With a Netflix pickup for the summer, there’s definitely going to be an interesting audience for theanime adaptation for the manga series Knights o Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei. King Records has just released a new minute long promo for the show and while there’s a lot to be intrigued by with the animation, it’s the sound design that really is the most striking – and disturbing.The series is slated for a Spring 2014 broadcast with POLYGON PICTURES handling the animation under director Kobun Shizuno.
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.