While Australian anime publisher Madman Entertainment faced a couple of issues with the series last year, it seems like it won’t be long until a home video release of Knights of Sidonia begin making their way to fans in western markets. Sentai Filmworks have announced that they now hold rights to the series, which was animated by POLYGON PICTURES and directed by Kobun Shizuno.
Descrubed as a “space opera” which “depicts the last remnants of humanity as they struggle against an alien enemy in the cold vastness of space”, Knights of Sidonia will be available from Sentai Filmworks in North America soon on both DVD and Blu-ray formats.
A thousand years after the alien Gauna destroyed the Earth, a small remnant of humanity still fights on to survive, fleeing on the gargantuan asteroid-based spaceship Sidonia. But centuries of flight and warfare have changed mankind in incredible ways: Genetic engineering has allowed humans to photosynthesize like plants, reproduction occurs through cloning, and a third gender has been created to balance the population. And, even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory, with all those able enough enlisted to pilot the Garde robots that stand as Sidonia’s front line of defense. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of the spaceship, it’s a strange new world as he’s forced to come to the surface and join the ranks of defenders. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared, and what could be man’s last battle will require every resource humanity has left. And what no one knows, yet, is that Nagate is not exactly what he seems, and a secret buried in his past may change the fate of ll mankind in KNIGHTS OF SIDONIA!
In addition to this announcement, Sentai Filmworks have also confirmed that they will be doing a Collector’s Edition which contains additional and unspecified exclusive content. There will be three dubs included in this collection, all three of which were produced for the original runs of this series: English, Japanese and Spanish. French subtitles will also be included. In terms of exclusive content, they have also acquired rights to the “alternate angles”, which they say could be considered as “Director’s Cut’s” of all episodes.
