Blame! author establishes new company to create games etc

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Blame! game finally?

Or is Nihei already beyond any redemption

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as much as i love blame! i think we're far more likely to get a sidonia or aposimz game, because they're far more narrative driven and easier to pin down in terms of mechanics

The first thing they make is going to be called The Blame Game. A 700 hour walking simulator

Oh boy more barely comprehensible nonsense, this time made by an architectural student instead of a failed movie director.

maybe he will make a NSE game.
god, i hope so.

Sci-Fi Dark Souls set in a megastructure would be 10/10 but it will probably be something mediocre that lets everyone down

The best game directors were always artists

>polygon pictures
Stopped reading there.
Nihei needs to separate himself from those people before they drag him further down the hole.

Sidonia game would be pretty cool.

Sidonia or a BLAME game would be cool but Fucking shit Nihei chose the wrong people to make it.

You need a physical body to access the netsphere right? So where are the bodies of all the people currently in there? Wouldn't that be an easier way of getting net terminal genes

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>Dark Souls
Fuck off.

oh god
nihei please
redeem yourself
make this good

Better.

Blame game would be only one that would truly spark genuine interest in people. No one will remember aposimz or kos. Blame will always be the grand jewel of Nihei's works but he seems determined to nerf even that to his new lower standards. I literally felt butthurt seeing Blame! gals like this. No. Just no.

Also butthurt the movie re-designed characters. Killy isn't robotic turboautist edgelord like he was in the movie. Wish I'd seen the hobo version of the first volume.

I don't care what it is I'll buy at least one copy just as a show of faith in the company.

cute

D-d-ded? There haven't been people that are able to access the net in 3000+ years so no living bodies with the genes.

So you're saying there's a chance we'll get to play the blame game?

Psh...nothin personel, kids.

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There will be two romance routes. Fucking a hundred foot tall alien or genderbending to fuck the best girl

whoa... is blame! the... Dark Souls: Prepare to Die™ Edition of manga???

Biomega? Nah. Too generic

>Spawn kill
Reminds me of Halo 3.

>takes place after the event of the manga
>a giant escort mission to get the terminal gene kid to an access point

but Nihei is trash now...

strange i bought all blame volumes last week

Oh hey it's that Pewdiepie manga

>kid walks faster than you, but runs slower

3000+ years is an understatement
it took killy over 10 thousand years of walking to reach the end and iirc they spent around 800 years in a lift traveling

I kind of like Nihei, but it's obvious that his daughter rejecting Sidonia in favor of normie shit like Attack on Titan broke him. Sidonia quickly devolved into harem garbage and had a shit ending, and he's been phoning it in really hard with Aposimz, which just feels like he's recycling all of his old concepts and turning them into a generic shonen powerlevel story. The art's really bad, too. Nihei is known for his vast environments and intricate detail, but everything in Aposimz is washed out and bland because he just colors everything gray.

>but it's obvious that his daughter rejecting Sidonia in favor of normie shit
this happened with miyazaki and kojima too I guess even great people can make normand children.

That could be dope. But man would that be hard to play. Even with GBE and superpowers Killy almost always ended up getting hurt in fights but now he has to play single daddy and protect the kid so that's zero room for error or game over.

>miyazaki
Which one, Ghibli or FROM?

Might be 10k years but no canon on that. He also teleported for a good portion of the trip, no one could just walk all that distance. The lift ride was 800 hours, not years.

Where do you guys read Aposimz? Can't seem to find chapters anywhere except Sup Forums archives

I don't know, making a game about exploring a megastructure and having to progress vertically while meeting strangers that ask you to go with them and encountering insurmountable odds you have to fight seems doable. It would just take a focused vision and not adding every little thing that made Blame! good. Take the very core concepts and build off that.
In fact I have this game I've been brainstorming and trying to design. Will see how it works.

pewdiepie

100 Killys airdrop into a labyrinth.

hey it's pewdiepies favorite anime

secret club

MUH MUH MUH MUHH GENESSSSSSSS

There already is a game about climbing a large structure with minimal plot other than you got to get to the top. It's Let It Die

This is very promising news.
I'm definitely going to be looking forward to what he has in store.
Nihei's works have always had this feeling of being influenced by game mechanics.
Now he could easily adapt one of his works into a game, but I doubt it.
It's more likely he'd be making something new.

>no one could just walk all that distance
killy could, he is literally immortal, there are speculations that killy is the original safeguard or at least the very 1st generations of them, so he lived trough a lot

ghibli, I don't think From's has a kid yet but if he did it would explain some things.

>He also teleported for a good portion of the trip, no one could just walk all that distance
Killy once climbed 3000 km of stairs. He's got all the time in the world, and he's functionally immortal.

I'd be more excited if this was Blame/Biomega Nihei, but unfortunately it's Sidonia/Aposimz Nihei, so it's pretty much guaranteed that anything that comes from this will be squandered potential.

what are the odds he will makes something worth playing? like 1 to 10 range

>Blame! author establishes new company to create games etc
I'm more interested in the etc part.
>the new company will aim to go beyond screen projects and expand into other fields, with planning for original projects in games, goods, and industrial product design underway.
>industrial product design

like 2

expect something like the kaiji vr game and no better

thats..really sad..i just watched blame! on netflix and just started knights of sidonia. please tell me his work doesnt become trash.

If you liked the Blame! movie, you'll probably like whatever the studio makes. While I don't think it was bad, it wasn't nearly as good as the manga

I chose my words poorly. Meant that while Killy had all the time in the world the world propably wouldn't. It would take so much time I just assumed that when he teleported, he went very far out since the whole purpose of that t-portation was to get outside of the city.

And yeah safeguards mistake him for one of them since he has technology in him so old it predates the whole safeguard system. Funny though how he doesn't have any memory back-up system like other humans. Cibo didn't forget shit, she was all there all the time.

Honestly, as derivative and kind of generic Aposimz's setting and premise is, I could see it working as a game. Unfortunately, it would be an open world game, but it would be functional. You have your wandering hero who upgrades and grows, your huge expanse of a world, your tiny voice-in-your-ear companion, plenty of boss fodder. It could work.

What's the best place to read Blame!? I remember the original scans online weren't too good

Not trash, just mediocre. Nihei really watered down his style somewhere during Sidonia, allegedly because his daughter told him it''d never be as popular as Attack on Titan, which has a similar premise. Sidonia starts out with a ton of potential, but you can tell that Nihei is really phoning it in by about the midway point. Blame! is still far and away his best work. I'd say Aposimz is his "worst," but it's not outright awful. It's just kind of okay, not doing anything to really stand out and missing a lot of the iconic Nihei style.

>Funny though how he doesn't have any memory back-up system like other humans
it was kinda explained at the start of the manga that he is so old, his old data degraded from constant use, damage and other things.

he didnt teleport, if we think he did that breaks his character and his unrelenting search for his goal

>Toha Heavy Industries

As a drawfag who spent many years drawing edgy techno-body-horror stuff myself, I can say that sometimes, a man just wants to settle down and draw cute girls, monstergirls, and traps doing cute things. I don't blame him. The story is another matter though.

Didn't he spend several years in an elevator doing literally nothing the whole trip?

Search the Sup Forums archives for scans of the master edition, you should easily find mega links.
Or if you want to read them online, here:
mangaseeonline.us/read-online/Blame-chapter-1.html
Be warned however: while the master edition releases look much better than the older ones, Killy is now named Kyrii.

He teleported. Volume 6, he was inside toha 13th cave when it teleported, with cibo. After teleportation but before the destruction of 13th cave mensab sent them both outside of it so they wouldn't blow to pieces. But before and after that there was still plenty enough cyberhiking to make him the best hero humanity has ever had.

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he teleported back inside the city, and then walked all the way to Jupiter and then to the end

I hate to say it but I just don't like his new work at all. His art now is way too clean and he seems to have a problem with storytelling, it's nothing like his old work at all.

That being said, I've always wanted a BLAME! type of dungeon crawler game.

killy has always been the robot autist.
It's just that at the begining he didn't knew he was a robot and didn't have permission to use his tools.

I didn't like the movie, the only good parts are the gravitational gun being shot.

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I think the best way to design a Blame! game, would be an open world survival game where you spawn as a random race and certain races have certain goals and you have to navigate the city using parkour and such, but basically it's a giant fuck huge map, where you gotta survive and all the other types of enemies are players, similar to possibly DayZ, and you could make a home and base and everything.
It seems like the only reasonable type of game for the manga.

or an near infinite fps dungeon crawler

I was thinking of the story of killy, with autogenerated layers, with fixed elevators and a respectable size. Respectable being BIG AS SHIT.

Or a fucking huge mmo that no one ever meets.

This could either be fucking incredible or an absolute embarrassment. As a massive Nihei fan I hope it is the former.

Is this the legendary walking simulator?

Looking forward to experiencing 250 year elevator rides in real time

>Killy
>robot

Kek. He's a human, that's canon. In manga he also acts like one. He yells, brags, gives(albeit once) a wry smile, gets surprised, scared, angry, sad and tired. He cares about people around him and shows it through his actions and likes having some company even when there's nothing to benefit from it.(mori) His silent nature feels to derive from an endless time spent alone and forgetting social skills along the way.

In the movie he was so inhuman they had to make him say out loud he's a human because you wouldn't know it otherwise.

Him being just rogue robot would steal the story from much of its charm. Computer doing task as commanded does not impress anyone.

>Blame video game
>you just wander and every 40 hours you actually encounter something
>occasionally you have to cross rooms or wait in elevators for 100 hours in-game
>there is no ending
>you can only fire the gun a couple of times in a playthrough

user, stop being retarded.
He was created by the director program because they lost control of the city.
He's an early safeguard.

Well, a pre-safeguard system, to be more precise. As specified by Governing authority when Cibo asks while in VR during Electro Fisher arc.

Killy's mannerism in the very first volumes aren't representative of Killy as a whole. Nihei doesn't fully formalize his character before the Electro-fisher arc.

When discussing Blame!, it's important to remember that Nihei was a newbie mangaka who was playing it mostly be ear.

fuck that faggot he turned my waifu into a disgusting trannydude

>Kek. He's a human, that's canon
That's the opposite of true. I mean, you could argue that there's no clear boundaries for what is or isn't human, what with all the body transfers and memory storages; but Killy is explicitly stated to be a safeguard created by the Administration with the sole purpose of finding Net Terminal Genes and restoring control of the City.

Cool, i was hoping for him to take a break from manga anyway.

>randomly generated, permadeath cyberdungeon with a seemingly impossible goal

yessss

Nooooo!

I want From Software to do a Blame! Souls!

What is this Polygon Pictures crap? BRING MY DREAM BACK GODDAMIT

>Waifuing people in Sidonia
>not waifuing the superior Cibo

>Izanafags still mad all these years later

>several
More like 33

A shame that this essentially makes the early characters non-canon (not that there's a lot of them).
The dog could have made a good travelling companion.

Did you try Pool of Radiance 2: Ruins of Myth Drannor? Shit's basically BLAME: D&D Fantasy Edition. ~100 hours of dem gray godforsaken catacombs.

That sounds awful and would fail. Like it or not Blame! is a narratively focused work with concepts that would be impossible to finish in a lifetime's work. You would need to cut down the fat and truly understand what makes Blame! so great and use those core concepts instead of trying to work everything in. That's what someone who doesn't understand the magic would do since they couldn't understand the underlying structure that holds the foundation.

The amount of butthurt Nihei caused by smashing apart the harem is honestly the most impressive part about Sidonia.

People fucking CARED about their favorite ships.

Is Alive related to Blame?

Nihei has explicitly said he's human, probably working in law enforcement before all went to shit and acquired high-tech cybernetics around that time. Info on that can be found in the art book.

And in the manga nowhere is stated that he is safeguard/robot created by anyone. Authority says he's is not a safeguard but a secret agent from time before the safeguards, which matches perfectly with the art book explanation.

Yeah but most of the stuff mentioned happens after the first volumes. And still the first volume is part of Blame, no matter how different it is from the rest of it.

Fuck me, I meant Noise. Its premise looks incredibly similar.

gimmie a Biomega videogame

It's a prequel to it. Establishes the setting for Blame!

Yeah. Though you can clearly tell that Nihei reworks Killy's backstory somewhere about the stage where he meets Cibo or so (hard to pinpoint exactly where it happened).

The first volume Killy is pretty much some edgy dude with a gun who smiles wryly and provokes a response from the silicon life. A few volumes later and Killy has become a stoic superhuman instead.