Plot
The story follows humans as they struggle to survive against the threat of the shapeshifting gigantic alien monsters called Gauna. The manga begins a thousand years after humans flee from Earth, which was supposedly destroyed by the Gauna, aboard massive spaceships created from the remains of the planet. The Gauna follow the emigration ships into space, forcing the humans to create large mechanized weapons called Guardians to protect themselves. Most people in the surviving human population are screened and drafted as Guardian pilots at a young age, if they are shown to be capable of piloting the mecha. The story focuses on one of such ships named Sidonia which has developed its own human culture closely based on that of Japan where human cloning, asexual reproduction and human engineering such as controlled hybrid human/animal mutations and human photosynthesis are commonplace.
The main character is Nagate Tanikaze, who lived in the underground layer of Sidonia since birth. Never having met anyone, he trains himself in an old Guardian pilot simulator every day, eventually mastering it. Later he ventures out 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.

Staff
Original: Tsutomu Nihei (Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon)
Director: Kobun Shizuno (G.I. Joe: Sigma 6, Detective Conan movie)
Co-Director: Hiroyuki Seshita (Street Fighter x Tekken, Final Fantasy)
Series Script Supervisor, Script: Sadayuki Murai (Steamboy, Millennium Actress)
Production Designer: Naoya Tanaka (Princess Mononoke, Tron: Rising)
Art Director: Mitsunori Kataama (Howl's Moving Castle, Tron: Rising)
CG Supervisor: Masayuki Uemoto (Transformers: Prime, CASSHERN)
Battle Animatiques: Eiji Ogushi (The Sky Crawlers, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror)
Character Design: Yuki Moriyama (Street Fighter x Tekken, Dino Dominion)
Animation Production: POLYGON PICTURES Inc. (Transformers: Prime, Tron: Rising, Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Production: KOS Product Committee

Cast
Ryota Ohsaka as Nagate Tanikaze
Aki Toyosaki as Izana Shinatose
Atsuko Tanaka as Samari Ittan
Aya Suzaki as Shizuka Hoshijiro
Ayane Sakura as Mozuku Kunato
Eri Kitamura as Honoka Series
Hisako Kanemoto as Yuhata Midorikawa
Kousuke Toriumi as Tsurūchi
Nanako Mori as Eiko Yamano
Osamu Saka as Shinsuke Tanba
Satomi Arai as LaLa Hiyama
Sayaka Ohara as Captain Kobayashi
Takahiro Sakurai as Norio Kunato
Takako Honda as Sasaki
Takehito Koyasu as Ochiai
Tomohiro Tsuboi as Ichirō Seii

Official Site
http://www.knightsofsidonia.com/

This post has been edited by kenjixx: Apr 15 2015, 05:03 PM