Similar to how information was largely minimal ahead of the premiere of the first season, now that we’re down to the final weeks, some new details have surfaced for Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine. The series is one that we knew was coming in April, and that it’ll pretty much be done up the same in the US as the first season was with Netflix where we’ll see it in the summer as a bilingual series, but the Japanese premiere is now set for an April 10th, 2015 debut on TBS.
The season has the subtitle of Battle for Planet Nine and is bringing back the same team from the first at POLYGON PICTURES with Hiroyuki Seshita moving up from assistant direct to the main director while Sadayuki Murai is on board once again for the scripts.
Check out the new key visual that has arrived to promote the project below.
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: Crunchyroll]
