Reviews

Just finished watching Season 1. I will keep it short as much as I can...or I will be writing essays. Well, its been a while since I watched an anime, and particularly a mecha sci-fi anime. Of the mecha genre, many of today's' franchises are dumbed down, cover in cliches, with overpowered God "Gundams", and characters with invincible plot armor. After watching KoS .... my mind was completely blown, good mecha anime actually exist I actually feared for my characters, the environments & setting were believable (Of course, its fiction not 100% realistic), and the writing & directing is incredibly engaging & well done. Down fall would be the fact that the 1st season is only 12 episodes long, and feels like it could have been at least a 20 ep. season. Some people could point out that certain things can be considered cliches, however I personally found them more supportive then not distracting at all to the story. Character development is limited to just only 12 ep. and could be fleshed out better if there was opportunity of additional episodes. The CGi/animation can be considered between good & average for dialog scenes, however I am amazed by the detail of combat scenes, and each scene being mostly original. Music and scoring is considered good, none of the music is distracting and does a good job of drawing emotion from the scene to the viewer. However I will say not much of the scores are memorable except mainly for the opening theme song. In conclusion, this anime makes me feel at home, in a sense familiar, but at the same time new, fresh, and exciting. I am happy that for once that its not produced by studios like Sunrise. Polygon Picture efforts to step in to the mecha genre is very much appreciated. I give Knights of Sidonia Season 1 a strong 8/10, with my personal recommendations to those interested in military, mecha, sci-fi genres. Possibly one of the best of this genre I have ever seen. I will have determined that when season 2 is released. Oh one more thing, this is a Netflix exclusive anime, something we don't see everyday, but a great reason to get netflix haha.