy is a kind of precursor to the safeguard, we learn that from the governing agency, and Killy works for them even if he seems to have forgotten that. If before she was generated by the safeguard, she is now "sent" (which is different) by the governing agency. There is no good sanakan or bad sanakan, there are just two different sanakan.

We learn afterwards what the sphere is. We also learn that it needs to be brought somewhere uncontaminated to "hatch". That's what sanakan was probably trying to do before she is killed by the silicon creatures. Then after sanakan comes back one last time and kills the silicon life, she is killed by a "terminator" safeguard who wants the sphere. Killy kills the terminator, cibo and sanakan are dead but the sphere is safe. When Sanakan is killed by the silicon life, she is sent back to the netsphere dimension. She wants to go back to the real world dimension to save cibo and the sphere, and she is talking to a silhouette who represents probably the governing agency. The silhouette says something like "if you go back and die again we can't bring your data back here, and we have no idea when we will be able to bring it back". She goes back despite the warnings from the silhouette, gets killed by the terminator safeguard, and killy walks off with the spere. Then we follow a woman who seems to find herself in an abandonned dimension. This woman is Sanakan. When the terminator kills her again, she is sent to that dimension, which appears to be a sort of limbo for software like her whose data can't be brought back to the netsphere dimension. A place where there's no time and everything stands still. Surely a dimension that was once under the control of the governing agency but slipped out of their control after everything became chaos.

So the ending is Killy finally reaching the outside of the City. The enormous city, like the time between the chapter where sanakan gets killed and the chapter when he reaches the outside is probably much longer than the whole timespan of the rest of the series. The outside is uncontaminated and the sphere hatches. A child comes out who has the net terminal gene. The person/child can access the netsphere and therefore restore order, stop the builders and the expension of the city, regain control of the safeguard, maybe regain control of the limbo dimension and save sanakan's information, exterminate silicon life, end chaos and save humanity. So Killy and the child who you can see on the last panel go on another adventure to achieve all that.

All of this is my interpretation of blame! There are a few things I'm sure of but most of it is still very vague in my mind. It's what I think is happening after having read the series many times, and reading lots of forum posts and theories. For example the making of the sphere, it's many things coming together, but we don't know how these things result in the sphere, and of these things coming together which were actually important. But I honestly think Nihei (the author) himself doesn't know what's happening exactly. And I think that's what makes this manga so good too, it's the figuring out, the trying to understand what's going on, while still knowing there's no way to know exactly.

Also sorry for the writing, I tried to make this clear, not pretty, I hope it doesn't read too badly :)

antoueneMar 31, 2017 6:29 PM

Jan 28, 2017 9:24 PM

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What I like about Blame is its concepts of future, how the "netsphere" and humanity works under it, it's like multiple dimension collapsed and connected via somekind of artifical networks, reality stay true to the nature mixed up with lateral.

It is incredible that the world we live in more and more become like what Nihei envisioned.

10/10

Mar 31, 2017 10:03 PM

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That was great, but like the 90% of the people, sometimes I didn't know wth was going on lol, still you can get along and enjoy it alot

I loved the personalities and designs of Sanakan and Cibo

A very solid 9/10

May 30, 2017 1:30 PM

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well it seems everything people say about this is true. Complex structure drawings, MC with a total word count of like 100, not much to read.
But thats not necessarily great. The story was all over the place, not in a way I enjoy it. Everything was sort of OK till toha heavy industries. After that everything was "WTF? What is happening? Where is cibo, where is killy, who is this?!"
I would really like to see a full anime of this. The show could polish many things like the plot. Im glad I finally read this and I will re read it more carefully. But I was expecting something "better".
Much wasted potential imo.

"This emotion is mine alone.
It is for Madoka alone." - Homura
or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica.

Jun 14, 2017 8:35 AM

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chinookk said:

I read blame 4 years ago and nothing in manga has come close to it. 11/10. I can try giving my take on some questions, they're old but maybe that'll help some other readers who are confused.

GGEasy said:

Well fuck, so almost everyone died at the end... Would of loved if Cibo survived but overall very good manga, it reminds me of Texhnolyze allot, VERY similar ending and theme.

So the sphere Cibo had, it grew into a real human or some kind of clone?, i read the last chapter again and Killy was alive and kicking some ass with the kid standing behind him. So was it human or some gene clone?

So it was actually Seu's and Cibo's genese combined, that maybe explains it because i don't think combining two women genes can create that so that should conclude that it didn't belong to Sanakan. But it still bugs me because she said this in this page:
http://www.mangahere.co/manga/blame/c063/21.html

I just need to know, cibo had like 4 different body changes, was she actually a real HUMAN in any of them or did she get killed in that Lab accident and recreated into some kind of robot.

That lake where Killy fell in, that was outside the giant underground city?

Was that kid created so humanity can start to reproduce? If so is that kid gonna be the host for the next ''sphere containing genes''. And whos genes are they gonna put because i think everyone was wiped out at the end. no?

I was thinking about rereading, but it took me some time to finish it so im not motivated, at-least not now... so if you know please answer these questions too, and in simple words if you could o.O. ty

The most recurring subject about blame is the sphere. It is in fact the most important part of the plot because the sphere is the thing Killy has been searching this whole time. Even if what comes before is important for some general information on Killy's mission, what's really important in the manga starts when Killy and Cibo reach Toha Heavy Industries. My take on the sphere and everything connected to it is this :

killy and cibo recieve seu's genetic information from the toha industries AI. Seu's genetic information doesn't necessarily have net terminal genes but what we know is that he's from an ancient race of humans that is not that affected by the mutation/time because they were locked inside Toha Industries.

Next in the story, killy and cibo reach a level where they meet domochevski and his little buddy (I forgot his name). It is a very special level. Domochevski tells killy and cibo that in this level any human gene that resembles pure genes, that hasn't mutated too much, is able to get access to the netsphere for a "restricted connexion". But domo explains that even if you have restrictions, you can extract plenty of data from the netsphere from that connexion. Domo and his friend are safeguards, the safeguards are a software which purpose is to protect those connecting to the netsphere with authorization from those trying to connect without authorization. That means, in most levels of the city, all humans without the pure genes, and all other creatures, like silicon life. On any other level, Domo would attack all humans without the net terminal gene. But, because this level is different, Domo doesn't shoot all humans, because there's a chance they have authorization to connect. There is also the fact that they have to prevent silicon life from accessing the netsphere, so their main mission is to protect humans or genetic information that could make a connection possible.

So, the silicon life on domo's level manage to steal seu's genetic information from cibo, and they try to connect to the net sphere using that genetic information. Devinelulinvega, who seems to be the main guy of the silicon life on this level, does the "restricted" connexion. When he's connecting, in the netsphere dimension when you see him crossing the river, he is actually Seu, blond hair human guy, because he is using Seu's information to get authorization. Cibo by accident most probably attaches to him and his connexion and gets access to the netsphere through him. Devinel gets killed by domo right before he finishes loading the connexion. So, he dies and you see Seu sinking into the river. He reaches with his arm and you see that something happens with his hand as if he had done something significant. And then Cibo who was sort of piggybacking devinel's connexion, takes over for a very brief instant. You see Seu's facial expression is very different, as if he were a different person. And he says something like "I just wanted to see the netsphere once", and it makes sense to me that this is Cibo, because cibo was a scientist, and she had already attempted to connect to the netsphere. We see that story in the second volume. So, devinel dies right before he finishes loading the connexion, but he manages to steal the data of a level 9 safeguard (I think the arm reaching I was talking about is that), and Cibo, who was also using that connexion, becomes the recipient for that data. Thing is, Cibo also had a very peculiar "relationship" with another safeguard, sanakan. They switched bodies at one point. And sanakan's data is probably still lingering somewhere inside Cibo. So we get, Cibo + Sanakan + Seu's genetic information (that contains or doesn't contain the net terminal gene) + Davinel + level 9 safeguard data = Level 9 safeguard Cibo + Sphere containing the child of sanakan and cibo who has net terminal gene.

The level 9 Cibo is incredibly powerful and it tries to protect its egg. When the silicon creature shoots safeguard Cibo, she retaliates and destroys everything. Then it becomes this very weak and vulnerable creature. Sanakan is sent back, to protect Cibo and the sphere, and she seems motivated by a mixture of motherly love, some kind of feelings for Cibo, and her mission. I think the difference in sanakan before and after the sphere is that before she is a mindless safeguard, like all the other robots, and after she talks and thinks and feels (I think). Sanakan after having been just a robot, generated by the out of control safeguard software, is now kind of like Killy. We know Killy is a kind of precursor to the safeguard, we learn that from the governing agency, and Killy works for them even if he seems to have forgotten that. If before she was generated by the safeguard, she is now "sent" (which is different) by the governing agency. There is no good sanakan or bad sanakan, there are just two different sanakan.

We learn afterwards what the sphere is. We also learn that it needs to be brought somewhere uncontaminated to "hatch". That's what sanakan was probably trying to do before she is killed by the silicon creatures. Then after sanakan comes back one last time and kills the silicon life, she is killed by a "terminator" safeguard who wants the sphere. Killy kills the terminator, cibo and sanakan are dead but the sphere is safe. When Sanakan is killed by the silicon life, she is sent back to the netsphere dimension. She wants to go back to the real world dimension to save cibo and the sphere, and she is talking to a silhouette who represents probably the governing agency. The silhouette says something like "if you go back and die again we can't bring your data back here, and we have no idea when we will be able to bring it back". She goes back despite the warnings from the silhouette, gets killed by the terminator safeguard, and killy walks off with the spere. Then we follow a woman who seems to find herself in an abandonned dimension. This woman is Sanakan. When the terminator kills her again, she is sent to that dimension, which appears to be a sort of limbo for software like her whose data can't be brought back to the netsphere dimension. A place where there's no time and everything stands still. Surely a dimension that was once under the control of the governing agency but slipped out of their control after everything became chaos.

So the ending is Killy finally reaching the outside of the City. The enormous city, like the time between the chapter where sanakan gets killed and the chapter when he reaches the outside is probably much longer than the whole timespan of the rest of the series. The outside is uncontaminated and the sphere hatches. A child comes out who has the net terminal gene. The person/child can access the netsphere and therefore restore order, stop the builders and the expension of the city, regain control of the safeguard, maybe regain control of the limbo dimension and save sanakan's information, exterminate silicon life, end chaos and save humanity. So Killy and the child who you can see on the last panel go on another adventure to achieve all that.

All of this is my interpretation of blame! There are a few things I'm sure of but most of it is still very vague in my mind. It's what I think is happening after having read the series many times, and reading lots of forum posts and theories. For example the making of the sphere, it's many things coming together, but we don't know how these things result in the sphere, and of these things coming together which were actually important. But I honestly think Nihei (the author) himself doesn't know what's happening exactly. And I think that's what makes this manga so good too, it's the figuring out, the trying to understand what's going on, while still knowing there's no way to know exactly.

Also sorry for the writing, I tried to make this clear, not pretty, I hope it doesn't read too badly :)

no, its pretty clear. After re-reading it a couple of times i agree with everyting you said. One of the best and most unique manga i have ever read! 10/10

Mar 3, 2019 1:39 PM

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I took my sweet time reading Blame! and following the discussion forum to fully understand and enjoy the manga. Was definitely worth it. Overall, Blame! was good. Nihei could have omitted like 10 chapters that weren't necessary to the story progression. I really liked Killy and Cibo's characters. Especially Cibo. At times there were panels that were a bit incomprehensible at first and I'd get confused about what was going on, but since I took my time, I was able to fully grasp and enjoy the story. I love Nihei's style of "show, don't tell". It works for him and I genuinely love his art style.
I rated Nihei's other work, Biomega an 8.7/10. I read that right before reading Blame! I think I enjoyed Biomega a bit more, so I'll have to give Blame! an 8.6/10. A high 8, low 9. I'll round up and rate it a 9 on here. Next I gotta read Nihei's other short works that tie in with Blame! such as Blame! Gakuen and NOiSE. I'm saving Knights of Sidonia for last so I can also watch the anime as I read the manga.

zomikMar 3, 2019 1:59 PM

Jun 18, 2019 10:00 AM

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It's a recap of the previous chapter. Either that or the site is bad. I liked more Blame upon re-read because I understood what had happened at the end (Him obtaining the net genes and rescuing the egg).

7/10

Sep 1, 2019 12:40 PM

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Jun 2019

45

amazing manga....really enjoyed...some parts were weird/not really needed in the story...but nice ending as well....the ending could have been expanded a bit more, were they succeeded in controlling the builders and safeguards with the child born from the orb who has the net terminal gene.
9/10

Oct 18, 2019 11:18 PM

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SafeguardSanakan

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5

Definitely not an easy manga to get into, but I was a fan. Loved the art style, the technopocalypse world, and the scale of it. The artist really makes the city itself feel like a huge, overbearing threat since you never see the outside until the very end.

Definitely going to have to reread it, I already had to reread the first ~7 chapters to comprehend what the hell was going on. Fortunately, the ending was pretty self explanatory - and aided by the 1-chapter sequels Net Sphere Engineer & BLAME!2.

Ending Spoilers (don't click unless you want spoilers, obviously):

Overall BLAME! gets a thumbs-up from me. I'd recommend for older audiences due to the abstractness of the storytelling. The entire arc with the Toha Heavy Industries was a loss for me, I'll have to re-read it.

SafeguardSanakanDec 18, 2019 12:17 AM

Dec 8, 2019 10:33 PM

#34

SomaHeir

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3344

Finally finished! Blame is one of those things where you need to reread the past volumes in order to understand what's happening.

In fact, I Look back when the girl protecting Level 9 Cibo was revealed to be Sanakan. Honestly I didn't expected her since the story seems to move quickly and I thought she was just a new character.

If you read back some of the volumes. You would notice the Administration were already eyeing on Killy at the first few volumes. The Downward cross symbol and all.

I like some of the theories here. I think Mori is indeed Sanakan or at least some of her memories and genes intact. Cibo and Sanakan's netgene is probably what gave birth to that new "kid".

Anyways, Definitely an amazing run. I do feel that the ending was a little rush. Especially when Killy was just killing High Level Safe Guards left and right at the end.

Just hope the movies will indeed adapt the whole thing. Just do it Polygon Pictures!

Mar 4, 2020 1:30 AM

#35

Pakumen-

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1498

This manga leaves so much to the imagination that I found astonishing how high everyone rates it. I guess that's one of the reasons it is called a cult classic.

Funny enough there are so many questions that will most likely never going to be answered, since not only Blame 2 does not explain anything, but the extensive FAQ/Monologue that Nihei put in the artbook barely says something. It feels more like bare theories.

6/10. Great art and interesting world with a very bland story and repetitive "arcs". I doubt this will work well as an anime, but maybe we get a decent adaptation someday.

Mar 25, 2020 8:09 PM

#36

t0prak

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1169

Didn't like it all sorry about that 3/10

May 15, 2020 5:14 AM

#37

BlufaceBaby

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1110

legend says killy is still shooting his beam till this very day

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Jan 30, 2021 5:41 PM

#38

0Nanashi1

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Apr 2019

99

Art, visual storytelling and creative direction were nothing short of phenomenal, like someone said above, even though at times the story was almost impossible to follow it still managed to keep me interested. What. a. manga, I'm gonna be thinking about and back to this for a while yet.

9/10

"𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜... 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮... 𝙟𝙤𝙮... 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣... 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚. 𝙋𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧... 𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚."

Feb 3, 2021 1:24 AM

#39

TitanInsane

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May 2020

1885

Overall. a very hard read but I'd say it's worth it. The art is phenomenal but it gets incredibly confusing during action scenes. Pretty hard to get invested when the enemies can be one-shoted every single time. The story is actually very simple but the way it's written and shown is what makes it great.

I'd give this a 7/10. I wanted to give this an 8 but it just doesn't hit the right notes for me, especially towards the end.

May 6, 2021 11:34 AM

#40

PumaZ3TA

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I hate stories where you are supposed to re-read the whole thing again to be able to understand what is happening. Despite the beautiful art, this was a confusing manga to the least.
Maybe I ain’t smart enough to understand what Nihei was trying to tell, but I really think the author over complicated this whole thing for no particular gain.
I actually like when the explanation of a story comes up just at the end, and I really hoped Blame would move in that direction, but until the very end I was just clueless and the ending proved to be just as confusing as the rest of the story.
I have no doubts Nihei aimed to go deep, but in my opinion he went too deep and away from the reach of a common reader.
Once again, the art incredible, almost every page is a masterpiece and I really enjoyed those beautiful panels. But a great art doesn’t make a great manga, and the ideas behind Blame, how mindblowing they might be, where maybe just too mind blowing for me.
I wish I’d liked it more, but I won’t read it again. I’d give it a 5, but give it a 6 just for the art.

PumaZ3TAMay 6, 2021 11:50 AM

Jul 16, 2021 10:16 AM

#41

LordSozin

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4479

The art decreased so much towards the end. And I couldn't grasp the overall theme of the manga and what's even the plot?!

Fucking hell, 4/10. It was pretty decent in the beginning. Overall, waste of my time.

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Nov 3, 2021 12:03 AM

#42

Ooggle

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Apr 2018

14

Well, this manga is something, for sure. I really loved the scenery and characters. Even if I didn't understood quite everything perfectly and will probably need to give it a second shot, it's definitely something that I would recommend to read!

Aug 14, 2022 5:28 PM

#43

Juanpvcool

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Jul 2022

2

what? I didn't understand.

Aug 22, 2022 8:27 AM

#44

Ashhk

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Still stays complex regarding the story for the ending but that's what makes it phenomenal along with the art style, it just makes the whole world building even more mysterious, I don't really know how to describe it but this is clearly the best sci-fi/cyberpunk world-building I've seen.

Sep 4, 2022 4:32 PM

#45

Dishe

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5

The journey was completed, well the first part of it at least. Overall it felt pointless and full of fluff for the most part. GBE was pretty cool though.

5/10

Oct 21, 2022 1:10 AM

#46

-Xenophon-

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May 2021

684

Overall, it was a weak manga. Repetitive plot, dubious plot armor, we dont know too much about the origins or intentions of the races represented, some secondary plots were left unresolved and the ending was odd, less than mediocre manga and I will not read more Nihei's material just to understand more from a manga I didn't like, 3/10.

Nov 2, 2022 4:04 AM

#47

jekil1993

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GGEasy said:
Can someone PLEASE explain a few things to me...!? This manga is so awaesome but REALLY confusing.

1. Is Cibo dead?? Is yes who killed her/or how she died, if no where is she now, she is such an awesome character!

2. I assume that i read that Cibo got pregnant? who's baby was that?

3. Who was that little Dark Haired girl that talked to that giant?

4. Did killy drown in the end?

5. Did Dhomochevsky get killed? if so by who?, or did he disappear?

6. Is Hanakan actually a bad or a good person i dont get it? Why is she trying to protect Cibo?!?! O.o

Someone please answer!

cibo got pregnat wit hanakasan baby,
killi didnt drown i survive and also de baby. i belive the baby is the litle girl at the star of chapter 1
is trainem to bring the girl to the terminal to coneter to the netesfire.

Nov 12, 2022 3:57 AM

#48

KitsuFrost

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Aug 2020

7664

I almost had a MIGRAINE after reading this mess.

Nothing made any sense, and we never know why the characters behave the way they do. So many random and out-of-nowhere explosions that almost made me think I was watching a Michael Bay movie.

Overall, this (unfortunately) was a torture to read. Straight up illegible and pointless.

2/10

KitsuFrostNov 15, 2022 8:10 AM

Dec 24, 2022 1:51 PM

#49

_mattsongz

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Mar 2018

311

Finished it again and I can finally say that I understood this manga and it's grown on me even more.

Feb 19, 2023 3:55 PM

#50

povsuduvolosy

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550

Aaaaand the bad choice award goes tooooo Cibo, id say.
Anyway, grear bourgeois novel of teenage Sherlock Gunner dead set to bring us humans our old swamp back from corporate state ownership because levels of freedom and everything. So beautiful every page is masterpiece. Never gonna login into smart house with my genes dammin. Disregard that, face login seem to be as bad idea as this one. As for me.

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