Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is well into its second chapter, introducing a new group of curious researchers to its radical view of the universe. In this week’s episode, Satoshi Mikami joins the cast as Antoni, the latest player in this new chapter.Mikami’s past roles include Byakuya Ishigami in Dr. STONE and Fanzell Kruger in Black Clover. His new character, Antoni, is a bishop’s son who is critical of the church’s current policies and dislikes the inquisitor Nowak. He will make his entrance in episode 11, scheduled for this weekend.
The TV anime Orb: On the Movements of the Earth premiered in Japan, October 5, 2024. The first two episodes broadcast consecutively on NHK General TV in Japan on the premiere day. And after each episode airs, it will also stream worldwide on Netflix.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?
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