The series is set on the Sidonia, a slow-boat colony ship fleeing an Earth that was wiped out by a group of aliens called the Gauna, in what almost would work as a semi-sequel to Biomega, if the zombie contagion from that work was part of an alien invasion plan instead of a manmade virus. Knights of Sidonia, while still postapocalyptic, and still retaining the body horror, leans a lot more into some of the tropes that are widely thought of in anime. Biomega and Blame featured isolated loaner protagonists in bleak apocalyptic scenarios with lots of desolation, with a serious side of body horror – especially in the case of Biomega. Knights of Sidonia, as a manga, is probably the most unlike Nihei’s other works. I’ve read several of Tsutomu Nihei’s previous series and reviewed them for Bureau42, and in part here – Biomega and Blame, and I’d reviewed a couple of volumes of Knights of Sidonia at the Bureau, but I might as well get up to speed here.
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