This Manga Took Me to a Strange Place

The City in Blame horrifies me. There's not a single inch of its immensity that's beautiful. It destroyed the life of Earth and the majesty of the solar system to create a dead, sterile place that serves nobody. Architecture's function is to create places that humans can comfortably live in, work in, worship in, etc. Lebbon apparently forgot that.

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Wow Dami Lee, This is my first time coming across your channel. This piece is very well written and delivered. Thank you.

can you do lorns lure next?

Larry Niven had similar dreams where a "superconductor is consumed by funguses".

I love your passion for architecture and future scapes/dystopian sci-fi takes on life ahead of us... Thank you

I really appreciate how you refrain from insulting current architecture and practices of our century, but look towards a positive outlook on the future. A revisiting, I like that phrase, instead of a push to recreate the past. It's an acceptance to our more recent past while looking only to move forward to a better future.

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Hey, thanks a lot for introducing me to Blame! The story looks really interesting and intriguing and I'm going to pick up a copy. I really appreciate you being a channel for expanding my experience. Great job on the video.

can’t you say his idea did get actually applied but in Kowloon Walled City? idk watch your other video on kowloon and it fits perfectly with this guys abstract building ideas of “free spaces” and connecting existing spaces

To throw a monkey wrench in: It's not only the city that's constantly rebuild...

Tsutomu Nihei is among the most unique & talented worldbuilders in manga.

Blame!, Knights of Sidonia, Kaina.
Everything he draws evokes a sense of mystery, wonder and vastness.

Excellent video!!!

Did you ever read a book "Anime Architecture" of a chapter on "Ghost in The Shell Innocence" of detailed schematics?

I have the entire manga collection on my desk, definitely in my top 5. The most interesting part in the story to me is the Safeguard's technology, such as the gravity gun and being able to download matter schematics directly into pre-existing structures and convert them into 'silicon life' weapons. And let's not forget Toha Heavy Industries with its enormous megastructures and ring worlds.

Disturbingly great story of post-modernist architecture

143,000 km! I think you might confused Jupiter’s diameter with Jupiter’s orbit. He meant it was Jupiter’s sized (even bigger!) which is still
Hugeeee because it’s actually one of the biggest planets we know of, and the biggest in the solar system!

143,000 km! I think you might have confused Jupiter’s diameter with Jupiter’s orbit? Or did tsutomo address this two times in the manga? I think they meant it was Jupiter sized (even bigger!) which is still
Hugeeee because it’s actually one of the biggest planets we know of, and the biggest in the solar system!

keeping me afloat one episode at a time

This gives so much rain world vibes for some reason

Oh she's out there, she's really really out there! (With tribute to Kurtz from Appocolypse Now.)

That’s amazing work, thank you ❤

I wish you were one of my professors 😊

I don't see the link to the video

This video reminds me of Jorge Luis Borges' "the immortal". The protagonist reaches a city built by immortal men, and it has features which are similar to what is described on this video.

I'm an asian architect. Actually you could incorporate those abstract design but still being functional.

Informed. Intrigued. Inspired.

WoW it is amazing video

I will fight her on the pronunciation (the internet has concluded it's Blam, on account of it being titled after the sound Killy's gun makes) but I will praise her to high heaven and back for embracing Blame! Now do Biomega.

i finished it!
truly was an astonishing manga
truly vast world and architecture
the art was truly outstanding
less talk more perceprion

I love the versatility of this channel, shows how architecture is represented in so many different ways, makes me want to study it. Thank You @Damilee

I have nothing to do with architecture, and scifi manga, but im still here in a rabbithole, appreciate the production quality of the video :D

Damilee should take a stroll through The Old House from Remedy's "Control". I would love to see that tour.

You guys are sooo good!!

Best way someone has described liminal space to me is actually a question “who was it built for if no one is around?”

Oh, I was hoping for an omegaverse story.

I want to watch this again.

Another Excellent essay. Touch over-dramatic in places. Certainly prefer the standard essay voiceover/narration rather than the over-acted dramatic bits. Standard “we’re a small studio that has an expanding budget and is experimenting” syndrome. Still: excellent work. Love the analysis.

The art is fascinating, but experiencing the reality would be terrifying

Its like the opposite of cozy. The anti-cozy

is this connected to The Animatrix ?

Blame! Is really just the story of ancient alien structures and how that species met it's apocalypse. But it's us. You want to root for the humans but everything you see keep telling you and reaffirming "oh we're past the time of humans, what are those even, maybe I can put them in an museum." but the museum is a nightmare type of existence the machine authorities deem appropriate.

Machines do
They don't need to think about why
We can't force them to think about why
Why is human

Took a bit to grab that this was about architecture

Yes we've gone too far in terms of economical. All our buildings are just boxes. All around the world. It's sad

I really enjoyed this video. I ended up purchasing the manga after not having read manga and a many many years. I was also very intrigued by Woods’s free space idea. Altogether, this video was very provocative and challenging me to think about something new and different. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to do that. Thanks a lot.!