Knights of Sidonia
A manga about a Garde pilot defending humanity from the Gauna.
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Knights of Sidonia is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from April 2009 to September 2015 and collected in 15 tankōbon volumes. The series follows Nagate Tanikaze, an 'under-dweller' who becomes a Garde pilot defending the generation ship Sidonia from the hostile alien species Gauna. The manga won the 39th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2015 and the 47th Seiun Award in the Best Comic category in 2016.
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- Mecha, Space opera
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The story is set in the year 3394, a thousand years after humanity fled Earth following its destruction by the shapeshifting Gauna. The generation ship Sidonia, with a population of over 500,000, may be the last human settlement.
Its culture includes human cloning, asexual reproduction, genetic engineering such as photosynthesis, and secret immortality for the elite. The Gauna have a nearly impenetrable core protected by malleable flesh called 'placenta'; destroying the core disintegrates the body. Sidonia is defended by large mechanized weapons called Gardes, powered by Higgs particles and armed with beam cannons and special spears called Kabizashi, whose tips can destroy Gauna cores.
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