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is a one volume manga created by
Tsutomu Nihei as a prequel to his acclaimed ten-volume work,
Blame! .
It offers some rather sketchy information concerning the
Megastructure 's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of
Silicon Life . The book also include an early
Blame! (Spelled without the exclamation mark) story that debuted in
1995 .
Musubi Susono is sent to investigate cases of children being kidnapped. She and her partner Clawsa investigate one of the possible sites, Clawsa (though some translations give Krowzer) is immediately killed by a unknown force. Musubi tracks down his killer, who addresses himself as "The Order", he then unleashes an early
Safeguard creature on her, she quickly dispatches it with an energy blade weapon which bears resemblance to the
Gravitational Beam Emitter . Later she continues to find "The Order" and the secrets of the Netsphere.
As she is changed at the end to a Safeguard it is considered that she is also Sanakan from Blame!
The story portrays
Killy as police officer in a
Post-apocalyptic subterranean city thats thriving with activity, who's investigating the brutal murder of a gang of drug dealers. We are introduced to a heavily toned down
Gravitational Beam Emitter as well as other elements that will take vastly different forms in the later publication (for example,
Silicon Life ). It's inspiring to observe this early work of
Tsutomu Nihei 's and consider the artistic leap he make in the three years between the publication of this story and
Blame!
