The Anime
- Acting for Two: Given the short run of the 2003 web animation shorts and the little amount of characters that actually talk (with them being Cibo, Genitalias, Metajiini, the clone of the president of the Bio Electric Corporation, a member of the Authority, the Cibo from the alternate world, the Silicon Life that Cibo interrogates in Toha Heavy Industries and the girl with the dog that appears in the sixth episode, that is implied to be Cibo) only two voice actors were cast for the project: Tatsunori Arakawa for the male characters and Asuka Aizawa for the female characters (that are all basically Cibo except for Metajiini).
- All-Star Cast: The Japanese cast of the 2017 Netflix movie displays a surprising amount of famous names of the industry, featuring big name voice actors such as Takahiro Sakurai, Kana Hanazawa, Sora Amamiya, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Mamoru Miyano, Aya Suzaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Yuki Kaji or Saori Hayami.
- Directed by Cast Member:
- The English dub was directed by Robert Buchholz, who provided additional voices for the film.
- In the Latin American Spanish dub, Irwin Daayán is the ADR Director as well as the voice of Killy.
- Doing It for the Art: Nihei says as much in an interview.The first editor from the publisher was a Sci-fi maniac and we were getting along well. My debut was BLAME!, which is a maniac sci-fi for niche fans. We had no interest in sales.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: Some volumes of the English translation go for roughly nine hundred dollars used. Luckily, the Master Edition fixes this.
- The Other Darrin:
- In the 2003 web animation shorts, Cibo is voiced by Asuka Aizawa. In the 2017 Netflix movie, Cibo is instead voiced by Kana Hanazawa.
- In the Latin American Spanish dub, Irwin Daayán replaces José Ángel Torres as the voice of Killy.
- Real-Life Relative: In the Latin American Spanish dub, real-life brothers Emmanuel and Julio Bernal provide additional voices.
- Recursive Adaptation: After the movie was released it got a manga adaptation called BLAME! Denki Ryoushi Kiken Kaisou Dasshutsu Sakusen ("The Electrofishers' Escape Plan"). It's basically the same thing, with a few changes here and there.
- Role Reprise: Takahiro Sakurai reprises his role as Killy from Knights of Sidonia.
