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Explore the vast darkness of space as humanity's last remnants flee relentless alien predators. Aboard a colossal seed ship, their only home after Earth's destruction, a young pilot becomes central to a desperate fight for survival. This epic saga blends hard science fiction with intimate character drama, showcasing humanity's struggle to adapt and endure against overwhelming odds. It's a story of courage, sacrifice, and the enduring search for hope in the cosmic void.

Knights of Sidonia. Volume 15
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Knights of Sidonia. Volume 1
Knights of Sidonia. Volume 12

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  1. 1

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 1

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    "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.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 1
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 2

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    In volume two, the Sidonia has engaged a new type of Guana. This armored-type is strangely aggressive, and most of the young pilots who have confronted the monster are not prepared for this change in stragedy. Rookie pilot Nagate Tanikaze has even fewer completed flight-hours, but that does not prevent him from devising his own plan of attack when his squadron is in danger. Feeling the stirrings of a bond that is precarious at best given that humanity itself is in peril, he ignores orders to save a colleague left behind. And then upon returning to the Sidonia, the history of the Guana is revealed to Tanikaze, not long before battle and a rival's jealousy leaves him alone in space again.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 2
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 3

    • 178 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
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    Heretofore unwilling to communicate in all but the most zero-sum fashion, humanity's implacable nemesis attempts to interface in what can only be considered a gruesomely familiar shape and form. Meanwhile, some of the deepest secrets of the Sidonia also come to the fore as revealed by the resident talking bear, err...the dormitory den-mother.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 3
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 4

    • 163 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    A faction on the Sidonia that believes humanity's aggressive posture toward the Gauna is responsible for the extraterrestial behemoth's hostility desires to chart a seperate course. Hero Tanikaze and his middle-gendered friend Shinatose are both promoted while the scion of the Kunato family delves into dubious experiements in this installment of Vertical's premiere hard sci-fi manga series.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 4
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 5

    • 174 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
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    After a forbidden room is unsealed, heroic pilot Saito is no longer the only legendary Sidonian with a deceptive avatar on board.Meanwhile, an incoming asteroid forces the spaceship’s mobile units to skirmish in a positive-gravity environment. Calling the shots is Assistant Commander Yuhata Midorikawa, still new in her role, unsure but unshrinking.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 5
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 6

    • 178 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
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    While innovations including the GC-Piercing Discarding Sabot improve the seed ship Sidonia and her mobile units' odds against the Gauna, for humanity to secure a definitive edge against foes as rapidly adaptive as the space giants, the sciences alone may not suffice.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 6
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 7

    • 165 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    Get to know a new character who may be this futuristic series’ most traditionally virtuous female. Drawing on deep wells of filial piety and perseverance, unfailingly modest, she is Tsumugi.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 7
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 8

    • 170 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    While Captain Kobayashi asserts sole command over the seed ship—and dons ancient armor—ace pilot Tanikaze looks for choice real estate a lot of old ducts are a must, for him and his friends.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 8
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    Knights Of Sidonia, Vol. 9

    • 184 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
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    "If humanity's latest bold experiment, Tsumugi Shiraui, can be said to have a mother, it would be the Hawk Moth, which provided the placenta. Their fateful encounter on Planet Nine will spell the end of one of them."--Page 4 of cover

    Knights Of Sidonia, Vol. 9
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 10

    • 167 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    In this tenth installment of the science fiction series Knights of Sidonia, the Sidonia and its crew believe that their danger-fraught quest has come to an end when they reach a planet with water and a breathable atmosphere. Author Tsutomu Nihei spins an imaginative tale of what may be humanity's last stand, centuries into the future, aboard a city-sized spacecraft. Their race across the treacherous expanse of space may have finally paid off--or has it? For the Knights of Sidonia, their interplanetary adventures are far from over.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 10
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 11

    • 210 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
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    The time has come! The Sidonia are about ready to set foot on the planet they wish to inhabit. But before they can embark on this mission they must make certain that the planet is not teeming with Gauna.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 11
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 12

    • 166 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    When a state-of-the-art warship is dispatched towards Lem, the system's sun, her crew is menaced not only by humanity's nemesis, but by an unwitting Peeping Tom.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 12
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 14

    • 163 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    Nagate Tanikaze was a homeless teen living in the depths of a space colony with a passion for simulation games and stealing rice. Now he is the lead fighter pilot, protecting said space colony from a race of shape-shifting space giants! One of the manga world's most intriguing artists returns here with a science-fiction tour de force which combines post-apocalyptic action, modern sci-fi video game tropes and a traditional Japanese aesthetic in The Knights Of Sidonia.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 14
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    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 15

    • 161 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, has arrived in the Lem star system, ten centuries since the obliteration of Earth. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that continued to pose an existential threat are now aided and abetted by humanity's best scientific mind.

    Knights of Sidonia. Volume 15