Knights of Sidonia
Just finished watching the last episode of Knights of Sidonia on Netflix. I really liked it. The story was good, and the artwork was beautiful. I was just a bit surprised that I'd sort of suddenly come to the end of it. That's a little bittersweet. On the other hand, a series that leaves me wanting more, generally indicates that it was a good one, and well worth watching if you enjoy Anime. Even if you usually don't it's worth watching.
Without giving any real spoilers, I'll just say that it's a post exodus future space & mecha based war against a monster species series. The music is really good. I loved the theme song and the English voice acting was also pretty well done. I may go back and watch at least some of it in Japanese and see how much it differs. I felt like the voice actors did a good job of relaying the sense of struggle in battle, and the tight and difficult emotions that can come from being at war with a poorly understood, devastatingly dangerous and difficult to defeat enemy bent on the annihilation of all of humanity, with which there is no real means of communication and no hope of negotiation whatsoever.
The Anime is based on a manga series by Tsutomu Nihei, published by Kodansha in their magazine Afternoon, and in English by Vertical. The anime adaptation, was produced by Polygon Pictures, is a Netflix exclusive.
There was a lot left unresolved in the series. Plenty of room to carry on the story either with another season, or I'm sure there is probably already fanfiction happening as well being as the original Manga began in 2009 and has been available in English for two years now.
So does anyone have any recommendations what to watch next? I'm working on a pretty big crochet project right now, so having a good series is helpful. Now that I'm out of Sidonia episodes and also just finished watching the second season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 of The 100 has no release date yet for Netflix, so I'm looking for other options.
Without giving any real spoilers, I'll just say that it's a post exodus future space & mecha based war against a monster species series. The music is really good. I loved the theme song and the English voice acting was also pretty well done. I may go back and watch at least some of it in Japanese and see how much it differs. I felt like the voice actors did a good job of relaying the sense of struggle in battle, and the tight and difficult emotions that can come from being at war with a poorly understood, devastatingly dangerous and difficult to defeat enemy bent on the annihilation of all of humanity, with which there is no real means of communication and no hope of negotiation whatsoever.
The Anime is based on a manga series by Tsutomu Nihei, published by Kodansha in their magazine Afternoon, and in English by Vertical. The anime adaptation, was produced by Polygon Pictures, is a Netflix exclusive.
There was a lot left unresolved in the series. Plenty of room to carry on the story either with another season, or I'm sure there is probably already fanfiction happening as well being as the original Manga began in 2009 and has been available in English for two years now.
So does anyone have any recommendations what to watch next? I'm working on a pretty big crochet project right now, so having a good series is helpful. Now that I'm out of Sidonia episodes and also just finished watching the second season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 of The 100 has no release date yet for Netflix, so I'm looking for other options.