It seems my brain is having trouble functioning properly in the heat we're currently having around here, or under any conditions really. I couldn’t quite get the hang of it, hence the three stars. It’s also a little challenging for the reader, because the lack of text makes it tempting to flip through the pages quickly, when what you really want to do is take your time and let the story form in your head.
So what this graphic novel does is to give you some great artwork, a claustrophobic atmosphere, a lot of action, and also some gore, a setting that reminded me of Blade Runner and Hugh Howey’s Wool, characters that look like they're straight out of Metal Gear Solid, Terminator or I, Robot, a few hints at what might have happened, and then lets you fill in the blanks. As far as I can see, the machines have taken over and being one of the remaining humans gets you in big trouble.īut nothing gets explained in detail and generally there’s very little text. But barely anyone seems to know much about their own history or that of the other occupants. Kyrii encounters several different factions (a lot of them not human) and subsequently a lot of trouble on the way up.
Tsutomu Nihei is using an interesting approach, where he’s telling the story mainly through the artwork. He’s trying to make his way up, in search of the Net Terminal Gene, a genetic mutation that allows humans to connect to some sort of network. Kyrii is one of seemingly very few remaining humans that live in a city that’s grown vertically, to an enormous extend.
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