Japanese rock band Sakanaction posted a special collaboration music video for “Kaiju,” the opening theme for the TV anime Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, on the band’s official YouTube channel.As the band’s first song in three years, “Kaiju” released digitally on February 20. This song is the band’s first anime theme work in their 18-year professional career, and they spent two years working on the concept of the song. The clip, which is available online for a limited time of three months, is a compilation of the anime’s story to date.
Sakanaction “Kaiju” x Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Collaboration Music Video
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Creditless Opening Video
“Kaiju” has held the number one spot on Oricon’s daily digital single charts for four consecutive days since its release.
Uoto began the original Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga series in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2020, with eight volumes released in Japan to date. The TV anime adaptation premiered on NHK General TV in Japan on October 5, 2024. Netflix is streaming the series worldwide.Seven Seas Entertainment releases an English version of the manga and describes the series:
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: Sakanaction official YouTube channel©2025 HIP LAND MUSIC CORPORATION INC.
