The title APOSIMZ shares a name with a minor story element in Nihei’s earlier Knights of Sidonia manga.
An editor for Kodansha’s Shonen Sirius magazine wrote in a column at the Akiba Blog website on Thursday that Tsutomu Nihei’s APOSIMZ manga has 250,000 copies in print.
A land of endless icy expanses, ancient ruins that fill abysses that know no end, and the looming shadow of the Empire.
The paths of the two ships are already light years apart in the beginning of the story, and the ships’ survival is left in doubt.