Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Anime Trailer Revealed with Release Window

by Joseph Luster
July 25, 2024

MADHOUSE is cooking up an anime adaptation for Uoto’s Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga, and the first trailer has arrived. Following earlier plans to premiere sometime in 2024, the release window has been narrowed down to this October. The main cast was also revealed, so check out the first full preview below and read on for more on who is involved in the production.

The staff at MADHOUSE has yet to be confirmed, but here are the main actors:

Maaya Sakamoto (Echidna in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World) as Rafal
Kenjiro Tsuda (Overhaul in My Hero Academia) as Nowak
Sho Hayami (Ferdinand in Ascendance of a Bookworm) as Hubert

The original Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine from September 2020 to April 2022, ultimately being collected in eight volumes. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English and describes the story like so:

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Plot
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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