This six page story is entirely unrelated to anything you might assume from the cover image, but nonetheless manages to convey to the reader a significant feeling for the world depicted. The art is a little unrefined, but Nihei's style still shines, or rather it flickers ominously, casting fear and shadow into your heart. As the story's so brief it's easy to recommend, you certainly can't waist much time, and you're at least guaranteed six pages of art by Tsutomu Nihei.

Allow me to give you the quick-and-dirty of this manga.

10 chapters in total. 2 chapters are cannon sequels to the original BLAME! manga series. #6 'Netsphere Engineer' & #8 'BLAME!²' are those two cannon sequels.

Everything else is a mix of parody, dark (often body horror) short-story, or something else entirely.

5/10 for the whole thing. 10/10 for the 2 BLAME! sequel chapters.

If all you care about is BLAME! and cannonically-relevant material to the manga, check out the two chapters listed above. If you're a die-hard fan of Nihei's work, well obviously the entire thing is worth it. If you don't fall into either of these two camps, this manga is mostly a 15 minute time sink (yes, you can burn through it that fast) that probably won't do anything for you.

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