Knights Of Sidonia

For you sci-fi anime fans out there this one is for you!

Knights of Sidonia is a Sci-fi manga that takes place in a distant future thousands of years after humanity has left the earth which has been destroyed by a mysterious Alien race called the Gauna that supposedly have shapeshifting abilities. Humanity has escaped from earth on gigantic spaceships that were created from remains of the planet earth. One of said ships is Sidonia, which has developed its own human culture closely based on that of Japan where human cloning, asexual reproduction, human engineering such as controlled hybrid human/animal mutations and human photosynthesis are commonplace, and is arguably the last human settlement remaining as the fate of the other ships is unknown. 

The story follows the exploits of Nagate Tanikaze, who lived in the underground layer of Sidonia since birth, raised by his grandfather. Never having met anyone else, he trains himself in an old Guardian pilot simulator every day, eventually mastering it. After his grandfather's death he is found by the rest of the population and after being tested in a new simulator he is selected as a Guardian pilot, in hopes of defending Sidonia from the Gauna's attack using his incredible combat skills.

It has been announced that this manga series by Tsutomu Nihei, published by Kodansha in their magazine Afternoon, will be recieving an anime adaptation by Polygon Pictures'. Also, the anime will be streamed internationally on Netflix after it debuts as part of the spring anime season in Japan. check out a brief 1 minute preview of this CG animated action below: 

From what I have seen in this short preview of whats to come I do not believe that the cg animation will bother me too much after a few episodes it should just be a minor thing that will not really matter in the end compared to the story line and its smooth battle scenes. I will be expecting for this to be a good story that does not stray away from what was written in the manga which had good art as well, and I will like I normally do be looking for how accurate the character representation is compared to how the character was represented in the manga.

Everyone should just keep an eye out for now, and if you have not already then go and take a look at the manga. I will keep an eye out for the Netflix release and post again after I have seen the first episode to let you know if it is worth the time.