Yes and no. At least how I see it.
We don't know how strong Isuka's motivations are right now, tho the LN does allude .
Though yea, the OG has been drastically changed, some sort of causality still hits. Isuka, in the game/OG timeline, wipes the church clean. Gray
The way I see it is: Isuka...
What Ariamel dreamt was basically the life she would've had if Gray didn't mess up the OG timeline. The Original timeline goes like this:
Ariamel and the kids are living happily, albeit in poor conditions
they are kidnapped and taken and sold to slavers (and brutalized in the process)
Ariamel...
Part 2 is stalling hard right now. This chapter along with the whole arc feels slogged.
The series has to be cooking some M Night Shyamalan level plot twist or a really interesting narrative in order to compensate. Thus far it feels like a REALLY inferior version of Part 1 imo
I always interpreted BLAME as a futuristic dystopian on Franz Kafka's massive, oppressive and highly bureaucratized structure that is described in his unfinished work, The Castle.
The main character of that story, K, reminds me of Killy a lot. They're both outsiders that are trying to break...
Studio Gaga has improved A LOT with the artstyle. Couple of chapters more and they could get close to the quality of shading that Miura did with his work. Also the plot took a solid couple of steps forward. Can't wait for the next chapter.
Since the series is done, idk why it's taking so long for the English translation to kick in. Spanish translators already have it completed. Spoilers tho