The official website and accounts for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth today unveiled a new key visual for the historical drama anime’s forthcoming third part, which commences tonight in Japan with Episode 16.
Furthermore, an all-night screening of episodes 1-17 will be held on January 18 at Shinuku Wald 9 in Tokyo, with cast members Katsuyuki Konishi, Saya Hitomi, Miyuri Shimabukuro and Satoshi Hino in attendance.
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Part 3 Key Visual
Based on the manga by Uoto, Kenichi Shimizu (Parasyte -the maxim-) directs Orb: On the Movements of Earth at studio MADHOUSE, with series composition by Shingo Irie (Nyaight of the Living Cat), character designs by Masanori Shino (Black Lagoon) and music by Kensuke Ushio (Chainsaw Man).
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes an official English version of the manga and describes the story:
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: Comic Natalie
