The official site for Knights of Sidonia in Japan has updated with something new today that’s definitely appealing as we have a new piece of key visual artwork. We’ve gotten some good animation pieces itself lately as there’s been a minute long preview of the first episode – complete with intense music – as well as a shorter fifteen second tease. The new piece of artwork is solid though as we get more of the two sides going at it here.
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.
