NOiSE

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NOiSE
Volume cover, featuring Musubi on top of early silicon creatures
GenreCyberpunk[1]
Manga
Written byTsutomu Nihei
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineAfternoon Season Zōkan
DemographicSeinen
Original runMarch 10, 2000June 10, 2001
Volumes1

NOiSE is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It is a prequel to his ten-volume work, Blame!. Noise offers some information concerning the Megastructure's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of Silicon life. The book also includes Blame, a one-shot prototype for Blame!, which originally debuted in October 1995.

Plot[edit]

This story portrays Susono Musubi, a young police officer in a post-apocalyptic subterranean city that's thriving with activity, who is investigating recent child abductions. She finds a heavily toned down, sword-like Gravitational Beam Emitter as well as other elements that take different forms in the later publication (for example, Silicon life).

Publication[edit]

NOiSE, written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei, was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon Season Zōkan [ja] from March 10, 2000,[2] to June 10, 2001.[3] Kodansha collected its chapters in a single tankōbon volume released on October 20, 2001.[4]

In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Tokyopop, who released the single volume on December 11, 2007.[5] The manga was later re-released by Kodansha USA in digital on June 28, 2016 and in print on November 29, 2022.[6][7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Tsutomu Nihei's classic NOiSE is BACK in digital—read Chapter 1 here". Kodansha USA. December 7, 2016. Archived from the original on July 1, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  2. ^ 月刊アフタヌーン シーズン増刊 No.2. surugaya.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 1, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  3. ^ 月刊アフタヌーン シーズン増刊 No.7. surugaya.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 1, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  4. ^ NOiSE (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  5. ^ "NOiSE Volume 1". Tokyopop. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  6. ^ "NOiSE". Kodansha USA. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  7. ^ Hazra, Adriana (November 22, 2021). "Kodansha Comics Announces 14 Manga Titles for Next Fall". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 22, 2021.

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