Knights of Sidonia
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First volume cover of Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei depicting the series' protagonist, Nagate Tanikaze, on top of the hand of his mecha, the Tsugumori.
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シドニアの騎士 (Sidonia no Kishi) |
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| Genre | Action, Mecha |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Tsutomu Nihei |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Imprint | Afternoon KC |
| Magazine | Afternoon |
| Original run | April 25, 2009 – September 25, 2015 |
| Volumes | 15 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kōbun Shizuno |
| Written by | Sadayuki Murai |
| Music by | Noriyuki Asakura |
| Studio | Polygon Pictures |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | MBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS, AT-X |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 11, 2014 – June 27, 2014 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Anime film | |
| Gekijō-ban Sidonia no Kishi | |
| Directed by | Kōbun Shizuno |
| Written by | Sadayuki Murai |
| Music by | Noriyuki Asakura |
| Studio | Polygon Pictures |
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| Runtime | 134 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Seshita |
| Written by | Sadayuki Murai |
| Music by | Noriyuki Asakura |
| Studio | Polygon Pictures |
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| Original network | TBS, MBS, CBC, BS-TBS, AT-X |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 10, 2015 – June 26, 2015 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Knights of Sidonia (Japanese: シドニアの騎士 Hepburn: Shidonia no Kishi?) is a mecha manga series by Tsutomu Nihei, serialized by Kodansha in their magazine Afternoon between April 2009 and September 2015, localized in English by Vertical. An anime television series adaptation, produced by Polygon Pictures, aired between April and June 2014 and a second season aired between April and June 2015. The localized series is available for streaming exclusively on Netflix in all its territories as part of its original programming.
The story is set in the year 3394, a thousand years after mankind flees from Earth after it was destroyed by a race of shapeshifting aliens – the Gauna (奇居子（ガウナ）?), aboard hundreds of massive spaceships created from the remains of the planet. One such ship is the Sidonia, which has developed its own human culture closely based on that of Japan where human cloning, asexual reproduction, and human genetic engineering, such as granting humans photosynthesis, are commonplace. It is also revealed that the top echelons of this society have secretly been granted immortality. With a population of over 500,000 people, Sidonia is possibly the last human settlement remaining as the fates of the other ships are unknown.
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