Knights Of Sidonia
King Records generally does some good stuff with how they promote shows they’re involved with and that continues with Knights of Sidonia. Similar to previous spots, we get a taste of the action and a bit of dialogue with it as well as more of the opening vocal song by angela, which usually gets a few people to check something out for that alone. With a Netflix pickup for the summer and a preview of the first episode having hit already, there’s definitely going to be an interesting audience for the anime adaptation for the manga series Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei. 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.