What is your personal favorite futurekino? For me it's Blame! and Alita...

Better scan of eden when? Like those ripped and shared by Yea Forums manga rippers?

You HAVE to have read Noise by now, right? Pretty solid prequel and completely justifies the existence Silicon Life, lorewise.
But you're not going to ever find anything even tangentially "similar" to Blame! It's too much of a conceptual juggernaut.
Just reread and reread until the pain of it fades away. You'll always find new details, either way

pic related is from Noise and is nice because its more concise with setting up Blame!'s setting than Blame! itself ever was.

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Just finished reading it, what the absolute fuck was going on towards the end? Why did the author toss Elijah aside like a used condom? I know his sister's death hit him like a fuckton of bricks but he basically does fuckall towards the end. I feel like things dipped in quality once Mana died

What is it?

>You HAVE to have read Noise by now, right? Pretty solid prequel and completely justifies the existence Silicon Life, lorewise.
yeah, I have

>Just reread and reread until the pain of it fades away. You'll always find new details, either way
n-nice joke, h-haha...

>n-nice joke, h-haha...
y- yeah

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>You read Eden?

I tried but all the hamhanded political commentary at the beginning made me drop it. Does it get any better? Well, what I'm actually asking is, am I supposed to expect all that stuff is like, just that guy's character (which is fine) or is the whole series going to soapbox at me?

Chikyuu no Houkago. And everything else by Yoshitomi Akihito, he has lots of weird stuff

Unfortunately there is a fair bit of soapboxing that goes on, which is a shame because there are some parts that truly shine. However it gets fairly intertwined with the story. I'm not very happy about it but I stuck with it. What I had issues with was how the second half of the manga was handled and how there were too many plotlines to follow, and shit stopped making sense.

I only saw the movie, but something about the setting really appealed to me. an automated city that built itself out to jupiter (or so I read online) and that is completely abandoned save for some human remanents and the occasional android from the past

> I'm a slut
Well at least OP got something right with this thread.

anything /m/ related, but no guns life is pretty cool

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The art work of blame looks like the giant aliens at the end of gantz.

Haven't made it to the end of Gantz yet, still pumped to see what happened.

I love the concept of the megastructure and the design of the silicon lifeforms.
I'm just sad that the newest adaption was some kind of 3D animation.
But it was predictable after they did the same with the adaption of KoS.

>KoS
?

Knights of Sidonia

ah, right

Is this manga good? I remember I pissed off a bunch of anons and got banned by just mentioning that pewdiepie reads it.

I'm not ready for Blame! yet.

My IQ's too low to just dive into it, so I'm prepping by reading a bunch of other seinen and reading some Japanese literature. I'm almost done with Kokoro, and it's excellent. I'll give Blame! a shot in a year and a half.

>Organ Divider
Blame and its approach to storytelling made me hate the how most anime and manga just force feed you the plot from the very beginning with no subtlety or mystery.
And Organ Divider does exactly that. This is the first page.

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Just rewatch I Robot, i noticed that it is kind of a prequel of Blame.

Yeah, it's good. The setting and premise need nothing more said about them. Absolutely patrician manga on that count in particular. The characters are a bit esoteric, but they're nuanced enough to make you care about them. And in the end, they're where most the emotional catharsis in the series is derived.
also Killy is a pretty cool protagonist.

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where can I DL the manga? tpb doesn't have anything, and I usually use mangafreak but that's empty too. I saw archive.org has it, but the pdf DL looks really really low res

Really wish we could get a proper anime adaption of Blame! The Netflix movie was ok but goddamn I really despise the cgi shit thats used so often now, it all looks like a bad ps2 game.

Blame! and Biomega.

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>World is at peace and life iq good
>We have the technology and resources to terraform Mars into a paradise
> Even have the.motivation and budget to build idealized version of classical Earth cities.
Why would I want a future where everything is miserable rather than this?

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How's Nihei's latest manga coming along? How is the architecture?

Edens are terrifyingly boring for anybody who is sane. Adversity is the background against which all good things are distinguishable.

You might as well say life is at its best in Somalia.

People lives their lives and face their own struggles just the same in Edens.

No, life isn't best in somalia but if you had to live there for a while and were then returned to a higher standard of life, those things which make your life better would likely stand out much more powerfully to you, your appreciation for them and their value to you would be stronger. A story set in a truly idyllic world would, at least I think, be very boring, and if the future does end up being substantially less wrought with contention and adversity I think something fundamental to human condition will fade.

Aposimz? I dont follow it chapter-to-chapter, but it's certainly better than Sidonia. It's more fight-intensive, but Nihei always blocks out some pretty excellent battle scenes. The architecture is excellent, also better than Sidonia. You see him truly comfortable with his newer lightweight style in Aposimz more than anything previous in the Light works. Also qt robot companion for protagonist.

Not anime, but you two should give Iain Banks’ “Culture” books a shot. Takes place in a post scarcity anarcho-utopia (it makes more sense if you read it) and there’s still PLENTY of conflict, especiallt where the Culture interacts with other societies.

Start with Use of Weapons, then Player of Games. Avoid anyone who tells you Consider Phlebas is good.

If you liked the Minds in any of the other books, read Excession. Then after that read whatever you want. Banks has a uniquely humorous and extremely witty writing style, and the enormous range of societies, weaponry, aliens, etc featured in the books are absolutely top tier scifi.

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YKK is depressing but also sort of happy at the same time. The world isn't ending in any catastrophic event, it's just slowing dying as the immortal main character watches it happen from her coffee shop.

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When are we getting an anime adaptation of the Three Body Problem?

Consider Phlebas is fine. It's a good introduction to the Culture as a whole, really the only gripe I have with it is the excessive action scenes.

Not so futuristic but it's got some blame vibes.

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baron muster had a hard life ;_;

dai dark recently started serialization too, and it's looking like dorohedoro in space which is great imo

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Whoa, and Q's behind this one as well, right?

yeah it's her new manga

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that is a fun fact

Eden is probably my favourite even though it tones down the future tech about halfway through

It's not that hard to understand, the author just leaves gaps unexplained and introduces new characters like we should know them. There is some stuff you'll miss but on a casual read it's fine

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too many villager cuties killed off

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The art takes some getting used to, and if you're a a brainlet like me it will take a few goes to read the whole thing. BUT it is absolutely worth a read. I don't think anybody has read 3 chapters in and not eventually finished the whole series.

>futurekino
Commit suicide.

I hate Aposimz with a passion, god it's so bad.

Is blame a western?

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Use of Weapons is like the last book I'd recommend that anyone start with. Player of Games is the good starter.

The pacing of the latter half was pretty miserable.
*cuts to train starting up*

Too white.

should I get the master edition ? wanted to get it for a while but heard people saying it wasn't the best edition

What did they tell you?

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>kokoro
Stop now, or else you'll kill yourself b4 getting to BLAME

I came back four hours later to tell you you're wrong.

The rapid view-point shifting was one of the more interesting portions of the book. I am sorry you are an awful person.

Use of Weapons is the Culture's centerpiece, was actually the first one he wrote and probably his masterpiece (beside The wasp factory, not sci-fo tho) Consider Phlebas is less cryptic, overwritten, but also has this 'useless desperate war' feeling to it that is then reprised in 'Look to windward'. I really really liked Surface Detail too, especially due to Zakalwe being still alive and insane.

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The rapid perspective shifts were horribly repetitive and dull. I understand one of the intended effects of the twenty-part saga of starting the train up was to give a sense of dread and inevitability to the crash later, but in effect it was just boring and annoying as shit. I chalk this up to Banks not having yet fully developed his writing and editing skills.

La la la I can't hear you he's perfectly same and lucid and happy.

blam! is 200% show don't tell

>watch some anime movies and OVAs with my little sister over the years
>she asks if I've got something good
>tell her to read dungeon meshi and Blam!
>tfw "is that the pewdiepie manga"?

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Futurekino?

Definitely Ghost in the Shell. The world is just way too cool.

That's a good advice. Don't forget Appleseed. The manga, not adaptations. For me the worldbuilding and technical notes were as interesting as the main plot itself.

Came here to post this. I love YKK.

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Am I being crazy if I'm going to just read them in release order?

The only thing I don’t like is Killy->Kyrii name change. The overall quality is much better than tokyopop edition.

A combination between survival,noir and western....goddamn we are never getting something as good as that ever again...fuck.

Ghost in the Kino for me

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Stop it with the fucking memespeak you insufferable fag.

Shut the fuck up you dumb meta numpty.

Last chapter was really good. I still fear it's going to be a copy of dorohedoro. Especially with that blonde chick looking like Nikaido.

This. I didn't like the name change but image quality is so gorgeous it more than makes up for that.

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The movie is trash and does the series no justice, definitely read the manga its incredible.
cibo best girl

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I think I've read blame 4 times already. I own japanese edition of pic related.

I have to say, the city that expands itself because humans lost control of it is somewhat interesting and unique concept.

Try Biomega fagget

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I have and it was good

No, but don't be surprised if you think Consider Phlebas isn't very good. It may out you off the rest of the series.

I don't think it's thaaaat bad but on the other hand I really want anything remotely like Blame!

imagine being able to draw like that

This is exactly what happened to me. Consider Phlebas put me off from reading the rest of the Culture novels, and it took me several years to give them another try, finish Player of Games and fall in love with the series.

I did not know about this, but I will definitely check it out, thanks mate
maybe I should check Yea Forums more

Nihei's references would be a good place to start

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I have a friend who had it recommended by myself and another friend, and Consider Phlebas soured him and he still hasn't the series back up.

yes

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>horza gabachulfag detected
you are just jaded coz your husbado get btfo

Alright, ok, so, player of games, was it?

Saturn Apartments
It’s a SOL sci-fi about blue collar workers with really nice art

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DESTROY SILICON

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Yep.

>tfw an omniscient and demi-god-like ship mind will never have mommy roleplay pity sex with you

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I remember hearing the coloring was inferior (less black and more white) but it has been a while so not completely sure

>coloring was inferior (less black and more white)
Nihei made some changes to that end himself, but whether you think it's better or worse is subjective.
What makes it better to me by miles and miles is being large format.

It has redrawn panels too.

SHODAN?

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Is it just me, or there are other people who think that the quality of the earlier release of Blame was better? Yes, the larger resolution is good and the scenes became more contrasted, but lightened screentones, as for me, deteriorate the illusion of depth.

I have not read anything of literature for ages, although I remember reading The Bridge of Iain Banks, and it was great. Before your posts I never thought that he's a sci-fi writer as well. Thanks for the advice, anons.

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I dropped it as soon as one the main characters mentioned he was gay.

Is this a problem with the actual content or just of the scan quality? Because bad scans can make things look darker.

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bad cleaning too
like jesus christ mangastream

He's probably talking about The Ship Minds in the Culture series. They oversee all functions of a ship but are so powerful they can warp reality, split their attention amongst billions of tasks such a degree that they are capable of holding simultaneous conversations and more complex actions with entire nations of people. They can kill you and bring you back to life without you ever knowing you died in the first place. Thankfully they're benevolent.

Madokami, newfriend
or the MangaTraders archive, don't have the link tho
be advised that the last 2 volumes aren't the official scans so there's a noticeable drop in image quality

didn't read the thread but Nihei work and alita in the same sentence? op is a retard

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>tfw got a download for the omnibus edition which had every chapter in good quality
Fuck Madokami desu

Does it include the last 2 volumes? if so please share

against a dark background >>> the culture

Omnibus edition is on Madokami too you retard

can't sign up on madokami since months ago now

Well then I don't know what that other guy is complaining about.

I loved the really weird “war being waged under hundreds of miles of ice sheets” thing. Probably my favorite non-plot-important battle, and my favorite battle outside of Excession and all its weird as fuck relativistic spaceship fights.
Nope, it’s fine. I was the original poster though and phlebas isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Amazon is making it into a show as well, apparently. Why they didn’t adapt “Player of Games” or “Use of Weapons” is beyond my mortal understanding.

If HBO ever did a Use of Weapons miniseries that had both the roman numeral and arabic numeral chapters in the same rough order as the book, it would probably be a hit on the same scale as amazon’s The Expanse. And the ending would be probably one of the best moments of television in recent memory if they handled it well.

Hard to tell, maybe both. First time I read it on mangafox, so the quality of the scans was quite meh. Now it's very difficult to find online the old pre-remaster scans. This is one I saved back then.

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It’s excellent like basically everything banks wrote. But I think I had more fun reading Feersum Endjin just because of the phonetic spelling chapters being such a trip. Even if it’s a dumb gimmick.

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Looking at the version I have that's lighting this really does look like a scan quality issue. Maybe it was fucked up in the actual release though too. Wonder if anyone has the original Japanese release or even whatever release you're posting, physically, that could check and see. For example, on the slanted portion that's a little down and to the right of the chapter title you can see that there's detail there but it's just barely noticeable. I think that was meant to be seen but is just obscured by the scan quality.

halp

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The same volumes on madokami are also available on Nyaa nyaa.si/view/987156

thanks

The way Ashinano handles the background scifi does ring quite similar to how Nihei addresses many of his concepts

Have you read Last Order yet? It's pretty good

Is this some arr rook same shit or does he look like Aoba?

That character is there for a handful of chapters.

I actually just picked this up and finished reading today. Are any of the adaptations worth watching?

please do not bully the silly cones

The old ONA's are not really an adaptation, they are just kind of animated story fragments, but I think they are worth watching as they have some killer music and are really the only adaptation to get the style down well.

bump

surprisingly quality thread for Yea Forums

Wasn't she Nihei's under study too? I feel like it shows in a great way.

Welp, this was some good shit, I've just binge-read through it all. Slightly disappointed by the ending since I expected most of it to happen in a similar fashion but whatever.

yeah she was his assistant

I wish I had a madokami account

I think this is just an oddly persistent rumor. I've heard about this before, and I can't really find anything to back it up. Literally the only source I have found about it is a translators note in an old scan of dorohedoro. Likewise, I can't find anything about Nihei having an assistant during that time.

Plot-wise, is Aposimz more in line with Blame! or with Knights of Sidonia? From what I've seen, art-wise it seems to be more similar to Sidonia, but I might be wrong.
Don't get me wrong I've read KoS and liked it, but I always preferred the more gritty and gloomy atmosphere of Nihei earlier works.

>Plot-wise, is Aposimz more in line with Blame! or with Knights of Sidonia?
Honestly, it feels more similar to Biomega. It's fairly serious, with some humor used sparingly. I don't think gritty and gloomy is the best way of describing it though, there's a lot of action.

>I don't think gritty and gloomy is the best way of describing it though
Yeah that's a shame (at least for me). I will eventually read it, but I very rarely pick up ongoing stuff, I'd rather wait.
Thanks for your input.

How to get qt silicon gf?

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i am going to watch the burammu movie

It is honestly fine. It is really the best they could do when they had to make a blame movie that also appeals to a wide audience. As much as you and I would like a 3 hour movie of a guy walking through megastructure without anything happening and no dialogue, it probably wouldn't appeal to the average ADHD watcher.

make like a tree and blam!

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It's one hell of a walk though.

BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
THE RIFLEMAN

android boys, what app do you read in? I currently use quick pic for manga that is a collection of images, but the blame manga is in cbz so I found something called bubble that works quite well. any other suggestions?