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If you want to get lost in an expansive megacity, check out Blame! an artwork-driven anime. Its pages of architecturally rendered pages tour the “megastructure,” an impossibly large city (the size of Jupiter’s orbit). The city is constantly being built by out-of-control builders. The way to stop them is supposedly lost.

You’re dropped into a world that seems allergic to explanation. No names, no maps, no exposition panels. Just page after page of impossibly vast corridors, monstrous machines, and a lone, near-silent figure named Killy trudging through it all. It’s sci-fi stripped down to its steel bones. Cold, cryptic, and mesmerizing.

But behind its wordless panels and oppressive silence, BLAME! is doing something quietly brilliant. It’s building one of the most ambitious fictional worlds in manga—just not in the way we’re used to.

Blame! It’s everything this article suggests. Read more about this interesting manga here.