Rating (Out of 5): ~2.5-3
Publisher: Vertical Comics
Release Date: 2013
Volumes: 15.
Spoilers?: No.
Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository.
Volume: 2.
Goodreads Synopsis:
“CORE EXPOSED”
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 coolheaded female captain.
Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds.
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 coolheaded female captain.
Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds.
Review:
I
think maybe this is a slow starting series. It must be, given how
much people like this series. Because this volume was slow and did
not pull me in. Maybe I’m just not a sci-fi person, though.
We’re
thrown into the story, a weird space-based world, where there are
aliens to fight. Nagate has been living separated from everyone else,
though, and doesn’t even realize that there are other humans around
that could help him. He’s one of the few humans left who eat real
food, and he has no real training with space-fighting and the
machines, but he’s been using one in secret.
It’s
odd to me how he’s been hiding without realizing there are other
humans so close by, and yet he stumbled upon them all of a sudden now
that he’s alone. Either way, though, he’s living in an odd world
and pushed into helping fight. It gets bad, bloody and deadly, and
doesn’t end well for them, either.
Maybe
it is that I’m just not a sci-fi person, because I’m not really
interested in picking up the next one. This one was slow and odd, and
didn’t pull me into the story, world, or characters.
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