tsutomu nihei's atmospheres are fluidly apocalyptic with an understated punk aesthetic. the sort of dark 2060 you would like to imagine. think thousands of feet of parallel concrete climbing up to the sky connected by wire like bridges hundreds of feet between. this is now what Earth looks like. a lifetime may pass without a human knowing his world beyond a hundred feet either way . the walls are intermittently artillery scorched, because there is a war being fought between man and the System, which is, to simplify, an intelligent computer system controlling the planet. man lives in isolated colonies somewhat like the aboriginal colonies of today, few and far between. we are a dying race.

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