Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine (Season 2)

[jhpace1]

Originally Posted by Alhazred

The repeated theme of the series, from Nagate's talks with Hoshijiro to the scene with the stag beetle to the naming choice for the Lem star system, is that the Gauna might just be so different from humanity that meaningful communication is impossible. Even placental copies that seem to communicate like Benisuzume or placental Hoshijiro are not necessarily indicative that actual Gauna sapience (if they are sapient) is anything like human sapience; the Gauna don't necessarily understand what is going on with a piece of placenta that starts behaving similarly to a human when it is made to mimic human shape. They might just know that these behaviors are useful.

The Gauna appear to be intelligent but unable to communicate with Humans on any level. They do not have concepts of individuality, separateness, and cannot leave well enough alone. From destroying Earth in their first (?) encounter to present-day battles with Sidonia, the Gauna act like a primitive octopus or jellyfish more than an intelligent or hyper-intelligent species.

Explore. Engulf. Analyze. React to pain. Fight back using the enemy's own tactics. This is what the Gauna do, but for every Human they engulf, devour, and copy, somehow they do not communicate with the analog created. But they do copy Gardes' fighting tactics, Higgs cannons, and acknowledge how Sidonia is a threat, not just the Gardes coming out of Sidonia. The Gauna's only strategy from day one has been "bigger is better", gathering more and more cores together to defeat a perceived threat.

It's a big universe, and the Gauna would do well to just avoid Sidonia altogether, but appear to be unable to ignore the generational vessel. Either attracted to the hybrid(s) inside, the original kabi, or both, the Gauna keep coming, and coming aggressively. So the only response is annihilation.

[bigdeath]

Originally Posted by Mangonel

That said, guana placenta is like a magical wonder material. Can't say I'd have ever anticipated using it as 'filler' on a half complete super laser. I guess guana affinity for higgs particles lets it naturally complete missing circuitry on what amounts to a higgs-condensor? (afaik we know pretty much nothing on the properties of a higgs particle other than its a trait of guana and can be concentrated into 'lasers')

Its this universes Minovsky particle, aka, puesdo science plot device.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Originally Posted by bigdeath

Its this universes Minovsky particle, aka, puesdo science plot device.

It is a pseudo-science plot device, but one that is most likely inspired by real science.

CERN lab discovers Higgs boson, the 'God' particle (July 2012)

[bigdeath]

Oh, I'm well aware that the Higgs Boson is a real particle thats just recently been discovered (after being predicted through theory). Its a nice homage from the author but a plot device it still is since the Higggs Boson has nothing to do with what the Higgs particles can do in this setting.

[Stark700]

Lol, Tsugumi in a nutshell:


We get more Izana and Nagate this episode again. I think the series really builds a good chemistry between the two.

[Alhazred]

Poor Izana; nothing ever quite goes her way. Even Yuhata can't stay amusingly super-jealous over Nagate doing stuff with a girl, once she figures out it's Izana...

[Top Sergeant]

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message from: loyal viewer
message to: pilot Nagate Tanikaze

message reads:

Kiss her you moron!

message ends.

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[Friday]

they did a really good job on the scene with Izana and Shinatose in their um S&M Gear....

[frubam]

Damn, what a tease, in more ways than one; first they show that clip of Blame! and the animation looks better in that than the series characters =01. Then Izana dressing up in some kinky gear, and ending the ep with Nagate looking as if he's going to confess. I'm really digging these comedic, slice-of-life moments; they're cute, and very entertaining. I know there'll be all too little of them once they reach the hive cluster.

Originally Posted by Friday

they did a really good job on the scene with Izana and Shinatose in their um S&M Gear....

Makes me wonder what kind of woman Yure was when she was younger ....

[Esclair]

I guess its pretty hard being a dense harem lead at times too.

The awesome BLAME! excerpt:
https://a.pomf.se/pufncr.webm

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by frubam

Damn, what a tease, in more ways than one; first they show that clip of Blame! and the animation looks better in that than the series characters =01. Then Izana dressing up in some kinky gear, and ending the ep with Nagate looking as if he's going to confess. I'm really digging these comedic, slice-of-life moments; they're cute, and very entertaining. I know there'll be all too little of them once they reach the hive cluster.
Makes me wonder what kind of woman Yure was when she was younger ....

It's some kind of cosplay from another series by the same author. Maybe Blame, maybe another, I don't recall.

[Dragonria]

BLAME! stole the show in this episode even if it was only 30 seconde
The Mid pictures were beautiful as well:

[Orattvisa]

Originally Posted by Dragonria

BLAME! stole the show in this episode even if it was only 30 seconde
The Mid pictures were beautiful as well:

Ehhhh.... Who's that suppose to be?

[Hypernova]

Originally Posted by Orattvisa

Ehhhh.... Who's that suppose to be?

Yure cosplaying as Sanakan at the 51st Grav-coplay convention going by the caption.

[foxbox360]

Originally Posted by Top Sergeant

XXXXX

message from: loyal viewer
message to: pilot Nagate Tanikaze

message reads:

Kiss her you moron!

message ends.

XXXXXX

Kiss the girl.

[frodonk]

Tanikaze's Harem: The Episode.

Well, I guess they do need something like this before they go all out on the gauna.

And it's weird when the loli of the harem is actually a gardes sized chimera.

[Jerseykid]

Izana still deserves to win, any "it" that is willing to turn female deserves to win

[GMT]

So, this show continues to be wonderful. The show-within-a-show at the start felt like the studio devoted a few more FPS to it than they usually allocate to the main show. The slice-of-life parts are interwoven with the very serious business that goes on elsewhere; such as Yure's talk with Sasaki, or Izana's testing of her direct neural interface with her ship (which brings up the very obvious question of why they don't have everyone else directly interfacing with their ships as well? They clearly have the technology for it, and a direct neural connection would eliminate the quarter-second or so of time it takes for the brain to process information and command the muscles to action. Granted, they haven't really needed that much reaction time for most of Sidonia's flight, but still; it's capability that's left on the table far too often in sci-fi shows.)

[germanturkey]

can you imagine sasaki in one of those dresses? jeez.

anyways, it seems like they blew their budget on the first 30 seconds of the episode, so the rest of it was pretty tame. that said, hilarious episode. i don't even know who to ship any more. also, i laughed out loud during the scene with Yure and "I'll blow your head off."

[Alhazred]

Originally Posted by GMT

<...> (which brings up the very obvious question of why they don't have everyone else directly interfacing with their ships as well? They clearly have the technology for it, and a direct neural connection would eliminate the quarter-second or so of time it takes for the brain to process information and command the muscles to action. Granted, they haven't really needed that much reaction time for most of Sidonia's flight, but still; it's capability that's left on the table far too often in sci-fi shows.)

In some ways the population of Sidonia seems very... old fashioned, i guess. They are preserving a lot of culture and artifacts from the Earth they lost, which none of them is even old enough to remember, and this might include their very concept of what makes a 'human.' As such, the Transhumanist fervor embodied by Ochiai (and Yure, to a far lesser extent) still raises eyebrows. The technology to make full-conversion cyborgs has been in Sidonia's hands for centuries, but it is still viewed as something you don't use unless it's 'necessary.'