“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. Meticulously drawn, peppered with clipped humor, but also unusually attentive to plot and structure for the international cult favorite, Knights of Sidonia may be Tsutomu Nihei’s most accessible work to date even as it hits notes of tragic grandeur as a hopeless struggle for survival unfolds.

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.

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.

Mentre continuano le misteriose macchinazioni all’interno della Sidonia, il ruolo di Nagate è sempre più centrale nelle missioni che i Difensori intraprendono per contrastare i gauna. Passato, presente e futuro si intrecciano in un susseguirsi di scoperte e cambiamenti nell’appassionante quarto capitolo dell’ultima serie di Tsutomu “Blame!” Nihei.

La nuova serie di Tsutomu “Blame!” Nihei si fa ancora più intrigante. È successo qualcosa a Kunato, che ora non è più il freddo ragazzo di prima. Questo cambiamento lo porterà a compiere qualcosa di assolutamente imprevedibile! Nello spazio, intanto, gli scontri con i gauna stanno diventando via via più difficili da vincere. La lotta per la sopravvivenza del genere umano è sempre più dura!