Blame!, the story of a guy with a fancy gun wandering the wastes of a dystopian sci-fi future, is my favourite manga of all time. So it’s exciting to see Tsutomu Nihei’s tale finally get the movie treatment it’s long deserved.
Having been teased as a TV commercial inside the world of the anime adaptation of another of Nihei’s works, Knights of Sidonia, Blame! now has a trailer and full announcement of its own.
Looks like the action is going to focus on a particular section of the manga, when our hero Killy comes across a colony of humans trying to survive in a world where monsters and machines (or a combination of the two) are the more common inhabitants.
What made Blame!’s manga so cool was the size of its world, and the way Nihei’s stark black and white art made it all come to life with a terrifying sense of overwhelming scale. It’s set in the distant future, where after thousands of years of construction and technological advancement the Earth has grown so large that it’s now basically a giant building, one so big nobody knows where it begins or ends.
Killy travels across this world — now almost deserted and in decay — like Clint Eastwood in a Spaghetti Western, letting his gun do most of the talking as he encounters mutants, cyborgs and everything in between.
Nimei will be serving as “creative consultant” on the project, while Polygon Pictures and Hiroyuki Seshita (both from Knights of Sidonia) will be animating and directing respectively.
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2 responses to “Blame!, My Favourite Manga, Is Getting A Movie”
I’m kind of curious to know why it’s called Blame! when the katakana says Blam!
That’s great. My favourite manga too, in fact one of the only I picked up and could not put down until I’d finished.
looks awesome – if I wanted to get started reading would you make any recommendations where to start?
At the beginning really. It’s a sprawling epic at 10 volumes but each story arc builds upon the previous and the escalation of scale is only really appreciable if you progress through from the beginning.
So keen for this. The first Manga I ever bought the entire series for and still my favourite. There have been some fan-made animations floating around on youtube for years but it will be great to see something with more substance that will support Nihei and hopefully bolster support for future adaptations of his other works.
An OVA of ABARA or a full series of Biomega would be awesome to see.