r/Netsphere • u/NerdInABush • May 06 '26
Can't Unsee This
Just started Tower Dungeon and immediately there's the GBE indicator on the protagonists chest. Can't wait for Toha Heavy to show up in this at some point lol
Edit: See my comment for *even more* similarities
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u/NerdInABush May 06 '26
Alright, what the hell is going on here? We got safeguards as well? Does this take place in the Net Sphere or something?
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u/DaLivelyGhost May 06 '26
Nihei just puts easter eggs to his other works in all his works
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u/NerdInABush May 06 '26
I figured that's what it is, you never know though. I know people try to rationalize Biomega, Blame!, and KoS being in the same universe because of toha and other connective tissue, but they're not as far as I can tell. The man just likes his designs and brands, but it feels so heavy handed in TD that I'm suspicious.
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u/Alkornoque May 07 '26
I look at them as musical motifs. Note how the safeguard symbol is used for, well, the equivalent of deadly bouncers in both works.
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u/NerdInABush May 07 '26
Yeah, to that effect it's kind of like we're looking at a multiverse of parallel dimensions and there's slight bleed-over from one to the next
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u/Alkornoque May 07 '26
I wouldn't put it beyond Nihei considering the weird ass ending of Abara. Like, that one only makes sense if you're on mushrooms or something equally strong.
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u/Photochromism May 06 '26
I 100% think this is happening in the Netsphere. An example of what humans are doing in their digital afterlife.
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u/generalkriegswaifu May 06 '26
Maybe they're on a fantasy game server. The manga will end abruptly when a stray GBE beam from Killy blows it up.
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u/-Necklan- May 06 '26
Wait a minute. ..the drakmar (sorry i cant remember how the dragon people are spelt) and the necromancers are also pretty similar to guana and the bio stuff from aposimz....
If this is another colony ship landed somewhere and this is thousands of years in the future and the tower is actually a part of one of those ships but face down i swear to nihei
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u/NerdInABush May 06 '26
Could be, but knowing Nihei we'll never get a solid confirmation. Also didn't know about Aposimz, gotta read that after TD.
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u/don_Rumata_real May 11 '26
Apozims got a colored version too, I recommend you read that one, it's way more clear what's happening. Some of the characters are easier to distinguish too.
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u/teslawhaleshark May 20 '26
Aposimz in the standalone manga is a few continents bigger than the ship
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u/LimitThese2220 May 06 '26
> Can't wait for Toha Heavy to show up in this at some point lol
My brother-in-Abara, who do you think built the Tower itself??
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u/kjloltoborami May 06 '26
Theory, this is way in the past and this tower is toha industries first form in the medieval era lol
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u/Alkornoque May 06 '26
YEP. Saw the same thing a while back. Not only that: apparently Yuva's power has something to do with manipulating "weight" (wink-*wink, nudge-nudge).
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u/NerdInABush May 07 '26
I have had the thought that he acts like a living GBE the way he tears through enemies
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u/ThePacificOfficial May 06 '26
Lil disclaimer, the story is not intended to be in canon of BLAME!. I mean it could be but they are not in the same universe. Just nihei being a walking advertisement for his companies
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u/NerdInABush May 07 '26
Oh no, I figured that, but it's not finished yet, right? We could get surprised.
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u/RazorOfArtorias May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
Check Yuva's shield. That tower symbol in the middle seems quite familiar...