Japanese: シドニアの騎士
English: Knights of Sidonia
Synonyms: Knights of Cydonia, Cydonia no Kishi
Type: Manga
Volumes: 15
Chapters: 78
Status: Finished
Published: Apr 25, 2009 to Sep 25, 2015
Genres: Action, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Space, Military, Seinen
Mangaka: Nihei Tsutomu (Story & Art)
Serialization: Afternoon
Synopsis: 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 cool-headed female captain.
Background
Sidonia no Kishi won the 39th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category. The series has been published in English as Knights of Sidonia by Vertical, Inc. since February 5, 2013 and in Italian by Panini Comics under the Planet Manga imprint since October 22, 2011.
Manga won the 47th Seiun Awards at the 55th Japan Science Fiction Convention (Nihon SF Taikai) 2016.
Habanero Scans
Illuminati-Manga
Vagrant Scans
Licensed in English
Vertical (14 Volumes - Ongoing; Digital)
Related Manga
Adaptation:
- Sidonia no Kishi,
- Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki,
- Sidonia no Kishi Movie
Prequel:
- Sidonia no Kishi Zenjitsudan: Dai-4-ji Gauna Boueisen
- Sidonia no Kishi: Tsumugi, "Blame!" ni Hamaru. no Maki
Promo video season 1 (CM)
Anime OP 1 season: Music Angela
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates
Main Characters
Izana Shinatose (科戸瀬 イザナ)
Izana Shinatose is a Guardian pilot and quickly becomes Nagate's best friend, constantly following Nagate and teaching him about the life inside Sidonia. Izana is a new third gender that originated during the hundreds of years of human emigration into space. They can become either a male or female depending on the other party's gender, or they can have asexual reproduction to make a clone of themselves.
Tsumugi Shiraui (白羽衣 つむぎ)
A gauna/human hybrid created by Kunato Developments for fighting against the Gauna. Similar in size and appearance to a guardian, but having a gauna-like appearance, her prowess in combat is rivaled only by Nagate's. She becomes friends with Nagate and Izana, usually interacting with them at their house by a tentacle she sneaks by the vent system while her main body stays at her hangar. Later it is revealed that Tsumugi was created from a sample of a Gauna with Hoshijiro's DNA.
Nagate Tanikaze (谷風 長道)
The series' main protagonist. Despite having a hard time adapting to Sidonia's way of life and getting in trouble constantly while being rejected by other humans due to not being aware of the laws and attributes of the new culture, he eventually becomes the spaceship's population's savior, main defender, and hero over time. He pilots an older but capable Guardian mecha model called "Tsugumori."
Unlike most Sidonians who were genetically engineered to have the capacity to receive most of their energy requirements through photosynthesis and only need to consume food for only once a day, he is a pure human who has to consume adequate amounts of foods to satisfy his energy and nutritional needs.
Shizuka Hoshijiro (星白 閑)
She is a Guardian Pilot who is ranked number 2 among the trainees. She is the first Sidionian who Tanikaze became friends with. She is also his classmate and fellow squadron team mate.
There is more but I can't add spoilers here, so if interested you need to read the manga or see the anime. Lazy ones just may search her story up from the net. XD
Source: MAL
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