The actual lore behind that is that Killy has dementia from being like 10 thousand years old and so legit cannot remember where the hell he got it from, or anything else really, except what he's trying to do and how to operate it.
Would you not care if you lost a universal fuck off gun in world full of dangerous robots of all shapes and sizes, living _-_-_-_-_, and hungry for loot scavengers?
@@zikkuraorgannon6680 yeah If course but Like to think that is Has some sentimental value to him but He forgot because Hes so old. Maybe someone really important gave IT to him
There's just something about a pistol designed to destroy everything. The Noisy Cricket from MIB, the Dominator from Psychpass, and this hit different. Literally
i just wish they didnt make it a lazer gun in the movie. in the manga you couldn't really see much of a beam it looked more like a projectile that traveled so fast it looked like a beam at times and you could really only see the effect it had. to the naked eye it would just create a gaping hole through anything infront of it with no traceable effect. it had a much more unique feel than just a red kamehameha pistol.
he shot it at full power in the manga once. It took out a titan sized monster and a few levels of the megastructure, seemed like a large city's sized block, basically making a canyon. Oh, the recoil nearly ripped his arm off (he's already an enhanced being) and sent him flying.
It felt like the anime failed to portray how GBE works. Here it works like a laser, but is should work as gravity projector that penetrates the middle of the target by pushing the atoms forward, but the force is still projected radially away from the center of the impact of the beam as the atoms collide, gain acceleration and spread the gravitational pull, which would make the object to crumble towards the center of the penetration and be strongly pushed away if not completely disintegrated. The recoil of GBE is absurd as it channels gravitation away from the point of emission and generates sudden inertial spike in counter direction. Projected gravitation travels forward until all energy is dissipated through collision with atoms and subatomic particles. Knights of Sidonia anime show this better.
@@Asphyx12Hes basically saying the gun should look different rather than a laser. Imagine it launches a line of extremely strong gravity(hence gravitational beam emitter) that pulls any matter in, but physics wont let you place a gravity beam like minecraft creative mud block out of nowhere, it should collide with some atoms first. Therefore, before the gravity beam touches you, you disintegrate first. Him saying the recoil ties to newtons third law. About an equal opposite force. Meaning the force it needs to cancel out(recoil) the gravity beam is as strong as the force it fires.
This thing is so goddamn powerful, author said that if it was fired on Earth (bare minimum) it would have destabilized the magnetic poles and the ozone layer, destroying them.
@@andreawaite8677 Nvm, just googled it and holy sh*t! Did *not* know the builders kept on building beyond the atmosphere, and eventually, (possibly) the entire solar system as well! No wonder it took Killy so long to find that Net Terminal Gene.
@@masterzoroark6664 He did fire it twice throughout the story: one defending Toha from getting destroyed by the Safeguard, and one to bore through the megastructure after Toha went postal.
its interesting for all her knowledge she (the other cyborg) can't imagine how a gravity gun could be created; this anime which may not be true to the manga - is interesting in terms of alien folklore..
The animation was amazing, my gripe with the movie was it dropped the whole horror aspect of the manga for action. There weren't any of the body horror machines like the boss or central ai or any of the silicon life, and it also didn't bother showing us some of the incomprehensible locations of the city that Kiri passes through alone. The art style could've been closer to the manga where there were long shaftways of pipes and stuff, residential districts that look like apartments but with no one living in them, and gigantic seas of metal stretching so far, or so high, or so low that there's an actual atmosphere of mist that prevents you from seeing the entire thing, gigantic towers of metal, all that good stuff. This stuff added atmospheric horror and eerieness to the manga which is why I love the manga in the first place.
I don't see any silicon creatures. What is Blame! without silicon creatures?! Man I want to see a 3D animated Davinelulinvega. And the scene where Killy meets that one who's just observing the local area, and we get to see his zero-tolerance policy against cyborgs in action, and wonder what exactly that means or whether we should be in favor of it. Nobody should make a Blame! anime without including that little segment! Oh well, thanks for showing me the gun scenes. After reading that this anime existed, that was exactly what I came to RU-vid looking for!
Dude, I know which part of the manga you're talking about! so good. When Killy says "Hey, I found one of your baby centers earlier, I blew it up!" then, there is this moment of silence and shock from one of the cyborgs. The next line is "watch out for his gun..." so fucking good. The manga was so good at making the world feel devoid of life and filled with horror.
I will never comprehend why they'd negate every upside to using 3D animation by neutering the frame-rate to below/around 15 FPS. The #1 reason you'd pick 3D over 2D is the freedom of whatever frame-rate you want without worrying about the limitations of cell-based animation. That, and the really cheap shaders/lighting that's being used from Knights of Sidonia makes textures loose all depth and detail due to how flat they are rendered.
Because if you go with 2d then you have to draw the enormous city background every frame which gonna cost alot, and you cannot use only one back ground like other story base animation
Same reason movies are always 24fps even though they could be shot in 60: people are used to and like the look of lower framerates for certain applications.
So Killy was just a normal man, but as he selected independence, and to search for the DNA thing, he just leveled up so much that from a man he turned to a complete cyborg..
Not exactly. Killy is not a human, but a safeguard like Sanaka(the person who infiltrated the fishermen's home). He identifies himself as a human though. He's different compared to Sanaka because he was built much later so his programing and purpose was to find humans with the Net terminal genes instead of killing humans.
@@resonanceofambition really? I thought that safe guards were created and were wiping out all humans, net genes or not, so killy was created to counteract this.
@@vertextin Created how? Noise (the prequel) states that the safeguard are just another system that existed from before the netchaos. Killy is one of those special types that got released into the wild after the authority lost control. The safeguard aren't necessarily evil, they're like an antivirus system. Killy existed already by that time but I guess he was on standby or something.
@@vertextinSafeguard basically an agent program (like agents in the Matrix) to destroy any unauthorize access to the Network. The early Safeguard cannot just popup using Transformation Tower (which is probably didn't exist, yet). So they sent their agent in real world to kill any entities who tried to access Netsphere or stealing their property. Note: Not all safeguard are programmer like that, some of them actually programmed to protect human. Killy probably one of these agent. He probably human but then get reconstructed to become a Safeguard just like Musubi Susono (She;s escape before her mind get wipe out). Because there are no Transformation Tower (yet), Netsphere is placing their agent in real world in sleeper mode. So when Netsphere get hacked and causing chaos, Killy probably got disconnected entirely. And he gain full control of his body and his Safeguard data registration is lost. In the Manga, Sanakan tried to transform Killy into Exterminator but failed. That attempt actually restoring some of Safeguard function. Killy now can understand the HUD menu and he can scan the presence of Safeguard right away.
i keep coming back to these scenes i fucking wish there was a sci fi weapons anime like halo or doom or something like this were the protagonist actually fucking shoots
The movie was okay but I still really dislike the depiction of the GBE. It come across as a basic 'delete stuff with heat' plasma/laser beam emitter by the effect that is shown. The heat residue after firing (glowing debris etc) is fine but there is no actual gravitational effect shown unlike the manga (at least the parts of the manga where it is used on stuff that isn't just basically holed by the forces it exerts).
It really feels as if they pulled every trick they could in order to cut corners with the presentation here. Sanakan's GBE gets the worst of it, convenient camera angles and positioning making it so that we don't get to see anything even resembling the destructive power it's supposed to be capable of. It ain't just supposed to be a laser, It's a goddamn black hole gun.
i was going to comment exactly this. its not a laser. its not a disintegration ray. its a motherfucking beam of GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY energy. if lasers, acids, and nukes werent able to penetrate the mega structure in Bio-electrics sub strata then why would an overpowered flashlist be any different. they really fucked up with GBE in this anime and I can only hope that they take a real close look at the source material again if they decide to make another installment.
It is so frustrating that there is no impact behind any shot. In the manga, if Killy doesn't two hands the thing and get a firm stance, he is sent flying. His arm litterally goes full ragdoll. The GBE has such sheer force in the manga, a single shot is such a massive amount of destruction in a general direction. And to see it just being a "whoop" and then making holes is frustrating
first time she was using grade LEVEL 1 GBE, there are 3 levels of using this gun, last level grants target's decimation on molecular structure (like charged gravity gun by syringe-stimulator from Kirie). But yes, it's the same lasgun.
@@himitsugawa4226 I think she's firing a laser, a laser beam before getting authorization to get a gravity beam. A gravity beam is far more destructive than a simple high power laser, at least with the mass of the City. I like to think a gravity beam isn't actually strong but rather it pokes a hole in the gravity furnaces from the manga that stops the City from collapsing into a black hole. So the GBE is just dropping The City on your head every time it fires.
@@himitsugawa4226 are you sure? I thought it was a laser type weapon, given that she requested GBE permission and that the weapon functioned quite differently vis-a-vis recoil, beam emitted from lower aperture, surface heating etc.. I included it since I wasn't sure, and it certainly could have been the GBE of a different design or on a lower power setting.
I never read the manga, so this is all I had to go on. My thoughts were that the movie sets up an intriguing universe, and while I thought the movie was 'pretty good, not great', I'd love to learn more about the city and its inhabitants. Agreed on the GBE.
They have plans to do a second film, but I don't see them being able to have a smooth transition to anything resembling the other arcs. That is with Cibo being nothing but a hand, chilling with the electrofishers down on some abandoned level. Unless they bring back hand Cibo in the Cave 8 parallel universe plot point. Even then it's a stretch, because they'd have to re-establish Sankaran and Cibo just to achieve the final arc of manga.
@@cavok84 The movie focuses on a pretty minor and irrelevant sequence of the manga and even then it distorts a lot of things, the electro-fishers are just not that important to the original story. I guess they wanted to give the movie more human character development and some conversation sequences, but in reality the world of BLAME! is almost completely devoid of human interaction. It's a shame because sequences like the electro-knights and later encounters with powerful safeguards are imo more exciting than the electro-fishers, who were only in the story to show how completely helpless the remaining humans are when faced with the safeguards and the other megacity defenses. Also in the movie Killy is a little *too* empathetic towards them. In the manga he literally doesn't give a crap about anything other than net terminal genes (cos spoiler reasons). If you do read the manga, I hope you like detailed drawings of epic mega-structures with almost zero talking and character development, because that's what it is. It's like the Dark Souls of manga - much more so than Berserk imo - and that's why it was so hard and took them so long to actually make a funded effort to adapt it. A lot is left to the imagination and there are a lot of questions that don't get answered until the very end. If you tried to do a fully hand-drawn anime of BLAME! and do it justice, it would probably take years and cost a ridiculous amount of money. With that said, it was almost worth waiting ten years just to see him fire that fucking gun, jesus christ. That's one thing they _didn't_ mess up.
Most "experts" agree than any universe vs the megastructure ends up with the former getting eaten by the locals. The only people who would stand a chance are those whos power is not based on realistic standards. Saitama for instance from One Punch Man would have no trouble traversing the megastructure mainly because his powerlevel is satire However, of all the discussions I've come across, Killy would stomp most characters from most franchises mainly because his full speed is relativistic. At full power, unlocked, repaired and reactivated he can dodge GBE beams. That is not fair against anyone. The only people who would make a good change against him are: * Doomguy (Blessed by gods and too angry too die) * Kerrigan (Stalemate, Physically weaker but superluminal thought) * Don Fua (Battle Angel, but only if he gets enough time to execute his noble void palm or noble essence fist) * Zekka (Battle Angel, actually has a decent chance against him) * Goku (Come on...) * Saitama (Killy most likely would die tbh)
I kind of don't like the way it was animated. In the manga, the way the medium limited how much of it could be expressed kind of made it look sometimes as if it just... created holes. Just one second the world exists and you blink and suddenly there is a hole a mile long just GONE from reality.
gun is so powerful, it moves all the enemies from a bunch to a single direct line of fire. Truly, Gods best invention since the chainsaw and double-barelled sawed-off shotgun
Now that is a gun! I think there was a similar weapon (gravitational laser) mentioned in the Ender’s Game series at one point, as a planet-cracking weapon. Though in real life, gravity is absurdly weak compared to the other fundamental forces, so I’m not sure how practical it would be even if you could build it.
For a weapon so powerful, the sound effect accompanying any use of the GBE is disappointingly un-explosive; no boom, no screeching of metal, no whine of ionized ozone (typical laser sounds), no sizzle of things melting into slag, etc.
People justifying budget bin sound design lol. Its okay to like this still for sure. It isn't terrible. Certainly pretty standard for the industry though.
I had a gun like this as a 'trap' in my D&D Dungeon. (a fusion gun) Simply put, if the players tested it, they'd drill a hole thru the whole dungeon level. And, quite coincidentally, raise the temperature of the room they're in to just above boiling...
That’s the whole reason I made this. I got really into the Xeelee books, and I loved that Blame and knights was the closest thing I’ve seen to a star breaker.
Why did they change it from gravity balls to a gravity beam? It looked so cool in her Manga. Did they do a test on how it would look and have it not work out or something?
This is such a huge missed sound design opportunity :( Its a bubbly relatively normal sci-fi laser sound. A bit bigger than a the most regular laser guns, but still so normal for how Blame is great for it's uncanny unthinkable sci Fi the sound design doesn't measure up. :c
When Sanakan was killing the Electrofishers, was she already using the GBE? Didn't she need to request authorization before she could use the rifle version of the GBE when she fought Killy? The way I see it, the small gun she used is not a GBE.
ah yes.... the F*ck everything gun where it erase anything, no matter how tough or big a target is and a true contender for BFG 9000, also the lore of knights of sidonia considered this weapon as the holy grail of weaponry because it can eat gaunas like a snack quite well.
I absolutely loved the manga and this movie was cool afk as well! even if it is not very accurate. Did anyone mentioned about the short 2D videos that came out years ago? there were like 6 of them and closer to the manga style, almost no dialogues(just like the manga, heck, I think the movie had more dialogues than the entire manga series), and smooth jazz. edit here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KHoXnfpz-rk.html
