The anime adaptation for the manga series Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei has debuted on Netflix today with its entire first season run available all at once in both English language and Japanese language with English subtitles. And that means that the cast is fully revealed as well with some of them being previously known:
Johnny Yong Bosch as Nagate Tanikaze
Alexi Shi as Shizuka Hoshijiro
Becca Ordonez as Hinata Momose
Cindy Robinson as Samari Ittan, Sasaki
Cristina Valenzuela as Honoka Series
Doug Erholtz as Izumo Midorikawa
Erin Fitzgerald as Mozuku Kunato
Grant George as Mochikuni Akai
Jane Carroll as Lalah Hiyama
Joey Lotsko as Ichirō Seii
Joie Marlowe as Izana Shinatose
Karen Strassman as Eiko Yamano
Lindsay Torrance as Yuhata Midorikawa
Michael Sorich as Shinsuke Tanba
Pete Sepenuk as Ochiai
Reba Buhr as Numi Tahiro
Spike Spencer as Kouichi Tsuruuchi
Stephanie Sheh as Shizuka Hoshijiro
Steve Heiser as Kashiwade Aoki
Todd Haberkorn as Norio Kunato
Wendee Lee as Captain Kobayashi
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.