Historical drama Orb: On the Movements of the Earth will welcome a new cast member in the upcoming 23rd episode, with Shoya Ishige joining the role of Albert Brudzewski.Fans may know Ishige from roles including Wakana Gojo in My Dress-Up Darling and Gaku in TRILLION GAME. Albert. His role in Orb is a young baker who used to love learning but has suppressed his curiosity due to a “certain incident.”
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. 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). 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: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth anime official website
