Blame!

Manga adapts this year's anime film This year's November issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine announced on Tuesday that Kōtarō Sekine's BLAME! Denki Ryōshi Kiki Kaisō Dasshutsu Sakusen manga will reach its "last battle" in the next issue on October 26. Sekine launched the manga in April. It adapts the Blame! anime film, which is itself an adaptation of Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! manga. The film opened on May 20 for a limited two-week engagement in Japan, and it also begin streaming exclusively on Netflix worldwide on the same day. Nihei supervised the manga adaptation. The film's official site describes the all-new story: In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and

Film based on Tsutomu Nihei's manga premiered on Netflix in May Viz Media announced at its New York Comic Con panel on Thursday that it has licensed the home video rights to the Blame! anime. The company plans to release the film on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. Both editions will include an art gallery and the Blu-ray Disc edition will include the "Making of Blame!" documentary directed by Hiroyuki Seshita. The film premiered worldwide on Netflix on May 20. Hiroyuki Seshita (Ajin), who previously co-directed the anime adaptation of Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga series, directed the film at Polygon Pictures. Nihei himself handled the film's script and character design, and also served as "creative consultant." The film's official site describes the all-new story: In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure