#mensab

[netterminalgene]

artificial princess

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Mensab fans.

[zayphora]

i finished reading blame!. images and words and what they mean

[holy-human-freak]

Finished Blame. It started to lose me towards the end but I finally glad I got around to reading it at least. I also probably couldn't fully appreciate it on my phone since it's as much if not more about losing yourself in art of the towering megastructure taking up entire pages as it is about the plot. And that just doesn't translate well to a tiny screen.

[kayjeimages]

inspiRED 🎈

[electrosquash]

"What's 'The Earth'​?​" - Music Inspired by Tsutomu Nihei's 'Blame​!​' on Bandcamp

And also check out this 800 hours long track to accompany the elevator ride!

[allyouneediskilly]

Obsessed with the relationship between Mensab and Seu. A human warrior serving an AI who loves him so much that she keeps fixing him every time he’s fatally wounded even though every time he comes back he’s a little less himself, until he can’t remember his own name.

But he remembers Mensab, and he remembers how to fight. For her and the humans they are trying to protect from the Safeguards.

A digital knight and his Lady. Love as duty even in this endless labyrinth of silicon and violence.

[daisyachain]

Blame vol 1-6:

Fractal levels of detail in the setting. Each panel has nuts and bolts showing within metal panels within concrete structures. Can’t imagine the time it would have taken to render each page like that consistency, without the simplification that comic artists tend to incorporate over time

The disconnect between the realistic backgrounds and the B-grade depiction of humans in a lot of the early chapters isn’t even a drawback. The spindly, long-limbed creatures look unnatural. They’re nonnative to the environment where the silicon creatures fit in better.

No matter how mad good the quality of the illustrations are in terms of worldbuilding implied, the action is consistently hard to follow. By devoting the same attention to every rung of every utility ladder along with the major structures, the art doesn’t draw the eye to any particular spot on the page. You’re left to make something of the rebar vistas presented rather than being given a clear depiction of the events happening. Can be fun, mostly just makes me wish I had more time to spend on appreciating the art rather than trying to figure out which tiny black-clad frame is plummeting across the panel this time

Kind of a chore to read before Cibo shows up. Killy’s a fun guy, but it’s hard to get a sense of direction for the plot without any dialogue and with the aforementioned parsing problems

Speaking of Cibo, there are surprisingly solid character dynamics that I wouldn’t expect from this kind of a high concept manga.

Cibo fits the hero role better than the well-intentioned but silent Killy. Remains to be seen whether she keeps it, but it’s been a real treat watching her play the plucky adventurer, the last-minute rescue, the chief negotiator, having an actual impact on the plot. Can’t believe women are humans too. I keep thinking we’re about to have a moment where her fragile female emotions cause her to make a misstep and get bailed out by Killy and it hasn’t happened even once. So far.

Mensab and Seu’s thing is a lot more cliche of a lady-knight dynamic and it still worked. Because it’s a good manga. You do feel for Mensab’s loss when her only companion gets wiped constantly. You do feel for Seu’s helplessness when he can understand she’s bummed and knows it’s beyond him to understand why.

Electrofishers are fun! I like that some of them survive (:

The Toha Heavy Industries feels like the first point where an exercise turns into an actual narrative. Now that it’s over, I’m excited to see where we go……..

[panvani]

Reading Blame. They designed the fuck out of Mensab

[radio-jannah-web]

RADIO MENSABE 1410 AM

[eyeballtank]

Some art ideas I had

Before working on Nortubel, I used to draw art and some of it was crossover based, other was based on my characters. But then I focused more on gamedev and later art I posted online was mostly stuff made for my game. A lot of it looks ugly but if you can tell I still wanted to focus on stuff I liked and not care about drawing popular stuff. I still had some ideas for art, which may not ever be done but they were pretty much the following:

Guts from Berserk as a Rankin Bass Hobbit.

Dhomochevsky and Iko from Blame but Iko is a balloon.

Sucy from LWA and En from Dorohedoro interacting.

Ranking Bass Eowyn x Casca Berserk.

Blame's Silicon life x Quake 2 Strogg.

Captain Sternn (Heavy Metal) and General Sturnn (Warhammer 40K).

Fritz the Cat/Zootopia crossover.

Mensab Seu X Farnese Serpico.

Turok and Yakari.

Gravity Rush Raven X Fuuma Kotaro of Tenkaichi.

Dragon's Crown Amazon and Hexen Fighter/Baratus

Mostly more anime/manga stuff (Berserk, Big O, LWA, Dorohedoro, Lupin the 3rd at the time).

Some characters I like doing that lunch in the lunch in the construction beam photo

Marvel vs Capcom joke with Elena from SF and Barracuda from Punisher.

Maybe a Totally Spies/Aeon Flux crossover

The Boys (Comic/Ennis version) and The Ripping Friends crossover

Doom Eternal Tyrant x D64 cut Cyberdemon.

And a bunch of other OC related art, which probably doesn't have to be done because I've made it for the game.

[alivehouse]

thinking about seu and mensab from blame! again and losing my mind a little

[pipes-and-wires]

Blame! - Tsutomu Nihei

[blameposting]

i love that there's like. zero reason or explanation for why Seu was a Whole Fucking Knight. completely the best way to handle that question

[mensunderweario]

Modus Vivendi at MensUnderwear.io

[electrosquash]

Thinking about data fragmentation and personality in Blame! again asdfhkajdglgkjlasjdf

Killy, Dhomochevsky whose Download Tower is gone, Davine, Pcell later in Blame², Sanakan in the later story (accelerated by Cibo scrambling heir brain - the power of Yuri...), probably the astronomer too, they all lived so long their original programming is lost. Like fragmented hard drives it takes longer and longer to access their programming, their static data, their memories. Killy doesn't even know what a book is anymore. The dart Sanakan shoots him with can only partially inject its routines, scrambled as his data is. Ultimately they all have to develop creativity and free will to keep moving forward because the programmed routines aren't accessible anymore. They develop humanity. Seu as one of the few remaining humans gets defragmented everytime Mensab revives him (one of the more tragic love stories Blame! tells. I love this extremely dry and seemingly emotionless manga actually has lots of feelings inside) and he loses a bit of himself every time. I think the unstructured chaotic nature of brain's data organization (cybernetic or otherwise), that enables stray unlogical associations and results in creativity and love, is what makes us 'human' in Blame!. Not the fascist Safeguard's definition of presence of the Net Terminal Gene and certainly not the chemical makeup of our body.