Artist influence and style breakdownfrom @mike_sunday

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This terrifying manga isn't told through dialogue better through its architecture and environments. This is the art of blame best Nihei. No grew up in an agricultural and natural environment and when he entered the construction industry he quickly realized that he was ill suited for collaborative, tier oriented tasks which made him pursue a more autonomous profession. Now in tier, Nihei actually went to New York to attend Parsons where a lot of his coursework was emphasized in architecture, which is where he picked up a lot of his spatial composition and structural visualization skills. And when he returned to Japan, he worked part time for an architectural firm where he studied structural mechanics and the insides of walls like piping, steel framing, better. And you know where I'm going with this if you've read Blame. Now in terms of influences, the rendering palettes and grimy style of Rank Bilal was of massive inspiration. Now leather clad characters in these isolated environments could be seen in the work of Mobius And of worse, these organic machine environments or biomechanical surrealism was inspired by the work of HR Giger. We can also see Clive Barker with his cyber gothic imagery like Hellraiser. Of course, Otomo Zaccura, but he is also inspired narratively by the likes of William Gibson, Ridley Scott, and even Guillermo del Toro. Now his work can be sort of split into two eras, the earlier heavy, darker, black inked panels and the lighter, cleaner, sterile, highly overexposed white compositions. But the divining narrative tool of blame is its minimization of dialogue. Nihei specifically prioritizes silence and negative space, transforming the page into the embodiment of isolation, scale, and physical exhaustion. Kili, the protagonist, quiet focal point for the better to experience the environment with. The weight of the narrative is carried by the physical better, and you could consider this environmental cosmic horror. Nihei transfers the terror into the environments, and as the manga progresses, the panels become increasingly bleak and empty. The world of Blame is completely composed of liminal spaces, cosmic isolation, and intergalactic terror. So have you read Blame? Let's have a discussion down in the comments.