NOiSE

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NOiSE!
Genre	Seinen, Sci-fi
Manga
Authored by	Tsutomu Nihei
Publisher	Kodansha
Serialized in	Afternoon
Original run	2001 – 2001
No. of volumes	1 (complete)
Related works
Blame!, Net Sphere Engineer, Biomega

NOiSE is a one volume manga created by Tsutomu Nihei as a prequel to his acclaimed ten-volume work, Blame!.

It offers some rather sketchy information concerning the Megastructure's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of Silicon life. The book also include an early Blame! (Spelled without the exclamation mark) story that debuted in 1995.

[edit] Story

Musubi Susono is sent to investigate cases of children being kidnapped. She and her partner Clawsa investigate one of the possible sites, Clawsa (though some translations give Krowzer) is immediately killed by a unknown force. Musubi tracks down his killer, who addresses himself as "The Order", he then unleashes an early Silicon Creature on her, she quickly dispatches it with an energy blade weapon which bears resemblance to the Gravitational Beam Emitter. Later she continues to find "The Order" and the secrets of the Netsphere.

[edit] Early Blame

The story portrays Killy as police officer in a post-apocalyptic subterranean city thats thriving with activity, who's investigating the brutal murder of a gang of drug dealers. We are introduced to a heavily toned down Gravitational Beam Emitter as well as other elements that will take vastly different forms in the later publication (for example, Silicon life). It's inspiring to observe this early work of Tsutomu Nihei's and consider the artistic leap he makes in the three years between the publication of this story and Blame!

[edit] External links

• Noise manga review at Mangareviewer.com

Tsutomu Nihei
Works
Blame! | NOiSE | Biomega | Net Sphere Engineer | Abara | Digimortal
BLAME! characters and structures
Killy| Cibo | Sanakan | Graviton Beam Emitter | Net Terminal Genes |