Tower Dungeon

[kohelemon]

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.

 

[3leaves2]

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

 

[BakedBanana]

guh

He's a man of few words but they hit straight through to the heart.

 

[Turkeyjerkey]

So nice to read a manga that feels like it takes place in actual 3d space again.

 

[JoeKerr]

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.

 

[KazeSasso]

i like the new style. its boring if manga artists stay the same without ever changing things up. giving it a read.

 

[Trig_Zero]

this has some of the BLAME! grittiness, and i dig it
bookmarked

 

[Meybi]

Fantasy? Nihei? Fantasy!?

 

[ScuffedGeo]

This is pretty cool. Definitely feels like you're in Dark Souls somewhat but not everyone is dead or extremely grim.

 

[faraway25]

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.

 

[Greedygreen]

This author has such a unique sense of humor. Like i can't even describe it, but it works.

 

[IlsaTilsaKilsaMilsa]

Reason behind ''sexual violence'' tag?

 

[Realms_Beyond]

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.

 

[xyzzy]

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.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1816488586474074256

As per usual, whether the scanslation continues is on the scanslators. Don’t blame Kodansha, just push them to make K Manga more accessible.

 

[repollitoplus2099]

cry

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!

 

[Nie82]

It’s also simulpubbed now.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1816488586474074256

As per usual, whether the scanslation continues is on the scanslators. Don’t blame Kodansha, just push them to make K Manga more accessible.

Yeah, I'll hold out hope for the scanlators, otherwise I'll wait for Book*Walker to have a good sale after it comes out officially.

 

[Kosiezeli200]

Why is there a sexual violence tag

 

[coyote_vdb]

Reason behind ''sexual violence'' tag?

Well, the way the marquess "eats" his lunch seems to be by raping people.

 

[Sgotfastbrainz]

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.

 

[ZdenkoFitz]

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.