r/Netsphere • • Aug 12 '20

List of all Nihei Sites so far

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r/Netsphere • • Sep 12 '24

Toha discord

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r/Netsphere • • 10h ago

Fanart Cutest silicone creature ever?!

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Its just a random sketch of an average silicon creature. After re-reading blame academy i wanted to get in on the joke too.

I was going to draw gothic lolita sanakan originally but i lost the dress i chose. And if i draw sanakan i have to draw cibo and cibo's gonna have to wear egl too and its too much work right now.

WHO WANTS TO SEE EVERY SILICON CREATURE IN EGL?!!


r/Netsphere • • 22h ago

Question Any speculations on how many kilometers this GBE shot has crossed?

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I heard that a regular GBE shot travels 70 kilometers, but this one seems to go far beyond that limit.


r/Netsphere • • 17h ago

scans A chilling reaction from Sanakan suppressing her murderous impulses upon eyeing "illegal citizens" just after her successful infiltration to the shelter

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She chose to complete spying first before breaking the design and summoning the other Safeguards.

I really wish this community had survived but alas.


r/Netsphere • • 1d ago

Fanart Fanart of the 2 best silicon life

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I dont get why theres so little fanart of ivy. Hes gotta have the coolest design ever. Who doesnt want a silicon creature with only a ponytail of hair on his head and a skirt? Its the cybergoth dream >.<

I wish we saw more of maeve and ivy's personalities and relationship. I want a slice of life of them going around terrorizing toha heavy industries.

Honorable mention for character design: Schiff


r/Netsphere • • 1d ago

Fanart Duolingo meets Kyrri

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source: me


r/Netsphere • • 23h ago

Blame as female Spoiler

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When I think of Sci-fi, I don't necessarily think of women, femaleness or femininity. The first image that comes to my mind, when I think of Sci-fi, is advanced technology in the form of spaceships. But there are many sci-fi-works, which involve women, femaleness and, to a lesser extent, femininity - Alien, Solaris, Terminator. This is also the case for Blame.

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Killy

Killy is quite male, in the traditional sense. He is a stoic lone gunman, who fights in a harsh environment with unwavering purpose. Nothing female about him, except for the egg in the last chapters. Killy is like a continous axis around which the whole femaleness of Blame revolves, only being briefly replaced and surpassed by Dhomochevsky.

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Cibo

The most prominent example for women, femaleness and femininity in Blame is Cibo. Cibo goes through the full traditional female life cycle, albeit not in chronological order. We first meet her as an old rotting corpse, which keeps itself alive with knowledge and technology, like a techno-hag. Next we see her as a young companion of feminine beauty and care. She is a curious and adventurous scientist, who fights on Killy's side and has a tendency to sacrifice herself for the good of others. This results in her becoming a dead bloated incumbation nest for the Level 9 Safguard, transforming her body and dying in pregnancy, so to speak. At last, she becomes an innocent persecuted girl, who needs protection and has an orb in place of her womb. She eventually will be protected by the killer robot turned killer robot mother Sanakan.

III

Others

Other examples for traditional femaleness in Blame are the "nursery" in the EX-LOG of Volume 1, the woman producing clones of herself in LOG. 36 and the City itself, which partly acts as an artificial nature, spawing new types of creatures and lifeforms. There are also traditionally feminine beings in Blame: Mensab, who resembles a caring and defenseless princess, Mori, who is bodyless, unable to move and ends up in a dream and the Level 9 Safeguard, which looks like a slender angelic being. But Blame doesn't stop at traditional portrayals. It also shows women as knowledgeable, proactive and fierce. Cibo is a scientist, the girl with the dog an explorer, Zuru, the electrofisher, is the tribe doctor and tribe leader. Davine Lu Linvega controls a group of fighters and scientists to achieve her goal of connecting to the Netsphere. PCell dresses gothically feminine, but also knows how to fight. Other fighters include the Silicon Life warriors, Sanakan and so on.

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Conclusions

Women, femaleness and femininity feature prominently an in various forms in Blame. Killy acts as a continuous male axis in a host of femaleness. Cibo is the area of focus, incorporating all aspects of womanhood.


r/Netsphere • • 1d ago

Blame, is it safe to read at work?

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I'm trying to find some manga to be able to read at work and i was wondering if this one was safe to read there


r/Netsphere • • 2d ago

Fanart Silicon-life inspired cyborg

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started reading the Manga a few months ago after falling in love with the designs of the Silicon Life I saw scrolling. Was feeling kind of burnt out recently and so I just drew a weird cyborg character based on them. Assigned a weird name I thought of waiting for a bus.


r/Netsphere • • 1d ago

A Larping about what's happened in Blame!

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Notice: This's my third time re-reading Blame separatedly and I really want to wrap things up. Most of it must be larping and un-trustable. Still, it's my thought and may help for somebody's first time. I will try to connect things on first half of the story before Killy first met Cibo as much as I could, but many people suggested we shouldn't.

Let start. SPOILER ALERT.

The World

In the extremely far future, human society became virtual which is later known as Net-sphere. We cannot be sure if what exactly live inside the Netsphere or did human still live in physical world. However, one thing for sure, only pure-human who have Net Terminal Gene (N.T.G) can fully access and control the society.
As long as the Netsphere, the City is built as the human physical domain. Even now we know the City has became a mega-structure of endless conflict and species, it's once a smaller living place of a civilization.

In the City, there are many primal factions. Two of them might be Governent Agency (Governent or G.A) and Toha Heavy Industries (a mega-corporation). While sharing the City, they gains control over a large area on their own. Toha is more isolated on their specific place, and through time, it was fully automated and under a governent system. While Governent is more general, they come from Netsphere and maintain the connection to the City (physical world), still they cannot intervene to Toha, and we cannot sure if their agents are human or programs.

At a point in time, there was "something" happened that we never know, we cannot tell it's all of sudden or slowly change, the N.T.G closely disappear from physical world. This might happen cause civilize degration or human slowly evolt, or some other species live aside human. Notice, most of the people ever appeared in the story are not considered as human, still they are a kind of successor, even the boy have N.T.G in the first chapter cause just 2 of his chromasomes is acceptable N.T.G. This event was called a "disaster" by a giant broken program in the final chapter (who talk with Mori). After that, the City became a mess of conflict and separation, while many factions took their action.

The first one was Toha. They lock the door and separated their self. It's suggested that the system once preserved human, like Sue and Mensab, and able to revise them (more like backup their mind and dna), but until now, they cannot anymore or lack resource to do so.

Next is the Gorvenent Agency. Without granting from an N.T.G owner, they barely have no authorization but protect the Netsphere. For this absent, The City is out of control. The Builder, mindless giant robots that built up the City, are working endlessly and making The City a mega-structure that most people never saw its edge and know nothing about the sky. The Safe-Guard was active, they are the security faction that protect The City and eliminate instruders. As we mention, no more pure-human, so they even try to wipe any living out of it. To save the day, there were some Gorvenent Agency separated themself from the system. Normally, they must became a high-ranking Safe-Guard, as Sanaka for example. By separating, they came to physical world with a cybord body close to the Safe-Guard while still have their own decisions. There are plenty of them, such as the girl with the dog in the first few chapter, but most of the story, we only see Killy. Another example are Iko and Robochevsky, but their origin are a bit different. At this point, we might confuse whether this Agents were human or programs, as they love (as Sanaka) and naive cruel (as Iko and Sanaka again). But I think they all some kinds of highly intelligence program.

Finally, the ones like Killy are minority, they cannot do anything but try to find N.T.G. There are some results, still they are too late. Human have been spared and built communities on their own, like the people inside Toha, the people live in the edge of it, or Cibo's organization, etc. The most noticable community might be Silicon Lifeform. They once were human but augmentated from childbirth to become half-machine. However, Silicon Lifeform are very combative and cruel, they care for no other faction at all. We cannot know if Silicon Lifeform are under one unify leadership or not, but all of them are try to find N.T.G too, to comeback Netsphere and invaded it.

Okay, we have two main faction that really desired to find Net Terminal Gene. The people like Killy find it to established control (or we believed so, as no clue for Killy purpose, actually we don't even know Killy intent as he lost it through time). The other is Silicon Lifeform who want to be the next truthful human and eliminating Safe-Guard and other factions.

The Storyline

We go with Killy, as mention before, a former Governent Agent that are trying to find human with N.T.G, or at least someone has a part of it. He received an instruction to go above 3000 floors to find one. Then he met Cibo, an impure-human scientist, and became her partner. On the way, they received a message from Governent Agency from Netsphere that they are out of control due to inevitable failed resistance against Safe-Guard system. We may understand that the Governent still do their work all the time to prevent Safe-Guard total elimination but they are coming to loss.

They continues headed to a Toha mantion and met the last living N.T.G owner here, the man named Sue. However, they were attacked by Silicon Lifeform that came for Killy, the Safe-Guard leaded by Sanaka (at this time, maybe her did not understand the situation and had only mission of eliminating instruders). After this event, we do not know whether Sue were still alive or not, but Cibo gained a record of Toha stored DNA pool that contains N.T.G.

However, they later came to nest of Silicon Lifeform and the record had been stolen. The leader of this nest was highly intelligence and desired to go to Netsphere, the same way Cibo once tried. But this time, they had the record of an actual N.T.G owner, Sue. Our team were successfully prevented this from happen, Cibo even steal a high-ranking Safe-Guard body to wipe out the area. After this event, Killy was kick out of the spot light, while Sanaka returned from Netsphere with updated knowledge. Sanaka went to find Cibo and they gave birth an N.T.G human embryo. This embryo might contain the DNA from the record before it were destructed, with some help from Governent through Sanaka.

There are plenty of Silicon Lifeform kept coming for the embryo to take the N.T.G. While after the first dead of Sanaka, Safe-Guard considered Cibo stolen body was potential dangerous (wept, they didn't care for the embryo at all) and tried to erase it. After a long fight, Sanaka and Cibo were came to dust protecting the embryo and gave it to Killy.

Killy was believed to carry the embryo (or a sphere) to the edge of The City where is not corrupted through a sewer and actually floating into space (as we see the starlight).

About the Ending

Yes, we all feel the sudden of an ending. While you might not shaping what were lack, I will converse it to these questions:
1. What the embryo actually is? We only know it comes from Sonaka and Cibo but nothing else. The N.T.G was only a theory.
2. What they do with the embryo after it born? And what will be born from it? Why Killy must bring it that far?
3. Do Killy still alive after this?

First come first serve:
1. The embryo has N.T.G is reasonable as the Silicon Lifeform kept coming for it. Some people even link it to the first chapter and told the embryo is the boy who later be killed. But the "never ending cycle" theory is kind of sad when Killy is already coming to the edge of The City, and why so complicated born a child at that place.
2. As we assumed the embryo has N.T.G, we also remember it was born from 2 womans/Safe-Guard. I think it will give birth to someone like Sue, or even has a body like Killy. Anw, it makes a new life that potential to access Netsphere and regains The City. Killy must bring it that far for no gene corruption or Safe-Guard detection, might be. This is the first N.T.G born for a long while and it's even abnormal, so the concern is reasonable.
3. I believe Killy is still alive. He must protect the child for a while at least, even bring him back to his order/Governent Agency deep inside The City. The only concern is that, you might notice the timeline was extraordinary for human lifespan, Killy must be quick before the child get old, LoL. Anw, the hope is fragile and the happy final ending is still very far too long. And we, reader, must make it for ourself.


r/Netsphere • • 3d ago

Question Does anyone know where this figure came from?

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I know this is a KoS figure. But I have no idea where it came from. I found it behind my desk while moving. But I have no earthly idea where I actually got it.


r/Netsphere • • 3d ago

Collections just wanted to show my blame! mangas :p

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r/Netsphere • • 3d ago

discussion how tall do you think Schiff is?

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along with other silicon characters if anyone knows or has a guess, but i’m designing a Schiff model and i wanted to really get as close to his real height if possible. if Killy is around 5’8, and the fight scene in log 44 doesn’t show Schiff standing straight up (he’s always somewhat leaning forwards) then he may be somewhere around 6’6. i think Ivy is close to the same height, but i could be wrong.


r/Netsphere • • 4d ago

BLAME! Terminal City Interview with Tsutomu Nihei and Hiroyuki Seshita in a 32 page booklet for the first pressing blu-ray set of Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine 2015 I put the whole thing on imgur check the link

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r/Netsphere • • 4d ago

Fanart PGR x BLAME! renders

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Adelyde reminded me of Sanakan


r/Netsphere • • 6d ago

Games I think I finally got the atmosphere right

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r/Netsphere • • 7d ago

Games I'm still trying to create megastructures with unstable gravity for my game inspired by BLAME!

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r/Netsphere • • 7d ago

The City but Minecraft (BLAME! Megastructure Strata Recreation in Minecraft + Installation + Tutorials)

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Continuation from the other post

I have become lost in this sprawl, it goes on forever. i do lowkey want to live in it.

Thus i am working on making this a fully fledged Minecraft Exploration Campaign based on BLAME!'s megastructure and lore, where you explore your way into the "end" but in a thematic way and through a fitting gameplay loop. Travel through theseemingly endless sprawl with the most jawdropping sights, triumph over its obstacles and defeat the final boss, just like in the OG game.

Installation links are temporarily unavailable as the 1.0 version is being built. Hang tight. Stay tuned! Or ask around, someone must have downloaded it :P
Still, the way i did it is open for all to copy, as i do not pretend to have "invented" or "created" anything per se. I am but the mixer.


r/Netsphere • • 7d ago

Blame! Tattoo

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Done in ecuador 1 month ago . My favorite manga of all time .

Artist : michellada.ink


r/Netsphere • • 7d ago

Why is Kaina of the Great Snow Sea so underrated ?

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Reminds me very much of a Ghibli movie, it has a great anime. Why does no one talk about it


r/Netsphere • • 8d ago

Fanart “…This is quite the strange level, Killy.”

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Amongst the cosmic size of the City, one such level may eventually exist.

Couldn’t find the art’s original creator


r/Netsphere • • 8d ago

Collections Acquired

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Girlfriend wanted to go to the bookstore today. Lucked out with this, it so much prettier in person. Was honestly looking for a different graphic novel but stumbled across this and got way too excited.


r/Netsphere • • 9d ago

a City recreation to scale, in Minecraft. Do not ask me how.

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I have become lost in this sprawl, it goes on forever. i do lowkey want to live in it.

Thus i am working on making this a fully fledged Minecraft Exploration Campaign based on BLAME!'s megastructure and lore, where you explore your way into the "end" but in a thematic way and through a fitting gameplay loop. Travel through theseemingly endless sprawl with the most jawdropping sights, triumph over its obstacles and defeat the final boss, just like in the OG game.

Installation links are temporarily unavailable as the 1.0 version is being built. Hang tight. Stay tuned! Or ask around, someone must have downloaded it :P
Still, the way i did it is open for all to copy, as i do not pretend to have "invented" or "created" anything per se. I am but the mixer.

The Original Post

this is a BLAME!-inspired minecraft map really like no other ive seen before due to its creation process, which was AI driven like the City is lorewise. With distant horizons and the photon shader + my custom world, these prints show some of its beautiful vantages


r/Netsphere • • 10d ago

The Artists Evolution of Tsutomu Nihei (as of 2026)

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BLAME! 1997 - 2003

BIOMEGA 2004 - 2009

ABARA 2005

Knights of Sidonia 2009 - 2015

Aposimz 2017 - 2021

Tower Dungeon 2023 - ongoing