The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Uoto’s historical manga Orb: On the Movements of the Earth today released a main trailer to announce its premiere date in Japan, October 5, 2024. The anime’s first two episodes will broadcast consecutively on NHK General TV in Japan on the premiere day. And after each episode airs, it will also stream worldwide on Netflix.The clip also features the anime’s opening theme song “Kaiju” by Sakanaction and the ending theme song “Aporia” by Yorushika, as well as soundtrack music by Kensuke Ushio (Chainsaw Man).
In addition to the previously announced Maaya Sakamoto as the protagonist Rafal, Kenjiro Tsuda as Nobak, and Show Hayami as Hubert, three more voice cast members have also been announced — Katsuyuki Konishi (Tengen Uzui in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba), Yuichi Nakamura (Tatsuya Shiba in The Irregular at Magic High School), and Saya Hitomi. Konishi will play the role of Oczy, a substitute fighter, Nakamura will play Badeni, a monk, and Hitomi will play Jolenta, an astronomy research assistant.
The site also reveals the anime’s main staff members as below:
Director: Kenichi Shimizu (ALL OUT!!)
Series Composition: Shingo Irie
Character Design: Masanori Shino
Music: Kensuke Ushio
Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
Anime Production: Madhouse
Uoto’s manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits from September 2020 to April 2022, for a total of eight collected volumes. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes an official English version of the manga and describes the story as such:
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” TV anime official website / X (formerly Twitter)©Uoto/Shogakukan/Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Production Committee
