# Knights of Sidonia opening march **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249 "2018-12-17T04:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/1 "2018-12-17T04:12:06Z")
I’ve started watching Knights of Sidonia, which I like OK. I’m a mediocre anime fan, but for some reason I usually really like the opening/closing themes to most anime series. In the opening theme, there is a military march which sounds very familiar (Russian?) is this a classical tune, or does it just sound like it? [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoEvKKAhSqQ) (starts at around :35 – not the best video – if you google “Knights of Sidonia opening theme” you will get a lot of hits) Thanks, Brian ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/2 "2018-12-17T04:36:26Z")
Clearly they couldn’t afford the Muse song. And changed the spelling as well. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/3 "2018-12-17T18:10:35Z")
I had to google that. While the names are similar, the music is completely different. Brian ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/4 "2018-12-17T18:33:12Z")
I thought that the music in the link sounded somewhat familiar, too. I think that, like a lot of soundtrack music, it takes bits-and-pieces from various music and classical pieces, and adapts/improvises it into their score. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/5 "2018-12-17T18:40:49Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > I had to google that. While the names are similar, the music is completely different. > > Brian I figure the manga and music were both independently named after the Lebanese city, and probably have nothing to do with each other. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/6 "2018-12-17T19:19:05Z")
I recognise it, but I can’t put a name to it. It’s classical music. It’s certainly not a march. It may be something like a Slavonic dance, but I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/7 "2018-12-17T19:34:18Z")
Part of it reminds me of Chim Chim Cheree ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/8 "2018-12-17T22:55:45Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I figure the manga and music were both independently named after the Lebanese city, and probably have nothing to do with each other. Cydonia is a region of Mars which was named for a city-state on Crete [Cydonia (Mars) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)) Brian ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/9 "2018-12-17T23:14:18Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Cydonia is a region of Mars which was named for a city-state on Crete [Cydonia (Mars) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)) > > Brian You must be right; all the sci-fi stuff makes more sense in light of the Martian angle. I always assumed they were referring to the Crusades. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/10 "2018-12-18T12:07:53Z")
I initially assumed the manga and anime (as opposed to the song) was a reference to[the asteroid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/579_Sidonia) - as in, that is literally the same asteroid that is part of the ship. On research, I saw that the ship asteroid isn’t near big enough to be\* 579 Sidonia\*, but I can fanwank that as it’s what’s left after the rest was mined to make the rest of the ship. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/11 "2018-12-18T12:23:17Z")
And, according to Wikipedia, the asteroid was “named after a character in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera _Armide_.” That name certainly gets around! ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-sidonia-opening-march/826249/12 "2018-12-18T14:23:44Z")
I misinterpreted the title of this thread as “KoS is coming back in March”. Hurry up with the new season!