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A review by zare_i
Aposimz, Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
4.0
Very interesting - both artistically and story-wise - SF story.
Story is placed on the surface of gigantic planetary mega-structure. Inner core is ruled by the chosen ones (victors in the large war waged in the past) while everyone else is forced to live on the surface, under harsh conditions.
And so story begins, small military training group comes under attack from Rebedoa Empire when they try to assist the unknown girl running away from the Rebedoa pursuers. This results in a very high cost for our heroes.
Wont go into more details here because I do not want to spoil experience to other readers.
Some very interesting concepts are given here - endowing people with the so called Frames, basically providing nanobots (I think, they are called placenta here) to strengthen the body and provide one with armor and advanced weapons, to as long as body can produce energy for it.
Everything is very game-like, as story progresses our main character Etherow will level up with every battle he survives. Enemies, Rebedoa Empire, are ruthless and fielding the same type of Frames. While Etherow survives initial challenges it is visible that there is more to come.
Art is very interesting. When it comes to panoramas and epicness of battle scenes, they are still the trademarks of the author, well established in Blame series.
But, unlike Blame, art style is very much like pointillism in pencil strokes - everything is very light and distorted, strong lines come into play in some panels but majority plays out like a mirage, trembling around the edges, I have to admit it does take some time to accommodate to but after a while it does create certain dynamic art. In general characters are no longer lanky ones from the Blame but with more proportional bodies, although almost everyone from this Etherow's military training unit look like kids. Gotta be related to the story itself.
All in all, interesting story. I am on a lookout for other volumes.
Recommended to fans of SF.
Story is placed on the surface of gigantic planetary mega-structure. Inner core is ruled by the chosen ones (victors in the large war waged in the past) while everyone else is forced to live on the surface, under harsh conditions.
And so story begins, small military training group comes under attack from Rebedoa Empire when they try to assist the unknown girl running away from the Rebedoa pursuers. This results in a very high cost for our heroes.
Wont go into more details here because I do not want to spoil experience to other readers.
Some very interesting concepts are given here - endowing people with the so called Frames, basically providing nanobots (I think, they are called placenta here) to strengthen the body and provide one with armor and advanced weapons, to as long as body can produce energy for it.
Everything is very game-like, as story progresses our main character Etherow will level up with every battle he survives. Enemies, Rebedoa Empire, are ruthless and fielding the same type of Frames. While Etherow survives initial challenges it is visible that there is more to come.
Art is very interesting. When it comes to panoramas and epicness of battle scenes, they are still the trademarks of the author, well established in Blame series.
But, unlike Blame, art style is very much like pointillism in pencil strokes - everything is very light and distorted, strong lines come into play in some panels but majority plays out like a mirage, trembling around the edges, I have to admit it does take some time to accommodate to but after a while it does create certain dynamic art. In general characters are no longer lanky ones from the Blame but with more proportional bodies, although almost everyone from this Etherow's military training unit look like kids. Gotta be related to the story itself.
All in all, interesting story. I am on a lookout for other volumes.
Recommended to fans of SF.