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BLAME! Master Edition 5 by Tsutomu Nihei

nolansmock's review against another edition

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5.0

Re-read. I'm not sure what happened but I broke my stride somewhere along the line. Do I recommend reading this series fast? Yes and no. Halfway through this volume I regretted my decision. I wanted to read anything else from my stacks. An intermission was beckoning. I picked this up begrudgingly. I wanted to stick with the sense of oppressive doom though. It just makes sense. I'm trapped here. My last review of this and the previous volumes were lower but I rate the overall experience higher now. The notes from three years back that I'm overwriting here said I was confused and this might definitely be the toughest volume to follow yet. No time for questions now. I'm almost out of here.

cavernasoledad's review against another edition

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dark

3.75

xxxgabbi3xxx's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

2.25

zare_i's review against another edition

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5.0

Plot thickens as they say. Silicon Life's goal is now clear - they are trying to connect to the Netsphere and they can try to do it in this specific part of the City where specific Net Terminal Gene is not required. Here Kyrii and Cibo find refuge with provisional Safeguards, Dhomochevsky and Iko who are trying to keep this location safe from intrusion and especially Silicon Life.

Art as always, Lovecraftian to the L. I have to admit that I am not sure how this will end, considering this is penultimate master edition I dont know how this story-line can be finished. Truly wandering how this one will end.

Recommended to fans of Event Horizon like stuff (and SF of course :))

m560's review against another edition

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3.0

The style is amazing, but there are too many times I have absolutely no idea what's going on and that's been going on for sooo long now. I just want to finish reading this series.

warlore's review against another edition

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3.0

still good, kind of gets more abstract. the plot is a bit confusing and there's just not much plot in general. good art, good vibes

lipsandpalms's review against another edition

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4.0

I've given up on trying to piece together a story. I recently learned that originally, the artist was a student of architecture. If you consider the main character to be the setting, and the characters to just be literal window dressings, its lack of story is more forgivable.

tomoka's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

vishvrangi's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

nb_leftist's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

… Sanakan out here giving me gender envy