It has been announced that the TV anime adaptation of Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, based on the original work by Uoto, will air for two consecutive cours, spanning a total of 25 episodes. Along with the broadcast details, a new key visual has also been revealed.
The broadcast kicks off tomorrow, October 5, with a double premiere. Netflix will stream the series worldwide, releasing new episodes on a weekly basis.
Official anouncement:
New Key Visual:
CAST:
Maaya Sakamoto as Rafal
Kenjiro Tsuda as Nowak
Show Hayami as Hubert
Katsuyuki Konishi as Oczy
Yuichi Nakamura as Badeni
Saya Hitomi as Jolenta
STAFF:
Director: Kenichi Shimizu
Series Composition: Shingo Irie
Character Design: Masanori Shino
Music: Kensuke Ushio
Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
Animation Production: MADHOUSE
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth originally ran from 2020 to 2022 in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits and has been compiled into eight volumes. It won the Best Comic category at the 54th Seiun Awards in August 2023.
Synopsis of the manga, according to Seven Seas Entertainment:
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: Official Twitter
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