Tower Dungeon

Dex-chan lover
Joined
Feb 16, 2023
Messages
406
Hmm... I mean it looks unique, I'll have to try again later, but from first glance it doesn't look as beautiful as people are bragging that it is.
DON'T WORRY, this is my process, I'll be back in a couple months to seriously read it.
 
Double-page supporter
Joined
May 13, 2019
Messages
257
oh, I didn't actually realise it was nihei. I like it though it feels more fleshed out than normal. though maybe that's just a more used to setting
 
Dex-chan lover
Joined
Aug 15, 2018
Messages
695
You can see an extremely noticeable change in his art style from blame to this.

And not necessarily for the better.

The lack of detail makes it feel cartoony and harmless, some parts feel unfinished and empty and could really benefit from volume shading. His backgrounds used to have such a disturbingly organic feel in Blame and Biomega, yet these look clean, pristine, antiseptic even. They lack the personality of his earlier work to elicit much of anything at all.

I cannot begin to imagine how much more horror inducing, the whole manga would be if he went back to his messy, black heavy, high contrast style.
 
Joined
Jan 17, 2019
Messages
7
i like the new style. its boring if manga artists stay the same without ever changing things up. giving it a read.
 
Member
Joined
Apr 22, 2024
Messages
55
This is pretty cool. Definitely feels like you're in Dark Souls somewhat but not everyone is dead or extremely grim.
 
Joined
Jul 3, 2024
Messages
1
Can we please remove the "Sexual Violence" tag.

I get it, whenever someone grabs a woman in manga/anime that's where the mind goes because the genre is notorious for using it but that was an incorrect assumption in this case.
 
Dex-chan lover
Joined
Jun 1, 2019
Messages
277
This author has such a unique sense of humor. Like i can't even describe it, but it works.
 
Contributor
Joined
Jan 19, 2018
Messages
4,753
For anyone interested, Kodansha has licensed this for English with release slated for spring of next year, announcement says it will be available in printed format.
https://kodansha.us/2024/07/04/AX-2024-spring-2025-july-new-licensing-announcement/
Need to update my wishlist.
It’s also simulpubbed now.


As per usual, whether the scanslation continues is on the scanslators. Don’t blame Kodansha, just push them to make K Manga more accessible.
 
Joined
Jun 19, 2024
Messages
1
yes he changed his style after blame!, biomega then it was more notorious on knights of sidonia and two of his later work apozim where everything was almost white, he made an anime that had one season kaina of the snow sea, so this looks more promising and more closer to biomega and blame! or even Noise!
 
Fed-Kun's army
Joined
Aug 6, 2020
Messages
75
i disagree on the art being downgraded. anyone who's done pages of comics KNOWS how unsustainable a blame volume would be with conventionnal storywriting. how unsustainable it generally is to make a goddamn manga.

the author clearly made a switch from paper to digital with biomega (the way the shade is handled, the lineart being really uniform and the use of 3d support on some structures (he does a damn good job at integrating it)...
Which typically means there's no downscaling unlike paper drawing. i have no doubt he was doing A3's worth of stuctures back then.
it's multiple times quicker to do, too.

you cant even imagine how heavy and resource intensive a full scale high ppi, multi layered drawing gets when you go digital if you go ham on detail. i've made "things" that were 4-7gb a piece. you'd get into terabytes territory quick at a mangaka's pace.

let's be real, if you have kids, you cant pull another blame. he was publishing it at 4x the speed any european artist would. i'm thinking Comès, for example. his entire career was less than 40 volumes, from 1971 to 2009.

Miura died without completing his manga.

him making short, approachable stuff (well granted it's still tsusomu "mutilator" nihei we're talking about) means we'll get more incredible architectures in different scenarios. i'm all for it. i crave for it.
 
Joined
May 22, 2023
Messages
10
i disagree on the art being downgraded. anyone who's done pages of comics KNOWS how unsustainable a blame volume would be with conventionnal storywriting. how unsustainable it generally is to make a goddamn manga.

the author clearly made a switch from paper to digital with biomega (the way the shade is handled, the lineart being really uniform and the use of 3d support on some structures (he does a damn good job at integrating it)...
Which typically means there's no downscaling unlike paper drawing. i have no doubt he was doing A3's worth of stuctures back then.
it's multiple times quicker to do, too.

you cant even imagine how heavy and resource intensive a full scale high ppi, multi layered drawing gets when you go digital if you go ham on detail. i've made "things" that were 4-7gb a piece. you'd get into terabytes territory quick at a mangaka's pace.

let's be real, if you have kids, you cant pull another blame. he was publishing it at 4x the speed any european artist would. i'm thinking Comès, for example. his entire career was less than 40 volumes, from 1971 to 2009.

Miura died without completing his manga.

him making short, approachable stuff (well granted it's still tsusomu "mutilator" nihei we're talking about) means we'll get more incredible architectures in different scenarios. i'm all for it. i crave for it.
It's still a shame that he is going this way. His old art style was one of the best in manga because of how he was doing it. That "approachable" maybe easier to do, but it lost its uniqueness and quality. For example, in APOSIMZ even the architecture, which is his strong part, was worse looking than in Blame. I just miss the old one, hope he will return to it some day.
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Top