Blame! Is unlike any manga you'll ever read. It's gritty, dark world is quite possibly the worst ever conceived. There are more deaths in this manga than there are words spoken. Which is yet another unique thing about this manga. Dialogue is rare and, as the saying goes, the art says a thousands words. It immerses you into this grimey void of mechanical nightmares where time and space are just a suggestion, and the world is designed haphazardly to the point where stairs and doors will lead to nowhere.
Huge bio-mechanical monsters terrorise the claustrophobic sea of grey metal and concrete that make up the world of Blame!. However this can lead to the art being very messy and disorienting, which is more of an issue with this type of genre of "Mechanical nightmare dystopia" in general. However the sheer amount of effort in the very well-drawn, if albeit visually noisy, world and characters is staggering.
Rating: 8
