Audience reviews
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SgtSalamander
Many people have said that the Blame! anime can't quite compare to its intended experience as a manga, and that much I'd grant them- the manga is a sprawling, hyper-detailed work that can only really be captured in its original medium. Others, however, have said that it doesn't lend itself well to anime, and that much I'd have to disagree with. The Blame! ONA is pure atmosphere, just like the manga, and with the addition of color, trippy visuals, and liminal music and sound, it comes to life as a unique little slice of the bizarre tech-inspired fever dream anime which had reached their zenith in the early-to-mid 2000s, just as the internet was beginning to truly be appreciated as something which would change global society forever. Indeed, a kind of internet-adjacent communication and data…
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This small adaptation of BLAME! felt more like a proof of concept piece. As the majority of it is incomplete in its visuals. No cinematography present besides jerking of the camera or still shots. Voice acting was whatever because again, proof of concept. Random moments from the manga are taken and this cannot in any way stand on its own unless you have read the manga. Not fun to watch, and I wouldn't recommend to watch this even if you love BLAME! due to it lacking any substance at all. While it is cool to see some movement here and there, that does not excuse it from being quite poor.
Read at the sourceEmperorThor
This is actually very deep and profound anime that is a complex metaphor or allegory to a world we live in.
Unfortunately few would be able to understand the idea of this show. However I think that is not what creators indented.
Then wanted to send a message to select few who could get it. Now I finally got their message as well.
I guess I can almost quote the main character. I am looking for humans with Net Terminal Gene, that is a metaphor as well.
Well I guess I want to find people who can understand this stuff as much as I do and talk online.
It would be interesting to talk.
Of course only if you understood it the same way as I did. I have no interest in people who is not getting it.
Read at the sourceJoexySun
Short review: (minor spoilers for the manga ending)
As "promotional anime shorts" for the original manga of Blame!, it's a mixed bag. Don't expect too much from these shorts. 6/10.
Pros:
+Faithful to the original manga in all its aesthetics, style and narrative coldness.
+Certain materials here are intriguing (e.g. EP3)
Cons:
- Barely comprehensible even for someone who has read but not familiar with the manga. It's more likely to confuse potential readers and intrigue them. - Barely animated sequences are long and confusing.
- EP6 canonized one fan theory that the entire story is cyclical/hopeless, as Killy and Cibo have both gone through these events multiple times without success. (This is a minus for me, but might be a plus for some as it fits their philosophy)
If you are intere…
Read at the sourceVampireLord1024
I've never heard of this anime before, so I thought I'd watch all six episodes and I'm not really sure what to say about it. There is some action in this anime, but it was kind of hard to figure out what was happening and the two characters are in some world with a lot of levels to it or something? Anyways, there's no story to this anime or at least from the six videos that I watched on it there wasn't a story in any of the videos. The sound was good, the characters were ok, then again not much was said in the six episodes of this anime.
Read at the sourceWeebReptile123
It is strange to see people rating this 1, since this is just some addition to the great manga series.
And yet, regardless of near-perfect art-style and sound design perfectly suited for something like Blame, they seem to completely misunderstand what they were watching.
Honestly, if they made whole adaptation in this style and with this sound design, that would be probably as close to original as it gets. Ofc. the action scenes and characters would take ALOT of work, but it seems they could've done it.
Anyway, we have what we have. I put 9/10 and 10/10 for art and sound respectively. Rest is kinda irrelevant since its just some random chapters from manga, representing different parts of the story.
Also - the existing english subtitles (including Youtube ones) seem to be a freaking mes…
Read at the sourcekerberos242
A warning: this is just a series of scenes that will only make sense to people who have read the manga, because the animation has no unifying story thread or exposition. What this little series of videos does well is capture the dark, unearthly atmosphere that is crucial to Blame! being what it is. The music and sound design is easily the best part; it's very Industrial, very bleak, very atmospheric, and the tracks for the endless, empty megastructure are as good as those for the sequences of action. The animation is extremely limited, but the art style is right and it serves well enough to give a feel for the world of Blame!.
Read at the sourceAndoCommando
Blame is an interesting case in the anime world. While the original source – the manga is both known and respected as a cult classic by many, it has been seemingly plagued with a handful of weird anime adaptations that don’t even try to be faithful to the manga, including the recent ‘Netflix original’ film of the same name. Because of this, the entire franchise is basically a fucking mess, and has been a complete disaster when attempted to be adapted to anime so far, with not one single adaptation being able to replicate the visual spectacle and atmosphere that made the manga so famous. But this ONA version stands out from the rest, because when it comes to Blame’s anime adaptations, this one has to be the worst one by far, and quite possibly the worst anime adaptation of a manga I have ev…
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I never rated anything a one out of ten… until I encountered Blame.
Perhaps it was because I am a man of the pencil and paper, and I tend to become extremely irritated when others criticize my work. As a result, I don’t particularly enjoy ripping someone else’s culmination of effort to shreds. Instead, I always appreciate the thing or things a crappy series pulls off successfully, even if they are ultimately insignificant, and I make sure to feature them in my review. Perhaps I chose not to hand out ones because of my opinion that anyone who habitually gives low scores to the things they watch must not enjoy what anime has to offer. Perhaps I chose not to rate anything a one out of ten because I set an impossible standard for what I considered to be the worst of the worst. The standard? A…
Read at the sourceDesu-Waa
Usually, I love science fiction. Science fiction something I look forward too during my life. I love the interesting what if scenarios. This is mostly why Blame was on my radar. I should have known better. There really is no excuse, but I have to blame someone for this.
I blame Group TAC for making this horrible disaster. I blame Shintaro Inokawa for his ability to move manga images around the screen. Sometimes he will move them up, down, left or even right. I also blame him for doing a 180 rotating trick with the camera, that didn't serve any purpose in the story. I blame Noriyaki Tetsura for almost giving me a seizure with his red and blue light show. I blame the writers for not being able to write a story. I blame Group TAC for wasting my time. Most importantly I blame myself for think…
Read at the sourceCharmingIce
Blame! Or rather "Lame!"
Don't waste your time and hop on to the next Anime.
Okay story like... ZERO
Where in some sort of cyber space and weird crappy stuff happends out of nowhere...
I seriosly believe that this is the worsed Matrix attempt ever.
(Animatrix is great by the way, better than the real movie.)
Anyway, I've read the other revieuws here and I completely disagree with every positive thing what there saying about Lame! cough cough Blame!
Read at the sourceladyxzeus
This is a very short anime that works as brownie for those who liked the manga of Blame!
However, even though I did not read the manga, I found this a really nice anime. The story is, basically, non-existant. For those not familiar with the overall plot this will be a surreal experience, since there is not any hint or information. If you ignore this fact, though, and focus moment by moment you will be able to appreciate a very faint shadow of the original story concept. The same applies to the characters.
The art and animation are both original and very good. The sequences are very short in time, but extremelly heavy (especially if you think too much about them).
In the end, it's a gorgeous portrait of the manga's world. If you haven't read it you will feel like to.
Read at the sourcewontgetschooled
Wow so this should be quick
Story/Character: as stated in the summary this is only intended as a bonus for the manga!!! it has NO story Or character Development!!! so if you expect to understand it without reading the manga you will be disappointed.
However I did not read the manga, so i didn't expect much from that aspect
so lets get into what i really did want from this anime!
ART: This is one of my favorite anime from an art perspective. I would suggest that you see this anime if just for the artwork. I mean come on it totals around a half hour is that really so long to See something just for art?
A good amount of the anime is spent panning around dark, rather artisticly drawn, underground (or seemingly underground) mechanical areas. It really is just plane cool. The look of it i…
Read at the sourceTCHaos
This title makes better sense if you have previously read the manga. The OVA jumps back and forth along the manga plot illustrating the key moments of Nihei's (Author of manga) scenic perspective of a chaotic world, so it is very hard for a newcomer to even try to decypher the storyline.
- ANIMATION -
The animation itself is clean and fluid, however many scenes are mere transitional still background frames showing in colour the world of BLAME! but those with movement truely show Nihei's disturbing imagination.
Yet the series' production team was not entirely faithful to his drawing style so the characters are not identical to their manga counterparts.
- SOUND -
The music was an important asset to the OVA, it was the mixture of mechanical/industrial and eerie tunes that really gave the im…
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This anime is just a small collections of moving images from the manga really. Thus it is only any fun at all if you\'ve read the manga and loved it.
There is no story to it, though there does seem to be a point to it (it certainly brought something to my attention).
The animation looks good, I liked it.
Since it doesn\'t show any more then just a few scenes, there\'s no story of itself whatsoever, character development is non existent and none of it will make any sense to you at all if you haven\'t thoroughly read the manga and remember every single detail. The manga is my absolute favorite ever and even I had trouble following what was going on at first.
So, watch it if you liked the manga, but leave it if you don\'t know it or didn\'t like the manga...
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