NOiSE

The Bible has its Genesis.
The Matrix has The Second Renaissance.
BLAME! has NOiSE.

Through the eyes of police force member Susono Musubi, this one-volume prequel gives readers a glimpse of the world before the Netsphere went haywire. Witness the events that threw the technologically advanced society into chaos: the cancerous growth of the Megastructure, the birth of the parasitic lifeforms called Silicon Creatures, and the development of the ruthless killing machines known as the Safeguards.

NOiSE was published digitally in English by Kodansha Comics USA on June 28, 2016. It was published in Italian by Panini Comics under the Planet Manga imprint on July 8, 2003 and in Spanish by Ediciones Glénat on November 2003. It was also published in English by the now defunct Tokyopop in December, 2007.