Knights of Sidonia 1.12

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The battle continues with Gauna 542. Most of the remnants of squad 1, led by Samari, head into the breach created by Sidonia's Heigus cannon. Ren stays behind to tend to one of the injured pilots. She gives Nagate her last round. Izana also stays behind instead of following the others into Gauna 542. Nagate takes off and catches up to the others thanks to the special engine with which the Tsugumori has been equipped.

Nagate is forced to leave the others when the Crimson Hawksmoth shows up. He engages it in a dogfight in which neither one seems to have the upper hand. Nagate is eventually knocked off balance by Heigus cannon fire from Gauna 542. He falls unconscious but Izana manages to save him before he crashes and is killed.

Knights of Sidonia 1.11

Collision

Gauna 542, the enormous mass which is 8000 times the size of Sidonia, is headed straight for Sidonia. Yuhata, receives permission and has Sidonia change course but the Gauna changes course too and is once again on course to collide with Sidonia. Yuhata orders the preparation of an interplanetary missile to be used against the giant Gauna. She also orders all the Gardes to be equipped with the new weapons that Nagate tested out last episode. Everyone scrambles as they only have a matter of hours before the giant mass will be upon them.

Knights of Sidonia 1.10

Decisions

Nagate, Yuhata, and Izana visit the Gravity Inn which is in a remote area of Sidonia. It was Yuhata's idea. She brings along a book, Strange Tales of Sidonia. One of the legends has to do with Ochiai. His abandoned laboratory is near the inn and Yuhata used her clearance to obtain the key to the tunnels that lead to the lab.

Numi continues to keep an eye on the Ena that looks like Hoshijiro. She reports back to Yure Shinatose, her boss, about her discovery that the Ena is entranced by the Kabizashi.

Knights of Sidonia 1.09

Empathy

The episode opens with a look back 100 years. Yure Shinatose is explaining the council's plan to grow the population of Sidonia in 6 generations to half a million. New children will acquire most of their nutrition through photosynthesis.

Yure calls her Izana, her grandchild, in the present. She hasn't seen Izana much. Izana promises to visit when she gets a chance but doesn't stay on the phone very long. She accompanies Tanikaze to the Extraterrestrial Research Division. He has been summoned by Numi, one of the member of the ERD, because the Ena he brought back in the last episode has been saying his name.

Knights of Sidonia 1.08

Immortality

The first half of this episode focuses on the battle with Gauna 489, 490. and 491, all of which resemble Garde 702, Hoshijiro's ship. The second half is mostly devoted to a look back at the past.

The three squads split up and each take on one of the Gaunas: Samari Squad 489, Nakazono Squad 490, and Kunato Squad 491. The Gauna not only look like Garde 702 but they also communicate with the Gardes pursuing them using a voice that sounds like a distroted version of Hoshijiro. Kunato is unnerved by the communication with the Gauna.

Knights of Sidonia 1.07

Resolve

The episode opens with a flashback to the battle that was alluded to but not shown in 1.06. Thirty-six gardes were sent out to take on the Gauna pod. There were 27 individual Gauna within the pod. The Kunato squad was tasked with destroying the tail of the pod. while other squads attacked other parts of it.

The Kunato squad planted explosive charges. It was vital that they all detonate them at the same time. Kunato sabotaged the mission but made it look like Nagate was to blame. He opened a private com channel to Nagate and told him to detonate his charges. Nagate followed orders thinking that they had all been ordered to do so.

Knights of Sidonia 1.06

Salutations

Nagate and Shizuka return to Sidonia. Everyone seems to be happy to see them but Kunato is bothered. He doesn't like it when the news announcer rhetorically asks if Tanikaze is the second coming of the Knight of Sidonia. 

Nagate finds his locker filled with bags of rice. Izana catches up to him as he is staring at the bags of rice. They go to see the memorial to the squad who were killed in 1.03. They pass Yuhata on their way out. Nagate can't hear it but Yuhata mumbles words of thanks to him as they pass one another. Her brother was part of the squad.

Knights of Sidonia 1.05

Adrift

Tanikaze defies orders and goes looking for Hoshijiro. He runs out of fuel just as he reaches her. They are stranded, adrift. They open the garde's sails which will enable the garde to recharge but they have a limited amount of supplies. They have enough oxygen for 60 days but only 12 days worth of water and even less food. 

Tanikaze and Hoshijiro are adrift for almost two weeks when the food runs out. Hoshijiro has been able to forgo eating as much as Tanikaze because unlike him she has the ability to photosynthesize. She has to strip down in order to do it. She tries to do it while he is sleeping but he wakes up early and they are both embarrassed by the situation.

Knights of Sidonia 1.04

Sacrifice

Gauna 487 is still pursuing Sidonia. They try firing a round from the heavy mass cannon at the gauna but it shrugs it off. Gauna 487 continues to pursue and is closing fast. Captain Kobayashi orders evasive maneuvers. Many people are killed but precious time has been bought.

Most of the gardes are sent out to protect Sidonia. A squad of four (Tanikaze, Hoshijiro, Kunato, En Honoka) are sent to retrieve one of the two Kabizashi that the elite squad took with them. The other one is lost beyond recovery. Tanikaze locates it but before he can get to it he is ordered back to Sidonia by Kunato.

Knights of Sidonia 1.03

Glory

The festival begins. There is food and competition but Tanikaze is still recovering and cannot take part in the sparring competition for the Gravity Cup. Norio Kunato is one of the favorites to win the tournament but he has to go up against members of the elite squad. Mochikuni Akai, the leader of the elite squad, defeats Kunato by using a technique he saw Tanikaze use against Gauna 487 in 1.02.

Knights of Sidonia 1.02

Oblivion

Nagate is temporarily knocked out of the fight. Most of the other pilots panic and don't know how to respond. The moment is interrupted by a couple of flashbacks. The first recaps the end of the previous episode. The second shows Izana trying to get Nagate and Yamano to link hands with her before they take off on their first mission. It is a bit of superstition and Yamano refuses to take part.

Nagate wakes up in time to rejoin the fight. He seemed to have suffered a heart attack and damage to his vertebrae but he recovers very quickly. He is unable to save to Yamano. She has already been ripped out of her Garde and consumed by the Gauna which changes shape to look like a giant version of her. Nagate attacks while the other retreat. He eventually joins them and together they head back to Sidonia.

Knights of Sidonia 1.01

Commencement

Nagate Tanikaze, a teenager, lives on Sidonia a city that travels through space. He has lived his whole life in the underground portion of the city. He was raised by Hiroki Saito, his grandfather. He ventures to the surface for the first time after he runs out of rice. He is injured and apprehended running from guards in the rice factory. He escapes, only to be recaptured. Ochiai, an agent of the Immortal Council, finds him and takes him to Captain Kobayashi.

He is quickly added to the pilot training program, at Captain Kobayashi's request. He is assigned to a dorm where he meets Lala Hiyama, the dorm mother. She looks like a bear that wears clothes and has a mechanical hand. Soon after that he meets Izana Shinatose, who is neither male nor femaile and is one of Nagate's classmates. Izana informs him that usually it is very difficult to get in the pilot training program.