New information for the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth anime adaptation has dropped together with a main trailer. That info includes its October 5 JST premiere date and Netflix release (Netflix says that the “release date may vary by country”).
Other announced details include the double-length premiere (Episodes 1 and 2 will be out on the same day) and a number of additional cast members. The latter are Katsuyuki Konishi, Yuichi Nakamura, and Saya Hitomi.
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is based on the manga by Uoto, which was serialized from 2020 to 2022 in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits and was the Best Comic category winner of the 54th Seiun Award. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the plot as:
In fifteenth-century Europe, heretics are being burned at the stake. Rafal, a brilliant young man, is expected to enter university at an early age and study the era’s most important field, theology. But Rafal values Reason above all else, which leads him both to the shocking conclusion that the Earth orbits the Sun, and into the hands of the Inquisition!
A decade later, two members of the Watch Guild, the dour young Oczy and the cynical Gras, find a hidden stone chest that details the secrets of the universe Rafal left behind. Dare they try to change their own stars by selling the heretical texts, or would that only lead to the stake and the fire?
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- Staff
• Director: Kenichi Shimizu (Parasyte: The Maxim)
• Series composer: Shingo Irie (Afterlost)
• Character designer: Shino Masanori (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean)
• Animation production: Madhouse
Sources: @chikyu_chi, @NetflixAnime
