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''Biomega'' is a CyberPunk ScienceFiction manga by Creator/TsutomuNihei, which was serialized from 2004 to 2009 (starting out in ''Weekly Young Magazine'', and later moving to ''Ultra Jump'' in 2006).

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Zouichi and an AI integrated into his motorcycle called Fuyu are sent to retrieve humans for Toha Heavy Industries. They are looking for humans immune to [=N5S=] infection, which turns humans into undead disfigured "Drones". Zouichi is sent to find Yion Green, an immortal 17-year-old girl. The world's future is up to Zouichi when Yion is kidnapped.

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!!Tropes related to the {{manga}}:

* ApocalypseHow: The world undergoes a large viral plague which results in odd zombification. To make matters worse, the only people left are being killed off by cyborgs and mutants, with only Artificial Humans left to protect them.
* AfterTheEnd: There were three seperate ends. The first was the loss of all digital information hundreds of years before the begining of the story. The second is the ZombieApocalypse. And the third is caused by using zombies as a catalyst to turn the lithosphere into a giant space habitat. ItMakesSenseInContext ... [[MindScrew sort of]].
* AlternateUniverse: This seems to be the case with ''Biomega'', it features a lot of similarities with all of other Tsutomu's works but the stories can't possibly take place in the same universes. ''Biomega'' and ''BLAME!'' both feature ArtificialHumans who are quite similar to one another but the stories don't connect. Plus several brands appear in the different stories with Toha Heavy Industries appearing in all of them as a benevolent MegaCorp. They are the ones who created the good kind of ArtificialHumans in all of the story lines. Then again BLAME! revealed that they posess the ability to travel whole buildings through space and time, [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse so...]]
* ArmCannon: One of the arms of artificial human Nishu Mizunoe is a rather destructive arm cannon.
* ArtShift: About halfway through it becomes less grim and gritty just like the plot itself.
%%* ArtificialHuman: Zouichi.
%%* BadassBiker: Zouichi.
%%* {{BFG}}: Zouichi's coil rifle.
%%* BodyHorror: In all its glory.
* BigDamnReunion: At the end, [[spoiler:Kozlov is reunited with Yion after being separated for the entire series and thousands of years from Ion's perspective.]]
* BioPunk: To the point that after volume 4, with the amount of OrganicTechnology and TechnologyPorn involved, it becomes really difficult to tell what is purely mechanical and what is partially or entirely organic (provided the distinction even makes sense in this universe at that point).
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: A 4.8 billion km long space habitat made of reconstituted zombie meat and Polymer.
%%* CoolBike: Zoichi has one of these.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: The technorganic BigCreepyCrawlies are called "horses". But so is Zouichi's motorcycle.
* DistaffCounterpart: Nishu is basically Zoichi's female version.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The DRF's plan to [[spoiler: turn the world into a worm-like shape.]]
* EnemyMine: The main opposing force to the main characters for most of the story were the PHS, however [[spoiler: they eventually semi-team up against DRF Headquarter.]]
* {{Expy}}:
** Zoichi is [[Manga/{{Blame}} Killy]] [[BadassBiker AS A BIKER!]]
** Niardi's appearance also resembles that of [[Manga/{{Tomie}} Tomie]].
* FacelessGoons: Almost everyone in the DRF wears masks.
* FlatCharacter: Ion Green, yeah, she may be a [[spoiler:more than 200 years old teenager which is the key to inmortality and being the antidote for the [=N5S=] Virus]] but she barely has anything to do with what was happening, and the fact that the manga has some MindScrew here and there it's kinda easy to lost track of her, and hard to see her as a character rather than a PlotDevice.
* FriendlyEnemy: While not necessarily 'friendly' its hard to explain what the relationship between Kardal Spindal and Zoichi is. On one hand they have come very close to killing each other several times, but on the other hand they have the odd habit of letting each other go. There was also one instance where Kardal gave Zoichi a cure for the poison an HQ solider shot him with, the author never got around explaining why. Whether or not this was a case of FoRomanceSubtext or something else is never explored since Kardal was later PutOnABus for the remainder of the series.
* FunWithAcronyms: Sometimes it seems like the DRF must have an entire department that just comes up with acronymns for its subbranches.
* GenreShift: From {{Cyberpunk}} ZombieApocalypse to HeroicFantasy {{Cyberpunk}}.
* TheGunslinger: All [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]]. You don't see gunplay this fast anywhere outside Franchise/TheDarkTower.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Fuyu sacrifices herself to help Zouichi get past the army of DRF agents during the final battle. The ending gives Zouichi hope that she can be revived.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Justified by the fact that everyone who does it is an organic robot, and POV shots explain that they have "terminator vision" and are doing physics calculations on the fly.
* LivingMacGuffin:
** Yion Green is this in the first half of the manga, when everybody wants her for her ability to resist the [=N5S=] virus.
** Millennia after the Earth is reformatted into the Recreator, Funipero becomes the person whom Zouichi has to keep out of Niardi's hands. At least Funipero has more personality than Ion does.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Koslov Grebnev, the talking bear, hates the DRF for the suffering it brought to the human race, Yion and himself. It turns out that his brain came from a clone of Loew Grebnev, the DRF's founder, which makes Koslov essentially Loew's son]].
* MegaCorp: Toha Heavy Industries and the DRF.
* MindScrew: The series starts off fairly easy to follow, but the further you get into it, the more confusing it becomes.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: CyberPunk zombies! [[{{InSpace}} From Mars!]]
** [[http://www.bateszi.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/image001.jpg Cyberpunk talking Russian brown bears!]] Seriously.
* NumberOfTheBeast: At the very beginning of the manga, we see Zouichi driving down a long bridge on his motorcycle. A close-up of the dash panel reveals that he is driving 666 km/h.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Toa Heavy Industries may be an industrial giant with artificial humans as its enforcers, but we only see a few of them in action (and after the whole world gets reformatted and there's a time skip, Team Kanoe is all that remains of the old world.) Team Kanoe is still referred to as "Toa Heavy Industries" by the bad guys whenever they attack.
%%* OrganicTechnology: The Polymer.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Drones are zombie-like entities infected by the NS5, a virus that originated from the planet Mars.
* PerpetualMotionMonster: Synthetic humans, who can go for weeks without water and months without eating and not weaken.
%%* RammingAlwaysWorks: "I still have one projectile left."
* RuleOfCool: Responsible for quite a lot of the plot, action and character design.
* RussianBear: Kozlov is a Russian scientist who had his mind uploaded into a bear.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: It's a bit of a running gag that [[RussianBear Kozlov the talking bear]] keeps getting bits of himself shot off by the bad guys. Considering his earlier manga, ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' also features another guy with an Eastern-European-sounding name who endures similar hardships, it seems Creator/TsutomuNihei really gets a kick out of this trope.
%%* SceneryGorn
* ShoutOut:
** The AI companions that appear as 10 inch tall, pretty young ladies in tight fitting clothes with odd vertical black markings, as in Franchise/{{Halo}}.
** The RDF's AxCrazy patrol officers wear aprons and masks that look like faces, like Leatherface in Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre.
** The MegaCorp known as Toha Heavy Industries is a nod to Nihei's earlier manga, ''BLAME!'', which featured a megastructure of the same name. This lead most fans to believe that ''Biomega'' was meant to be a prequel until WordOfGod said it was a different continuity.
** Kardal Spindal's last name may or may not be a mistranslated nod to Isaac Szpindel, a cyborg from Creator/PeterWatts' novel ''Literature/{{Blindsight}}''.
* SingleStrokeBattle: The final fight between [[spoiler:Niardi and Funipero]] plays out like this. [[spoiler:They charge at each other with longswords, Funipero's sword is knocked out of her hand, and Niardi is [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisected at the waist]].]]
* SpaceElevator: The Intercontinental Mooring Cable.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some of the spellings for the characters names can get a bit confusing. For example most fan translations has PHS' enforcer named Kardal Spindal. However the official manga translation has her name as Kaadaru Spindaru.
* StealthPrequel: While it doesn't take place in the same continuity as ''Blame!'', Toha may be the same entity in both manga through interdimensional travel, which would make it a prequel from Toha's perspective.
* {{Transhuman}}: Just about everyone.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's 3000 AD, but it looks like mid 21st century with anachronistic cyborgs and super weapons due to it being set hundreds of years [[{{AfterTheEnd}} after an act of cyberterrorism]] that brought the internet crashing down.
* TheVirus: The NS5 virus turns you into zombies, or superhuman cyborg zombies.
* WorldShapes: If the DRF gets their way, it will result in [[spoiler:the creation of a bizarre new world which is shaped like a giant worm.]] And they did.
* WorldHalfFull: In the end, when given the choice, Zoichi decided to let the new world continue and let Earth be bygone.
* ZombieApocalypse: The world has been overrun with the Drones.
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