Blame!

Doing my annual re-read of Blame! and though of something. After Killy is incinerated, his repair process begins but it seems abnormally slow compared to how quickly he has been able to repair himself before. We see a timer in one of the pages and I think it's safe to assume that it counts Hours:Minutes:Seconds and one hundredth of a second. Going by this interpretation we can see that Killy has been sitting still there for at least 27 years. It was shown that Killy has the ability to turn on a "standby" mode of sorts but that required him to manually use a device against the side of his temple which he probably wasn't able to do since he was burned to a crisp and had been pupating? the entire duration of his repair process.

My point is this. Killy was probably conscious whilst he was being repaired and was stuck motionless for three decades and it's heavily Implied that Killy still has a human mind which makes his outburst afterwards a lot more meaningful. Killy loves shooting his gun and wasn't able to do that for decades. I'm sure that Killy fires his gun offscreen a bunch of times just to blow shit up, I would.

And that experience is probably what led Killy to help out "Mori" who was in a similar position, fuck I love Blame.

>for at least 27 years
Count better.
But, yes.

I know it says 127460 hours, but the line under that is cut off and I don't see the point of having the same number repeat like that. But the above number might've been cut off too. I don't have a physical copy to check and I'm only aware of one scan.

The scale of stuff in BLAME is just on a whole other level. Both in terms in space and time.
It's almost at the level of cosmic horror.

Oh definitely.

>the line under that is cut off
What are you talking about? That static in the bottom left?

>I don't see the point of having the same number repeat like that
There's no reason for it to say "progressing" more than once, either.

If you look closely enough, it becomes clear that the lines of numbers are all exact copies. As in, cut and pasted on the manuscript. There's just no deeper meaning to it.

It's what I like about Blame, the world that the series is set in is amazing.

>It's almost at the level of cosmic horror
For some of us, it is. I developed panic disorder in reading Blame for the first time. I still love the manga, but it all becomes terribly horrifying if you think about any of it too deeply.

I read this once years ago and really liked it but I didn't understand the story can someone explain it to me.