Knights Of Sidonia
The anime adaptation for the manga series Knights o Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei is moving right along as the official website has updated - in Japanese and English - with the first thirty second promo. The promo does make note that Polygon Pictures has won awards over the years in North America with Daytime Emmy Awards for Tansformers Prime and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In addition to the promo, the site also updated with production information (translations/credits via ANN):
- Original: Tsutomu Nihei
- Director: Kobun Shizuno (G.I. Joe: Sigma 6, Detective Conan movie)
- Co-Director: Hiroyuki Seshita (Street Fighter x Tekken, Final Fantasy)
- Series Script Supervisor, Script: Sadayuki Murai (Steamboy, Millennium Actress)
- Production Designer: Naoya Tanaka (Princess Mononoke, Tron: Rising)
- Art Director: Mitsunori Kataama (Howl’s Moving Castle, Tron: Rising)
- CG Supervisor: Masayuki Uemoto (Transformers: Prime, CASSHERN)
- Battle Animatiques: Eiji Ogushi (The Sky Crawlers, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror)
- Character Design: Yuki Moriyama (Street Fighter x Tekken, Dino Dominion)
- Animation Production: POLYGON PICTURES Inc. (Transformers: Prime, Tron: Rising, Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
- Production: KOS Product Committee
Plot Concept: Outer space, the far future.
A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat.
Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel’s bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship’s coolheaded female captain.
Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds.
[Source: ANN]