With both seasons having had their streaming run worldwide on Netflix and Sentai Filmworks delivering some strong collector’s edition releases in North America, the Japanese side is taking the Knights of Sidonia series to the next level. Polygon Pictures has revealed that the first season and the second season will get a new airing in April on NHK BS4K, showing a remastered 4K edition. Which definitely ups the interest in a potential home video release that we’ll now be waiting to see queued up for later this year hopefully in Japan and potentially here down the line.
Check out our reviews of the first and second seasons.
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: Polygon Pictures via WTK]
