Blame! Prologue

This is going to be a very short review for an anime that takes a little over 6 minutes to complete.

There isn't much of a story unless you were an avid reader of the Blame! manga. Several enemies appear, Killy destroys them, Killy continues with wandering the giant cityscape. End of story.

Now a good art design, this has in droves. This OVA was created by the same people who did Appleseed (04) and Vexille, so of course there's a high level of detail in the backgrounds. The city looks great, and it keeps that grungy, almost decayed look of the manga perfectly. The ... characters look more like action figures or robots more than anything else, but considering the fact that most of them are Silicon Beings, it sort of fits.

The sound was decent, but considering that all there was to hear was eerie noises and gunshots, that's not saying much.

If Cibo had shown up, there might have been some dialogue, but with Killy, its always shoot first, ask questions never. He's as silent as ever, and neither he, nor any of the enemies he runs into (including a brief moment when Sanakan appears) say a word. Its fine though, because you don't really need a whole lot of talking to understand this.

If you're a fan of Blame!, you can't really go wrong checking this out. If you're not, it's only 6 minutes out of your day and it's very pretty to look at.

Blame! Prologue did not seem to have any story to it, at least to me there was no story at all in the two videos. The sound was alright, the characters on the other hand, well they did not look all that great to me. I think that the characters could have looked a lot better then how they were made. Also, there really was not much going on within the two videos anyways. The art for Blame! Prologue was sort of good and sort of iffy. Overall, I did not really enjoy Blame! Prologue at all. I'm sure there was probably more of a ... story in the manga then in this short CGI mess.

The environments of this adaptation looked quite good, if not grainy and iffy here and there and the character models definitely look like PS2 ones. The music is just about non existent and the only plus I can give this is accuracy to source material. It feels like they actually took the time to analyze the panels from the manga to give what the fights would look like in motion, even if the quality is very poor, it gives you a feel of what maybe an adaptation would look like in its very early stages. Meh not recommended, even having read the manga.