Blame! (2017) User Reviews

Decent entry point for Nihei's Blame! universe

[zona79 · 7/10 · 27 May 2017]

Huh! From where to start about this one?

I am a huuuuge fan of Blame! manga. It's the best manga I ever read and I always present it as a reference point to something different, original, breathtaking and ultimately enjoyable. Though, not so much for mainstream audience.

What about the anime? There must be two points of view in reviewing it. Why? Because First one from a perspective of someone who read the manga and second one from a perspective of a first timer who hasn't got a clue about original material.

As someone who read the manga I was expecting the full story with deep development of main character(s) and much better representation of vast areas of Megastructure and everything else what can be found in it. What did I get? A spin off story of a small village in Megastructure with characters which are almost irrelevant in the original story. We didn't get to see a lot of characters, Silicon beings are missing, it's even hard to tell that Killy is main character, not the villagers. Many, many details missing not to mention that original story is spread through huge time period. I would lie if I would say that I didn't enjoy it. It's solid SciFi anime if you don't take into consideration the original work.

As for second point of view, for someone who never read the manga.... Watch it. Maybe there will be sequels/prequels. Maybe even pushes you toward reading manga. It's a great slice of Blame! universe where much more can be told in future movies (hopefully there will be more)

***sorry for a bit fragmented review, this is my first ;)

Good stuff

[walfrutta · 8/10 · 23 May 2017]

I haven't read the comic series and I have gone through some of your negative comments. I just watched this movie and I must say it was pretty awesome!

The environment in which it was set was mind-blowing and very creative, the plot seemed pretty good and it left me wanting to see more.

All in all I can say that, if your not a die hard fan of the comics, you'll probably enjoy this movie!

Blame! explained in context

[J-bot6 · 8/10 · 5 May 2018]

First there was "The Creation of the Humanoids", then "Blade Runner", and "Terminator". These helped to spawn "Ghost in the Shell" and "Appleseed". If we built a timeline and placed Masamune Shirow's GITS first and Appleseed second, then Tsutomu Nisei's NOiSE would be #3 with Blame! being the latest entry on the timeline -- taking us to Earth's the far future.

The film starts with the Electro-Fishers. They are descendants of what were known as The Planters. This is likely a name that they received when they used to work for Toha Heavy industries, managing the 'growth' of humanoid exterminator cyborgs that were used as a security force by the city. Hence the armor and the spears that are capable of killing an errant exterminator. In the film, the Electro-Fishers have long since forgotten their role in the city and are concerned because they are both running out of armor and no longer know how to make more armor and weapons. They're also running out of food and are on the brink of extinction. They live on the outer shell of Toha Heavy Industries. However, if they were to enter the core of Toha (as in the manga), they would find new suits of armor in storage.

At the beginning of the film, a group of young Electro-Fishers are looking for food and they're concerned about being spotted by watch towers and being killed by exterminators/safeguards. This is because the city is autonomous and its programming went haywire some time in the past. Originally, all humans had a special gene that allowed them to connect to the net and (if they had sufficient privileges) control the city. Hence pretty much all humans were registered citizens. In the NOiSE graphic novel, there were police detectives that would investigate cases in which there were people who were not registered. Somewhere along the line, a net-controlled security force was created called The Safeguards. These cyborgs were eventually given complete autonomy and instead of simply investigating cases of non-registered humans, their instructions were warped to instead kill all humans that were not registered citizens. Originally this would have been a very small number of people. However, a virus wiped out almost every instance of the gene that allowed people to connect to the city (destroying their registration status/citizenship in the process). From that point on, the city and the safeguards began mass-killings of humans. The Planters/Electro-Fishers were some of the few humans with sufficient armor and weaponry to survive. They live in a protected zone; once they step out of that zone, they're a target as well.

The young group of Electro-Fishers get in over their heads and it looks like it's the end for them when a mysterious figure clad in black shows up. He raises a gun and fires -- annihilating the exterminators and cutting a swath of destruction that extends for kilometers. In the film, he introduces himself as Killy (his actual name is Kirii : Pronunciation, "keedy"). He is a cyborg that is using an unregistered prototype high-level safeguard body and is on a quest to find a human with the net terminal gene and connect to the city to set things right again. Along the way, the administration/authority try to help him out as best they can. Similar to network administrators today, there is an administration in the world of Blame! that would like to help; ever since the decision to make the safeguards autonomous, the administrators have had limited powers and are essentially locked out. The remnants of the administrators exist mainly in the NetSphere (the web or internet of the future). The NetSphere has become so expansive that it is possible to have one's consciousness uploaded into the NetSphere and then downloaded into a cyborg or android body. There is also the option to simply exist in the NetSphere without a body in our (base) reality.

The Electro-Fishers take Kirii to their settlement where he gives them a unit of compressed food. They expand the food and marvel at the technology behind it. He identifies himself as human, although he isn't strictly human. Kirii's memories are foggy and fragmented since he's been revived a number of times over thousands of years. One thing he knows with certainty is his mission and he will stop at nothing to complete it.

Kirii tells the Electro-Fishers his mission objective. In turn they tell him about a place near their settlement where a strange voice emanates from a 'ghost'. Kirii goes with a small group of Electro-Fishers to investigate and finds the remains of an android named Cibo. She is a high-level scientists who has been waiting for someone to come along who could help her. Kirii picks up what is left of her body and sets off on a mission to a factory (with a group of Electro-Fishers in tow). Cibo grants access to the factory and executes commands to both manufacture more units of food as well as generate a new android body for herself. Unfortunately, her use of the console alerts the safeguard exterminators. Kirii, Cibo, and the Electro-Fishers barely make it out of the factory and they board a train back to the settlement.

Back at the settlement, things seem normal. However, one of the Electro-Fishers turns out to be an impostor. Back at the factory, a female high-level safeguard had killed and then copied the form of one of the Electro-Fishers. She is seen dragging a large gun to the edge of a cliff and firing at the perimeter generator that Cibo had created many years ago. The generator is destroyed and the settlement is now accessible to the exterminators. Meanwhile, Cibo was already on her way to try to log in through a terminal that she's brought back from the factory. Kirii was originally slated to protect Cibo's body while she jacked into the terminal. But the distance to the safeguard was too far and he had to move in for a closer shot. Kirii and the female high-level safeguard (Sanakan) duke it out with Sanakan pinning Kirii to the ground. She is confused by Kirii since he appears to be a high-level safeguard as well. In an attempt to salvage him, Sanakan asks him if he will agree to re-join the high-level safeguards. Kirii refuses and their battle continues.

Ultimately, Kirii and the Electro-Fishers end up having to evacuate the settlement and are led by Cibo and Kirii to an elevator that leads to a new location within the city. Kirii waits for them to enter the elevator and then stays behind to fend off the safeguards. The film ends with Kirii raising his gun to fight a massive exterminator as the elevator descends to a lower level of the massive city.

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My take on this film is a positive one. It's expertly put together and I was happy to see that the original writer/artist was very involved with the production of this movie. The level of care shows in every frame and sound. The Japanese voice-acting is phenomenal with the voices of Kirii, the Electro-Fisher elder, and Cibo stealing the show. Use of camera angles and lighting is excellent. And the sense of scale of the graphic novel is well-represented. The movie successfully takes a slice of the manga series and presents it in a relatively-understandable format. The challenge with a story like Blame! is to take elements that will work in a film and not clutter it too much. Hence it makes sense that they would leave out potentially confusing elements like the silicon life of the manga. having yet another faction added to the film's story line would have been too much for most audiences.

The pacing of the film is good (and actually reminds me of the pacing of the first Terminator movie). It has a nice balance of action and slower periods in which the viewer can relax and take in the extraordinary surroundings offered by the future-city. For those who enjoy sci-fi and cyberpunk, I highly recommend this film (and the manga of the same name). This represents a significant contribution to the genre embedded with an important warning for the future development of artificial intelligence and computer-controlled autonomous systems. Let's not make this the future.

Solid sci-fi, visually stunning and good story.

[patrixqrupa · 7/10 · 20 May 2017]

I suppose after the gigantic Netflix logo spins around on the screen, announcing yet another copycat production, the expectations drop considerably. Fortunately but it seems (I didn't bother to check) like Netflix just signed the cheque to purchase the title, I doubt they could have much to do with this movie. Firstly, it's anime made by the Japanese in Japanese language and everything about it is Japanese, it feels way more genuine than Appleseed. The story was excellent and the visuals were absolutely stunning, I think that's why I'm giving it 7 stars. Otherwise it wasn't a masterpiece but still very solid and enjoyable. The characters were a little bit flat, for example they don't seem to be bothered much when dozens of men and children get ripped to shreds or lose limbs, they all mostly stare at the camera with their fakely large eyes. But well, it's mostly an action anime, so there isn't much time to develop any depth. So yes, there is a lot of shooting, running, action but the balance is right - there is also a lot of suspense, story, sci-fi, dreamy cityscapes, exoskeletons, cyborgs, monsters and heroes. However, it's far away from the American superhero movies with happy ending, the overall mood is gloomy, post apocalyptic and the ending is more of a "walk into the mist" rather than "drive into the sunset" which I personally like.

Mad Max Beyond Skynet

[jacobfrankp · 7/10 · 20 May 2017]

Inside a giant 3D-city regulated by an AI-system that is trying to exterminate humans, a mysterious stranger of the Mad Max-type (named 'Killy') meets a desperate and isolated pocket of human survival. He is looking for humans with a certain type of gene which would enable them to reassert control over the AI. The villagers don't know what he's talking about. They have lost this technology such a long time ago that they cannot even imagine humans ever controlling the AI. They thought these were just stories. They have also lost the technology to reproduce the weapons and gear they need for survival, however, so they've become desperate enough to join and assist Killy on a mission. On this mission, they find a 'scientist'. A synthetic human (robot) that has memories of the technology Killy is talking about. She might know a way to reconnect to the AI.

'Will they succeed?' is the question this movies revolves around.

It's a cool premise, I think. A good world to set a story in. In my opinion it doesn't play out that good, unfortunately, but it's entertaining enough. The visuals i liked. If you've seen 'Knights of Sidonia', it's by the same guys and girls, and looks and feels similar.

Great! But it doesn't end.

[stazza · 6/10 · 21 May 2017]

No spoilers. Worth a watch, and delivers what it should, but it's another "movie" without resolve. In the days before the machines took over (our world, not this movie), movies used to have endings and complete themselves. Now, everything ends on a continuing story.

I thought this like a great stand alone sci-fi anime, and stuff happens and stuff completes happening, yet it doesn't "End" with a solution. Just sets up for potential series, I suppose. Might not have watched it if I had known it didn't have an ending. Maybe this will save others. Still, it was very good in what it did. If it had an ending, I would have given it an 8 or 9. As is, 6 is all I could muster.

Flirts with greatness but falls short

[dameon_green · 6/10 · 28 March 2020]

The animation style plus the "world" really hit the mark with me and the story is unique enough to immediately capture my interest, but the characters need additional development, hopefully the promised sequel will flush out and fill in what's missing.

Fresh, New, Metallic Gloom around each and every corner

[VileVanGogh · 9/10 · 20 May 2017]

Blame! throws us into an unknown far-future post-apocalyptic setting that's unlike most post-apocalyptic settings we're used to. Natural formations like land, sea, sky, plants, and rocks are completely non-existent and what we are left with is a colossal, cavernous, metaled mess of a megastructure. Any adjective with the basic meaning of "large" that I could have chosen to describe this structure should be seen as an understatement since - according to the manga from which this film is based on - the megastructure itself, which initially started on Earth, now extends past the orbit of Jupiter.

The massive labyrinth interior of the megastructure is created and maintained by "Builders" (giant skeletal, mechanized creatures who slowly roam around)and to us humans, their design theory can probably be best summed up as ordered chaos gone amok. The viewer is overwhelmed with scene after scene of grand metal-type architecture. One can't wait to see what fresh, new, metallic gloomy backdrop is waiting around each and every corner. The animation used to depict this cold and miscalculated world is phenomenal. Based on this reason and the given "nature" of the setting, any viewer who is attracted to films because of their dark atmospheres should give this one a try.

Not to say the story is dull by any means. Plot elements include a tribe that's on the brink of destruction who question whether they are the only humans left, hyper robots with spider-like bodies and ultra-artificial human faces who eliminate humans upon detection, a wandering protagonist with a synthetic body and a super gun, a female engineer sidekick with Netsphere (cyberspace)insight and the ability to transfer her consciousness into reanimated forms, and that's just to name a few. This is a sci-fi nerd's wet dream.

Some might criticize the protagonist's quiet and shadowy attitude, but I suppose it fits since who knows how long he has been wandering around for. Maybe thousands of years? I found myself longing to know more about his own history, the sights he'd seen, and the experiences he'd had along the way.

My own point of criticism would be the children characters' "coming of age" story whose names, faces, and personalities seem to all run together. Their part in the film should probably be included, but maybe with a little less focus and their characters a little more distinguished.

One warning I give to the potential viewer is there are some sci-fi concepts in the film which are unexplained and rely wholly upon the audience's familiarity with sci-fi in general. Some examples of these concepts are transhumanism and theoretical replication technology.

Have fun watching Blame!. I thought it was a blast!

Particular story

[gianmarcoronconi · 7/10 · 22 July 2021]

Quite compelling film and with a particular story and quite branched with a very high dose of action especially in the final parts of the great fight, even if it failed to convey a real feeling of danger.

Interesting concept let down by one-dimensional characters and poor pacing

[yakobb-97689 · 5/10 · 14 February 2019]

I know nothing of the original mangas, so I came at this totally fresh.

First - it looks good. The design of the world, backgrounds, artwork, everything looks suitably post-apocalyptic and creepy. A giant self-building city has spun wildly out of control and is trying to exterminate its few remaining human residents. Sounds great! And then what happens?

A bunch of entirely interchangeable human characters who we never learn anything about wander around the city, sometimes getting killed. They find a mysterious man with an insanely powerful pistol called Killy. Killy, as the central character, never says anything and just squints around angrily trying to look like Clint Eastwood.

At some point he discovers the functioning remains of Cibo, the one character with any backstory, and the only one of any interest in the plot. She is the only one who can help him and potentially save every one - and he throws her damaged head around like it's a piece of trash. What is this supposed to tell us about him? That in addition to being only able to say the words "...Net-Terminal.....Gene..." he's also an idiot?

The other characters have names but it's hard to tell them apart, as they have no distinguishing character traits and they all wear identical suits where you can't see their faces for 70% of the time. After the first action sequence, we have about an hour of dragging, expository dialogue scenes from them. Sometimes the same, ham-fisted exposition is repeated in its entirety for no reason at all. Musical cues are jarring and mostly horrendously misused, particularly with regard to Killy. It's as if the makers realised at some point that just saying nothing isn't enough to generate his mystique, so they decided to have the piano riff from 'Walking in Memphis' by Cher play every single time there's a close up of his face. That'll do it!

I still enjoyed watching this because of the impeccable artwork, hence my five stars. Ultimately though a shame to see so much potential wasted - the writer and director really should have been fired.

i love it

[yahya-beka8 · 8/10 · 25 May 2017]

POLYGON Studio continues to amazed us with its wonderful CGI pictures. the Director Hiroyuki Seshita did a good job, he moved the image well from the source. I think the story still have more beautiful things, but this doesn't prevent us from enjoying this good movies. Now i'am going to read the manga to discover the whole story. . So enjoy it

Unique and very interesting and it left a permanent impression in a positive way.

[kranskramp · 7/10 · 24 July 2022]

The movie kept my interest the whole time, that is nice to me.

I am not sure how to explain the movie to another person.

It's been stuck in my head for a few days now, i've finished watching it two days ago.

There was no "happily ever after" to this movie that's for sure.

The world, these humans live in, feels incredibly big. This never ending chain of constructions, very unfriendly to humans in all ways and im not even talking about the safeguard.

I think the story was very good, but also feel a bit unsatisfied because i felt they could have given the dialogue a more realistic approach. And Killy clearly is a weird guy (not in a hateful way) who, luckily, eventually helps the humans again, against this infiltrated robot that is out to destroy them all.

Cibo was a nice change, to me it felt that the humans finally made some connection and interaction with someone their generation had never seen.

In this dire world, that was a heartwarming experience.

I was hoping for a good ending, which never came. But the humans were still surviving, albeit still in a very uncertain position and possibly even more dangerous.

After all, the protective barrier was out of action. Yet they had some food for a while, that was a plus.

There was a huge open ending to this movie.

There was one thing that i did not like very much and that is the framerate of the movie. I watched it on Netflix and i i've never had this before and i somehow guess it's the movie itself.

This caused my eyes to feel uncomfortable in some scenes.

Overall a positive experience and i was happy i clicked on it in my Netflix recommended.

Dramatic pauses where you want them all to die.

[dsgrunwell · 4/10 · 19 December 2019]

The visuals and the overall concept are great. The world is believable and explorable. I wanted this to be as wonderful a film as it looked.

Trope alert: They took the basic villagers against an overwhelming outside threat from Seven Samurai or Princess Mononoke, and the "system" seeing humans as the problem, from basically every science fiction film or book.

Cliché anime characters fill the world. The tough, spirited young teen; the wise old leader; the guy who is afraid; the wimpy young teen that everyone protects even if they die to do it.

Add the handsome, battle-scared loner who has traveled the unsurvivable depths of the city. He doesn't blink, he doesn't emote, he says about ten words in the whole film, yet let him in with his superweapon and let him walk behind you. You can trust him, he has intense blue-eyes and hero hair.

What made me go ballistic were the endless dramatic pauses. They could have tightened it by fifteen minutes. The standard time is running out, war is here, people are dying in horrific explosions. Oh, I know, let's walk slowly to do the only thing that might save everyone from a gruesome death. Cue the extended standard hero fight.

Other characters stop to stare at each other or talk. If our base/home/village is being overrun and you stop and want to talk about your loss or tell each other about how much you love them, I am going to slap you until you wake up.

Hint: If you come to a vast factory that can make hundreds of football stadium-sized batches of anything in a few seconds, how about creating some automated weapons systems, powerpacks, weapons, vehicles, or hover tanks? I understand that is too easy. If your plot is destroyed by something simple, then your plot is too weak.

Here's my suggestion. These films take years of incredibly hard work by thousands of extremely talented people. Several months into the planning, ask some of your staff if the plot or characters reminds them of another film. If so, change it or you risk this becoming another cookie-cutter trope anime film.

Interesting but Ultimately Underwhelming

[fpcholcomb · 6/10 · 1 December 2018]

Some strong characters and a solid aesthetic cannot save this film from a pervasive sense of averageness.

The film starts promisingly with a tense sequence conveying just how hostile this world feels towards humankind. The robotic designs are equally horrifying and sleek, and the suits of armor used by the humans give a rugged warlike appearance to even the likes of young teenagers.

Where the movie goes wrong is its excessive exposition. Story beats are given essentially at random with long gaps between any action and characters wear their motivations on their sleeves leaving nothing to surprise the watcher. One comes to no deep revelations about the nature of this world and although I constantly expected my expectations to be subverted, they never were (which I guess in a way was a subversion I suppose). Despite spending so much of the run time having characters mull over the big plan and introducing two mysterious android characters the movie just never deviates from what one would expect from a generic post-apocolpyic film.

Moreover, characters will speak thoughts aloud and say things that could easily be left unsaid. So much of the world remains a mystery by the end of the film I wonder why they even bothered explaining what they did. Leaving more gaps and using some visual story telling tools would have gone along way to make the experience more fluid.

I don't want to make it sound as though the film is all bad, because there are definitely some things to like here. The characters seem genuine and the voice performances are solid. There are some beautiful shots in the film as well. I loved the look of the larger robots, menacing in a techno-godlike sense, and there is a sequence where one of the characters enters this worlds version of the matrix that was tastefully done. When it is not excessively cgi-ed the film can be quite breathtaking, just don't stare to much at the stiff character faces.

Blame! has a bit of romance, a bit of action, and a bit of intrigue, but I would not say it executes any of those elements superbly, certainly not in comparison to the titans in the sci-fi animation genre. Ultimately I would say the package just ekes ever so slightly above average. If you are a fan of post-apocalyptic sci-fi and won't mind a few underwhelming moments it's worth a watch, but if you are expecting Blame! to surprise you and take the genre in interesting directions, you are best giving it a pass.

Oh the Humanity ...

[kosmasp · 7/10 · 12 February 2018]

A possible horrific scenario, where AI takes over and a post apocalyptic world becomes reality. Now I have not read the Manga and had not previous knowledge before watching this. But it looked good and I thought I'd give this a shot. And it does not take any prisoners (literally), which means there will be blood and violence (fyi).

For an Anime it's also relatively easy to follow, without having a giant backstory attached to it. The ground rules are set early, and even though we can't see the faces of the humans at the beginning, we will get attached to them. One major twist may be a bit too much for most people. It's a bit stretched to say the least, but you got to have something crazy in there ... well something over the top crazy. Good action, nice Science Fiction/Robot story, good animation

Promising but somehow fails

[experiments-695-583042 · 6/10 · 21 April 2019]

This movie starts promising but very soon somehow fails. Too much remains unclear. The film contains a number of surrealistic elements but I'm not sure whether surrealism was the intention to that; it rather appears like there are some elements of the story missing.

Stunning visuals

[longnegroarms · 6/10 · 4 July 2017]

This movie has stunning visuals, however, there are too many holes in the plot and everything was happening way too fast. This is a good one time watch kind off movie. The script is just too shallow, sit could have bee way better than it was. It just seems like all they really focused on was the graphics and visuals and the script was done in like thirty minutes. Definitely would consider another movie with a more in depth story.

Phenomenal !

[rtxs · 10/10 · 20 June 2017]

I stumbled upon this having never seen the original series and knowing nothing of its history. It was simply presented to me upon logging into Netflix as a new original. In fact I thought I was watching the first episode of a multi-part deal but it turned out to be a whole movie ... and I am so glad I stayed up late to finish it.

Quite simply Blame! has the best art I have ever seen in anime, topping even that of another recent favorite, Knights of Sidonia. I don't know what to call the computer assisted methods they use (digital rotoscoping?) to add such realism to the art -- while still having it look hand drawn -- but it's amazing.

The story was instantly engaging and the action was spectacular. The fight scene physics were chaotic but believable in context. There were a couple of spooky scenes that put a chill in me and that's when I knew I was hooked. I congratulate all involved in this project for creating a masterpiece. Bravo!

Not for the fans of the manga

[Harhaluulo54 · 5/10 · 21 May 2017]

Reasons why the manga was so special: Atmosphere. It was godly. There was basically no dialog and no text. The whole story-telling was made visually. The art was extremely dark. Showed us that mistakes make the prettiest design. The overall drawn was nightmare-like, reminding me of the world famous artist, Zdzisław Beksiński, who himself has said his paintings were inspired by his nightmares. The manga was rough like the world it build. Post-apocalyptic, futuristic, yet a stone aged hell hole. Despite its ugliness, it still is one of the prettiest things I ever saw.

Then this anime happened. And while it looks pretty and all, it is not the BLAME I know.

They hired like 500 voice actors. Rendered everything symmetric and balanced. Made the overall world seem futuristic 1st person FPS game, except it is an anime. It is like excepting The Matrix and getting Code Lyoko. The epic the manga offered won't work in any other format. It has now been confirmed.

The good addition to the manga

[peyotd · 8/10 · 10 June 2017]

This movie was much better than I expected.

As a fan of the Blame! manga, I think the film keeps the same pace and atmosphere as the original.

The movie has no deep development of characters or the universe, but it gave enough details without destroying the original pace of the narrative, what many screen adaptations are often do trying to explain everything in a limited time.

It's definitely worth watching.

Just takes its time too much.

[thekarmicnomad · 5/10 · 26 May 2017]

An automated city continues to grow inexorably. A glitch has caused the pest control system to classify humans as vermin to be exterminated. The huge, lifeless city sprawls on for ever with only a few humans surviving a meagre exist.

I loved the premise of this film. The first half an hour is excellent and really immersed me into this juggernaut of a system that has gone runaway.

Then some new characters appear with some very special talents. These newcomers "break" a lot of the world's set up and make the main characters survival seem a bit trivial.

What really let this down for me was the pace. I am accustom to Eastern films having a more considered and careful approach and normally enjoy it. But here it feels like nothing happens for really long stretches at a time.

Then when the action does start, someone pushes a button that fixes the situation. I feel this time could have been spent on more action or better characterisation.

I enjoyed the bits I enjoyed very much, but feel it could have been condensed to a much, much shorter film.

Great dystopian anime

[Cookiejar55 · 10/10 · 5 March 2021]

I have only owned one Blame manga vol some time ago and I appreciate the unique art style would not translate well into modern anime and so I think the studio did a great job with the animation. After seeing the visual disasters that Toei produces (Dragon Ball Super, Sailor Moon Crystal) this is high quality animation to me, personally. I have read the rest of the manga online a very very long time ago so I don't remember the full story in detail, I know it's not ideal that they haven't created the story from Killy's pov but I understand their choice due to the limited time. It would be best for this to be a series imho the story is complex and they haven't introduced Silicon Life yet which I would have liked to see. Regardless, I still very much enjoyed it thanks to the atmosphere and the fantastic music score. I hope they can make a sequel where we can see more of Killy.

Wtf?

[figotka · 1/10 · 25 May 2017]

What the hell is wrong with you Netflix? You have ruined it all! Literally all!

Spoiler alert!

I've been waiting for the Blame! anime like... decades and imagine my surprise when I saw... that abomination. Killy was like Terminator with crappy Duracel batteries and mental health issues. (I... have to... find Net Terminal Genes...). And Cibo? In the manga she cared for the people more than Killy. And in This? "Oh you are going back? OK, see ya latter!" Like - The f**k?

This should have been named The fishermen extinction rather than Blame! because the world of the Blame! is more complex, more dangerous, more open and unique, than this Hollywood bull***t.

I am disappointed beyond all Megastructures. If you are manga fan just imagine that this have nothing in common with manga. It's like Twilight and Bram's Dracula. There are vampires, but the different kind of them.

Stumbled across it and loved it

[negotiated · 9/10 · 30 March 2018]

I was surprised to so see such a low rating on IMDb. It's clear that those who follow this manga feel it was butchered but for me, it was a really fresh concept and pretty epic by all accounts. Would love to see more ! If you enjoy anime, this is definitely worth watching.

Interesting premise, terrible writing, boring characters

[Eqyizo · 3/10 · 31 May 2020]

It's very dialogue heavy, and dialogue constantly repeats, explaining something they just explained a few minutes ago. And dialogue added very little to the story progression, nor to connect us with the characters. Half way through I found myself fast forwarding because I knew I wouldn't miss anything, which is something I never do. Basically every other dialogue line: "Let me explain what is happening even though it is really obvious, then I'll say your name repeatedly even though I'm staring right at you and have your attention." Very little action, lots of standing around, constantly saying each other's names (which was sooo annoying), characters are helpless and get in the way. Bad stuff is happening all around, and we're standing around, or walking casually or repeatedly saying each other's names... The world and animation was interesting but gosh everything else was cringe worthy. Not worth watching, in my opinion, for the interesting premise.