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BLAME! (2017)

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BLAME! poster★ 6.5

In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. A girl named Zuru goes

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In BLAME!, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “net-city”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, control, survival, inequality, authority.

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⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E4geneonly individuals possessing the Net Terminal Gene can access the Netsphere and be recognized as legal citizens; all others are classified as illegal and hunted (biology · universal)