NOiSE – A prequel to Blame!, in which a police officer investigates the murder of a gang.Originally published in Afternoon, it also gained a 6 episode ONA. Blame! – Nihei's first work, detailing the adventures of Killy/Kiri as he searches through a massive city for a human with special genes that could save the world.Given to creators for “contributions to the worlds of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation, and fandom services,” the Inkpot Award is an honor that Nihei now shares with other comics, film, and sci-fi legends such as Osamu Tezuka, Moebius, and Ray Bradbury. He also received an Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International, the organization that runs San Diego Comic-Con and WonderCon. Nihei was a special guest of San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2016. In the mid-2000s, during a trip to the United States, he met the Halo design team, who directly offered him to participate in the Halo Graphic Novel project when they found out that he was a huge fan of the game. Nihei is also a big video games fan, and mentioned Metroid and the Halo franchise among his favorites. Other sources of inspirations include Hard science fiction novels, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, French artist Moebius and Clive Barker of Hellraiser fame. Giger, best known for his airbrush images of humans and machines connected in cold biomechanical relationships. He was also enormously inspired by Swiss artist H. Japanese comics that strongly influenced him include Akira, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Ghost in the Shell. Nihei has several sources of inspiration, including Manga, American comics and Bandes dessinées. His experience in construction and design has shown up in his manga in his depiction of huge structures which are a strong theme in his manga works. He went to New York and studied at the Parsons School of Design. Nihei worked in construction but quit to work on becoming a manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following worldwide. An architectural student, Nihei's early work were mainly wordless, relying on visuals and backgrounds to tell their stories.
In 2009, Nihei returned to Afternoon to launch what would become his most successful series, Knights of Sidonia. Following the success of Blame!, he next penned Wolverine: Snikt! (published by Marvel Comics) and Biomega. After working as an assistant to veteran comic artist Tsutomu Takahashi, Nihei went on to launch his debut series Blame! in Monthly Afternoon in 1997. In 1995 he was awarded the Jiro Taniguchi Special Prize in that year's Afternoon Four Seasons Award for his submission, Blame. Nihei has been drawing comics professionally since the mid-1990s. Tsutomu Nihei ( 弐瓶 勉, Nihei Tsutomu, born February 26, 1971) is a Japanese manga artist.
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