A new key visual has been released for the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth TV anime series, which will be broadcasted for two consecutive cours at 25 episodes.
The series began streaming on Netflix, starting with the debut of the anime’s first two episodes. Weekly streaming continues with episode three airing next week.
Kenichi Shimizu (Parasyte: The Maxim) is directing the anime, with Shingo Irie (Afterlost) as series screenwriter and Shino Masanori (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean) as character designer. Madhouse is handling the animation production for the series.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Kenjiro Tsuda as Novak
- • Maaya Sakamoto as Rafal
- • Sho Hayami as Hubert
- • Katsuyuki Konishi as Oczy
- • Saya Hitomi as Yolenta
- • Yuichi Nakamura as Badeni
The anime is based on the manga series by Uoto, which was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits from September 14, 2020 to April 18, 2022. Eight total tankobon volumes were released. The manga was the Best Comic category winner of the 54th Seiun Award.
Seven Seas Entertainment releases the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga series in English, describing the main synopsis 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?
Source: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Official Anime Twitter
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