Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! will be getting the anime treatment in an upcoming film from Polygon Pictures. Hiroyuki Seshita will direct the adaptation. Seshita previously co-directed another anime adaptation fo Nihei's, Knights of Sidonia. Both Nihei and Seshita will be in attendance at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, which kickss off later today with Preview Night - expect further details to be announced before the week is out. Nihei previously teased that he may show a sneak peek of the film at SDCC.
The Blame! manga was launched back in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine in 1997 before concluding in 2003 at 10 published volumes.
Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head. Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.
If Killy is going to find the treasure he seeks, he will need more help and information than the inhabitants of these beleaguered outposts can offer. He needs to find a larger cluster of civilization, but he'll have to survive the trip to get there, first...