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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:[[{{Blame}} Graviton. Beam. Emitter]].]]
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** Ochiai's henchwoman [[spoiler:when she temporary frees herself from the professor's [[MoreThanMindControl control]] and shoots herself]]
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** Sidonia itself lost more then 90% of it's population in the relatively recent past. The vast majority of the ship's current population are descended from artificial genetic templates or are clones of the survivors. [[spoiler:Including the protagonist]]
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** Slightly subverted. He doesn't really eat any more then we do. At one point, he turns down a truly massive fish head because "I don't eat that much." It's just the genetically engineered humans who make up the rest of the crew who eat very little.
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** Slightly subverted. He doesn't really eat any more then than we do. At one point, he turns down a truly massive fish head because "I don't eat that much." It's just the genetically engineered humans who make up the rest of the crew who eat very little.
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* AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles: Shiranui has them.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:[[{{Blame}} Graviton. Beam. Emitter]].]]
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* ForMassiveDamage: The only weak point on the Guana is their core, or "placenta", which when sufficiently damaged cause them to explode. Most engagements boil down to the Guardians desperately trying to chip through the Guana's nigh invulnerable regenerating armor to reach the weakpoint.
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* ForMassiveDamage: The only weak point on the Guana is their core, or "placenta", "True Body", which when sufficiently damaged cause them to explode. Most engagements boil down to the Guardians desperately trying to chip through the Guana's nigh invulnerable regenerating armor to reach the weakpoint.
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* FreudWasRight: The Guana's preferred method of attack is to jam their tentacles into the Guardians to penetrate the cockpit
** Tsumugi's [[spoiler:tentacle. It may behave like a young girl, but it resembles nothing more then a massive penis]]
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An [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-05-16/tsutomu-nihei-knights-of-sidonia-manga-gets-anime anime adaptation]] has been announced and is set to premiere at an unspecified date. It is being produced by Polygon Pictures, the [=3DCG=] studio behind ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', as its 30th anniversary work. Watch the first trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHI6Ciiy1V0 here]].
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An [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-05-16/tsutomu-nihei-knights-of-sidonia-manga-gets-anime anime adaptation]] has been announced and is set to premiere at an unspecified date. It is being produced by Polygon Pictures, the [=3DCG=] studio behind ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', as its 30th anniversary work. Watch the first trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHI6Ciiy1V0 here]].
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Guana, at first
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* WhiteSuitOfDeath: The pilot uniforms are all white, as are the Guardians themselves. Considering the attrition rate versus the Guana...
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* BodyHorror: The fate of those who are captured by the Guana. [[spoiler: Hoshijiro finds this out first hand, and the Guana use a corrupted parody of her form as a placenta for a Guardian Shaped Guana]]
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Lala, a human with bear's head, is Tanikaze's dorm mother for quite a while.
* ForMassiveDamage: The only weak point on the Guana is their core, or "placenta", which when sufficiently damaged cause them to explode. Most engagements boil down to the Guardians desperately trying to chip through the Guana's nigh invulnerable regenerating armor to reach the weakpoint.
* FreudWasRight: The Guana's preferred method of attack is to jam their tentacles into the Guardians to penetrate the cockpit
** Tsumugi's [[spoiler:tentacle. It may behave like a young girl, but it resembles nothing more then a massive penis]]
* ForMassiveDamage: The only weak point on the Guana is their core, or "placenta", which when sufficiently damaged cause them to explode. Most engagements boil down to the Guardians desperately trying to chip through the Guana's nigh invulnerable regenerating armor to reach the weakpoint.
* FreudWasRight: The Guana's preferred method of attack is to jam their tentacles into the Guardians to penetrate the cockpit
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** The Guana have a rather ridiculous one, making fights with them a race against the clock to get to the weakpoint before they regenerate.
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* MirrorMatch: The Guardians versus Benisuzume [[spoiler: A replica of a Guardian eaten by the Guana]]
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* TheAce: Tanikaze is the Sidonia's first ace in living memory. [[spoiler:As was his "grandfather"]]
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* TheAce: Tanikaze is the Sidonia's first ace in living memory. memory, the only one who has survived long enough to get that title. [[spoiler:As was his "grandfather"]]"grandfather"]]
* AlasPoorVillain: Kunato really didn't deserve [[spoiler:getting bodyjacked by Ochiai]]
** The Guana [[spoiler:Humanoid placenta. It's outright stated that it remembers the human it is based on, including it's attraction to Tanikaze]]
** Ochiai's henchwoman [[spoiler:when she temporary frees herself from the professor's [[MoreThenMindControl control]] and shoots herself]]
* AlasPoorVillain: Kunato really didn't deserve [[spoiler:getting bodyjacked by Ochiai]]
** The Guana [[spoiler:Humanoid placenta. It's outright stated that it remembers the human it is based on, including it's attraction to Tanikaze]]
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* EldritchAbomination: The Guana are massive, fetus like creatures with the ability to assimilate humans and technology with their CombatTentacles. Some Guana creations resemble things that are assimilated, including a Guardian [[spoiler:And it's pilot]].
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* ManInWhite: Most of the Guardian pilots have white flight suits. [[WhiteShirtOfDeath Considering their survival rate...]]
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* TheAce: Tanikaze is the Sidonia's first ace in living memory. [[spoiler:As was his "grandfather"]]
* ApocalypseHow: The Earth was cut in half, and humanity's desperate flight to the stars is almost Class 3. Sidonia may be the last refuge of Humanity, because contact with the other ships has been gone for almost 800 years.
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* ApocalypseHow: The Earth was cut in half, and humanity's desperate flight to the stars is almost Class 3. Sidonia may be the last refuge of Humanity, because contact with the other ships has been gone for almost 800 years.
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* RealRobot: The Guardians count as this. Their spindly frames can't even stand up in gravity (with the exception of the [[SuperPrototype Type 19]]).
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* SuperPrototype: Due to being TheAce, Tanikaze gets first run of the Type 18 and (eventually) Type 19 Guardians.
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* TheUriahGambit: The captain wants Tanikaze dead for reasons not immediately explained and to this end orders him to fly in every single mission against the Gaunas in the hope that they'll eventually kill him.
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* TheUriahGambit: The captain wants Tanikaze dead for reasons not immediately explained and to this end orders him to fly in every single mission against the Gaunas in the hope that they'll eventually kill him. [[spoiler: This backfires as not only Nagate always survives but he eventually becomes Sidonia's greatest hero.]]
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*** [[spoiler:Which leads to Izana eventually transforming into a female.]]
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Not to be confused with ''KnightsOfCydonia'' by ''{{Muse}}''. Some translators romanize it as "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sidonia]]" to avoid this confusion.
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Not to be confused with ''KnightsOfCydonia'' ''Music/KnightsOfCydonia'' by ''{{Muse}}''.''Music/{{Muse}}''. Some translators romanize it as "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sidonia]]" to avoid this confusion.
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* PhlebotinumDuJour: The Guardians are powered by Higgs Bosons.
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* StealthSequel: To ''Abara'', possibly.
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* Hermaphrodite: Shinatose Izana. Unlike RealLife intersexed humans, s/he can have children with a man or woman thanks to being genetically engineered.
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* JerkAss: Kunato. And just when he seems to be getting better [[spoiler:his body gets hijacked by Professor Ochiai, who is not only more arrogant by at least a factor of ten, but a maniac with a god-complex.]]
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* {{BFG}}: [[spoiler: The magnetic linear accelerator rifles that fire the Gauna-piercing bullets]].
* BigEater: Tanikaze, on account of being unable to photosynthesize like most of the "humans" on Sidonia.
* BlackBox: The Kabizashi blades are the only thing that can kill the Gauna, but no one knows how they work or how to make new ones. [[spoiler:At first]].
* BigEater: Tanikaze, on account of being unable to photosynthesize like most of the "humans" on Sidonia.
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* HealingFactor: Tanikaze has one as a result of being [[spoiler:an immortal enhanced clone.]]
* Hermaphrodite: Shinatose Izana. Unlike RealLife intersexed humans, s/he can have children with a man or woman thanks to being genetically engineered.
** EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite: Heartbreakingly averted. Izana loves Tanikaze deeply but he only likes women.
* Hermaphrodite: Shinatose Izana. Unlike RealLife intersexed humans, s/he can have children with a man or woman thanks to being genetically engineered.
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* {{Immortality}}: The captain and other members of the crew deemed essential to Sidonia's mission are kept alive indefinitely with biotechnology but because of limited resources the rest of the population is allowed to age and die at a normal rate. The truth about the Immortal Ship Committee is kept from them to keep them from getting jealous.
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** This is also an important part of [[spoiler:Tanikaze's backstory. He was originally grown in a vat as a replacement body for the aging war hero Hiroki Saito, but Saito wanted to die a natural death and believed that his clone should be allowed to live his own life and so he absconded with the baby clone and raised him in seclusion as his own.]]
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* CreatorProvincialism: Many countries built their own ships but the Japanese ship, Sidonia, is the only one we see as the rest have either been eaten by Gaunas or gone off in different directions and are too far to communicate with.
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* ClonesArePeopleToo: The Honokas. Each of them has their own name (Honoka En, Honoka Hou, etc), and seem to be treated as individuals.
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* CharClone: The Red Sphingidae.
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** In what may or may not have been the events of Nihei's earlier manga ''Abara''.
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* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Professor Ochiai to Kunato]].
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* OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler:The Chimerae, biomechs grown from Gauna and human cells by Ochiai as a replacement for the Guardians]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The series had an early prototype in the form of an obscure one-shot manga called ''Winged Armor Suzumega, [[EitherOrTitle or]] The Armored Insects Sphingidae''.
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* TranshumanTreachery: The monstrous-looking, heavily modified cyborg Professor Ochiai nearly destroyed Sidonia due to his attempts to create a Gauna/human hybrid. On the other hand, this being a Tsutomu Nihei manga, almost every member of the cast are genetically and/or cybernetically modified in some way themselves.
* TheUriahGambit: The captain wants Tanikaze dead for reasons not immediately explained and to this end orders him to fly in every single mission against the Gaunas in the hope that they'll eventually kill him.
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The latest, ongoing manga by TsutomuNihei, creator of Manga/{{Blame}} and {{Biomega}}. Set on the gigantic GenerationShip Cydonia (or [[{{SpellMyNameWithAnS}} Sidonia]]), the last remnants of humanity are engaged in a seemingly HopelessWar against the monstrous Gauna.
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The latest, ongoing manga by TsutomuNihei, creator of Manga/{{Blame}} ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' and {{Biomega}}.''{{Biomega}}''. Set on the gigantic GenerationShip Cydonia (or [[{{SpellMyNameWithAnS}} Sidonia]]), the last remnants of humanity are engaged in a seemingly HopelessWar against the monstrous Gauna.
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The latest, ongoing manga by TsutomuNihei, creator of Manga/{{Blame}} and {{Biomega}}. Set on the gigantic GenerationShip Cydonia (or [[{{SpellMyNameWithAnS}} Sidonia]]), the last remnants of humanity are engaged in a seemingly HopelessWar against the monstrous Gauna.
Not to be confused with ''KnightsOfCydonia'' by ''{{Muse}}''. Some translators romanize it as "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sidonia]]" to avoid this confusion.
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!! This Manga contains the following tropes:
* ClonesArePeopleToo: The Honokas. Each of them has their own name (Honoka En, Honoka Hou, etc), and seem to be treated as individuals.
* BlackBox: The Kabizashi blades are the only thing that can kill the Gauna, but no one knows how they work or how to make new ones.
* EarthThatWas: The earth was lost to the Gauna a long time ago.
* EndangeredSpecies: the Cydonia's inhabitants are probably the last humans.
* GenerationShip: The eponymous ship. There were others, but contact with them has been lost.
* HumongousMecha: The Guardians are Cydonia's first line of defense against the Gauna.
* InertialDampening: The Cydonia doesn't appear to have it. When they have to make sudden evasive maneuvers, massive internal damage results and people die, even though they used an EmergencyBroadcast to warn people.
* SceneryPorn: It's a TsutomuNihei manga. It's his trademark. In fact, chapters often start with travel-guide style images titled "Sidonia's 100 Sights" that show off the scenery.
* StarfishAlien: The Gauna are a weird sort of fetus-like creature with a central "main body".
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Not to be confused with ''KnightsOfCydonia'' by ''{{Muse}}''. Some translators romanize it as "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sidonia]]" to avoid this confusion.
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!! This Manga contains the following tropes:
* ClonesArePeopleToo: The Honokas. Each of them has their own name (Honoka En, Honoka Hou, etc), and seem to be treated as individuals.
* BlackBox: The Kabizashi blades are the only thing that can kill the Gauna, but no one knows how they work or how to make new ones.
* EarthThatWas: The earth was lost to the Gauna a long time ago.
* EndangeredSpecies: the Cydonia's inhabitants are probably the last humans.
* GenerationShip: The eponymous ship. There were others, but contact with them has been lost.
* HumongousMecha: The Guardians are Cydonia's first line of defense against the Gauna.
* InertialDampening: The Cydonia doesn't appear to have it. When they have to make sudden evasive maneuvers, massive internal damage results and people die, even though they used an EmergencyBroadcast to warn people.
* SceneryPorn: It's a TsutomuNihei manga. It's his trademark. In fact, chapters often start with travel-guide style images titled "Sidonia's 100 Sights" that show off the scenery.
* StarfishAlien: The Gauna are a weird sort of fetus-like creature with a central "main body".
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