Blame Academy! And so on

Blame! [ブラム!]

by Tsutomu Nihei

I personaggi di BLAME! rivisitati in chiave comica da un Nihei che si diverte a giocare e sperimentare. Una raccolta di episodi brevi, tutti splendidamente a colori, che mostrano Killy e Cibo in versione scolastica e tanto altro ancora. A completare il volume, racconti sulla Megastruttura e i suoi abitanti, e altre chicche per gli appassionati dell’autore e del suo universo narrativo. Un volume da leggere per conoscere un lato inedito della mente di Nihei!

Genres: Manga, Comics, Science Fiction, Horror, Cyberpunk, Graphic Novels, Fiction

168 pages, Paperback

Published October 23, 2015

About the author

See also 弐瓶 勉.

Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.

At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.

Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_...

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 3 out of 5]

This anthology of ten full-color short tales revisiting Tsutomu Nihei's characters from Blame series in alternative hard sci-fi/horror/school-life parody settings is just as not good as the original manga that inspired them, but a few are excellent ones and the 8th is an amazing coda to Nihei's claustrophobic, dark and iconic manga.



A good alternative/completitionist read if you loved Blame, but that's all.

[Gisso · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nihei nos presenta once historias cortas diversas donde nos introduce en su imaginario con su particular forma de colorear. Desde las tres historias de "Escuela Blame!" dando un toque de humor absurdo y fanservice; pasando por historias sueltas chocantes como pueden ser "ZEB-NOID", "Bomba" o "El Dios del Pantano"; o que tienen que ver directamente con el univero Blame! como "Ingeniero de la Netsphere" o "Blame!2"; acabando con par de historias en las que hace referencia tanto a Blame! como Sidonia. Entretenidas, extrañas, espeluznantes, agobiantes y a todo color con el sello inconfundible de Nihei.

[Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its good to jump back into Tsutomu Nihei's works. I love his art style and his storylines.
Some of the stories in this... they were questionable in a way where I was like "what is going on and how much drugz was this man on to think of some of em" 🤣🤣.

Ofc the Blame! Academy stories were awesome. Who wouldn't love seeing Killy as a school boy?😭😭😭

Story 6: Netsphere Engineer
I'm going to assume that this happens before the Blame! story but after the Noise prequel.
WHITE HAIR KILLY CLONE CONFIRMED!!! IM SHOOK! And there's also a girl that he saved that looked a lot like Cibo! they always find each other in different lives 🥳🤭🤭🤭

Story 7: Pump
EWWW WHAT?? disturbing. where and when did bro think of this story.

Story 8: Blame! 8th generation Pcell's Megastructure Escape
Pcell. Emo baddie. We meet again. This time mannyyyy years have passed since we last saw her (she now has short white hair). GUYS... KILLY HAS A REMEMBERED NAME BY ALL. THEY CALL HIM "KILLY THE CALAMITY"!
Pcell gets shot by humans and passed out for 47 years😨🤯 . She wakes and tries to escape THE ENTIRE CITY. AND HERE HERE I THOUGHT IT WAS ENDLESS. She barely makes out and guess who shows. KILLY MY HUSBAND. HE HASN'T AGED A DAYYYYY! She makes it out of the city!!!
You have to see the panel of the city yourself to understand the awesomeness of it.

I loved the stories of the characters I knew, and found the weird ones.. well... weird

[Artur Coelho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Histórias curtas, passadas no universo Blame!, que mergulham os personagens no estranho e caótico mundo da série. Que sempre achei algo incompreensível, mas sedutora, com a sua omnipresença de opressivas arquiteturas infindas, o visual mega urbano sempre foi algo que desperta o olhar em Blame!. As histórias divergem deste sentido, algumas são profundamente surreais, outras, variantes do género de mangá liceal.

[George · Rating 3 out of 5]

A moe school story involving the characters of Blame!? Some other quick stories based in the Blame! universe. A quick Knights of Sodonia tale and some random dystopian Sci-fi.
The moe stories are very weird and honestly not very good, but I think that's the point. The other tales are more along the lines you'd expect.

[T O'Brien · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really just in it for the one shot sequel for Blame!, but a couple of the other short pieces were cool. It's more just a fun collection of Nihei's one shots, nothing to serious or super enthralling, but still fun.

[Ed Blake · Rating 5 out of 5]

it's amazing that something that was so claustrophobic is now verdant and fecund.

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 3 out of 5]

The “Blame!” Series is pretty good, lots of cool action and interesting art but can’t give a 5⭐️because it lacks in the story👍😁❤️

[Sol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Huh

[Corbin · Rating 3 out of 5]

wut

[VIncent Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

midway

Lovely that you can see the midway between blame and knights if sidonia in this little gem of randomness! Absolutely loved it

[Petr · Rating 3 out of 5]

ENG/CZ

Ok, this shows how I am not a total manga fan - this one contains short stories related to, in some way, Blame! However, few of the stories are just crazy highschool versions of Blame! playing with classical clichés. It is funny, but certainly not something I would expect from the series. Nevertheless, the few stories that do not follow this wicked path are again building up the universe and show us different aspects of the world which we did not encounter in the main series. Worth a read.

Už jsem se s tím setkal v jiných případech, že se z manga či anime série udělá i speciál, který je hodně zběsilý. Zde je to v podobě postav z Blame! v klasických klišovitých středoškolských situacích z mangy. Zároveň se však ostatní povídky v Gakuen drží původní atmosféry a světa Blame! a umně jej rozšiřují o nové náznaky. Když vám to přijde pod ruku, potom stojí za prolétnutí.

[Strangerealms · Rating 5 out of 5]

Glénat, who have published most of Tsutomu Nihei's mangas in French, had decided to treat us with this. A little gift for the fans. Nihei's drawings are beautiful as usual, but this time they're in full color. And Glénat has published it in full glazed paper so it's luscious.

[masaki komagata · Rating 4 out of 5]

カオス短編集。

「ポンプ」は全男性涙目。

[Zachary · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's a character with a ray-gun that, when fired, makes women's clothes fall off.