BLAME! MASTER EDITION 1
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BLAME! MASTER EDITION 1 by Tsutomu NiheiMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
When you get more information from the cover blurb than you do the book itself there are problems. I first ran into Blame! years back when I got a T-shirt for it in Loot Crate and went looking half heartedly and then my library got this this month. It's dystopic (already not my favorite) and it's set in a city that appears to be one giant building. Kyrii, the main point of view character wanders the city looking for non-mutated genes because I guess humans have been mutated by a plague of some sort but who the hell knows because the manga isn't about to tell you. In about 400 pages there are probably 20 of dialogue and the main important dialogue is in the last 15 pages. By then I was bored.
There are silicon based creatures that look like cenobites or the handbots from The Girl Who Waited. There are monsters. Mostly Kyrii roams and shoots things with his special gun. Why? He has no choice because everything wants to kill you in this world. I have no idea why he wants the genes, who is he taking them too because Kyrii's personality is shallower than a teaspoon.
In the final arc when he meets a scientist who can help (and finally has some dialogue that's interesting), something happens to him, something major and he has such a non reaction I have to wonder if he's even alive. It's not believable. The library has more of this but I'm not sure I'll bother.
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