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シドニアの騎士 [Sidonia no Kishi] #5
Knights of Sidonia Master Edition 5
One of the manga world's most intriguing artist returns with a science-fiction tour de force which combines post apocolyptic action, modern sci-fi video game tropes and a traditional Japanese aesthetic in The Knights of Sidonia.
Knights of Sidonia has been complied into a Master Edition featuring larger print, colored inserts and omibused volumes. Each Master's Edition volume compiles 2.5 volumes of the original Knights of Sidonia volumes.
As though dissaisfied that the war against the Gauna is entering a lull, humanity struggles with monsters of its own making.
Knights of Sidonia has been complied into a Master Edition featuring larger print, colored inserts and omibused volumes. Each Master's Edition volume compiles 2.5 volumes of the original Knights of Sidonia volumes.
As though dissaisfied that the war against the Gauna is entering a lull, humanity struggles with monsters of its own making.
375 pages, Paperback
Published April 14, 2020
About the author
Tsutomu Nihei
217 books796 followersSee also 弐瓶 勉.
Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.
At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.
Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_...
Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.
At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.
Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_...
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July 9, 2023
More conspiracy unleashes inside the hierarchy of the Sidonia while the protagonist has a limited scope of what's going on.
The drawing style becomes even more loose, almost sketch-like, and the strong outlines and black contrast panels from previous volumes fade away.
I like it.
This series now looks similar to Nihei's "Aposimz", which is the dark sci-fi he created AFTER this one.
I just wish he would care more about story and characters and be LESS derivative (Neon Genesis Evangelion, anyone?)
The drawing style becomes even more loose, almost sketch-like, and the strong outlines and black contrast panels from previous volumes fade away.
I like it.
This series now looks similar to Nihei's "Aposimz", which is the dark sci-fi he created AFTER this one.
I just wish he would care more about story and characters and be LESS derivative (Neon Genesis Evangelion, anyone?)
August 5, 2024
Well, it is official: with the addition to the cast of a resentful tsundere with weird hair (and who is also a robot), this series has completed its metamorphosis into a stereotypical romance comedy manga. The giant robots and killer body horror aliens are simply the backdrop against which the main character's love polygon develops and plays out.
On a minor note, nice to have some explanation for why Hiyama is a bear, especially as a sketch in an earlier volume hinted she once appeared human (though left unanswered is, "why a bear?"). And it also raises the question of why Nihei seems to always have humanoid bears in his stories; I take the technofetishism and gloopy biological monstrosities as par for the course, even if he theoretically is writing different stories, but the specificity of bear people leaves me wondering.
On a minor note, nice to have some explanation for why Hiyama is a bear, especially as a sketch in an earlier volume hinted she once appeared human (though left unanswered is, "why a bear?"). And it also raises the question of why Nihei seems to always have humanoid bears in his stories; I take the technofetishism and gloopy biological monstrosities as par for the course, even if he theoretically is writing different stories, but the specificity of bear people leaves me wondering.
September 15, 2025
This is so much fun.
January 5, 2023
There are more goofy harem antics and more information is revealed about Gaunas. The delicate balance struck between story elements in the previous volumes is beginning to falter.
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