While an actual debut date has not been set for the new series that’s landing in Japan in April 2015, fans of Knights of Sidonia can rest easy in knowing that the new season will be coming to Netflix. A new tweet from the Head of Internatioanl Business Development as well as a producer for POLYGON Pictures, Jack Lang has revealed a production image about the new season and has tagged it with Netflix as well. 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.
Knights of Sidonia! Season 2 coming soon! #sidoniaseason2 #knightsofsidonia #SIDONIA_anime #Netflix pic.twitter.com/J2E3g57w7q
— Jack Liang (@jacktliang) March 4, 2015
The first season premiered in Japan last spring and debuted on Netflix during the summer season. It’s expected we’ll see the same rollout here.
Sentai Filmworks has picked up the home video rights for the first season with a release set for a June 9th release in bilingual and dual format form as well as a collectors edition.
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: WTK]
